Hyper-Man

OK just watched a very interesting instalment of forgotten weapons on the Pancor Jack Hammer a weapon well known in video games and a lot of role-playing games I didn't realise that they never entered production. so you get to see the only example and the iconic look is of a early machining prototype not a  finished article.
 

Mmmm.  I can't deny the allure of building a 'look at what this guns-blazing guy can do' character, but ... to be honest, it doesn't strike me as what the character in question was about.
 
John Wick - both the character and the movie - isn't about the fantastico cinematico things you see with most gunbunny movies; he isn't 'Equilibrium' cool, or The Matrix a zillion bullets flying through the air at the same time.  The cinematic approach of the movie seems to me to be about doing it as realistically as possible; at one point, Wick even pulls the trigger on an empty chamber.  It's about what a guy who has made his life about using guns efficiently and ruthlessly does with those weapons - first in a place he knows intimately (his house), then in a place where he doesn't want a body count (well, not of non-combatants, anyhow, meaning the nightclub), then a place where he knows he's walking into an ambush (the Church), over to a place where he knows there are defenders to take out (the warehouse) and finally in a place where he's out to finish it (the car chase).  In each and every situation, Wick does his best to stack the deck in his favor; you can easily imagine him doing a bit of scouting of the church, and plotting out what moves he's going to have to accomplish to take out his targets - as well as why he made sure they were all in a single 120-degree arc, as compared to 180 or worse.  From what I see, Wick's primary concern at any given moment is the absolute control of his weapon; that accomplished, he can eliminate his target of the moment.
 
He sure doesn't go full-auto.  He and Neo are both going to walk into identical buildings, but Wick is going to be carrying a (relatively reasonable) number of weapons, as compared to a truly staggering loadout like Neo.  Wick will burst-fire single targets in order to either destroy cover or to punch through cover or armor; he's also using the heavy weapon (i.e. the assault rifle) as a psychological weapon, because 99% of his targets are not going to be used to a firefight with that sort of sound and punch.  Neo turns on the lead hose right away, and doesn't stop until the tiles are falling off the walls.  Wick doesn't take a shot that doesn't serve his purpose - he can't afford to.  Both characters are going to kill every guy in the building, but Neo's going to destroy the building while he does it, and waste a crapton of weapons and ammo.  Wick's going to have a 10% overage, and quite possibly emerge with a different gun than that with which he entered - because if a guy runs out of ammo for the weapon he has, he's gotta make do.
 
Wick the character, in my mind, is less about 'lookit all the gunstuff I can do!!' and more about the absolute drive and ruthlessness to do what needs to be done.  I'd make EGO his lead stat, and even go above 20 on that one (23-25 range); this character is all about the Will. This is a guy who will not stop until the task is done.  He gets shot, he gets stabbed, he takes a full one-story fall onto his back, and he goes to the doc and is perfectly willing to pop the reds in order to get full mobility, tear out his stitches, and finish the job; he's gonna make that Ego roll.
 
So sure, he needs skills - but not all the autofire skills.  Rapid Autofire, Rapid Attack, absolutely - he sure as hell seems to be shifting targets twice as fast as anyone else in there, and yeah, it's because he's that good.  The rest of the autofire skills, though, are definitely not necessary ...
 
... but all the rest of it, yeah.   

I have watched the film at least half a dozen times the last month on HBO and it sure seems like he used a double-tap, triple-tap and even what looked like a quadruple-tap with his pistol on one occasion.  I know the Power I added to the build (Quick Fire: Naked Autofire with a Pistol of Opportunity) is not absolutely necessary with the Multiple Attack rules in 6e.  However, it sure seemed appropriate* in the way that he would rattle off so many pistol shots in a smooth and extremely fast rhythm that didn't seem to break even when he chose different targets during the shot sequence.
 
*I think the number of required attack rolls would be reduced with its use as well.

I'm making a case that his real name is John.

I have Sam (http://surbrook.devermore.net/adaptationsmovie/ronin/sam.html) and Vincent (http://surbrook.devermore.net/adaptationsmovie/asstd_movie/vincent.html).

Now that we've statted out John Wick, we also need to stat out:
 
- Neo (One version)
- Jack Traven
- Johnny Utah
- Johnny Mnemonic
- Jonathan Harker
- John Constantine

For those of you keeping score at home, I finally seem to have cleared enough stuff out of the way that I can get back to working on MH on a more regular basis. I'm still working on the Hindu Mythology chapter (already 56,000 words long!), but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
 
Next I think I'll tackle Hawaiian Mythology. And after that -- who knows? So many fun possibilities!

Saturation from an autocannon....   

Has anyone posted the Tavor TAR-21?
 
 
Israeli gun, 5.56 chamber, smaller than the M-16 and highly rated.  It can fire 900 rpm out of a 30 round magazine (out in a hurry at full rock and roll), and it has muzzle velocity of 910 m/s.  The Isralis tend to make really rugged guns.
 

I know what to name them.
 
Come get some!
 
Duke Nukem's ammo of choice.

And if you need some serious ammo to take out that supervillain:
 

http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/22/8870089/texas-comic-book-heist-anthony-chiofalo-tadano

Where are you shopping that has prices for 20mm and 30mm rounds? 

How so? He singlehandedly killed 13 people who were coming to ambush HIM. He killed 77 people singlehandedly- all either trained assassins themselves or people used to violence and otherwise "in the life." This would make him one of the most prolific killers in United States history, if you exclude soldiers in combat zones. And those killers who exceed this record- serial killers mostly- did so over a far longer period of time and to a much more vulnerable population.

Also remember that he's been "retired" for a while.
 
It would explain why he's not as "scary" as the hype portrayed him.
 
As for the write-up. 
 
Nicely done Hyper.

Inspired by a thread on RPG.net (How would you stat out John Wick?).
 

 
Enjoy!
 
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I don't even know if that rule still stands in 6e to be honest.  I still kind of default to 4th.
 
One of the funny things about the movie was that Charlie (the cleaner) turned out to be played by David Patrick Kelly.  Didn't even recognize him.

Mainly I was thinking that he was using jiujitsu while holding (or firing, or reloading) a pistol.  IIRC this requires investing the one point to add that weapon group to the MA.  I see your point about bonus damage for ranged maneuvers but almost none of the maneuvers you've given Wick really come with bonus damage.

The only change I would make to this excellent write up would be to add pistols to Wick's jiujitsu. He has the most impressive gun kata since Equilibrium.

Yeah I was thinking more penalty levels for choosing locations, but his OCV is double digits as it is, probably won't miss anyway

Everyone is NOT automatically immune to their own powers unless others built. Otherwise Reflection would be worthless. If people were immune to their own effects by default there would be no need for Personal Immunity.

Which is a nice house rule (see 6E1 319).
 
This is also a great demonstration of why all of the characters posted on the forums (or elsewhere) by various folks can't just be taken at face value. We always need to evaluate them for our particular game. There are far too many unstated assumptions (house rules, grandfathered rules from previous editions, campaign limits, etc.) to just take a character and use it without surprise. That doesn't make the characters wrong, just built for a specific use case.
 
Caveat Emptor. You get what you pay for. Insert appropriate saying here.

Any character that I post here is based on RAW as I understand it. To do otherwise gives worthless characters and ones that don't work as advertised

Yeah, it should say BODY.  Silly me.
 
Glacier is actually in the Champions 6e Villains books, in the Solo Villains book more precisely.  He's pretty much the only character from European Enemies to appear in later editions, I think.  I like the build for him far better there.