Hero with a bad ticker?

[Samaritan]

I'm wondering... how would you all design a hero (I'm thinking brick type, though maybe energy projector) who has a bad heart? This may be going hand in hand with the Age disad, though I might change that to just reflect the strain that his powers/origins inflict on his body.

On one hand, I could go the easy route, and just make it a phys lim of some sort. But I'm looking for an actual, mechanical effect to cover those instances that he just pushes himself too far.

Any thoughts? Opinions? Advice?

[ghost-angel]

Make everything he has cost at least x2END, possibly more. He will tired out very quickly.

[Lumbering Ox]

THe occational hit of nitro when the chest feels tight from pushing too hard.

I would just buy less end and con to simulate being tired quickly.

Dependacy on healthy diet or various meds, or death results.

[Baphomet Jones]

I had been playing with an idea like this at one point. I built it as a susceptibility 3d6 (possibly as body if it's a really serious heart problem) whenever the character spent more than (x) END in a phase....which i figured would be Uncommon, since he'd have control over when this happened.

[Cancer]

Reduce his REC, harshly. You may not need to cut his END, depending on how large that is to begin with.

An actual strong heart attack is adequately modeled by a large BODY Drain, probably. Minor attacks would be large END and probably STUN Drains, with delayed recoveries.

[Duke Bushido]

Right. But with a large heart attack, you might want to add a _permanent_ reduction to REC or END, even if only a small one. During a large heart attack, some of the heart tissue actually dies from lack of oxygenation. It won't come back to life.

Uh---
never mind. That really depends on how real vs comic book you want to go, doesn't it?

[Diamond Spear]

Perhaps a STUN drain side effect on all of this powers?