I am literally playing a Succubus Sniper who "went native" while fighting for the red army (the side with the Red Pentagramms on the forehead are clearly on team Demon yes?), as the background story of my char in another campaign (sadly defunct now).
A problem I could see that, in terms of comic-superpowers, Succubi have a bit too many? Telepathy, flight, shapechange, energy drain, damage resistance, immunity to some elements and poison, teleportation, mind manipulation (probably a part of telepathy), the whole hand out profane gifts thing and extremely high dexterity and charisma.
I dont know the system yet, but that is probably a fairly powerful character.
Ok, having bought and read the rules, there is limited telepathy, flight, shapechange, limited damage resistance, teleportation, mind manipulation and even something akin to profane gifts.
I dont think there is a way of get all of them on one character, unless its very high level equivalent.
What could be done is starting on a lower level, characterized by being very carefull about not being discovered as being an actual demon, and perhaps adjusting the setting to be a bit "Jim Butcher" like in that there are totally shotgun wielding vampires, Faes with an affinity for chainsaws, and a "black ops mage" who likes to dump satellites on opponents.
Perhaps, in narrative terms, the sheer amount of blood shed greatly limited the "friction" something from another dimension encounters when interfacing with earth? And this is an ongoing process, which would unlock progressively more powers for protagonists while also raising the general playing field?
In the final campaign, mother Russia fully awakes and becomes sentient, manifests as a massive Warrior godess and has a massive slapdown fight with, lets say Fenrir because the Nazis always had a thing for wolfs and got seriously into Causing Ragnarök?
Intrigued and interested
Interesting! Just picked up the bundle, and I always like learning new systems. Besides, beating up Nazis as a superhero sounds like a damn fun time.
I'm quite interested! Give me a bit to read up on the rules, but I do love me some superheros!
Hmm, I have several ideas, definitly going with a Soviet theme because I am half Russian:
A Captain in the Red Army, Vitkor Sergejewitch Volodin spontaneously discovered his ability to create and melt ice while stopping a german Panzer charge over Lake Peipus, by force melting the ice they were on. Can theoretically freeze humans, but it takes too long for combat due to high Blood Salinity and living matter being harder to affect for him. Is immune to cold, and has some clever ways of using his ice stuff as defense, although it takes access to freezable fluids.
A normal if physically fit human apart from his ice melding ability.
There is a Propaganda poster of him opening a German Tank with a Ice-2 handed sword while wearing Ice-Bogatyr armor. Spoiler: This was obviously staged, while he can kill people with ice bullets etc. (assuming he find some way to propel them quickly enough, but he is pretty deadly with a waterhose), it does not go through a tank. Actually clever Propaganda because the Germans believe he fights in melee, which he doesnt.
Personality: Fairly friendly pragmatist. Would be sent if Stalin/Berija/whoever wishes to send a fairly friendly Talent to a possible joint venture.
Codenamed Night-witch, Liliya Vladimirovna Raskova was a flight instructor turned emergency pilot during operation Barbarossa. As her repurposed Crop duster was shot down, she spontaneously discovered the ability to fly, crashing into a German interceptor, killing the Pilot by ripping his throat out and then hijacking the unfamilar machine. Stavka appreciated a intact, apart from the hole in the canopy, BF109.
She can enter what she calls "witch mode" in which she has superhuman strength, agility, and grows flight capable wings (even though her wingspan is far too small to lift someone of her size). She can only maintain Night witch mode for a couple of minutes at a time.
She does have perfect dark vision at all times, and is relatively charismatic in her normal form, but is essentially a normal human during daytime.
Personality: Her main personality is fairly sarcastic, she would, esepcially if sent abroad, alter her personality to the needs of the mission. Would be sent if Stalin/Berija wants more information on "allied" aces. She is physically beutifull, and has a number of assassinations and abductions under her belt.
Literally looks like a Succubus in "night witch" mode.
I've perused the free quick start stuff. More complex than I was expecting but I've had something like a Talent in mind for a while. If you've ever seen Chronicle, I am basing it off those powers. How close could you create a character with that level of telekinesis? How many points do we have?
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I've skimmed all the free stuff, so I vaguely remember that character -- he's a walking storage locker, basically -- but I don't recall where exactly he was found. Is he a balanced starting character?
He's found in the free download GODLIKE:Character Collection. As I am wholly unfamiliar with the sytem, I have no idea whether he's balanced or not.
I did pick it up.
I made a character, thoughts?
Zindel Kessler
Body 1
Coordination 2
Sense 1
Brains 4/7(3 hard)
Command 1
Cool 3/6 (1 hard)
Skills:
Endurance 1(use cool)
Dodge 2(+1)
Pistol 2
Cryptohraphy 1
Education 1
Electronics 1
First Aid 2
Medicine 2
Tactics 3
Language 1 (Yiddish)
Language 1 (German)
Language 1 (English)
Mental Stability 2
Talents:
Hyperbrains 3: 3 hard dice [15]
Hypercool 3: 1 hard dice, 2 regular dice[9] (+1 to base will, +1 to width for combat initative)
Hyperdodge 1: 1 regular die [1]
Base Will: 5
Zindel Kessler lived through the first world war. The sound of artillery fire day in and day out left him somewhat hard of hearing. The smell of the trenches has permanently dulled his sense of smell. His ability to empathize with people was invigorated by the war; indeed he abhors violence, but it stunted his ability to express it. When he returned home from the war to end all wars, the Great War, he was only 19. He had managed to survive at the 100 Day Offensive, and although Germany had lost the war, he was content knowing that he had served his country to the best of his ability.
Fast forward 10 years, and Zindel had gotten married. His parents had set him up with a nice Jewish girl, and after years of courtship, they had gotten married. He was still distant, but he was a loving husband, despite the German economic collapse. The Beer Hall Putsch distressed him, but he foolishly assumed the best of his fellow countrymen. To hate his fellow man would be unconscionable. Nevertheless, Zindel grew uneasy.
Another 9 years, and that brings us to 1938. Zindel is now 38, and remains childless with his wife Rosa. Zinler had been saving money to move to America since Hitler had been elected Chancellor, but he only had the funds to send one person. Hearing rumors of the impending Kristallnacht implementation, he sent Rosa ahead with all of his savings. It was at this point that he was captured, and put in a concentration camp.
This veteran of war, a peaceful man, bright, but with only a mild education, did not do well in the camps. His thick glasses were removed from him, and he was beaten frequently. Not long after arriving, he became deathly ill. He was not issued food or medicine, but somehow he still survived. More than that, a change had come over him. Things that had not previously been clear to him now were laid bare in his mind, and his already formidable will became still stronger. He studied the patterns of guards around the sick tent, and through his fierce desire to see Rosa again, managed to escape.
He barely remembers how he made it to France, and from there, England. His mind and body were feverish the whole time, kept moving by a strong desire to see his beloved wife one more time. By the time he made it across the English channel, the Nazi's had invaded Poland. Torn between his own desires, and his disgust at his home country, he did what he never thought he would do again; enlist in the army, and fight his former countrymen. Always under suspicion for being a former German, ostracized for his age, for his reserved nature, for his seemingly biting wit, and capacity learn, Zindel bore with it. He knows that he will probably not survive this war, especially not now that his mental fortitude has been classified as a talent. Bent but not yet broken, he holds out hope that his letters written to the Americas might one day help him find his beloved Rosa, and gain some comfort in reading about her new life.
-I wasn't sure if hyperstats counted for the brains bonus, but I will add those skills in!
-To be honest, I wasn't sure if I wanted three hard dice or not. But I thought that Tactics might be an opposed skill check, especially into enemy hyperbrains, and there was a chance some gobble dice might come into play, so having a backup hard die seemed like it might be a good idea? But I'm still pretty new to these rules, so please tell me if my thought process is completely off.
-Thanks for the heads up about the Italy thing, I'll definitely do that.
-As seen above, Tactics is kind of what I was going for. A hyper intelligent, hyper coolheaded kind of guy, who isn't the best combatant by a mile, but excels at other useful military strategy. Besides, I bet it will be harder to try and find tactics that minimize casualties.
-I rather expect that I'll be ostracized, but that's ok. He's not fighting for them, he's fighting for his people, his country, and his wife.
Thank you! I really appreciate it. Here's an updated sheet!
Godlike
Zindel Kessler
Body 1
Coordination 2
Sense 1
Brains 4/8(2 hard)
Command 1
Cool 3/7 (1 hard)
Skills:
Endurance 1(use cool)
Dodge 2(+2)
Pistol 2
Cryptohraphy 1
Education 1
Electronics 1
First Aid 3
Medicine 3
Tactics 3
Navigation 1 (Land)
Language 1 (Yiddish)
Language 1 (German)
Language 1 (English)
Language 1 (Italian)
Mental Stability 2
Bluff 1
Lie 1
Talents:
Hyperbrains 3: 2 hard dice, 1 regular [12]
Hypercool 3: 1 hard dice, 3 regular dice[9] (+2 to base will, +2 to width for combat initative)
Hyperdodge 2: 2 regular die [2]
Base Will: 6
I turned a hard die of brain into a regular one, added another regular die to cool, and another regular die to dodge. Plus updated my skills :)
Haven't picked the free stuff yet but Interested!
are you open to new submissions, I am quite interested though I haven't done a Play by Post before.
I don't have any experience with ORE but I generally enjoy learning new systems!
I've started reading through the quick start info, should finish that pick up the book, and start building tomorrow. a character should be together by Monday if that works!
Luigi Marella
"The Milan Miracle"
Concept: 21 years old Toughboy from the Chicago streets, from Italian origin. His Catholic faith his very important to him.
Body 3
Brains 2
Coord 1
Cool 3
Command 1
Sense 2
Base Will 4
Skills (20)
Body (3)
athletics 3
brawling 2
Brains (2)
Explosives 2
Mechanics 2
Navigation 2
Coordination (1)
Knife combat 1
Driving 1
Rifle 1
Cool (3)
Mental stability 3
Command (1)
Inspire 1
Sense (2)
Sight 2
Talents (25 points)
Still thinking about it.. and want to keep it simple! So probably:
Hyperskill-Rifle 3 normal dice ( cost 3)
Ace 2 normal dices (cost 10)
Heal 2 normal dices (Cost 12), only after a prayer
Initial concept
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for Damian themselves, they use they/them Pronouns but they also use whatever form they are in would be perceived as.
Body 1
Coordination 3
Sense 1
Brains 3
Command 1
Cool 3
Skills:
Health 1
Endurance 1
Stealth 3
Pistol 3
Riffle 3
Parachuting 1
Language 3 (German)
Language 3 (French)
Navigation 1 (Land)
Language 1 (English)
Bluff 3
Lie 2
Mental Stability 1
Talents:
Dead Ringer (2 Hard Dice) 8 points (Absolute Duplication, Automatic)
Fetch (2 Hard Dice) 12 Points (Chain Lightning)
Base Will: 5
Damian was born around 1910 he can't remember exactly when in Luxembourg city when he was very young, somewhere between 3 and 5 Germany occupied his home, the Germans brought with them worry and hunger for his parents, eventually to try to keep the family alive and their stomachs full Damian's father joined the German infantry and never came home.
during the Interwar period, Damian's mother tried to rebuild and keep the family afloat with the little money she had and what his father had sent back. in 1930 Damian moved to France seeking a more stable world. there he met Terisia who he would marry shortly after, they would have 2 sons Jamison and Henri.
By 1937 Damian had started to work within the public service sector as an aid to a Parisian councilman when the war started and Luxembourg was invaded, Damian planned to stay out of it until late June of 1940 when Damian awoke to find his wife screaming in his or rather her arms. as Damian took stock of the situation they found that in the night they had morphed into a duplicate of Teresia. worrying what this would do to their family Damian fled the building and ran into the surrounding area.
Finding themselves with nothing left to lose Damian found a burgeoning resistance movement in late October and joined them pledging to do everything they could to help free their home country and prove themselves worthy of Teresia despite their new curse.
with absolute transformation I lose access to stored forms, right? if not I may wanna edit the backstory a bit cause that's where most of my shame towards my family comes from.
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for Damian themselves, they use they/them Pronouns but they also use whatever form they are in would be perceived as.
Body 1
Coordination 3
Sense 1
Brains 3
Command 1
Cool 3
Skills:
Health 1
Brawling 1
Endurance 1
Running 1
Stealth 3
Pistol 4
Riffle 3
Granade 1
Parachuting 1
Language 3 (German)
Language 3 (French)
Navigation 1 (Land)
Language 1 (English)
language 1 (ASL)
Bluff 3
Lie 2
Mental Stability 1
Talents:
Dead Ringer (2 Hard Dice) 8 points (Absolute Duplication, Automatic)
Fetch (2 Hard Dice) 12 Points (Chain Lightning)
Base Will: 9