How Tony Stark spends his Experience Points..,

[Scott Ruggels]

How Tony Stark Spends his experience points seems to mirror how veteran Champions characters spend theirs. 
 

 

[steriaca]

Pretty much true. Find out there is a problem preventing your character from acting, spend points on the solution. 

[Christopher R Taylor]

Judging by Iron Man 3 he spent his xps on ten thousand autonomous copies of his armor and wealth to pay for it all.  But not one thin dime on defenses for his house.

[Scott Ruggels]

He didn’t spend point on the house as a base. Base point we’re from that funky sky scraper in Manhattan. His house in Malibu ( Point Dume), was just a special effect and , well,?the GM decided to take it away.  

[HeroGM]

The house wasn't under total lock down either whatever that meant. He could have taken points from the house to put additional stuff into the skyscraper.

[Christopher R Taylor]

All his labs and every single one of his alternate armor was in the house, I guess he figured nobody would attack that.  He was going with the JJ Abrams defense scheme of no air defenses whatsoever.

[Jhamin]

13 hours ago, Christopher R Taylor said:

Judging by Iron Man 3 he spent his xps on ten thousand autonomous copies of his armor and wealth to pay for it all.  But not one thin dime on defenses for his house.

 

Eh, he just doubled his foci a few times and his GM let each one be unique.  I didn't get the sense that any of them were actually more powerful.

[steriaca]

9 minutes ago, Jhamin said:

 

Eh, he just doubled his foci a few times and his GM let each one be unique.  I didn't get the sense that any of them were actually more powerful.

So he did the 5 points for x2 focus thing? How many points did he spend then?

[Christopher R Taylor]

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I didn't get the sense that any of them were actually more powerful.

They actually seemed on average to be much less powerful.  Half of them were destroyed by running into things on the way to the fight.  One solid hit sent them flying into component pieces.

[Jhamin]

On 8/24/2022 at 1:21 PM, Christopher R Taylor said:

They actually seemed on average to be much less powerful.  Half of them were destroyed by running into things on the way to the fight.  One solid hit sent them flying into component pieces.

 

I think it was a PC trying something silly & his GM went along with it part of the way.  If we are assuming Iron Man 3 was a Champions Session, "House Party Protocol" was Stark's player being cute and trying to make an army out of his backup suits/extra foci and some inventor rolls.  His GM let him get away with it once but declared that they all came apart if they took any damage or failed a dex roll.  He was then informed he wasn't allowed to do that anymore.

 

In later movies, he actually bought the Iron Legion as followers but they were usurped by Ultron.  He then appeared to give up on armies of troopers and went nanotech, AKA he re-spent his points and rolled the followers (along with a bunch of XP) into buying off his Foci limits entirely.  It looked like he had OIHID during Infinity Wars (He had to activate his chest unit, which Endgame showed us was removable) but by Endgame he didn't seem to have any limits at all anymore on using his Nanites.

[Scott Ruggels]

That is exactly how it felt.

[Christopher R Taylor]

Yeah I was just grumbling about the really stupid stuff in the movie that annoyed the hell out of me.

[Pariah]

You guys are my kind of geeks. 

[DoctorImpossible]

That's one of the things that makes MCU Iron Man one of the best superheroes on screen. So many films seem to have their hero not actually change or grow from one film to another, reverting back to their old habits of bad behaviour and such, just so that the sequels can repeat a similar moral again. The Iron Man suits, and Tony's initial relative personality flaws/mental health issues, allow for a constant self-improvement and power-up in every film. Shows his extreme self-awareness and self-reflection, mirrored by his increasingly advanced technology and refined skills as a superhero.

[David Blue]

In Iron Man 2 I saw Tony Stark spending experience points in his home boxing ring.

 

Iron Man is a good advertisement for being generous enough with experience points that player characters can do reasonable things to improve themselves and have those things work like they should.

[Matt the Bruins]

Pity he never bought off the "Can never admit he might be wrong" Psych Limitation.

[Lord Liaden]

2 hours ago, Matt the Bruins said:

Pity he never bought off the "Can never admit he might be wrong" Psych Limitation.

 

I would contend that while he never bought it off, he did buy it down. The events of Civil War were partly driven by Tony's acknowledgement that he had been seriously wrong, and that he and others like him needed limitations and oversight. But that was mostly in hindsight. Once his mind was made up he charged ahead regardless.