Iron Fist (post-Immortal Iron Fist)

[Claire Redfield]

Here is a first shot at Danny as seen after his upgrade in Immortal Iron Fist. I considered separating out his Chi powers into a second power set, but we'll see. Overall, I think this is pretty close to what he's capable of since learning how to really tap into the power of the Iron Fist.


Iron Fist
Affiliations: Solo D10, Buddy D8, Team D6
Distinctions: Immortal Weapon of K'un-Lun, Indifferent Billionaire, Heir to a Legacy
Power Sets:
Heart of Shou-Lao
Chi Mastery D10, Chi Strike D10, Enhanced Durability D8, Enhanced Reflexes D8, Enhanced Speed D8, Enhanced Stamina D8, Enhanced Strength D8, Superhuman Senses D10
SFX: Chi Augmentation. Step up or double a Heart of Shou-Lao power die for one action. If that action fails, add a die to the Doom pool equal to the normal rating of the power die.
SFX: Chi Focus. In a pool including a Heart of Shou-Lao die, replace two dice of equal steps with one die of +1 step larger.
SFX: Chi Healing. Add Chi Mastery to your dice pool when helping others to recover stress. Spend 1 PP to recover your own or another's physical stress or step back your own or another's physical trauma.
SFX: Immunity. Spend 1 PP to ignore stress, trauma or complications from poisons, disease, fatigue or aging.
SFX: Iron Fist. Step up or double Chi Strike for one action. If the action fails, shutdown Chi Strike. Recover during a Transition Scene or by activating an opportunity.
SFX: Multipower. Add more than one Heart of Shou-Lao power to a single dice pool. Step back each Heart of Shou-Lao power die in that pool once for each die beyond the first.
Limit: Conscious Activation. While stressed out, asleep or unconscious, shutdown Heart of Shou-Lao. Recover Heart of Shou-Lao when you recover that stress or wake up. If you take mental trauma, shutdown Heart of Shou-Lao until you recover that trauma.

Specialties:
Acrobatic Master D10, Business Expert D8, Combat Master D10, Covert Expert D8, Mystic Expert D8, Psych Expert D8
Milestones:
Scion of the Iron Fists
You are the latest—and last—in the line of Iron Fists. With the legendary Book of the Iron Fist and the training of Orson Randall, you strive to become the greatest Iron Fist in K'un-Lun's history.
1 XP when you discover a new technique or use a new Chi stunt for the first time.
3 XP when you overcome a serious threat with a new Chi stunt or when you learn an important lesson in defeat.
10 XP when you defeat an ancient foe of K'un-Lun or when you convince an old enemy to give up a grudge and reform their ways.

ID: Danny Rand (Secret)

New Elemental Control Power
•Chi: Sensing life-force, judging its strength, healing or purifying chi fields, banishing or driving off malevolent spiritual forces.

[Prof]

Not familiar with I I F, but looks cool

[Claire Redfield]

It's a great read. If you like Iron Fist at all, you should give it a shot. I was mostly ambivalent about the character, and then my friend got me the IIF trades and I loved them.

[davethegame]

Limit: 33rd Birthday.

[Spatula]

Sorry, just coming back to this after having read the Brubaker/Fraction issues of Immortal Iron Fist. I'm a bit confused by the official IF datafile, since it should be pre-Immortal Iron Fist (which starts during Civil War), but it has the healing SFX, which IF didn't learn to do until the Immortal series... but the datafile doesn't possess any of the other tricks that Danny picked up there (like hypnosis). And while Immortal IF definitely upgrades Danny's power, it's not really clear in what ways or to what extent (granted, I haven't read past issue #19? yet). I suppose your "Chi Master" power covers the expanded bag of tricks?

The only real comment I have is that the Chi Augmentation and Iron Fist SFX could both be used step up or double the same power. Leading to a possible 2D12 Chi Strike.

I wonder if it's maybe better to give Danny two power sets: one for his training, and another for his chi powers.

[braincraft]

The dude punched out a SHIELD helicarrier. 2d12 is fair.

[Mystrich]

Sorry, just coming back to this after having read the Brubaker/Fraction issues of Immortal Iron Fist. I'm a bit confused by the official IF datafile, since it should be pre-Immortal Iron Fist (which starts during Civil War), but it has the healing SFX, which IF didn't learn to do until the Immortal series... but the datafile doesn't possess any of the other tricks that Danny picked up there (like hypnosis). And while Immortal IF definitely upgrades Danny's power, it's not really clear in what ways or to what extent (granted, I haven't read past issue #19? yet). I suppose your "Chi Master" power covers the expanded bag of tricks?

The only real comment I have is that the Chi Augmentation and Iron Fist SFX could both be used step up or double the same power. Leading to a possible 2D12 Chi Strike.

I wonder if it's maybe better to give Danny two power sets: one for his training, and another for his chi powers.

Actually, I decided to look it up. Seems even before Immortal Iron Fist, Danny did some crazy (read:stunts) with his powers. In Maximum Carnage, he was able to calm a mob despite not knowing he could hypnotize until IIF. I think healing might have been included among that.

[Cam]

Stunts exist precisely for this reason, and this is also why they're tied directly to Power Sets or Specialties, not specific powers. Your Power Set is a thematic sort of package of super powers and abilities, so when you want to use them in some new way, something that isn't specifically written down under the list of power traits, you can spend a PP and grab a stunt.

Cheers,
Cam

[Claire Redfield]

The dude punched out a SHIELD helicarrier. 2d12 is fair.

I didn't even think about combining the SFX when I wrote the datafile, but yeah, he's gotten seriously powerful. Spoilers for some recent feats:

He punched out a train that was quote "[loaded with] enough raw explosives to make Hiroshima look like a sparkler" and survived the explosion; he destroyed Ragnarok and he sent Skaar flying.

And there was that scene where he punched the helicarrier out of the sky, yeah. No bull, no tricks, just straight-up smashing it down. Here are links to the pics (because the images are too large to post here):

http://oi52.tinypic.com/2ly31n5.jpg
http://i53.tinypic.com/333balw.jpg

It's not unfair to say that Danny has the potential to be one of Earth's most powerful heroes, and he still hasn't even fully tapped into that potential. He could be pretty scary when he gets going.

Stunts exist precisely for this reason, and this is also why they're tied directly to Power Sets or Specialties, not specific powers. Your Power Set is a thematic sort of package of super powers and abilities, so when you want to use them in some new way, something that isn't specifically written down under the list of power traits, you can spend a PP and grab a stunt.

Cheers,
Cam

Somebody like Danny is very much a stunt-happy kind of character, too.