Background and Origin: Allison was born with superhuman strength and endurance. She studied kung fu to learn to control her awesome strength. She is of British descent, but her parents emigrated from Hong Kong when she was young, and she grew up in California’s Silicon Valley. She is fluent in Mandarin and English.
Because of her mutation, she studied medicine and physiology, picking up a minor in secondary education. She focused on her studies and completed her medical studies at the age of 26.
She was recruited by the Guardians of Los Angeles, to be a team brick and resident scientist.
Combat Tactics: She has very little combat experience, and tends to overestimate her abilities. She is aggressive and incautious, often rushing into things, before getting her bearings in the second or third turn and coordinating more actively with her allies.
She is a team player, and a good leader can take advantage of her potential by guiding her to use her strength on the scenery (more reliable, since it can't dodge).
Personality Traits: Allison has strong self-discipline and sense of social responsibility. She volunteers as part of an inner city non-profit hospital and youth education program. She does fundraising for it and also patrols a large section of the city helping those in need and stopping criminals.
Appearance: 5’7”, 150 lbs.
Powers: She has superhuman strength and endurance. She can lift/press approximately 2 tons under optimal conditions. She can run with the speed of an star track athlete, with the endurance of a seasoned marathon winner.
Notes: Model unknown. Character by P. Rogers, January 1999.
The V&V source character was not very powerful. I made a deliberate effort to retain that relative lack of power in the Mighty Protectors version.
Living Legends is a bit of a squirrel in that the damage dice often convert pretty straight across from V&V, but high Hit Points and High Power don’t readily translate into damage absorption capacity in LL. Back a few years ago, when I was converting piles of V&V characters to LL, I usually resolved this by using the Armor power to represent “can soak a lot of damage.” It was much more cost effective, and less pain-in-the-ass than buying lots of extra Hit Points for the LL character (again, since Power score recovers per minute, instead of per day, straight HITS also didn’t properly capture the feel of the character).
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Allison Cromwell - Mighty Protectors
Strength 25 (Carrying Capacity 2496 lbs., Basic HTH 2d6)
Endurance 30 (Save 14-, Heal 5.1)
Agility 13 (Save 11-)
Intelligence 16 (Save 11-)
Cool 9 (Save 10-, Initiative d4)
Hit Points 50
Power 100
Physical Defense 1
Mental Defense 1
Move 23
Inventing Points 8
Wealth d6
Luck 10-
Weight 150 lbs.
Total Cost 93 + 57- 25 = 125
Powers
Durability: Hit Points +20 (20 CP)
Energy: Power +16 (8 CP)
Heightened Attack: Damage +1 all attacks (2.5 CP)
Heightened Endurance: EN +15 (included above)
Heightened Initiative: Init +2 (5 CP)
Heightened Strength: ST +10 (included above)
Knowledge - Language: Fluent Mandarin Chinese, Literate (4 PC)
Natural Weaponry: Attack +2, Damage +2 Blunt Kinetic (10 CP)
Wealth: d6 Wealth roll (2.5 CP)
Gear
Bulletproof Vest: Armor: Kinetic 6, Energy 2, Biochemical 2, Entropy 2, Modifiers: Gear, Partial Coverage (Light) (5 CP)
Weaknesses
Low Self-Control (Compulsion): Tends to launch into a speech or pedantic explanation at the drop of a hat because she loves teaching and sharing knowledge and education (Uncommon, Character Hook) (-7.5 CP)
Nemesis: As a member of a super-team, she has enemies (As Powerful, Rare) (-7.5 CP)
Personal Problem (Public Identity): (-10 CP)
Combat Summary:
Initiative: d4+2 (avg 4.5)
Unarmed: Attack 16-, Damage 2d6+3 (avg 10)
Allison Cromwell - Villains & Vigilantes
Strength 41 (Carrying Capacity 5394 lbs., Basic HTH 2d8)
Endurance 30 (Heal 2.7)
Intelligence 16 (Detect Hidden 12%, Detect Danger 16%, Damage +1)
Agility 13 (Accuracy +1, Damage +1)
Charisma 9 (Reaction +/-0)
Level 1
Hit Points 53
Power 100
Move 84
Hit Modifier 17.784
Weight 150 lbs.
Basic Hits 3
Inventing Points 1.6
Heightened Strength B (×2): +41
Heightened Endurance B: +17
Heightened Expertise: Lifelong karate training gives her +4 “to hit” with all unarmed HTH.
Gear: Smartphone; Bulletproof vest
Combat Summary:
Initiative: 16+d10 (avg 21.5)
Unarmed: HTH +5 “to hit,” Damage 2d8+2 (avg 11)
Living Legends – Allison Cromwell [125 CP]
PHYS 30 (STR 37), REFL 8 (REAC 11), DEFT 11, INTL 11 (PERC 16), COOL 7, VITL 16, Mass 55 kg (d3 Mass effect)
Skills: 4 @ +1 level (2) (+7), 3 @ +2 levels (3) (+5) [11 CP]
Medicine: (INTL/S), +2 levels, d8 effect
Science: (INTL/S), Psychology, +2 levels, d8 effect
Teach: (DEFT/G), d8 effect
Languages: English (native), Mandarin Chinese (fluent) (3) [3 CP]
Literacy: English (native), Mandarin Chinese (1) [1 CP]
Armor: 1 vs. All Physical (2) [2 CP]
Heightened REFL: +11 (11), DODG only (-3), Miscellaneous Restriction [must spend an Action to activate until the end of her next turn] (-3) [4 CP]
Speed Bonus: Ground move x2 (3), top speed 16” and acceleration 16” (+3) [4 CP]
Weakness (Public Identity): [-10 CP]
Weakness (Quirk): Tends to launch into a speech or pedantic explanation at the drop of a hat because she loves teaching and sharing knowledge and education [-5 CP]
Designer's Notes: I gave the LL version Armor to reflect her high V&V Hit Points and Power score, both of which enable her to absorb tremendous amounts of damage. The bit about extra DODG and the restriction are just flavor, but also simulate the “Evasion” mechanic of V&V. She's low-power super, so dumping all her powers makes her a good brick for low-power games. To bump her to a Standard power level increase her Armor to 3 and increase her STR to 46.
Allison Cromwell - Marvel Superheroes Advanced Set
Fighting Excellent
Agility Good
Strength Remarkable
Endurance Amazing
Reason Good
Intuition Typical
Psyche Typical
Health 110
Karma 22
Resources Good
Popularity 0
Powers
Armored Costume: Typical protection from physical and Force, Excellent protection from Heat, Fire and Radiation, Good material strength.
Talents
Martial Arts A
Medicine
Contacts
Local hospital director (Remarkable Resources)
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Document Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2017 by Patric L. Rogers. All rights reserved. Portions Copyright others; no attempt is made to infringe upon their rights.
Villains & Vigilantes, Living Legends and the Monkey House Games logo are trademarks owned by Monkey House Games, ©2010 Monkey House Games. All rights reserved. Made in the U.S.A.
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Sourcebooks Marvel Superheroes Advanced Set (TSR, 1986), Realms of Magic (Kim Eastland, TSR, 1986), The Ultimate Powers Book (David E. Martin, TSR, 1987), 4C System (Michael Hammes, Philip Reed, 2007).
