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  1. Sure, that was the idea, the Asian-American would have been able to learn the kung fu just as easily if she'd been Latino-American or Irish-American, a kung fu master to teach her just wouldn't be present in an area a poor Latino or Irish family would live. The Triads thing I don't consider a sterotype either, it's well known that for example the Mafia recruits mainly from the Italian etnic community for higher ranks, it's just how the world works, that's differnet from a sterotype. What would be a sterotype perhaps (not sure) is finding out that her family had long ties to the triads and were all criminals who'd escaped to America to get away for example.
  2. Sure, makes sense, what about a boost like the one I'm using if I were to make that a power of it's own (or an array of only boosts only usable one at a time) Boost Physical Abilities 8 (PF Slow Fade, Extra Action – Move, Total Fade, Flaw Distracting, Heroic, Personal; Drawback Noticable [yellow aura, makes Stealth impossible, -1]) What you got there is a boost that lasts for 8 minutes, it takes a move action to activate and it fades entirely, however for those 8 minutes the character is unable to use her Dodge bonus to defense (otherwise she'd be over caps), and to activate the boost she needs to spend a hero point, and finally while the boost is active she changes unnatturally (I was thinking hair changes from black to glowing yellow, and a glowing aura), to such a degree that she can't use stealth or pretty much any kind of subtelty for those 8 minutes.
  3. Aha, thanks, what about Independent powers, same deal? EDIT: also is that a firm rule, so I couldn't have an array that was just boosts, only one of which could be active at once, like Boost strength, boost physical abilities with flaws, boost all powers with even more flaws, only one can be active at once?
  4. Good advice KnightDisciple, thanks. The though was that she originally grew up in the neighbourhood, but then got a scholarship and went away on school, while she was away her [relative, undecided if uncle, father or brother] was killed by a triad-related gang member they may have been part of, she returned home and set to work 'cleaning up' around and lower the crime rate, but on her first outing she was badly beat up the more streetwise thugs she was after. She was rescued by an old man who turned out to be an ancient kung fu master hiding out from Doctor Sin's lackeys, he decided to teach her what she knew, and maybe a year later she debuted as the Golden Dragon, working to protect the common people against criminals, while continuining her teachings under the master. She's given up her scholarship and moved schools to FCU instead to be able to stay near home. That's the background I have in mind in brief.
  5. Incidentally, if I were to bring up the kung fu master, would a chinese american (third generation) living in a chinatown like district and practicing martial arts fall under the 'racial sterotype of native americans getting shamanistic powers' type? I've worked some more on her, she's going to be a PL 7, and a girl, 19 year old, stat sheet and a pointer for appearance below, the image is of a character that appeared in comics but to be fair she appeared in that costume in a single issue and so it should fall under fair use. Let me know if this is not the case. Golden Dragon Katrina Wu PL 7 Martial Artist Abilities: Str 14 (22), Dex 14 (22), Con 14 (22), Int 10, Wis 14, Cha 14. Skills: Acrobatics 8 (+10), Concentration 8 (+10), Knowledge (Theology and Philsophy) 7 (+7), Language 1 (Chinese, Base English), Stealth 8 (+10). Feats: Attack Specialization (Unarmed), Defensive Attack, Evasion, Luck 2, Ninja Run, Power Attack, Takedown Attack 2, Tough 3, Trance, Up the Walls. Powers: Chi 10 (10 point Array) Base Power: Strike 4 (Extra Autofire, Power Feat Accurate, Mighty) Alternate Power Boost Physical Abilities 8 (PF Slow Fade, Extra Action – Move, Total Fade, Flaw Distracting, Heroic, Personal; Drawback Noticable [yellow aura, makes Stealth impossible, -1]) Alternate Power: Healing 5 (Flaw Personal, Extra Action Standard) Alternate Power: Leaping 6 (x100), and Speed 4 (100 MPH) Alternate Power: Autofire on Unarmed Damage 6 (Pf Accurate). Alternate Power: Ranged on Unarmed Damage 6 [PF Accurate 2, Drawback: Only available when using Boost] Chi Sense 6 (Basic, Innate, Accurate, Radius) Combat: Attack +4 (+8 Chi Blast or Unarmed), Grapple +10 (+14 with Boost), Damage +6 melee (Strike or with boost, Autofiret), +6 ranged (Chi Blast), Defense 19 (15 flat-footed), Initiative +6 (+10 with Boost), Knockback -2 (-4 with Boost) Saves: Toughness +5 (+9 with Boost), Fortitude +6 (+10 with Boost), Reflex +8 (+12 with Boost), Will +8 [Abilities 20 + Skills 8 + Feats 15 + Powers 20 + Combat 26 + Saves 16 = 105 Points]
  6. Okay, thanks a lot trollhumper and ShaenTheBrain, great examples overall and I have a much bettter concept of what's allowed and not. With that in mind I'm pretty sure I can steer through and avoid things that would be questionable. Killing Omega in particular reminded me of Superman's attempt to kill Darkseid on Justice League in particular, where he even within the context of that show considered him Fair Game for simply being a personification of evil, as well as Batman mortally wounding Darkseid with a gun in Final Crisis.
  7. Actually I think that might be a good idea, would anyone be willing to explain what the PG-13 reasoning does entail and what's allowed and not to make sure I don't step over? PG-13 movies for example allows a lot of things specifically not allowed here (bad language, partial nudity, questionalble ethics), so clearly that's not the definition. Buffyverse might be a good pointer if Season 6 of BtVS was left out to a great degree (skinned men, questionable doings and plots).
  8. Sure, thanks, good advice! Exile seems like a good choice then considering her name. I'll look up those others and reformat my sheet. Other things look good so far?
  9. Thank you for the measured and calm words AvengerAssembled, I'll try to respond in kind by simply reposting my character sheet. SUPREMA (PL 10 / 150 PP) Abilities: 28 pp STR: 16 (+3) / 38 (+14) DEX: 14 (+2) CON: 16 (+3) / 30 (+10) INT: 12 (+1) WIS: 12 (+1) CHA: 18 (+4) Saves: 9 pp TOU: +15 (+10 Con, +5 Force Field) or +10 (+10 Con) FORT: +10 (+10 Con, +3) +3 (+3 Con) without powers. REF: +4 (+2 Dex, +2) WILL: +8 (+1 Wis, +7) Skills: 10 pp=40 r Bluff 12 (+16) Concentration 10 (+11) Knowledge: History 4 (+5) Notice 10 (+11) Sense Motive 8 (+9) Feats: 7 pp All-Out Attack Attack Specialization: Unarmed Dodge Focus Interpose Move-By Action Power Attack Takedown Attack Powers: 87 pp Comprehend 2 (speak and understand all languages) [4 pp] Cosmic Array [30+12=40 pp] [Cosmic Blast Descriptor is Cosmic Fire and can be partially resisted by both those immune to cosmic energies and fire effects, and can emanate from any part of her body - included stunted to an energy field aura - but is usually projected as yellow eye blasts, while the others are cosmic boosts, and could be countered by antyhing that can counter the Boost power] Cosmic Energy Control 14 (PFs: Accurate) [Dynamic] DAP: Enhanced Strength 22 DAP: Flight 14 (total of Flight 15 [500,000 MPH] ) DAP: Healing 9 (Extra: Action 2 [Move]) (Flaws: Personal) (PFs: Persistent, Regrowth) DAP: Leaping 14 (x50.000, 10 rounds to complete jump) and Speed 14 (250.000 MPH) DAP: Super-Strength 14 (1184 Tons heavy load, 19,2 Tons heavy Load with Enhanced Strenght and Super Strength 3, PFs: Groundstrike) DAP: Telepathy 10 (Earth to Moon) Cosmic Shield Array [5+1=6 PP] Force Field 5 AP: Shield 5 Cosmic Health Enhanced Constitution 14 [14 pp] Immunity 12 (aging, life support, starvation, sleep) [12 pp] Regeneration 1 ([Resurrection 1/week] (PFs: Persistent, Regrowth) [3 pp] Impervious Toughness 10 [Descriptor: Energy Absorbtion], (Flaw: Energy Only) [5 pp] Levitation Flight 1 (10 MPH) [2 pp] Morphic Costume [1 pp] Enhanced Feat 1 (Quick Change) Drawbacks Normal Identity (if drained of sunlight or left without sunlight for several days, Takes one minute to recharge in sunlight to regain them, Major, Very Common, -5 points) Vulnerable to Power Drains (Common, Moderate, -3 points) Combat: 16 pp Attack +4 (+6 Cosmic Energy Control/+6 Unarmed), Defense +5 (+2 flatfooted), +10 (+2 flatfooted with Shield) Knockback -5 with Shield, -7 with Force Field, -10/-12 versus Energy Initiative +2, Grapple +23 [Math: Abilities 28 + Saves 9 + Skills 11 + Feats 7 + Powers 87 + Combat 16 - Drawbacks 8 = 150 PP] Background: During one or more of the Centurion's visits on Ultima Thule, he left behind enough of his genetic material (assisted by covert scan of his biology) for a slightly rogue scientist to attempt to duplicate him combined with Ultima DNA. This scientist was Kal-Zor, the uncle of Kal-Zed, Superior, who wanted a legacy for his family that he could be proud of. In secret he worked to create a sort of "perfect Ultima" by combining the two cosmically infused bloodlines. What he ended up with, a daughter called Kal-Exia or Exia as a codename, became something else than he anticipated. While her potential for cosmic control was great, she seemed to have ended up with a mostly human physiology that needed regular infusions of energy to sustain. As she matured to young adulthood, she became able to absorb radiant sunlight and store it in her cells for some time to fuel her cosmic birthright, but by then the damage was already done. Kal-Zor considered Exia a failure, and wanted nothing to do with her, and his family had become even more ostracized in Ultima society for wrongfully using the genetic code of one of the only true outside friends the Ultima has had in milennia, and Exia took a brunt of those misgivings. Finding that she had no place at all in the society she was artificially born into, one night she simply set off into the skies on a southwestern trajectory, heading towards Freedom City, where is where her story truly begins. Description: Kal-Exia or Suprema as she's intending to call herself (figuring Centuria would be too presumptous) is a beautiful woman who looks in her very early twenties. She's has golden blonde hair, almost white in coloration, usually held up elegantly with a clasp, and an athletic build. Her face is that of an eternally youthful and beautiful Ultima, with some slight romanesque features inherented from the Centurion. She wears a dress close to the common appearance on Ultima Thule, a modest white armless dress going from her neck to just above her knees, slited in sides to allow her legs free movement, and golden boots and bracers. The dress has golden S on it reaching from just below her collar to midway down the dress. The dress is made of morphic materials, and can take the form of for example jeans and a top if she needs to blend in more, and is several degrees tougher than normal material, protected in turn by a slightly shimmering gold force field that she wears. In high flight speeds the force field seems to stretch out behind her, forming angelic wings.
  10. This will be the last I post on that damn skyrim armor, in it's defense it's a modular armor where you add whatever you want to use, with more bits slowing you down more and more. The one I posted was the one closest to the Archetypes Ultima appearance I could find, below is what it looks like with all the bits added, at which point it will be slowing down your movement and attack speed compared to the skimpy version which protects much less.
  11. First off that picture of Sharon Stone is only sexual if you've actually seen the movie, in which case you are probably old enough to be reminded of it. If you havent' it's a picture of a beautiful woman with a confident look and an elegant buisness suit. It's all about intent, take the picture for what it's protraying, not the contextual background, any more than you would be free to assume the base character is a british martial artist who drive getaway cars because I posted a picture of Jason Statham from the Transporter. Secondly, again on the armor, see my above post on context, and also please look up that Ultima image in Archetypes and Legacies, I brought up that armor (admittedly skimpy, I said it in the post I posted it in) to compare it to the Ultima one, where it's essentally just the bikini type. That armor has covered the shield arm sufficiently to deflect blows, it's got both shoulders partially covered, the legs are covered (it's not shown but the boots are heavy armorc covering every part not shown), and the crotch section is also metal and covered, and it's got details that add to functionality if not protectiveness. Overall a much better costume, if not a much better realistical armor (I didn't say it was, I only compared it to the breast-cups). In terms of costumes, it's much less revealing than what many superheroines are wearing, even ones not considered objectifying. Okay, then let's analyze what I said, instead of what you said, and you can see where I started to become defensive; The costume as I said above, is well within stated limits for, well the setting for one and if I looked hard through that sample thread you posted I can probably find one or two women with more revealing costumes. As said it's less revealing than Ms Marvel's costume, or certainly Wonder Woman's costume, and certainly more covering than at least two Freedom City stock characters, which whoever is to take part in this game would have been "exposed" to (not that I think a woman in a seashell bikini if not portrayed sexually is damaging to the young 13 year old minds, I wouldn't show it to an 8 year old that watched Young Justice certainly however). It does not show cleavage to any degree whatsoever, it's not necessarily tight-fitting, but it does show some leg, so that'll definetly get the blood pumping, given that no other superheroes shows legs she'll be quite unique. That's the costume, now the comment that started this thing that derailed entirely; Semi-stripperific was interprented to mean butt naked, which I in the prvious sentence specifically stated her Force Field makes impossible. What I meant was "strategically torn" as often happens to heroes, naked with breasts and other naughty bits would not be semi-stripperific unless your definition of stripperific involved hardcore pornography. Notably this was when I still didn't know what the term meant (it's since been explained, and it was a bad use), and I assumed actual stripperifici would still cover naughty bits, as I considered say Angela's costume (which I'm not posting here even) as actual stripperific, as do I consider the costume I posted, which was said to be approved if the very obvious bits was included. This kind of exposure would still be an embarrasement to the character, and as such she'd look into an alternate costume, as I'm trying to protray a kind of Supergirl here, and a young girl especially from a foreign land exposed to even minor amounts of exposure would find it embarrasing is what I assumed. If the Ultima are all nudists (which I have no idea about) then this doesn't apply obviously. That's what set it off, and that the comment was misconstrued and that there could be several meanings to "revealing costume" for example was the only thing I was arguing, then I was asking about what stripperific actually meant, and providing examples one way or another as I quite a bit up had already said; As in me already giving up the argument about the possibility of even a semi-torn costume being possible (although at this point the realism involved if that never happens at all boggles the mind). And this is considerd hostile, to the point where players are "writing me off"? And then you in addition to when saying not to nit-pick everything specifically nit-pick two things to enhance my flaws? Specifically hostile on a page where the TV tropes say you're ready to heckle off mary-sues and trolls and the like mercilessly, which I assumed to mean meant an adult forum, even within the PG 13 limits? I don't know, if this is you heckling it's more annoying but it's having the same effect.
  12. Yeah you really haven't seen Skyrim armors have you? It's contextual, in the setting where a fur kilt with a fur bra (base armor that shipped with the game) can be upgraded to provide 95 % protection, that is dragon bone covering a shield arm, dragon bone boots, and metallic parts to cover other pieces. I can't even show you 99 % of the user created armors because it would certainly break the code of conduct here, and a lot of the armors that came with the game are just as skimpy. One of the most protective armors for men is a large panty with a belt, headband, bracers, fur boots. Trust me, in the context of the setting that is a very concealing armor among Light armors.
  13. Okay sorry but WTF? At some point in this discussion someone seems to have forgotten to have looked at my actual description. It's this, it's Ms Marvel's Warbird costume, white, but with the front as a tabard instead reaching down to the knees, knee high boots, and bracers. Except for the elbow length gloves, that's a less revealing costume than Ms Marvel wears. Siren of the Freedom League is wearing a seashell bikini and a net. The Hellqueen is wearing bondage gear.
  14. See now that I can get behind entirely, let me show you an example, I didn't like the Ultima's chaimail bkini (or perhaps breast-cups are more like it), but this is one of my favorite Skyrim armors that is revealing yet functional and as such I don't consider it over the top; That's the kind of armor that while revealing and sexy to a degree doesn't stretch the imagination that it could actually be a functional armor, the main flaw of this armor is that the model has too large breasts to realistically go into close combat too often (historical amazons were known to cut off their breasts for this purpose, or just one because they got in the way of pulling the bowstring back), and is a whole other degree of realism and functionality over the breastcups armor, despite being almost as revealing. I don't view that armor as sexualizing in a way to turn the wearer into a sex-object, just a sexy costume, there's a very big difference. Wonder Woman's costume I'd call sexy, Power Girl I'd call sexualizing, and I can't decide on the last two Supergirl iterations. To me the white-shirted and hairbanded version from Animated Superman and Justice League is the best Supergirl, as she should remind of a teenager. As for the other image I posted, the Alex Ross version, I'd certainly hope it's a fully covering under, as I hope Supergirl is usually wearing thick wool panties, otherwise putting it on a flying hero would have unfortunate implications. To be clear, while my hero's costume is a a dress who's bottom end is close to the girl of that picture (more like a knight's tabard than a dress for the lower part) she's most certainly wearing something to cover up underneath. I hope that should be obvious. Also by the way, I think that costume I posted is over the top actually, it just skirts the line too much, but more importantly it's put on an innocent Mary Marvel like character, which is sexualizing to her rather than sexy.
  15. First of, and this actually is a nit-pick, pointing out how adult later entire seasons of a show quoted as being as PG-13 as Young Justice is not a a nitpick, that's pointing out an actual flaw in their reasoning. The other shows totally applies, Hawkgirl alone had plenty of opportunities for costume damage but it never happened. BtVS changed gradually because their audience grew, it remained PG-13 however and even Whedon's Avengers are considered PG-13 desptie Loki dropping the C-bomb on Black Widow. PG_13 means a lot ot of things, it cannot be used as a blanket, as 13 year olds are a lot more adult now than they were one or two decades ago. It's just as the world shows. Call it Silver Age instead as that's what the animated shows are going for (or specifically they're going for being approved in a PG-8ish timeslot) but not PG-13. Silver Age applies to a great degree because that was the inception of the Comics Code Autority which among other things had clauses specifically for that and which was originally directed at Phantom Lady's more and more revealing costumes during the end of the Golden Age. Yet Wonder Woman who's powers are neutralized by being tied up by a man stuck just fine. Okay to show what I mean by intent, take this picture; What it looks like to the uninformed: A woman is getting more powerful by taking off her clothes. What it actually is: A cool superhero costume into a feminist icon. A feminist icon that's wearing less clothes per square inch than Power Girl at that, a character viewed as objectificaiton by one specific set of square inches missing, oriignally done in protest over artists because they couldn't put an S there. Hopefully that should make what I'm trying to say more clear.
  16. Yeah and I see what you guys are saying on it, it's just a matter of not putting everything into the same category, but evaluating for intent. If some thought is shown towards intent rather than automatically banning everything where even the concept of something not being shown becuase (1) it's in text format, and (2) the hero is actively making an an attempt not to show it. I think the intent of the rules you are quoting is to avoid objectification of women, which is fine, but it takes place as a lot of differnt ways (it's a matter of story happenings for example, like that vampire slayer almost getting raped by a vampire she was using just for sex previously, or the same two having sex in a crowded nightclub, never mind no one could see them... PG 13 means a lot of different things, and 13 year olds are a lot more adult than you seem to think), and it goes both ways. A very case in point example, I think the costume of the sample Ultima archetype in Archetypes and Legacies is a bit too much and sexualization. There's a very good chance the artist didn't mean that way simply by how well built the character is (yeah artists actually do that to diffrentiate between women you're supposed to see as sex objects and ones you're supposed to see as one of the guys), but a chainmail bikini is sitll a chainmail bikini. Also by the way, thanks a lot for the PL 10 Ultima build man, and for all your other work, I enjoyed reading your build threads! Great, great work, really laid the groundrules, I had no idea where to begin previously. Some of the others like Doctor Doom as a hero is inspired stuff as well.
  17. No I think you are mistaking me quite a lot. As I said, due to the force field, something like that could only happen by GM fiat, as otherwise she'd be quite shielded. Second, it would be a one-time note of realism, at which point she'd invest in sturdier costume for modesty's sake. Secondly, I'm using the word "stripperiffic" which I have never heard before because I read it on this site, I could imagine what it would be from the word, but it would take effect as a negative, one-time effect. Look at Superman in Death of Superman with his fight against Doomsday, his entire upper torso was bared, and Superman specifically has/had a forcefield that protects him and those immedialty near to him. Quite frankly if Superman can be exposed and objectified (and it is, you can't apply that just to women, that'd be discrimination of the other kind), then it happens to everyone. If it happens to Wonder Woman she just keeps one hand across where her eagle used to be for the rest of the fight whenever someone can actually see her that she's not intending to pummel anyway. You seem to think that exposure of skin is objectificaiton, but limit that entirely to one half of the population, to me classic Hercules for example has a stripperific costume, Namor even more so, and the authors seem to realize this by the fact that both characters are wearing much more clothes these days. It's not about what's actually done, it's what purpose they're done, if it's a realism "right let's make sure that doesn't happen again" with any "on panel" access only involve the hero making sure to keep out of sight and maintain modesty as opposed to keep on fighting butt-naked in the middle of the street, or even worse the player trying to get hero points for this effect or (and I actually saw this once) a player using the naked-ness as a descriptor for something like an emotion control effect or something equally asinine. That's something else entirely. Also please, please do not use Buffyverse as PG-13 specific or I'll pull up Season 6 screencaps and synopsis, like when the feminist culture icon was nearly raped by her ex. Though blocking that season out of memory is understandable. But whatever, not going to argue any more, fine doesn't happen, it's a super ultima costume. Incidentally for "stripperiffic" I'm assuming a "costume" like that of Gaiman's Angela (currently seen in guardians of the galaxy) counts for this? Also presumably as well classic Gamora. How about the following costume? Alex Ross creation as far as I know. Not entirely appropriate as the character's basically Mary Marvel. How about Power Girl's classic outfit? Boob-Window version from JLI and her own series. EDIT: Even more to the point, how about Ms Marvel's classic Warbrid (Black with S + knee-high boots and gloves)? Because that with some variations is basically what I'm wearing. Eh, not entirely sure what you're getting at. That's like saying everyone's susceptible to damage because of the innate 15 starting DC saving throw, as opposed to someone with Vulnerability to Slashing damage. Yes she's extra susceptible to being drained, if the saving throw DC against a Drain or Nullify Powers effect should be 20, it's 25 instead.I don't see how that's an issue unless you're specifically quoting a house rule ban on vulnerability that I couldn't find.
  18. Drain specific cosmic power, drain or transfer powers in general, basically any drain effect or power built on drain that targets powers. For this purpose, "Sunlight" counts as a power-source and things specifically set up to drain sunlight (such as an arch-enemy's superweapon) will get the benefit of the +50 % DC. EDIT: Although with that "common (every few adventures)" seems a bit much for that drawback, what if it also counted against Nullify and powers based on Nullify such as power resistance?
  19. Oh sure, if it happened then she'd switch to an armored costume like a breastplate or something like that likely to stand up to it. Basically I'm imagining that if it happened (which by itself would only be by a strange GM fiat since she's got a forcefield descriptor) she'd look down horrified as she regrew her eyes, and then as soon as the danger was over fly away with hands covering exposed bits, "I'm so embarrased!" type, then look into an armored costume while avoiding the looks of her peers if a photo got taken and ended up in the tabloids. .... that or the Quick Change feat can have the descriptor of an unstable molecules cosume via Ultima science and be able to morph into a normal identity outfit as well.
  20. Also I'm now sure I can't edit my own posts just after I've made them, I can see I can edit my previous post but not the one directly above this. Making this note to that fact to hopefully be able to edit my previous post. EDIT: Yup I could, and now I can edit this as well. It may have been reloading the page that did it.
  21. Okay, going back to the original "Ultima Girl" concept, he's my rework of AA's excellent PL 10 Ultima. The main difference here is that shield array, which makes her tough beyond her PL, and which when combined with All Out Power Attack (leaving her defense on +0) gives her +15 damage and toughness, suitable as a kind of "limit break" like I talked about before. Normally she'll be set to +10 defense / +10 toughness and +10 attack / +10 damage. The shield in both varieties manifests itself in a glowing golden aura, when she's flying at top speed this seems to stretch out behind her and looks like golden wings. Concept (with thanks for the help) is a Ultima/Centurion hybrid created by Ultima super-technologies, they expected something like the next level of Ultima but weren't sure what they ended up as. Her non-Ultima status ended her up as a bit of an outcast on Ultima Thule, so she's now set out into the world to try to earn a place there instead. Costume will be a white armless dress of silklike material reacing down from below her knees with high slits on both sides for her feet to reach through unhintered, with a knee-high golden boots, and golden cloth bracers, and a golden S sort of like an italized reversed Z reaching from collar to below crotch-level. She has golden blonde hair kept up in the back with a clasp and held over her shoulder, if freed up her hair would reach all the way across her back. Her force field keeps her clothes intact and keeps her from ending up butt naked after a flamethrower encounter or the like, but if she takes serious lethal damage she may end up with a semi-stripperific look. Probably not something unknown even among male heroes. SUPREMA (PL 10 / 150 PP) Abilities: 28 pp STR: 16 (+3) / 38 (+14) DEX: 14 (+2) CON: 16 (+3) / 30 (+10) INT: 12 (+1) WIS: 12 (+1) CHA: 18 (+4) Saves: 9 pp TOU: +15 (+10 Con, +5 Force Field) or +10 (+10 Con) FORT: +10 (+10 Con, +3) +6 (+3 Con) without powers. REF: +4 (+2 Dex, +2) WILL: +8 (+1 Wis, +7) Skills: 10 pp=40 r Bluff 12 (+16) Concentration 10 (+11) Knowledge: History 4 (+5) Notice 10 (+11) Sense Motive 8 (+9) Feats: 8 pp All-Out Attack Attack Specialization: Unarmed Dodge Focus Interpose Move-By Action Power Attack Quick Change Takedown Attack Powers: 86 pp Comprehend 2 (speak and understand all languages) [4 pp] Cosmic Array [30+12=40 pp] Cosmic Energy Control 14 (PFs: Accurate) [Dynamic] DAP: Enhanced Strength 22 DAP: Flight 14 (total of Flight 15 [500,000 MPH] ) DAP: Healing 9 (Extra: Action 2 [Move]) (Flaws: Personal) (PFs: Persistent, Regrowth) DAP: Leaping 14 (x50.000, 10 rounds to complete jump) and Speed 14 (250.000 MPH) DAP: Super-Strength 14 (1184 Tons heavy load, 19,2 Tons heavy Load with Enhanced Strenght and Super Strength 3, PFs: Groundstrike) DAP: Telepathy 10 (Earth to Moon) Cosmic Shield Array [5+1=6 PP] Force Field 5 AP: Shield 5 Flight 1 (10 MPH) [2 pp] Cosmic Health Enhanced Constitution 14 [14 pp] Immunity 12 (aging, life support, starvation, sleep) [12 pp] Regeneration 1 ([Resurrection 1/week] (PFs: Persistent, Regrowth) [3 pp] Impervious Toughness 10 [Descriptor: Energy Absorbtion], (Flaw: Energy Only) [5 pp] Drawbacks Normal Identity (if drained of sunlight or left without sunlight for several days, Takes one minute to recharge in sunlight to regain them, Major, Very Common, -5 points) Vulnerable to Power Drains (Common, Moderate, -3 points) Combat: 16 pp Attack +4 (+6 Cosmic Energy Control/+6 Unarmed), Defense +5 (+2 flatfooted), +10 (+2 flatfooted with Shield) Knockback -5 with Shield, -7 with Force Field, -10/-12 versus Energy Initiative +2, Grapple +23 [Math: Abilities 28 + Saves 9 + Skills 11 + Feats 8 + Powers 86 + Combat 16 - Drawbacks 8 = 150 PP] EDIT: Redid things with a combination of Supergirl and Carol Danvers in mind, all of her powers are now fueled by sunlight and she can lose them if she goes too long without sunlight, this should work as a fades flaw with both a per use and daily probably. A direct sunlight drain attack of some kind would do it much faster, thanks to her Drain vulnerability. I considered throwing on a power loss on each power, but figured the descriptor is too rare for that. This includes things like her immortality, making her entirely mortal. For the leftover points she bought Impervious vs Energy, with the descriptor of Energy Absorbtion, this is a descriptor only and good for stunting off but does not by itself act as an actual absorbtion ability. As I gain points I may include that. I may also throw a Wide modifier on her array later on with advancement points to be able to use multiple effects at once. Also she's potentialy nasty if using all-out power attack, though unless she can feint them first that's unlikely to hit, so most of the time she'll be using All-Out attack for 4 only, making her PL 12 offensively and PL 8 defensively. She's also got Quick Change, I'm thinking it's basically a Wonder Woman style transformation, spin around and appear in costume, spin other way and appear like girl next door. While in the changed form all powers that can be turned off is turned off rather than acting as a normal identity.
  22. Would this character be viable as an alternative? Star Man PL 10 (150 PP) Abilities: Str 10, Dex 12, Con --, Int 12, Wis 16, Cha 14. Skills: Bluff 12 (+14), Knowledge (Physics) 4 (+5), Notice 8 (+11), Sense Motive 8 (+11). Feats: All-Out Attack, Benefit (Alternate Identity: Thomas Jensen), Move-by Action, Power Attack, Taunt, Trance. Powers: Energy Absorbtion (Effect: Impervious Toughness 10, Extra Absorbtion, Energy Storage (100 points), Force Field, Power Magnet, Flaw: Limited to Energy Only, Power Feat: Power Conversion, Slow Fade 3 [on Energy Storage, 20 minutes per point], Slow Fade 2 [on boosted powers, 5 minutes per point], Varied Descriptor 2 [on power effects], cost 65 points) Absorbed Energy Use: Density 12 (+24 strength, +6 Impervious Toughness, 4 Immovable, 4 Super-Strength, Mass x25), Blast 12, Energy Aura 10 (Power Feat: Selective, Drawback: Slow Fade does not apply), Flight 15, Healing 10 (affects objects, personal), Super Strength 10, all powers work as Boosts with the Total Fade modifier. Alternate Powers (everything but Energy Storage points): Transfer 10 (All Powers into Energy Storage, Flaw Tainted), Transfer 10 (Ability Scores into Ability Scores, flaw Restorative, Tainted, Linked to Mental Duplication 2 [Extra Continuous, Flaw Limited – Only works if Transfer kills the subject, Permanent, Split Personality, Tainted, Uncontrolled]) Morph 3 (any form, cost 10 points) Alternate Power: Concealment 4 (visual, power feat Close Range) Protection 10 (cost 10 points) Immunity 30 (Fortitude Effects, cost 30 points). Combat: Attack +8, Damage +0 (Unarmed, //+12 with Density), +10 (Energy Aura), +10 (Blast), Defense 14, (12 flat-footed), Initiative +1. Saves: Toughness +10 (Impervious vs Energy // +6 Impervious with Density), Fortiude -, Reflex +6, Will +8. Drawbacks: Invouluntary Transformation (into energy form, upon absorbing Energy Storage capacity x2, Will DC 10 + 1 per 10 points absorbed, automatic transformation on 300 points or more, Common, Unavoidable, -4), One-Way Transformation (takes 1 hour for every 10 points above 100 energy absorbed, common, minor, -3), Overload (Automatically gains Energy Aura with the Uncontrolled modifier whenever Energy Storage reaches 100 points or more that does not have the slow fade modifier and draws from Power Reserve until it reaches 99 points or less, very common, unavoidable, -7), Weakness (if left with no energy available for one hour or more, cumulative drain on ability scores every hour after, after 10 hours and reaching 0 strength he automatically Morphs into an inert crystal and remains so until touched directly by a living being, whereupon that being will be absorbed as of Transfer Ability Scores, uncommon, -3). [Abilities 4 + Skills 8 + Feats 6 + Powers 116 + Combat 24 + Saves 10 – Drawbacks 18 = 150 points] Star Man first arrived on earth in meteor form in the 1930s, he or it was a member of a species of sentient gem-like beigns that hurled through space from star to star and absorbed energy. He was attacked by a race that hunted the species above Earth Prime, and crashlanded in the Canadian wilderness. He was found by a hiker named Thomas Jensen, who upon tocuhing the gem was killed and absorbed, with the gem arising with Jensen's form and memories. Not having wanted to cause another person's death and mourning having done so, the new Thomas Jensen returned home and took up his "victim"'s former life. After the Centurion appeared on the scene along with other superheroes, and with electrictiy now more widely available so that he could sustain himself, Star Man made an appearance as a canadian superhero, and fought in World War 2 as welll, and continued on later. In the 1950s however the aliens who had shot him down tracked him down, and he was forced to defend himself, he got rid of his pursuers but decided to go underground again and keep a low profile. He faked his death and used his shapeshifting abilties and accumulated wealth to move to Freedom City, and soon after studied to become a nuclear physicist and took a job at a power plant. The increased power available made him want to debut as a hero again, and did so as Star Boy in the late 60s and early 70s, acting as a powerful but secretive hero in the Silver Age. He became a member of the Freedom League briefly, but again he was tracked down by the aliens. This time he decided to go into space, accompanying Daedalus partly on his sojourn then setting out with a ship with a on-board power battery he could leech off to stay alive. He found his 'family' who was disgusted by the fleshy appearance he'd taken, and also tracked down the source of the alien attacks that had hounded him for half a century. He had several adventures in space, and arrived back on earth to Freedom City shortly after the Terminus invasion. He decided to keep a low profile for a few more years, and once again remade the Thomas Jensen personality, this time as the great-grandchild of the original, and went on to take a job again at a power plant, where he occasionally leeches power that's not going to be missed. Recently he's stored up enough energy that he's planning on debuting again as a hero, this time as the son of "Star Boy" and the second Star Man. Basically this is a roundabout build/character that started out as an alternate look at energy absorbtion paragons like Captain Atom and Carol Danvers. Wether or not this would be viable would depend entirely on if those flaws and the power structure could be approved. I can also rewrite the background to have him be a more recent arrival on earth, but in that case there's a good chance his fall to earth was detected. Alternatley if this character doesn't work either, I have this concept, a version of the "Iron Man as Tony Stark's bodyguard" that's exactly as prescribed; Lancelot (PL 10 / 150 PP) Carl Sebastian Rennard Str 16/30, Dex 16, Con 16, Int 14, Wis 10, Cha 10. Skills: Drive 4 (+7), Gather Information 4 (+4), Intimidate 12 (+12), Knowledge (Streetwise) 4 (+6), Knowledge (Tactics) 4 (+6), Language 4 (Chinese, French, Russian, Vietnamese, Base English), Medicine 4 (+4), Notice 8 (+8), Pilot 4 (+7), Profession (Mercenary) 4 (+4), Sense Motive 8 (+8), Stealth 8 (+11), Survival 4 (+4), Swim 4 (+7). Feats: All-Out Attack, Attack Specialization (Unarmed), Benefit (Lancelot Armor Training), Defensive Attack, Improved Initiative, Move-by Action, Power Attack, Sidekick 21 (Gwendolyn Pendrake), Startle, Takedown Attack. Powers: Lancelot Armor: Device 13 (Hard to Lose, Power Feat Restricted: Requires Benefit (Lancelot Armor Training) to use without penalties, cost 51 points) Abilities: Armor 5 (Extra Impervious), Blast 12 (Force descriptor, Alternate Power Enhanced Strength 14 and Super Strength 5, Force Constructs 8 [Extra Movable]), Force Field 5 (Extra Impervious, Flaw Abative), Flight 5 (Dynamic, Dynamic Alternate Power Super Strength 5), Flight 1 (10 MPH, 500 MPH with Flight setting), Super Senses 5 (Radio reciever, Extended Vision 2, Extended Hearing 2), Super Strength 1 (heavy load 460 lbs, 50k Tons with full strength power setting, Power Feat Groundstrike, Thunderclap) Combat: Attack +8, +10 unarmed, Grapple +14 (+31 with Enhanced Strength and full Super Strength), Damage +10 melee (Unarmed, +3 without Enhanced Strength), +12 ranged (Force Blast), Defense 17 (14 flat-footed), Initiative +7, Knockback -11 (-6 without Force Field, -1 without Armor) Saves: Toughness +13 (10 Impervious, +8 [5 Impervious] without Force Field, +3 without Armor), Fortitude +7, Reflex +7, Will +7. Drawbacks: Normal Identity (Without Armor, 1 minute to put it on, -5 points) [Abilities 22 + Skills 19 + Feats 31 + Powers 51 + Combat 30 + Saves 11 - Drawbacks 5 = 159 points] Sidekick: Gwendolyn Pendrake Abilities: Str 10, Dex 14, Con 10, Int 18, Wis 18, Cha 18. Skills: Bluff 8 (+12/+16), Computers 4 (+8), Diplomacy 8 (+12/+16), Intimidate 4 (+8), Knowledge (Buisness) 8 (+12), Knowledge (Civics) 4 (+8), Knowledge (Tactics) 8 (+12), Knowledge (technology) 4 (+8), Notice 4 (+8), Sense Motive 8 (+12). Feats: Attack Specialization (ranged) 4, Attractive, Benefit 4 (Wealth 3 - Filthy Rich, Status - CEO of Camelot Heavy Industries), Equipment 5, Improved Initiative, Master Plan 2, Minions 5 (10 Security Guards - As per Thugs), Minion 2 (Merianne Linn, AKA Merlin). Powers: Device 2 (Force Field Generator, Hard to Lose) Force Field Generator: Force Field 5 (Impervious) Equipment: Light Pistol (+3 damage, 6 points) Headquarters: Camelot Heavy Industries (as per Skyscraper, but Gargantuan, plus Minions feature for on-site Security Guards [thugs], scientists and others, cost 19 points) Combat: Attack +3 (+7 ranged), Grapple +3, Damage +0 melee (unarmed) or +3 ranged (Light Pistol), Defense 15 (13 flat-footed), Initiative +6, Knockback -5. Saves: Toughness +5 (Impervious, +0 without Force Field), Fortitude +3, Reflex +6, Will +10. [Abilities 28 + Skills 15 + Feats 25 + Powers 8 + Combat 16 + Saves 13 = 105 points] [As you can see I'm having problems with his point totals, I'd welcome any suggestions for shaving more off to get those 9 points in, obviously if I didn't have to pay for Gwendolyn it would make it a lot easier] Gwendolyn Pendrake is the daugther of Arthur Pendrake, adventurer and genius inventor and founder of Camelot Heavy Industries, a high-tech corporation, and also the builder of the Lancelot armor. Gwendolyn inherented the corporation three years ago when Arthur was killed, presumably in a car accident but evidence has come up it may have been ininitaed by Fayyar Incorporated, a European corporation led by Morgan Fayyar, an ex of Arthur's. A friend of the family suggested that Gwendolyn reach out to one of Arthur's old friends, the mercenary Carl Sebastian Rennard, a hard man who'd served in the French Foreign Legion before becoming a mercenary for several years. Carl has become Gwendolyn's bodyguard, and has also become the superhero Lancelot, the protector of Camelot Heavy Industries as well as a local hero in Freedom City who has started to draw the headlines. Fayyar Incorporated responded however with unleashing Mordredd the Black Knight, a 8 foot tall monstrosity of a powered armor with an unknown pilot. Now this is a bit of a strange build, it's the Sidekick who's the boss of the main hero, who owns all rights to the armor, and who provides repairs as well as combat directions. Gwendolyn would never leave the headquarters except for when making appearances and driving to and from her mansion home, and only has some combat stats simply to keep her from dying instantly if Lancelot doesn't get there in time.
  23. Wacky Ultima genetic engineering seems to be the choice if going for a half-centurion. I*ll have to play around with that PL 10 Ultima build and see what I can come up with.
  24. Incidentally I can't immediatley see any way to edit my posts for typos and addendums, is that function disabled for these boards or am I just being dense once again?
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