Marchwarden Posted April 12, 2003 Report Share Posted April 12, 2003 This is from a campaign a friend is playing in. 350 points, custom gameworld, Bronze Age milieu. They had, at one point, beaten the tar out of their principal villain team; only the leader, Baron von Hellebore, escaped arrest. The next time, he was back with a new crew. A classic thug-brick, a manic, frazzled lightning-slinger, a power-armor type called Battle Beetle (appeared to be a man in a huge bug-shaped battlesuit, but was actually a huge bug in a form-fitting battlesuit)...and Waif. Waif was this scrawny, pale little thing wrapped in tattered black rags, with big dark staring eyes and a tiny whispery voice. Apart from being far too pathetic for any self-respecting hero to hit, she had almost no defense but, apparently, high reductions or else a healing factor: any attack would toss her about like a rag doll and leave awful-looking cuts and bruises on her feeble little body, but nothing seemed capable of actually putting her out of the fight. Her only means of offense was a VPP (apparently in the 60AP base range) which apparently only did Suppresses. She seemed very good at switching the pool, very good at hitting and very, very good at picking what to Suppress (also, picking the right limitations so as to keep multiple Suppresses running for apparently little END). She quickly became more hated and feared than any mastervillain in the campaign world. - Life Support is cheap. There are times and places when a 10 active point attack that removes your ability to breath water can make you long for a nice friendly incoming 12d6 EB. - Adders are cheap, and Can Remove Adders attacks target them first. There are times and places when having your FF suddenly not protect the people/items you carry, or having your Teleportation suddenly not have No Relative Velocity , that can leave both character and player screaming "NOOOOOOO!!!!" (THUD!) - Lack of Weakness is a defense power (double value vs. adjustment powers), but it's still cheap. The team brick knew he could always keep the Baron occupied until his teammates were ready to converge...until Waif put that devil's gleam back into the Baron's monocle. - Power Defense is also a defense, but nobody buys that much of it. The mystic figured that at least she was safe from Waif, and she was...for one extra Phase... The moral of this story? If it would cost less than 3 points (and would make sense) to make something Inherent , do give it a thought... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted April 12, 2003 Report Share Posted April 12, 2003 Just wring her neck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted April 12, 2003 Report Share Posted April 12, 2003 Nah, from the description, she's too tough to die from that. I say bury her scrawny butt under some rubble. She surely can't dig her way out.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutant for Hire Posted April 13, 2003 Report Share Posted April 13, 2003 Megascale Teleport. If you can't use it on others, you can teleport to the other side of the galaxy, let go and then teleport back home... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 14, 2003 Report Share Posted April 14, 2003 no. The way to beat a closet goth is to clean up their face from all the dark make up, make their hair long and shiny, dress them in pink frills and give them a perky disposition. This actually works in the movies cf the film Face Off with Nicholas Cage and John Travolta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rune Posted April 15, 2003 Report Share Posted April 15, 2003 Seems like throwing a rug over her head so that she can't see and tying it in place would do the trick. Alternatively, someone could do a grab by and get her away from the combat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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