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76 M. by David &. Martin THE ULTIMATE POWERS BOOK Excellent Fiemarsaale snicrecbie Amazing Monstios ‘Unearthly Shift x Shift ¥ Sainz shied vers000 cs000 Rank rtame Feeble Pont = ‘Typical Gone Excoltent Romarkabi nerodible Amazing Heonstrous, Unearthly Shi X Shit Y Shiniz ci099. Cigo0a 61560 1 square mile = 28 milion square teat 1 cubic mils RANGE TABLES Range A Range 8 Range ¢ Genta ‘area 7210, a areas Danas 5 areas ime 4 a10as 10 areas 3 mios 25 areas B miles Bareas imi 12 miles Tareas inioe 2 rites 20 areca Smiles 50 rales 40.ares Slles 20iniles 60 aress tomles 250 miles 80 areas 35 miles 500 rl 160 areas 20 miles 1200 miles 00 aves scar mies 2500-niles 400 rifles. 80 relies ‘B00 mle 16,000 miles 50 rites 12,009 miles 100,000 miles 20 miles 250,000 mls ‘Radius (In tet) iT bili i 2 a 5 2 30 50 400. 200 509 £000 2000) time 2 miles 5 miles cubic feet AREA OF EFFECT 175,000 4 It 785,000 89 ft 3,140,000 59. 1 p00) 42,580,000 39.1 i Bao. miles 1299, mie” 78 sq, mies ange 0 Range & swteat Bimls” tea 25 mga sina 250 ills 6 areas 2500 miles 5 areas 25000 mics Brailes 250,000 mies 250 rile 5e2'5 lion vas ooo mies 25 rillvan miles soon es B80 milion mites © 16.000 miles. 2.5 bilion £84,000 miles 26 bilion milae 20,000mise EO lle mas 1 rl es 5 gL Fear 4mnilion miles Sight yeaa @ milion mies 50 light yard 4 milion miiee S001 ght yeare Volume seu 25 cut 200 ey. A 3148 cu. W800 cut 75,120.00. as\ooDeuct 92,000 00. 3.140/000 cu. 25,120,000 cu. f 92,500,000 eu. ft. 23,148,090 ,000 cw. 25,120,000,000 cu, 12 cu, mies Sey, Mles $22cu, miles Table of Contents Introduction ‘ Character Generation os sscceeeess How We Bolt...” Physical Form... . Type Definitions «>. i rigin of Power > Primary ang Secondary Allies Weakness Generation : Power Genoration . Power Categories é Power Listings Defenes Powars Detection Fowars . : Energy Cantral Powers. Energy Emission Powers Fighting Powers .. Seria ee Musory Powers... ee Life Cantret Poviere : Magical Powers... ae Natler Contral Powers aa Lew Matter Conversion Powars 1. Nise Matior Creation Powers Mental Enhancement Powers... 266 Physical Enhancement Powers Ponrer Control Powers : Selt-Alteration Pourers Travel Powers... Index. : Range Tabie ie 4 Area ot Effect Table ue Movement Table. Simultaneous Action’Target Table . ‘inside tront cower 1 ingida tront cower Inside back cewat inside back cover ies ansMataEeanctnsm sup. ne @eneaed9 Ne saae adn en mms eta, ‘author: David E. Martin Egitor: Karen S. Martin Cover Artist: Jett Butler ‘oo et Mave Euranw rap Sr cn eGR re Lae ers Pas hea ‘Credits: Typographer: kim N. Lindau Keyliner: Stephanie Tabat Interior Aniste: The Marvel Bullpen Welcome to the Ultimate Powers Book. What you hold in your hands is a distillation of months of rather peculiar research. The idea was to create an encyclopedic listing of all the known Super powers ever to appear in any comic book, science fiction or fantasy literature, film, or role-playing game. Once these were identified and catalogued, the next phase was to fill in as many holes as | could imagine. What super powers should exist but have not yet been used? | think | found most of the holes; you can discover some of these as the more bizarre listings in The Ultimate Powers Book. The final phase was adapting all this work to a form that you, the player, can use. Okay, here it is. In the Player’s Book of the MARVEL SUPER HEROES Advanced Set, there is a character generation system that gives you a choice of five basic character types plus a way of randomiy determining what Powers and Power ranks they possess. Other comic book role playing games have their own systems. Most of them, | feel, generate characters that wauld have trouble besting the assistants of many characters in comic books today, When | was creating The Ultimate Powers Book, | wanted to create a system that would allow players to generate anyone—trom a bona fide deity (in comics terms, naturally) to Aunt May. ‘The character generation system that begins this book is what resulted from that desire The Ultimate Powers Book is not a game in itself. Rather it is a supplement designed to enlarge the character generation system of the game you are already playing. Think of it as souping up your game mechanics. This book also retains its original purpose, that of a way to interpret existing comic book characters and hopefully to create new ones. As | sit here banging away on the keyboard, | like to think that maybe somewhere in here is the genesis for the next comic book super hero. I've said enough. You have a new world to explore, the world of Ultimate Power, Enjoy! HOW WE DO IT ‘The following is 2 system for creating pew characters In the Marvet Universe or ‘whatever section of the Multiverse you play in. Newly generated charactaes ‘have the advantage of being unique 10 the player, and thus (in my eyes, atleast) the player has a firmer commitment to thom. A player invests more-of his ‘enaray and imagination in a charactor he ‘ecoates himsell. They also atfer an ‘advantage to the Judge. Because pplayer-ganeratad characters don't have ‘Yo acharo to someone else's continulty, all restraints in that ares of the game are ‘gone, All bets are off and anyining can happen. “The Ultimate Powers Book generation system has seven steps. ‘Generate a physicel form. Generate an Origin of Power, ‘Ganarata Primary Abii. Generate Secondary Abilties. Generate & Weakness, Generate Powers, ‘Give your character lta ‘The joy and exasperation of randam ‘creation is that even when you think you know where you're heading, you-an stl bettaken in a completely diferent direction by a ral of the dice. Each of the ‘seven sisps contain factors that can ‘otaly fovamp your character. You ean even interpret the sarne sels of hUMbErS In dramatically different way Physical Form Your character's physical form is what he Iooks like naw, On, he might neve been born a rolatively normal child in Cleveland, Ohio, but this category is how people see him now. The player can sither eelact one of the body types below or be brave and let the dice do itfor ir Deliberate selection Is recommended It you are aetting up a special campaign that requires certain types of characters, like on other worlds or mother eras, Dies Roll Physical Form 625 Nommal Haman 2690 Mutant Induced 8183 Mutant Random 34.35 Mutant Breea 2688 Android 3846 Humanoid Race a Surgical Composite 48.49 Organic 5051 Modified Human Muscular 52.53 Moaifled Human Skeletal 5457 — Modified Human Extra Parts 88 ‘Deminuman Centaur 59 Deminuman Equirman 0 Daminuman Faun 81-82 Damnibuman Felinold 63-64 Damihuman Lupinoid 65-65 Deminuman ‘Avian 67 Deminuman Chirepteran. 63 Demihuman Lamian 6 ‘Deminuman ‘Merhurman 70 Deminuman Other 71-72 Gyborg Actifiesal limbstorgans 73-74 Gyborg Exoskeleton 75-76 Cyborg ‘lechanical Body 779 Cyborg Mechanically ‘Augmented 6082 — Fiobot umen shape eos Asbot Usuterm 86-86 Alobot Metamorphic 87 Flsbot Computer 88 ——_Angel/Demon 89 Deity 80 Animal 34 Vegetable 82 Abnormal Chemistry 93 Minaeal 4 Gaseous 95 gue 96 Energy 7 Ethareal 38 Undead 98 Gompound 00 Changeling Type Definitions Normal Human: The body is completely ‘normal and possesses no deleciable abnotmalities. Any Powers the hero possesses have left na viaibla mark on the body. Random ranks are rolled an Column ofthe Random Ranks Table, page 6 of the Player's Blook and reproducadiin this text for your convenience, Resourcas are increased +108, Induced Mutant: The hero started life ‘83 a Normal Human, "then something happened." AS a result af a treak happenstance, the hero has been physically and genetically altered, The Fantastic Four are examples ofthis type. Induved Mutants roll thelr random ranks for Primary Abilities on Goluran 1 pf the Random Ranks Table, Induced Mutants can raise any one Primary Ability +168. Random Mutation: The hero was born ‘to Normal Humans, but a freak twist of ‘genetic fale made him a mutant from birth, Most of these are the Mutants found in the Marvel Universe, euch a8 the X-Men. Random Mutants rall on Column 4 of the Rendom Ranks Tabie. “They gain one adcitional Power. Resources are reduced CS. Endurance is raised + 1G, Breed Mutants: The hero's parents Mutants, as wora any number of ing generations. Breed Mutants ibes and have close-knit families: this is @ defense mechanism orn from generations spent hiding their (rue selves from notmal society. Examples of Breed Mutants include the Inhumans. Breed Mutants roll on Column 1 of the ander Ranks Table, inition Ig faised +1C8, Endurance is raised +108, Breed Mutents must have at least one ‘Contact, ususlly thelr tribe, Androids: These are artificially created ‘organic beings. An android is made of laboratary-created protoplasm and grows ‘to maturty in an anifcial womb. More Ingraately made Androids oan actually ‘nterbreed with Normal Humans. One ‘example Is the Vision. Androids qanoraity resemble the race that ereated them; ‘lien androids can be any shape. Androids rollon golurnn + of the Random Fianks Table. Popularity isiniially lowered -1CS. Androids may raise anyone Ability +108, Androids gain one Power. Androids have at least one Contact, she ab tec o seit wn erated ‘hem. Humaneld Race: The here Is a normal member of 8 humanstike race trent somowhere elge,"” This may be another ‘world, era, dimension, or lost land hidden somewhere on the Earn, Mast ean pase fae Normal Humans with a lit disguice oF explanation, Some of he Humanoid CHARACTER TYPES Ju up up ep lay ap pp) Flace's Powers don't axist in their home ‘environment but develop as & result of the Humanoid’s expasure to Earth's environment, Humanoids roll an column § of the Random Ranks Table for their Primary Abilities. Humanolds can raise any one Abilty +108. ‘Starting Resources are set at Poor. AHurianoid staris out with only one ‘Contact, his race, ‘Surgical Composites: The hero wae ‘sealed in an operating ragm. His body ‘contains pers taken trom several bodies. ‘Close examination reveals the scars from big creation, The most famous example ls Adam, tha Frankenstein Monater. Because of the widespread knowledge of that story, Surgical Composites are feared more than Mutants. They aleo porseas a marbid curicsity about the people whose parts now form their bodies. “Surgieal Composites roll on column 2 ‘ofthe Random Ranks Table for their Primary Abilities. Strength, Fighting, and Enduranae ere all increased + 1CS. Aasistansa to Mental Domination is reduced -10S, Initial Populaity is caro Inilial Resources are Poor. ‘Compositas heal twice ae quickly as ‘Normal Humans. ‘The Composite intially possesses one ‘Contact, the hespital or person responsi ‘le for his creation. Modified Human: This is someona who ‘started ife as @ Normal Human and was Intar aliorad by some means. Tho ‘change affected hie body on e physics! level but did not alter his DNA, Genet cealy, the hero Is all very much hurnan ‘ang Cannot pass on his Powers 0 his ‘dascendants, Grganie Modification means the hero's internal organs and nervous aystarn hava been altered. Per- haps he naw possesses new o

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