Grailknight

If you want a character to just appear to be different things, like the octopus, its just flat out shapeshift, use touch for how its shaped (and thus appears to be formed as) and sight for the colors and believable in pattern etc.
 
Stretching allows a character to "ooze" through smaller openings, basically you can fit through any opening the size you can make yourself small enough to fit through:
 
 
So basically you can fit through small openings by stretching to be longer, for example.  It takes 5 points to be able to do this, each 5 points a doubling you can stretch to. 
 
Shapeshifting allows you to shrink or grow your form slightly, so you might be able to use that to fit through something slightly smaller using that. 
 
Desolidification would work to allow you to fit through anything, stack on some limitations like how it doesn't protect from damage and cannot pass through solid objects and it works.

Update --
 
As noted, ARL, the Blood, the Circle, the Wanderers, and the Cult of the Beast are complete. I have made a few edits, but I feel they are done. The Families has grown a bit. It is a 4k words and most of that is a list of notable Families members, each with a short description. I have found a number of character sheets to add to the Families section. A few actual Families members and then a scattering of agents of the Reapers. The file I am working from lists a lot of people, but there is nothing there to work with. After the Families it will be Yooso. For those who own Ninja Hero 4e it is pretty much the same guys, just updated to 6e. In fact, if Dirt (Tsuchi in NH4e) is anything to go by, its the same character sheets, just updated to 6e. We'll see. The Hell Raisers had a lot of members. Like... a dozen or more. And multiple leaders (including Dark Seraph). I decided to present the team as it first appeared (which is also how the team appears in the GURPS Supers adventure School of Hard Knocks). I hope to be done around the end of March.  
 

Hugh's post just doubles down on my original question. Normally, the Takes No Stun Power triples the cost of Resistant PD/ED. Will the doppelgangers have full value, or will they be reduced? This is going to be the biggest factor in determining strategy.

I guess that would be R2-FU.

Somewhere in between.
 
He had the strength and agility to dominate those normal foes but was far more conscious of hurting them than they were of him.
 
Ultimate Spider-Man didn't want to go through the years of character progression and stressed the difference between him and normals much faster. He wasn't really more powerful but they didn't want to tell the same stories, so the difference was highlighted.
 

Somewhere in between.
 
He had the strength and agility to dominate those normal foes but was far more conscious of hurting them than they were of him.
 
Ultimate Spider-Man didn't want to go through the years of character progression and stressed the difference between him and normals much faster. He wasn't really more powerful but they didn't want to tell the same stories, so the difference was highlighted.
 

Spring training wackiness.
 
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The Americans Who Need Chaos
 
 

Christopher R Taylor is right that incorporating super technology is going to change the nature of the game from a comic book setting to something else.   Add in magic to the equation and you are going to end up with something resembling similar to ShadowRun.  If that is the type of game you want, that is great.  
 
One way to explain why the technology is not able to be mass produced would be that most of the high-tech powers utilize rare components that are not easily obtained or depend on low grade psionic abilities of the inventor.   
 
The other thing that you could do is to have the campaign be a few years into the future.  Given how fast technology advances even a decade in the future could explain a lot of little changes that would allow some advances without majorly altering the world. The technology does exist but is still too expensive to mass produce.  Those way only select organizations have access to the advanced technology.  That would allow something end up something like the normal champions campaign.   
 

Hugh's post just doubles down on my original question. Normally, the Takes No Stun Power triples the cost of Resistant PD/ED. Will the doppelgangers have full value, or will they be reduced? This is going to be the biggest factor in determining strategy.

Are the doppelgangers going to have their defenses adjusted to equivalent points using the Automaton rules? With only 1/3 of the PC's defenses, you should be able to do the job with Haymakers, Move-Throughs and Pushing.
 
If their defenses are not adjusted, then Drain BODY or some sort of Damage Over Time attack are the only ways I can see.
 
 

Are the doppelgangers going to have their defenses adjusted to equivalent points using the Automaton rules? With only 1/3 of the PC's defenses, you should be able to do the job with Haymakers, Move-Throughs and Pushing.
 
If their defenses are not adjusted, then Drain BODY or some sort of Damage Over Time attack are the only ways I can see.
 
 

The Doonesbury strip for February 18th--
 

You're trying to make a points analysis, rather than a character impact analysis.
 
If this was a PC, getting taken out of the campaign for a month, would you not say this was *incredibly* extreme?
 
How is this any different from being captured, in any meaningful way???  The impact is that the person cannot interact with the world *at all* while this is the case.  So...microverse or a prison cell, who cares?  That's a meaningless distinction.

No Conscous Control XDM with burnout

I initially thought Side Effect but those are supposed to always go off. But I'd do it with a Linked XDM Power with an Activation Roll and a Limitation on the Shrinking that locks it on for that Xd6 weeks.

Yes, with Aaron Taylor Johnson as Kraven. Not close to the first person I would have thought of to play the part, but we'll see.
 
But that's another beef I have with Sony: Taking characters who are outright villains, or at best anti-heroes, and making them the protagonists of superhero movies, mainly because they have the rights to the character. They don't understand what the genre is about and why it was popular for so long. To be fair, most creators of comics today seem to suffer the same deficiency.

To me that's part of an attitude that's become an unspoken, maybe even unrecognized, but fundamental element of some capitalist societies, particularly America: People with money have it because they deserve it. People with a lot of money are fundamentally better than those who don't have it. Work that pays more is better than work that pays less. Because people with money are better, they should derive more benefits from society than poor people. They should be at the head of the line, or jump the line altogether. Money has become the measure of a person's quality.
 
During the pandemic I was struck by the people who were deemed "essential service" and required to keep going to work and interacting with the public even though it was dangerous. How many bankers were on that list? How many lawyers? Professional athletes? No, it was truckers and bus drivers. Railroad workers. Utility service people. Grocery clerks. These were the people society would break down without, yet they're paid like peasants. I was hoping the pandemic would make more people see the injustice in that, but no such luck.

There you go attacking the real root of the problem.
 
It's not totally that simple though but if you spread that to all executive pay then we're coming closer. If the average worker at company X makes $60,000 and he mean makes $40,000 then the CEO making $6 million may make sense. But making $30 million? That's probably out of line with their contribution to the company.

Yeah its like nukes or guns or porn or whatever.  The cat is out of the bag, you cannot put it back.  Superman could grab all the nuclear weapons in a net and throw them into the sun, and nations would just build more and keep them in lead silos or disguise them as something Superman ignored.  You can't unlearn tech, unless there is a horrendous catastrophe that resets civilization.  You just have to learn how to use things responsibly and how to respond when people do not.
 
Approximately 1.2 million people die each year as a result of auto collisions.  That's a price we have come to accept as being worth having cars; how many are saved as a result of automobiles?  Ten times that, if not more.  New tech requires new responses, moral judgement, and law.  It takes time, and study, and analysis and cultural change.

We're in the process now of getting used to the idea of instant communication on the internet.  We're trying to learn socially how to handle that, legally how to approach it, and it takes time, philosophical thought, theology, legal study etc.  Every new wave of tech makes that necessary, and people adapt.  The problem we're facing right now is that tech is happening so fast and is so potent in terms of cultural impact that its rough trying to get it all straight.  Making matters worse is that our culture has removed nearly all consequence to certain kinds of behavior, so a lot of corrosive things are consequence-free, or consequence-light, at least.
 
It will all get worked out to at least a functional level, but not perfectly, in time.  Until then its a rough ride, like when the Model T drove through town and scared all the horses and womenfolk.

The last truly grandiose plan I dreamed up was a riff on the follow up to Age of Ultron. There's a giant vibranium spike sitting under that lake in Sokovia, along with the wreckage of several antigravity engines.
 
My villain wanted to collude with the Sokovian government and repair enough to make a floating orbital platform the size of a large stadium and from there begin an elevator, orbital ring and asteroid mining. Naturally, world governments would not agree but once launched it would have missile defense arrays and kinetic bombardment capability and it's own team of supers on hand.
 
A very grandiose Thunderbolts plot and for the kicker the villain offers to allow all heroes to join him and share in the leadership of the platform. He really does want to lead mankind to a brighter future but feels we needs a strong guiding hand to steer us there. He'd even be willing to step down for a Superman or captain America type to take over if that would build trust.

The last truly grandiose plan I dreamed up was a riff on the follow up to Age of Ultron. There's a giant vibranium spike sitting under that lake in Sokovia, along with the wreckage of several antigravity engines.
 
My villain wanted to collude with the Sokovian government and repair enough to make a floating orbital platform the size of a large stadium and from there begin an elevator, orbital ring and asteroid mining. Naturally, world governments would not agree but once launched it would have missile defense arrays and kinetic bombardment capability and it's own team of supers on hand.
 
A very grandiose Thunderbolts plot and for the kicker the villain offers to allow all heroes to join him and share in the leadership of the platform. He really does want to lead mankind to a brighter future but feels we needs a strong guiding hand to steer us there. He'd even be willing to step down for a Superman or captain America type to take over if that would build trust.