Your character may be too average if...

[Trebuchet]

... his fights always end in ties.

... he is always described by the media as "a typical superhero."

... he is often bought as a Hunted by immortal villains because they appreciate a long-term enemy who can't beat them but whom they can't beat either.

[Blue Jogger]

his costume consists of a yellow body suit with a label across his chest that says simply "Superhero".

his 10 dice normal attack does 10 BODY, 35 STUN, and 3" of Knockback.

No one can remember if his evil twin from the alternate dimension showed up.

His party consists of The Brick, The Martial Artist, The Speedster, The Gadgeteer, The Mentalist, The Sidekick, The Energy Projector, The Shapeshifter, The Loner, The Seductress, The Magic User, and wasn't there another one?

His superpowers are weakened by exposure to Lead because all the cool glowing rocks were already taken.

His duplicate refuses to recombine, because become an NPC would be cooler.

And finally....
When he finally tell people that he has a Secret Identity, they just look at him and say, "Why?"

[CrosshairCollie]

Everybody on your entire team has the exact same DEX and SPD*.





*I've been in games where 2/3rds of the characters were DEX 26 SPD 5. It was weird.

[TheQuestionMan]

Everybody on your entire team has the exact same DEX and SPD*.





*I've been in games where 2/3rds of the characters were DEX 26 SPD 5. It was weird.
That is weird. My PCs are mostly 20 DEX and 5 SPD.

When you lose your mask/helmet in a battle infront of the cameras, no body in the world knows who you are. Not even your Mom recognizes you.

[Blue Jogger]

*I've been in games where 2/3rds of the characters were DEX 26 SPD 5. It was weird.

Me too.

[CrosshairCollie]

That is weird. My PCs are mostly 20 DEX and 5 SPD.

The scary thing is ... DEX 26 SPD 5 was considered the bare minimum for effectiveness. The BRICKS were DEX 26 SPD 5.

[Edsel]

Our games seemed to gravitate towards a 23 DEX, 5 SPD for the average character.

Bricks usually have a lower DEX and sometimes a 4 SPD. Martial Artists were usually 26-30 DEX with a 6 or maybe a 7 SPD.

[CrosshairCollie]

Our games seemed to gravitate towards a 23 DEX, 5 SPD for the average character.

Bricks usually have a lower DEX and sometimes a 4 SPD. Martial Artists were usually 26-30 DEX with a 6 or maybe a 7 SPD.

It was a wierd game/universe/whatever, looking back on it. It was my first HERO system game ... and it was 4th Edition, 260 points starting, the baseline for DEX and SPD was 26/5, and the DC cap was EIGHTEEN ... and most folks didn't have more than 25-30 defenses (and perhaps six points of noncombat skills).

In retrospect, it was because there were sometimes as many as TWELVE players, so therefore the rather excessive STUN breakthrough was simply to keep combat going at a reasonable pace, though it fairly often simply resulted in frustrated players who got KOed early.

[Mike W]

Back on topic:

If everytime you roll a skill everyone at the table says, "Come on 11!"

[nexus]

Your last four battle cries have gotten you sued for copyright infringrement

Your costume is a white body suit with block letters on the chest that say "Superhero"

You are regularly mistaken for at least six other superheroes

You annouce a huge press conference in which you reveal your secret ID...and no one shows up

You are addressed by your archtype instead of your codename "Look! Up in the sky, its a birds, its a plane...no its a Flying Brick!"

[Enforcer84]

This thread only lasts 4 pages.

[Trained Chicken]

...I got nothin. I really dislike average characters.

[Log-Man]

You get your own 6 issue miniseries, but it gets cancelled after 5 issues.


And nobody noticed.

[tgrandjean]

You submit your character to your GM and he notes: 'Eh.'

You submit your character to your GM and it's rejected as 'Boring.'

You have difficulty remembering your own character's name.... and what you're doing in the first place.

Your GM doesn't bother with subplots; you don't care, he doesn't care.

Your GM doesn't bat an eye about your being included in any adventure; your capacities are so well known that there are no worries about the plot being derailed.

[WhammeWhamme]

You get your own 6 issue miniseries, but it gets cancelled after 5 issues.


And nobody noticed.

...including you and the writers and artists who were going to make it.

[Basil]

Your character sheet consists of the words "Archetypical Brick", "Archetypical Speedster", "Archetypical Energy Projector," "Archetypical Martial Artist" (or whatever is appropriate), and nothing else.

And your GM is OK with that.

[Pogo]

Your character sheet contains the words ibid, loc cit, or ditto.
To save space, the stats are written STRDEXBODYCONINTEGOPRECOM 10.