Longshot

[blackwingedheaven]

Since there have been some requests for him, here's my writeup of Longshot.


Longshot

Team d10, Buddy d8, Solo d6

Distinctions
•Luckiest Man Alive
•Savior of Mojoworld
•Naïve Hero

Engineered Physiology
•Enhanced Durability d8, Enhanced Stamina d8, Psychic Senses (Psychometry) d6, Speed d6, Superhuman Reflexes d10
•SFX: Fast Healing. When attempting to recover from physical stress or trauma during a Transition Scene, step up or double your highest die.
•Limit: Hollow Bones. Earn 1 PP to step up physical stress inflicted by bludgeoning attacks by +1.

Probability Manipulation
•Enemy Mishap (Blast) d6, Luck Mastery d10
•SFX: Near Miss. Spend 1 PP to ignore physical stress or physical trauma unless caused by area attacks.
•SFX: Lucky Break. Spend 1 PP to allow an ally to reroll a dice pool including the Team Affiliation.
•SFX: Second Chance. Spend 1 PP to reroll when using any Probability Manipulation power.
•Limit: Fickle Lady Luck. Change any Probability Manipulation power into a complication and gain 1 PP. Activate an opportunity or remove the complication to recover the power.

Specialties
•Acrobatic Master d10
•Combat Expert d8

Innocent Charm
1 XP when you interact with another hero in a way that could be flirting.
3 XP when you rescue your chosen hero from harm or suffer harm in their place.
10 XP when you realize that your behavior could be seen as a sign of attraction and either commit to a relationship with your chosen hero or abandon them and explain that you just want to be friends.

Doomed Messiah
1 XP when you first inflict stress on a servant of Mojo.
3 XP when a servant of Mojo inflicts trauma on your or one of your allies.
10 XP when you choose to abandon your current team and return to Mojoworld, or when Mojo’s plan is thwarted and you choose to remain on Earth rather than strike while he is vulnerable.

[Reinhardt75]

Fascinating way to handle his luck powers...well done!

[konate]

I like the Near Miss SFX; ingenious, really.

Seems like a lose-lose situation when dealing with affiliations. He is a solo character, especially in the Mojoverse, but he does buddy-up there, as well. And then, there's the X-Men...

The milestones are excellent character builders!

[blackwingedheaven]

I like the Near Miss SFX; ingenious, really.

Seems like a lose-lose situation when dealing with affiliations. He is a solo character, especially in the Mojoverse, but he does buddy-up there, as well. And then, there's the X-Men...

Thanks!

And it really is. His personal narrative is set up to be the lone messiah of Mojoworld, but he's at his best when he's a member of a team. Longshot's repeated failures to save his people are a big part of his story.

[konate]

Yup!

Time to get out the graphic novel again!!!

[konate]

How could one include his shuriken/throwing irons?

[blackwingedheaven]

How could one include his shuriken/throwing irons?

Since they don't actually seem that powerful as weapons go, my stats assume that Longshot's basic attacks are with them. So when he's fighting people, they're just the narrative way he's doing it.

[konate]

That is what I was thinking as well...

[Doc_Nova]

In regards to the throwing wedges: You could slap an area or maybe even burst SFX to Engineered Physiology to give them a bit of representation. I do seem to recall him attacking a few Mojo minions simultaneously with them.

Similarly, on his Distinctions, perhaps a small bit could be added about being "Dreamy" or whatever that made him immediately attractive to many of Marvel's opposite sex? And I recommend Distinctions as that seemed to help as much as it caused trouble (and would spin in nicely with the Milestones, as well).