Thema: [MHRP] Sammelthread Selbsterstelltes

[Nocturama]

Durch einen Motivationsschub angesichts der bevorstehenden Runde, hatte ich mal Lust, selbst Datafiles zu erstellen. Und da ich sicher nicht einen ganzen Thread alleine füllen kann, mache ich den hier mal als Sammelthread für alle handgemachten Charaktere, Events, Milestones und Sonstiges auf 

Na gut, im engeren Sinne sind diese Datafiles nicht für Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, aber was soll's...

Secret Six

In and very much out of costume.

Be warned: There be spoilers. I tried not to spoil too much, but it’s kind of hard when you are writing Datafiles. If haven’t read Secret Six yet, go and do it. It’s disturbing and touching all at the same time. Gail Simone does an awesome job of making you care about really, really bad people.

The new and improved Secret Six are a group of minor supervillains. They started as a team opposing Lex Luthor’s (one Lex Luthor) Secret Society of Supervillains during the Villains United event, but later work as mercenaries.
As a team, they are a kind of a living contradiction. They aren’t as evil as most supervillain teams, but they aren’t good guys either. Oh, they can do horrible, horrible things, but they can also swing around and to the right thing. Or at least try to do the right thing and get punched in the face repeatedly because of it.
Because the Secret Six are constant underdogs. They aren’t on par with a lot of heroes and they aren’t the equal of the more powerful supervillains. Mostly, they end up somewhere between a rock and a hard place.
They also tend to fight among each other a lot and have their own share of backstabbing, but somehow they always bounce back to being something like friends. If one of them is hurt by an outside force or if someone tries to pressure them into a certain course of action, you bet they will stand together and fight, even if it’s a lost cause.
The Six have seen many different compositions over their short run, with Scandal Savage, Catman, Deadshot and Ragdoll being the only constant members (barring the times one of them goes over the edge and leaves). Other members include Knockout, Black Alice, Bane and the banshee Jeanette. Short term members include Cheshire, a Parademon, the Mad Hatter, Harley Quinn, Giganta, Dwarfstar and King Shark.
Their headquarter is the House of Secrets, a strange and probably interdimensional place. Scandal calls it a “house of victims”, which means that it will kick the Six out if they ever become too powerful.

Stories about the Secret Six will often turn into gut wrenching drama. There is hardly ever a truly good ending for them. Terrible struggles, cruelty, hard choices and wrong decisions, interspersed with sudden moments of kindness and humor, make a good Secret Six story.

Team Milestones

Underdogs

1 XP: When someone (including you) mocks your team or you mention how much your current mission is out of your league.
3 XP: When you defeat a considerable stronger enemy.
10 XP: When you realize you can’t win and either decide to go out in a blaze of glory or just lie down and die (yeah… right…).

Together, but Separate

1 XP: When you fight with another member of the team.
3 XP: When you forgive a teammate for hurting or betraying you or the team.
10 XP: When you betray your team for your own interests or give up something important for your team.

Stuck in the Middle

1 XP: When a hero or villain tries to bring you to their side or you are tempted to align yourself with another group than the Six.
3 XP: When working for one fraction causes trouble with another fraction or somebody tries to force you to work for them.
10 XP: When you switch sides in the middle of a conflict or turn against your employer and decide not to fight for any side but your own.

Datafiles:

Scandal Savage



As her name implies, Scandal is the daughter of major league immortal supervillain Vandal Savage. Her mother was the only woman Savage ever really loved, and so designed Scandal as his one true heir.
To make her his living legacy, Vandal subjected his daughter to an inhuman training regiment. Which, naturally, did not exactly inspire her to love her father. She distanced herself from Vandal, but he still tries to force her to continue his lineage. There is just a little problem: Not only is Scandal a lesbian and not in much danger of being knocked up by some random guy, but she also is not interested in having a child and putting it through Vandal’s torturous upbringing.
In the Secret Six, Scandal acts as a leader, organizing the mercenaries’ jobs and resources and providing tactics. Even though she can seem cold and calculating, she also has quite a temperament and likes to live her life to the fullest.
In a sense, she is also the heart of the team. She keeps the Six together and sees everyone as her friend. Yes, even Deadshot and Ragdoll.
Scandal’s love life is rather complicated, but she will (literally) go to hell and back for her lovers. She was in a relationship with the New Goddess Knockout and later dates a stripper.
After he joins the team, Bane acts as something of a very weird father figure to her.
Scandal had no choice but to become a world class fighter. She uses the wrist-mounted “Laminas Pesar” (Lamentation Blades) in combat. Additionally, she has to a lesser extent the same healing powers as her father.

Affiliations:

Solo D6 Buddy D8 Team D10

Distinctions:

Savage Blood
Cool-headed Leader…
…with a Wild Side.

Power Sets:

Vandal Savage’s Offspring

Superhuman Stamina D10
Enhanced Reflexes D8
Enhanced Durability D8

SFX: Immunity. Spend 1 PP to ignore stress, trauma or complications from age, disease or poison.
SFX: Near Immortality. Spend 1 PP to recover your physical stress and step back your physical trauma by –1.
SFX: Focus. If your pool includes a Vandal Savage’s Offspring power, you may replace two dice of equal size with one stepped-up die.

Limit: I’m not my Father’s Daughter. When you are forcefully reminded of your legacy, step up mental or emotional stress to gain 1 PP.

My Father’s Gifts:

Lamentation Blades: Weapon D8

SFX: Deadly Blades. Add a d6 to your attack action pool and step back the highest die in pool. Step up physical stress inflicted.
SFX: Savage Anger. Step up or double Weapon for one action. If the action fails, add a die to doom pool equal to the normal rating of your power die.

Limit: Gear. Shutdown Lamentation Blades and gain 1 PP. Take an action vs. doom pool to recover.

Specialities:

Acrobatic Expert D8
Business Master D10
Combat Master D10
Covert Expert D8
Crime Expert D8
Menace Expert D8

Milestones:

A Savage Legacy:

1 XP When you mention how your upbringing and your connection to your father alludes to the current situation.
3 XP When your Superhuman Stamina prevents you from being taken out or you kill someone with the Lamentation Blades.
10 XP When you either kill or join your father.

Deadly Romance:

1 XP When you quarrel or fight with your lover or profess your love for her.
3 XP When kill for your lover or follow your lover into a dangerous situation.
10 XP When you either betray your teammates for your lover or when you decide to let your lover go (or even kill her) to avoid hurting your teammates.
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Catman (Thomas Blake)



Most supervillains don’t get a happy start and Thomas Blake is no exception. His father was a millionaire with a liking for big game hunting. And he was not a very nice man. He was constantly abusing his wife and when twelve year old Thomas decided to step in, well, things got messy. He accidentally killed his own mother and subsequently shot and killed his father.
It isn’t surprising he went on to become a supervillain. First, a burglar in the vein of Catwoman, then an enemy of Batman. And if you think “Catman” kind of sounds like the stupid little brother of Batman and Catwoman, you would be partially right.
Everything went down from there on. Catman became “the last rung on an already short ladder”, the essential Z-lister. He put on weight and dyed his hair black to “look tougher”.
Then he was supposed dead, eaten by Monsieur Mallah.
He resurfaced much later in Africa as a new man, having turned his back to the whole super-thing and living with a pride of lions. He was approached to join Lex Luthor’s Secret Society of Supervillains. He declined. Catman, a total joke villain, the bottom of the bottom, turned Lex Luthor down.
As retaliation, his pride was slaughtered and Catman joined the Secret Six to oppose Luthor and take his own revenge.
Catman is one of the Six’ more ethical members, always fluctuating between anti-villain and anti-hero. He sometimes acts a field leader to the Six and is probably (and somewhat surprisingly) closest to Deadshot.
Thomas Blake is one of the world’s best hunters and trackers, as well as an excellent fighter. He prefers knives and claw-like weapons, such as knuckle blades.
The origin of his more exceptional powers, such as his sense of smell or his rapport with big cats, are unclear. He claims his costume comes from a south sea cat cult and is the reason for his healing powers, but it is unclear whether or not he was lying.

Affiliations:

Solo D8 Buddy D6 Team D10

Distinctions:

Part of a Pride
Relentless Hunter
No longer a Joke

Power Sets:

Cat Powers

Speed D6
Enhanced Reflexes D8
Enhanced Senses D8
Cat Control D8

SFX: Caught your Scent. Spend 1 PP or use an effect die to create a On your Tail complication for a target. You may track that target until the complication is removed.
SFX: Pounce. On a successful reaction against a physical attack, inflict physical stress with your effect die at no PP cost. Spend 1 PP to step it up.
SFX: Berserk. Add a doom die to your next attack action. After your action, step up the doom die and return it to the doom pool.
SFX: Big Cat. When creating a Cat Control-related assets, add d6 and step up your effect die.

Limit: My Pride. When someone you consider to be part of your pride (no matter whether lions or people) is hurt or killed, step up mental or emotional stress to gain 1 PP.

A Lion in Men’s Clothing

Enhanced Stamina D8
Weapon D8

SFX: Nine Lives: Spend 1 PP to recover your physical stress or step back physical trauma.

Limit: Gear: Shutdown a A Lion in Men’s Clothing Power and gain 1 PP. Take an action vs. doom pool to recover.

Specialities:

Acrobatic Master D10
Combat Master D10
Covert Master D10
Menace Expert D8

Milestones:

Neither Hero nor Villain…

1 XP When you insist you aren’t a hero or lecture a hero on their wrongdoings.
3 XP When you stop someone from killing an innocent or doing something horrific.
10 XP When you either cross the moral horizon and do something truly evil or cut ties to your villainous past and become a hero.

…and neither Man nor Animal.

1 XP When you fight or act like an animal.
3 XP When you first use your Berserk SFX in a scene or when you are the reason a big cat is hurt or killed.
10 XP When you either leave the human world to live in the wilderness or form a deep relationship with another human, bringing you closer to their world.

[Nocturama]

Deadshot (Floyd Lawton)



No wonder Floyd Lawton and Thomas Blake became kind of buddies. Lawton as well had the misfortune of growing up with an abusive father, who hurt the only person Deadshot really admired: His brother. When little Lawton climbed on a tree and tried to shoot his father, the branch broke and the bullet struck his brother instead.
Since then, Deadshot has become one of the world’s most successful assassins and a master marksman. He has perfected the image of the uncaring professional hit man. He will take a lot of jobs if the money is right and he has a reputation of seeing them through no matter what.
While it is true that Floyd Lawton is a near sociopath, he does have emotions and he does care about his teammates and his little daughter. Of course, he would never show that (except to his daughter) and when he does something important for his teammates, he prefers to make it look like betrayal.
The reason might be Deadshot’s self-loathing. Contrary to what he will tell you, he does have something of a death wish.
Deadshot does not have any real superpowers. He “knows where the bullets go” and that’s about it. That he still managed to become one of the deadliest assassins in a superpowered world is a testament to his skill. He does have an awesome porn ‘stache, though.
After she joins the team, the banshee Jeanette pursues Deadshot and they start an affair.

Affiliations:

Solo D10 Buddy D8 Team D6

Distinctions:

World’s deadliest assassin
Willpower, not Superpowers
It’s not personal

Power Sets:

Expert Marksman:

Enhanced Reflexes D8

SFX: Steady Trigger Finger. If your Dice Pool includes an Expert Marksman Power, you may replace two dice of equal size with one stepped-up die.
SFX: I know where the Bullets go. If your pool includes your Expert Marksman power, spend 1 PP to reroll.

Limit: Suppressed Emotions. When your opponent includes your existing mental or emotional stress in a dice pool, step up that stress to gain 1 PP. If the opponent’s action or reaction fails, step back that stress.

Tools of the Trade:

Weapon D8
Enhanced Senses D8
Enhanced Durability D8

SFX: Make the Last Bullet Count. Step up or double your Weapon Die on your next roll, or spend 1 PP to do both, then shutdown that power. Activate an opportunity to recover the power or during a Transition Scene.
SFX: Two Guns, Many Bullets. Against multiple targets, for every additional target add a d6 and keep an additional effect die.
SFX: Black Market. At the cost of creating a resource, you may step up or double Weapon. Enhanced Senses or Enhanced Durability for the duration of a resource.
SFX: Rapid Fire. Against a single target, step up or double a Tools of the Trade die. Remove the highest rolling die and use three dice for your total.

Limit: Gear. Shutdown a Tools of the Trade Power and gain 1 PP. Take an action vs. doom pool to recover.

Specialties:

Acrobatic Expert D8
Combat Master D10
Crime Expert D8
Covert Expert D8
Menace Master D10
Vehicle Expert D8

Milestones:

Stone cold Killer:

1 XP When you deny you have feelings.
3 XP When you kill someone in cold blood even though it is detrimental to your situation or when you kill someone, so that your teammates don’t have to.
10 XP When you betray or hurt someone to complete a hit (especially your teammates) or betray your professionalism and abandon the job.

Self-Destructive

1 XP When you mention you don’t care whether you live or die or when you deny having a death wish.
3 XP When you go into a fight in which the odds are against you.
10 XP When you provoke someone you care about to try and kill you and let them either succeed or discover that maybe you don’t want to die after all.
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Ragdoll (Peter Merkel Junior)



Peter Merkel Jr. was born a cute, normal child – to his father’s disgust and horror. Peter Merkel Sr. was the triple-jointed villain named Ragdoll, but his son had not inherited his gifts.
Peter underwent more and more surgeries to remake himself in his father’s image. By now, he is multi-jointed as well, can bend in any direction and survive a lot of damage. The drawback is, his skin will tear and crack if not lubricated with a special salve, which has already left him severely scarred and disfigured.
Whatever else his father has done, it has driven Peter utterly insane. Though he is creepily polite, most things he says are revolting and disturbing, making him more tolerated than accepted in the Secret Six. His only true friend was an equally insane Parademon from Apokolips, who died during the Villains United arc. Ragdoll keeps his stuffed body and still talks to him.
Later, he forms something of a romantic relationship with Black Alice, which tells you a lot about her state of mind.
Peter has a sister, Alex, with whom he might have shared an incestuous relationship, maybe one of the reasons he had his genitals removed. Alex turned out even more insane than Peter and became a truly sadistic individual (and, spoilers, crime lord). It is implied her father abused her in every way imaginable, which drove her to disfigure herself, to be “as ugly on the outside as she is on the inside”.


Affiliations:

Solo D6 Buddy D10 Team D8

Distinctions:

Twisted and Scarred
My (stuffed) Buddy the Parademon
Such a Polite Freak!

Power Sets:

Multi-Jointed Freak:

Enhanced Durability D8
Enhanced Reflexes D8
Leaping D6
Contortionist D10

SFX: Grapple. Add a d6 and step up your effect die when inflicting a Contortionist related Complication on a target.
SFX: Disgusting Thing! When using a Multi-Jointed Power Freak to inflict emotional or mental stress, add a d6 and step up your effect die.
SFX: Fortune Favours the Freak. If your pool includes a Multi-Jointed Freak power, spend 1 pp to reroll.
SFX: Versatile. Split Contortionist into 2d8 or 3d6.
SFX: Dislocated Everything. Step up your physical stress to step up or double a Multi-Jointed Freak power or pay a PP to do both.

Limit: Skin and Bones. When your skin is dried out, step up your physical stress and gain 1 PP.

Specialties:

Acrobatic Master D10
Combat Expert D8
Covert Master D10
Menace Expert D8

Milestones:

Insane

1 XP When you say something that disgusts your surroundings.
3 XP When are suddenly and horrifyingly lucid.
10 XP When you accept you are broken and insane or when you try to overcome your madness and heal.

A Family of Freaks

1 XP When you reveal something disturbing about your family.
3 XP When actively search out your family or when you or your team get hurt because of your family.
10 XP When you hurt or kill one of your family members to protect someone else or when you hurt or kill someone to protect your family.
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Design Notes: Okay, there isn’t that much variety powers-wise. Catman and Scandal both stab stuff and Deadshot shoots stuff. Ragdoll is Ragdoll. They are primarily distinguished through Milestones and, well, Distinctions and I tried to vary the SFXs a bit. I’m still somewhat unsure about making my own SFXs, so most of them are ripped from existing Datafiles.
Scandal was pretty straightforward to design. Catman was harder, because his powers might or might not be supernatural and it is unclear what he can do at all (in the Secret Six, his cats are mostly just killed for drama and never fight for him). Both his and Deadshot's Affiliations weren't all that easy to decide. Catman works pretty well in all Affiliations and even though Deadshot is often somewhat disruptive in a team, he is also a long standing member of the Suicide Squad and as such should be able to work with others.
I added "Contortionist" as a new power for Ragdoll, because none of the existing powers covers it. I could just have used Enhanced Reflexes for him being multi-jointed or maybe Stretching, but I didn't like those options.
Also, Milestones are hard to write.

Next up: Bane and Jeanette. Then maybe Knockout and Black Alice.

[Oberkampf]

Hawkgirl:

Affiliations:
Solo D6 - Buddy D10 - Team D8

Distinctions:
Re-Incarnated Princess of Egypt
Warrior Spirit
Thanagarian Exile

Power-Sets:
N-th Metal Harness:
Durability D8 Enhanced Stamina D8 Enhanced Senses (Hawkeyes) D6 Flight D6 Weapon D8

SFX Violent Strike: Add a die from the doom pool to one or more attack actions. Step up the doom pool die by +1 for each action; return it to the doom pool when you’ re done.

SFX Life Support: Spend 1 PP to ignore stress, trauma or complications from heat, cold or pressure

SFX Thanagarian Temper: Step up or double any Nth Metal Harness Power for one action. If the action fails, add a die to the doom pool equal to the normal rating of your power die.

Limit: Gear

Specialities:
Acrobatics Expert D8 Combat Expert D8 Cosmic Expert D8 Menace Expert D8

Milestones:

Troubled Relationship:
1 XP whenever you start a flirt with a character other than Hawkman
3 XP whenever you turn down a relationship with a character other than Hawkman
10 XP whenever you deepen your eternal love affair with Hawkman or leave him for another character

Haunted Memories:
1 XP whenever you create an asset by receiving a flashback from the past
3 XP whenever you suffer a consequence related to one of your incarnations
10 XP whenever you declare a character an ancient enemy or ally from your Ancient Egypt or Thanagar

Eine Hawkgirl-Interpretation, die ich aus dem Hawkgirl der Pre New 52 Comics und der Zeichentrickserie zusammengebastelt habe. Da in der Cartoon-Serie Hawkman nicht vorkommt, müsste man den Milestone Troubled Realtionship leicht verändern, oder vielleicht ersetzen durch:

Traitor of Thanagar
1 XP whenever you encounter hostile Thanagarians
3 XP whenever you avoid violence in a conflict with Thanagarians
10 XP when you finally turn your back to Thanagar or your allies on Earth