[Writeups.org] [3E] Pit Bulls, American Ninja, Silver Sable

[Ghostwise]

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Joe Armstrong, the American Ninja
Averaged PL 8
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Abilities
Strength_ 02 Stamina_ 03 Agility_ 04 Dexterity_ 04 Fighting_ 08 Intellect_ 02 Awareness_ 02 Presence_ 01

Powers
Master of ninjutsu • 8 points • Descriptor: Skill
Array :

- Arrow-cutting technique -- Protection 5, Concentration, Limited 2 to slow projectiles such as arrows and thrown weapons
- Ninja blind fighting -- Senses 2 (Accurate hearing)
- Improvised throwing weapons -- Enhanced Advantage (Throwing Mastery 1), Ranged Combat (Thrown weapons) 7 (+12)
- Ninja evasion -- Enhanced Advantage (Evasion), Enhanced Dodge 2 (Limited 1 to gunfire)

Combat Advantages
Chokehold, Close Attack 2, Defensive Roll 2, Evasion, Improved Initiative, Improved trip, Improvised weapon, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 1, Throwing Mastery 1

Other Advantages
Instant up

Skills
Acrobatics 4 (+8), Athletics 8 (+10), Close combat (Ninja melee weapons) 2 (+12), Close combat (Unarmed) 1 (+11), Deception 1 (+2), Expertise (Military) 3 (+5), Expertise (Truck driver) 4 (+6), Insight 2 (+4), Perception 5 (+7), Ranged combat (Ninja weapons) 7 (+12), Ranged Combat (Thrown weapons) 7 (+12), Stealth 5 (+9), Vehicles 4 (+8) (Limited 2 to common land vehicles)

Offense
Initiative_ +8
Unarmed_ +11, Close, Damage 2
Ninja weapons +12, varies

Defense
Dodge_ 11 (can be 13 vs. firearms)
Fortitude_ 8
Parry_ 12
Toughness_ 5/3*
Will_ 7
Defense notes:
* Without Defensive Roll

Complications
Amnesiac Armstrong's past is a mystery to him, and may bring plot elements from nowhere.
Relationship Armstrong is shy around women, but tends to get involved in romantic subplots and will react violently when the pretty starlet in the movie is threatened
Ninja honor The American Ninja apparently upholds a completely undefined code of honor.

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Power levels
Trade-off areas. Attack/Effect PL 7, Dodge/Toughness PL 8, Parry/Toughness PL 9, Fort/Will PL 8
Point total 114 Abilities 52, Defences 21, Skills 22, Powers 8, Devices 0, Advantages 11. Equiv. PL 8.
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[Ghostwise]

And our last American Ninja writeup, the bad guy (who as far as we can determine has pretty much the same stats as the hero - it's not exactly a detailed movie).

Have a nice ninja day.

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Black Star Ninja
Averaged PL 8.4
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Abilities
Strength_ 02 Stamina_ 03 Agility_ 04 Dexterity_ 04 Fighting_ 08 Intellect_ 02 Awareness_ 02 Presence_ 01

Powers
Master of ninjutsu • 2 points • Descriptor: Skill
Ninja evasion -- Enhanced Advantage (Evasion), Enhanced Dodge 2 (Limited 1 to gunfire)

Devices
Ninja weapons • 20 points • Descriptor: Cold, evil ninja steel
Array

- Ninja-to -- Strength-based slashing Damage 3, Improved Critical 1
- Shuriken -- Ranged piercing Multiattack Damage 1
- Ninja throwing knife -- Ranged piercing Damage 2, Improved Critical 1
- Paired kama -- Strength-based slashing Damage 2, Improved Critical 2
- Nekode -- Strength-based raking Damage 1, Improved Critical 1, Movement 1 (wall-crawling, Limited 1 to soft surfaces like wood)
- Long weighted rope -- Snare 5

Back-of-hand launcher • 11 points • Descriptor: Technology
Array

- Volley of darts -- Ranged piercing Damage 4
- Flame jet -- Ranged fire Damage 3, Diminished Range 2
- Laser ! -- Ranged laser Damage 4
- Knockout drug injector -- Close Affliction 2 (Fatigued/Exhausted/Asleep), Limited 2 (only useable on an immobile person)

Combat Advantages
Chokehold, Close Attack 2, Defensive Roll 2, Evasion, Improved Initiative, Improved trip, Improvised weapon, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 1

Other Advantages
Benefit 1 (Can predict where teleporting ninja masters will appear, and attack them without penalty), Benefit (International underworld contacts), Equipment 1, Instant up, Language (Japanese)

Skills
Acrobatics 4 (+8), Athletics 8 (+10), Close combat (Ninja melee weapons) 1 (+11), Close combat (Unarmed) 1 (+11), Deception 2 (+3), Expertise (Ninja instructor) 7 (+9), Insight 2 (+4), Perception 5 (+7), Ranged combat (Ninja weapons) 6 (+11), Ranged combat (Back of hand launchers) 3 (+8), Stealth 5 (+9), Vehicles 4 (+8) (Limited 2 to common land vehicles)

Equipment
Small useful tools such as wire-cutting pincers, lockpicks, etc.

Offense
Initiative_ +8
Unarmed_ +11, Close, Damage 2
Ninja weapons +11, varies
Back of hand launcher +8, varies

Defense
Dodge_ 10 (can be 12 vs. firearms)
Fortitude_ 8
Parry_ 12
Toughness_ 5/3*
Will_ 7
Defense notes:
* Without Defensive Roll

Complications
Enemies He broke the code, so good ninja want to kill him because he's a bad ninja.
Obsession The Black Star Ninja likes fighting other ninjas to see who's the toughest ninja in town

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Power levels
Trade-off areas. Attack/Effect PL 7, Dodge/Toughness PL 8, Parry/Toughness PL 9, Fort/Will PL 8
Point total 143 Abilities 52, Defences 20, Skills 23, Powers 2, Devices 31, Advantages 15. Equiv. PL 10.
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[BlindPugh]

Enemies He broke the code, so good ninja want to kill him because he's a bad ninja.
Obsession The Black Star Ninja like fighting other ninjas to see who's the toughest ninja in town

When I get back today I'm reading up on this movie. Those are perhaps the greatest complications I've ever read.

Though this...

Complications
Nah.

comes close.

[Ghostwise]

Steve James was too cool for Complications !

I'm currently assessing the workload for a Silver Sable rewrite (probably a three-parter - before her own series, her own series, after her own series).

[BlindPugh]

I'm a big Sable fan so I'm looking forward to it.

[Ghostwise]

I'm a big Sable fan so I'm looking forward to it.

As you may have seen the early Silver Sable article has been up for a while, though I haven't found time to churn out the M&M stats based on the research.

I'm prepping some major evolutions for the site, so the dry season M&M-wise is going to continue.

[Goldar]

Glad to see you back on the boards, Ghostwise!

I am looking forward to your Silver Sable 3-part re-write!

If you remember, she was one of a few I requested a number of months back. I know you mentioned backlog of work, so am excited you are planning on SS!

Any time to update these others?
Black Cat
Black Widow-Natasha (probably needs 1 or 2 more entries (a 5th & 6th) to catch up to today's Widow.
Carrie White
Jean Grey
Saturn Queen
Superwoman (your versions of the CSA character)

I love your profiles. Thanks.

[Grayson]

I remember when I my whole family to the drive in to see American Ninja. It was the second movie shown, the main one was one of Jean Claude Van Damme's first movies, No Retreat, No Surrender.

[Goldar]

Hello,
I have a few questions regarding Wonder Woman and I thought you might know the answers and be able to help me. It is about Wonder Woman's Strength stats from the 1985 and 1989 games.

I saw stats that had WW STR 26/50 which never seemed correct, except if this was for the E-2 version, where Power Girl E-2 had STR 33/50 and Supes E-2 had STR 36/50. Earth-1 Supes was 50/50. Supergirl 48/50, Mon-El 48/50, Superboy 47/50. Night Girl was 45/50 and Ultra Boy 44/50.

In the 1989 game, I saw WW STR 16/25, which again didn't seem correct, but there was no E-2 versions at that time. Superman was 25/25. PG was 22/25, Andromeda and Mon-El 23/25, Night Girl and Ultra Boy both 22/25.

To me, Earth-1 WW should have been about 42/50 STR for the 1985 game and 21/25 for the 1989 Post-Crisis game. This would have placed WW 1 under PG (22) until PG was depowered to 20 (then WW 1 above) and again to 18 (WW 3 STR above).

This would allow for the DCA game stat of STR 16 to make more sense and with keeping in line with the character. I know one game has nothing to do with the others, but there can be a continuity-of-sort if all the stats are correctly done. For example, I was surprised WW was not the strongest female listed. Like at least a 17 or even 18 in DCA! (Mary Marvel at 17?!) But I guess WW would not be that high, if all along she was weaker. However, my guess would be that WW would be even less than a 16 in DCA if she really was a 26/16 in the other games.

What do you think? Do you know of any other WW STR stats or if I remembered these correctly? What do you think of the ranking of the STRENGTHS?

Thanks for any help and info you can provide.

[Ghostwise]

The workload on the site itself has killed the DCA/M&M time quite dead. And the work has intensified to increase the adverts revenue to pay for the technical bills for the development of the 2014 version of the site, which will in turn consume a massive amount of time.

Still, I've managed to cram in a new series of stats from this thread being inserted into the full writeups ; this set features the Mystery Men stats by Pawsplay. Roll call :

- Iron Maiden
- Killer Shrike
- No-Name of the Brood
- Slyfox
- Renee Montoya (the mid-2000s)
- Madam Fatal
- Mademoiselle Marie (Tautin)
- Puma Man (MST3K version)
- Blue Raja (Mystery Men)
- The Shoveler (Mystery Men)
- Mr. Furious (Mystery Men)
- The Spleen (Mystery Men)
- Invisible Boy (Mystery Men)
- Bowler II (Mystery Men)

[BlindPugh]

- Killer Shrike

[Ghostwise]

FWIW the Killer Shrike had its texts rewritten (IIRC I originally wrote it with a migraine, and it showed) and received a tiny update.

Goldar's questions about relative strength levels were discussed on the DCH mailing list, since they were generally system-agnostic.

And here's something I was supposed to do months ago, so I can lighten my hideous to-do list. It corresponds to *early* Silver, before she gets her own series.

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Silver Sable (early version)
Averaged PL 7.8
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Abilities
Strength_ 01 Stamina_ 02 Agility_ 04 Dexterity_ 04 Fighting_ 06 Intellect_ 02 Awareness_ 03 Presence_ 02

Combat Advantages
Chokehold, Close attack 3, Defensive Roll 2, Evasion, Improved trip, Ranged attack 5, Takedown, Throwing Mastery 1, Uncanny Dodge

Other Advantages
Benefit 1 (Head of Silver Sable International), Benefit 1 (Symkarian official status), Connected, Contacts, Equipment 3 (gradually rises to 5), Language 2 (Symkarian, Japanese, French), Second chance (Sense ambushes), Well-Informed

Skills
Acrobatics 6 (+10), Athletics 7 (+8), Deception 5 (+7), Expertise (Corporate management) 6 (+8), Expertise (Mercenary/bounty hunter) 8 (+10), Expertise (Espionage) 7 (+9), Insight 4 (+7), Intimidation 4 (+6), Perception 5 (+8), Persuasion 5 (+7), Ranged Combat (Thrown weapons) 2 (+11), Ranged combat (Firearms) 2 (+11), Sleight of hand 5 (+9) (Limited 2 to Escaping), Stealth 5 (+9), Technology 9 (+11) (Limited 2 to B&E applications), Vehicles 5 (+9) (Limited 2 to common land vehicles)

Equipment
Light pistol • 7 points (Feature - one extra pistol)
Throwing stars (chai) • 3 points
Silvery jumpsuit -- Protection 2 (Limited 1 to Ballistic, Piercing and Slashing descriptors), Protection 4 (Limited 2 to Flame/Fire descriptors), Feature 2 (hidden lockpicks, headband laced w/explosives) • 4 points
More gear as her Equipment budget rose

Offense
Initiative_ +4
Unarmed_ +9, Close, Damage 1
Chai throwing stars +11, Ranged, Multiattack Damage 1 (2 w/Throwing Mastery)
Light pistol +11, Ranged, Damage 3

Defense
Dodge_ 10
Fortitude_ 6
Parry_ 10
Toughness_ 6**/4/2*
Will_ 8
Defense notes:
* Without Defensive Roll
** With jumpsuit and defensive roll, vs. certain descriptors

Complications
Honor Sable is a relentless protector of her native Symkaria
Responsibility She is constantly working to run, develop and improve the SSI corporation
Weakness Seeing a child lose their mother to violence will leave Silver Sable Entrance, then Dazed for 5 turns as she experiences a traumatic flashback to the death of her own mother
Temper Sable can occasionally respond with out-of-control violence if she has just experience her Weakness Complication, or the existence of Symkaria is at stake
Reputation As a heartless bounty hunter and manager

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Power levels
Trade-off areas. Attack/Effect PL 7, Dodge/Toughness PL 8, Parry/Toughness PL 8, Fort/Will PL 7
Point total 133 Abilities 48, Defences 19, Skills 37, Powers 0, Devices 0, Advantages 29. Equiv. PL 9.
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[pawsplay]

Site stuff has been a bear.

[Ghostwise]

Site stuff has been a bear.

Actually it's getting worse. Close to 17,000 images embiggened to the new format so far, and something like 3,000 entries receiving Amazon links to the most germane stories featuring the character (in the better reprint format, if any).

Plus hundreds of new and redone entries - and I've been recently ploughing through hundreds of hi-res digital reissues of comics to replace our old scans of our old floppies with much, much better digital excerpts. A complete overhaul of the site is also slowly taking shape backstage.

So cramming in M&M work with any regularity is impossible, which is sad - especially since entries with M&M stats do get markedly more views, so people like them. Oh well, I have to run out of high-priority site improvement work at *some* point, right ? Right ?

[BlindPugh]

Sorry to hear site work has buried you guys. It's definitely wortyh the effort, though. WORG is still the first place I'll check if I'm looking up a character, if you have an entry on them then I know it will be better than I'll find anywhere else.