Posted in NPC, Sidekick, Superheroes on May 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Sandstone
PL 6
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA
-1
+1
+1
+0
-1
+1
8
12
12
10
8
12
Toughness
Fortitude
Reflex
Will
+6/+4*
+6
+4
+2
* Flat-footed
Skills Acrobatics 3 (+4), Bluff 9 (+10), Computers 4 (+4), Diplomacy 3 (+4), Drive 2 (+3), Escape Artist 4 (+5), Knolwedge (Pop Culture) 3 (+3), Notice 4 (+3), Search 3 (+3), Stealth 5 (+6)
Feats Defensive Roll 2, Improved Grab, Redirect, Instant Up, Quick Change 1
Powers: Alternate Form: Particulate (Sand) 6 (Insubstantial 1, Immunity [...]
Posted in NPC, Superheroes on May 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Flashback
PL 8
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA
+1
+6
+2
+0
+1
+2
13
22
14
11
12
14
Toughness
Fortitude
Reflex
Will
+8/+3*
+6
+12
+6
* Flat-footed
Skills Computers 2 (+2), Craft (Art) 2 (+2), Craft (Mechanical) 6 (+6), Diplomacy 2 (+4), Knowledge (Pop Culture) 2 (+2), Notice 2 (+3), Search 2 (+2)
Feats Defensive Roll 5, Evasion 2, Improved Disarm, Move-by Action, Stunning Attack, Luck 1, Equipment 1
Powers Super-Speed 10 (Power Feats: Rapid Attack, Wall Run, Water Run); Alternate Powers: [...]
Posted in Worldbuilding on May 18, 2008 | No Comments »
The Bay Area in 2008 has a population of 31.3 million people, making it the largest population center in the United States. There are four main urban centers: San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Redwood City. Each is a large modern skyscraper-studded city with populations in the millions.
San Francisco is a haven for free-thinkers, artists [...]
Posted in NPC, Supervillains on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Fortress, aka, Nicholas Fort, was a member of the Silver Seven until he betrayed and murdered his teammates in order to fuel Douglas Pierce’s political ambitions and his own lust for power - as Pierce moved into political circles, Fort took over more and more of the overtly criminal organizations Pierce had set up to destroy of [...]
Posted in Worldbuilding on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
20 years without an embedded superhero group have seen crime rise and become entrenched in the area. Going counter-clockwise around the Bay Area: San Francisco is mainly split between the Chinese and the Russians. The Tongs and Organizatsiya groups have roughly equal footing, each sharing about 40% of the ‘underworld’ economy: the rest is taken [...]
Posted in NPC, Superheroes on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
The most powerful known metahuman on the planet is probably Natasha Dementieva, known as Mother Russia. She has the normal paragon suite of abilities: flight, super-strength, invulnerability, speed and endurance. She says she gets her power from ‘the Russian people’, but she doesn’t display the normal characteristics of other metas who have similar power sources.
Dementieva [...]
Posted in NPC, Sidekicks, Superheroes on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Some of the early mystery men of the 20’s and 30’s occasionally had assistants that were younger than they but none were consistent or noted. It took the unusual action of putting a minor into combat to bring the term ’sidekick’ into the American vocabulary.
Squire, the assistant to The Silver Knight, was the first teenager [...]
