Friday, 19 January 2024

More Marvel 1949 Golden Age character rewrites






















Some more characters im finishing as i have new players but no time to do character gen Some ppl get into it very fast and know what powers they want while. Others want lists and stats and to think for an hour. 

Had planned for 5 players but three came and id just turned 2 players away which sucks a bit. Im trying to cap games at 5 if not all seated around a right size table. It helps if ppl all know the game and each other a bit.I did get to call one of my semi retired from gaming friends to play which was good as it was the one game he would play.

Staring The River CIty Guardians

Stretcho the elastic man who really a war heroine spy in ww2 who had been rebuilt by a race of space blobs. Works as agent for gov paranormal ops with her younger sidekick. Super stretch powers and costume.

Digger the all round-battling bloke an army tough guy who learned deadly drunken pub brawling style drongo master as part of his super soldier program in ww1. In reality he is an alien who has had a mind wipe.He has no time for bullshit and lots of time to fight and swear. Armoured, heals and fast with superior combat stats and martial arts.

Dr Kronos the time travelling adventurer who from over use of his time sphere on adventures with his family and his time lab in the Uni, has developed weird time powers. He is also dying of a disease which is why he experimented in time travel to revere cell replication errors. He can shoot a cone of stasis, teleport, move fast, forcefield, levitate and shoot bolts. Superhuman time scientist but kinda weak as a human.

Blackjack a famous masked vigilante in an all black trenchcoat who kills gangsters in brutal street battles after tracking them. He can turn into a 2d shadow to sneak and telepathy. He hides gear in his weird black coat.Somehow a living portal to a dimension of darkness.   

The heroes were investigating a war criminal cloning doctor and documents from his lab. Turned out there were three interesting leads of shipments of goods and personnel.

The Black Sun fraternal order closed in 1939 for affiliation to German occult espionage. They received huge canisters in their lodge recently.

Project Gotendamerung was assembled on Island X near Antarctica in a weird weather bubble. 

World Eugenics League closed worldwide wide 1939 for espionage. Used to hold parties some people would rather be forgotten. Had sending dozens of weird packages world wide.

So party met at the Black Lodge and Strecho lifted all to upper balcony and they searched the upper floors and found signs of cult. Battled cultists and they performed some ritual that animated a concealed body. A clone of a dead ww2 villain Ubermench. Heroes managed to hold him and stretch got badly zapped by heatreay vision but the took down the possessed clone body and it exploded. Warned other operatives world wide as apparently this was all part of a global mega ritual. 

Visited the Eugenics club and examined their weird deco murals and weird art. FOund modern cult brochures with a modernised vision of the pre war version. Sighns of cultists drilling and training and eating here. Eventually found three sub basement lodge halls converted into cloning labs and a crionics lab. the first was full of cloned hitler babies. Stretch hung back as she fears cold effects on her powers. A voice threatened them over the building PA on haw villain left a trap they would never escape and and how they were almost escaped. 

Dr Knonos telepotred to the PA/radio room and froze the evil scientist and his man-gorilla storm trooper. Blackjack run upstairs o help with his tommygun..Digger tried to hold a door shut monsters were planning on entering. Stretch awaited to nab first getting through the door. A giganting baby hitler-caterpillar creature that was 6m long burst through door and Stretcho grappled it. DIgger tried to hold another musclebound bodied creature with her another baby hitler head with tiny moustache. A nuclear family of mother father, boy and girl all with hitler faces, uniforms and various automatic weapons shot at Digger with no effect. Stretcho managed to block a door with the caterpillar thing and the family slipped in grenaides which injured stretcho and killed the caterpillar. Stretch holding rest of the door threw grenaides back and the blast killed the family, The the muscle hitler thing eventually fell to attacks.

Upstairs Dr Kronos was working on slowing the enemy while Blackjack tried hitting them and then using his tommy gun. Eventually, he let the status ray end and saw the scientist fall into a mass of blood on his face and the ape flew into wall and was knocked out.  

.After all this spent time investigating Island X and found the crimes supplying the secret German base. They replaced the crew with themselves in disguise and a bunch of naval intelligence and commandoes. The plan is to intercept the German sub to get into Island X submarine pen. 

Was fun with lots of weird fights. Giving +5 instant karma for cool quips in battle has been great. Dr Kronos is great at punning at villains.

Stretcho
Mysterious Adventurer Polly Marchain

F       Gd    Rm        
      Ty     Ex
S       Gd    Rm
E       Gd    Ex
C       Gd    
R       Gd     
I         Ty     Ex
P       Gd    

             100
K               50    
Pop           6 secret id/20 hero id
Resources Gd

Powers (Alien)
Elongation Ex (20)
-Growth 
Body Armour (Ex)
-Natural Weapons
Gd Regeneration Gd (10)
-Burst Heal

Talents
Millitary - Paratrooper
Espionage
Wrestling
Martial arts C
Leadership
Acrobatics
Streetwise
Cryptography 

Contacts
Lavender Lass - a young pilot
Capt Heinz Uberlaufer - nazi intelligence officer ww2/double agent
Major Jessie Burkowcz - US Army
Sgt Andy Washington city police dept desk 
Retired Servicemens League
Ameboid Scout class 46 Alpha 402
 
Options 
Veteran
Gd Costume change
-disguise
Talents
Stunt master
+1 Vulnerable to cold

Items
Code cracking machine
sterling machine pistol
first aid kit
comando knife
codebook
walkie talkie
lockpicks
wallet of fake ID and passes
smoke and frag grenade
spy camera

Origin
Rebuilt by aliens

d10 Recent Encounters
1 Investigate UFO
2 Stoping armed street muggers at work 
3 Working in a monansshelter 
4 Looking for missing documents
5 Out on a date with a companion
6 Attack from a nazi assassin
7 Rescue a person by snatching them from harm with long arms
8 Evidence of aliens in human form

9 Meet at millitary HQ for a briefing on wanted war criminals
10 Chasing war criminal  

Digger
Super Soldier Mystery Man

F*v       Gd    Rm        
          Ty     Ex
S*v       Gd    Rm
E*         Gd    Rm-
C*         Gd    
R          Ty     
I            Ty     Ex
P*         Gd    

             100
K               50    
Pop           6 secret id/20 hero id
Resources Gd

Powers (Alien)
Body Armour (Ex)

-
Gd Regeneration Gd (10)

Gd Hyper Speed Gd (10)
-

Talents
Millitary - Army
Guns
Heavy Weapons
Martial arts B C E
Leadership

Contacts
Supply Sarge - expert at dodgy goods
Colonel Plum - millitary super soldier program
Sheila Evans - gal pal, equestrian and prize-winning rifle shot
Jake Evans - brother of Sheila and Kid reporter
Maxie CHipper - army drinking buddy and driver
Elderly master instructor of outback pub brawling

Options 
Veteran
Extra talents +2 and contact
Utility Belt - military gear 20 items

Items
Two Browning 9mm automatic pistols plus two clips each 10 damage
handcuffs, gasmask, flare pistol + 4 rounds, silent well rod pistol (10 shots)
Browning automatic rifle (Ex burst 20 rounds/2 bursts) 4 clips
frag grenades x2, tear gas grenades x2, smoke grenaidesx2, 
Demolition pack, walkie-talkie, grappling hook line, commando knife, first aid kit,
folding trench tool (Ex edged +5 damage), bullwhip (Gd), torch, boomerang x2 (Ex)

Origin
Super soldier test subject

d10 Recent Encounters
1 FIght in a pub
2 Searching for AWOL soldiers with MPs
3 Army training exercise
4 Fight a criminal gang in a poolhall or pub
5 Taking a day off at the footy
6 Tracking down mutant on secret atom bomb test site
7 Fighting a mutant swamp monster in river city swamp
8 Hunting a spy on a secret base

9 Meet at millitary HQ for a briefing on wanted war criminals
10 Hunting mysterious lights on base grounds

Dr Kronos
Superhuman Scientist

F       Pr             
      Ty      
S       Pr     
E       Ty      Ex     
C       Gd    
R       Gd     Rm
I         Gd     Rm
P       Gd    

             34
K               80    
Pop           10 secret id/20 hero id
Resources Rm

Powers (Alien)
Time Control Rm (30) stasis ray cone area affects one range, end to escape
-Hyperspeed
-Teleport
Force Field Rm (30)
-Force Bolt
-Levitate

Talents
Professor
Physics
Electrics
Engineer
Martial Arts E

Contacts
Lab Assistant
Manager boss at River City Dam Power plant
River City University Physics Dept
Wife a medical Dr in hospital
Teen beatnik daughter motorcyclist
 
Options 
Secret HQ
Stunt master
+ uses chamber to stop onset of a fatal disease

Items
HQ
-garage for van or electronic sensors
-chrono laboratory for time research
-time sphere basic time machine and an older broken back up version
-time scanner to detect time anomalies
-chrono chamber to recharge powers
-library specialising in history

Origin
Genius scientist exposed to time stream

d10 Recent Encounters
1 Time travel adventure with family
2 Stopping a bank robbery 
3 Speaking at a science conference
4 Having an outing with family
5 Studying a temporal anomaly
6 Spies trying to steal time secrets
7 Dealing with time travellers from future looting
8 Detected mysterious force from overspace leaking into reality

9 Test fly the time sphere with flight to more ancient era
10 Meeting a famous historic celebrity in the past

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