Avenger-Tactics_XP
AND THE GENTLEMEN:
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The following material should serve to assist the players of the various Avengers as characters in the Hero System game of Marvel-based Champions.
Suggested are Tactics to employ in game:
ie: Hulk tosses car into (okay through)
a crowd of enemy soldiers.
and Roleplay bits to encourage character development:
ie: Hulk makes up colorful nickname for enemy.
( Shut up Scaly Man! )
The listed XP bonuses occur a maximum of once per game session, and the 3xp bonuses can occur once per story arc.
ANT-MAN Roleplay Bits
Hero On The Horizon
1 XP - The first time you point out that a given villain has technology that might be helpful if put to less nefarious use.
2 XP - When you use your Tech Expert Specialty to create a resource based on the technology of one of your enemies.
3 XP - When you see an enemy utilize technology based on your designs to cause widespread danger or a threat to innocent lives, and you decide to swear off of inventing gadgets for fear of their misapplication.
Ant-Man Tactics:
You have various nasty threats in your arsenal, and you are expected to be creative and resourceful. You have both a gadget skill and a bug skill for making up new ways to foil the bad guys (or help your teammates)
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Roleplay Bits:1xp - use covert ops. skill successfully.
2xp - persuade another into a difficult situation
3xp - sacrifice self for a team-member.
3xp - "betray" a team member to aid team
Black Widow Tactics:
She is a master of manipulation and persuasion. Defense Maneuver means no-one gets cheap shots at her. She has all the spy skills and much more.
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BLACK PANTHER Roleplay Bits:1xp - when you appraise or flirt
with a potential queen
2xp - when you declare something a threat to Wakanda
2xp - when you attack said threat to Wakanda
3xp - when you eliminate said threat to Wakanda.
1xp - when you inflict harm on an enemy from surprise.
B.P. Tactics:
Master of stealth and surprise. Good martial artist. Sure would be a shame if someone were to trip and fall right in front of the Hulk.
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MANTIS ROLEPLAY -- Recovering your Soul : You will stop at nothing to take your revenge on Kang, his minions, and their agents.
1 XP - when you uncover a new operation by Kang
through stealth.
3 XP - when you take down a new secret operation, or when
Kang sets a trap for you with a new bio-weapon and
you take physical stress.
3XP - when you take down one of Kang's top operatives, or
when you convince one of them of his evils and
gain a new ally.
-- Searching For Humanity - The experiments that robbed you of loved ones you cost you everything, and now you are stuck in a world you no longer understand, trying to find the part of you that you're missing.
1 XP - when your alien mindset lands you in trouble
with authorities or turns someone whom you wanted
to befriend against you.
2 XP - when you emotionally stress out a potential friend or
when you successfully team up with another hero
to accomplish a common goal.
3 XP - when someone is stressed out of a scene defending you,
or you are stressed out defending someone you realize
you care about. Kang and others of his kind killed your lover
and kidnapped your son.
MANTIS TACTICS
Martial arts. Know'em, love'em. Mantis can instinctively do such actions as jab someone in the solar plexus by complete surprise or "spock pinch" their shoulder from behind.. Do not be afraid of self sacrifice. If you make the rolls you can easily regrow your body.
Also, Mantis talks in 3rd person, all the time.
CAPTAIN AMERICA Roleplay Bits:1xp - if you aid or advise a hero before you attack.
2xp - aid a hero in his recovery
3xp - take over (or resign from) leadership of an endeavor
1xp - exceptionally creative shield usage. (power stunt)
CAP TACTICS:
Your Shield, it can block damage for you and others near you. You are the definition of team player. You can instictively get your shield in the way of attacks. Thugs get really surprised when that shield zings out of your hand and slices their gun right out of their grasp.
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HAWKEYE ROLEPLAY ITEMS
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1xp - when you trash talk a more powerful villain
2xp - when refusing to back down from a supervillain and get stunned later on in same fight
METEORITE Roleplay Bits: LET ME HELP YOU…
1 XP — when you use your Psych specialty to heal emotional stress/trauma .
2 XP — when you engage in a confrontation with another hero and emotionally manipulate them into getting what you want.
3 XP — when you use a questionable Psych or Medical asset or resource to support a team member or you refrain from supporting a team member with your Specialties at a critical moment.
LEGACY OF THE MOONSTONE
1 XP — when you describe dreams/visions of a blue-skinned, Kree warrior woman, and how they affected your actions against your nature.
2 XP — when you spend a time off-screen researching The Moonstone, when you could be helping yourself or others.
3 XP — when you decide to get rid of the Moonstone (and thus the visions) or embrace the warrior-woman’s heroic priorities.
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MOCKINGBIRD DETERMINED TO MOVE ON
1 XP - when you talk with a friend about what you have lost
2 XP - when you ignore a reminder of your past
3XP - when you make a definitive change to set yourself apart from the old 'you'
NEW AND IMPROVED MOCKINGBIRD
1 XP - when you first use your ENHANCED STRENGTH power in a scene
2 XP - when you save a fellow hero using your SUPER-SOLDIER SERUM power set
3XP - when you defeat a super strong villain single-handedly
MockingBird Tactics
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3xp - when you take full credit for the group defeating the group's enemies
1xp - when you take risky or tricky shots and succeed in discomfiting or surprising an enemy
1xp - when you injure a teammate with a missed shot
HAWKEYE TACTICS:
You can shoot a gun right out of someone's hand. You have ten of each trick arrow. If you lose you bow, you can still toss them as attacks. If you lose your arrows also, either pick up an enemy's gun or use your martial arts.
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HERCULES ROLEPLAY ITEMS:
1xp - when you congratulate a foe that really strikes you in HtH (when you take more than 12 stun or 2 body)
2xp - when you win a STR contest with a peer
3xp - when you win a solo victory or admit you need help
1xp - when you declare someone a true friend
2xp - when you drink to recover after a battle
3xp - when you avenge a fallen friend
Hercules Tactics:
Long list of brick tricks and clever things to do with your immense STR.
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MS.MARVEL ROLEPLAY ITEMS:1xp - surprise an enemy with your Energy Absorption2xp - defend someone with your Energy Absorption
3xp - defeat an Enemy with Energy Abs. Blast
1xp - if subjected to your emotional disadvantages
Ms. Marvel Tactics
You are a champion, don't be afraid to act like one. Don't hesitate to step in front of a laser or a particle beam, a phaser, or a neutron blaster. Keep asking the GM questions, since you have Danger Sense. With your megascale flight you have the ability to arrive at a crime-scene first.
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HULK Roleplay Bits:
1xp - Successfully avoid switching forms
2xp - Suffer damage (physical or emotional) from an ally.
3xp - Cause damage (physical or emotional) from an ally.
1xp - Push Your STR to exhaustion.
2xp - Start a fight with a peer.
3xp - Knockout a peer
1xp - Hulk makes up colorful nickname for enemy.
( Hulk Smash Yellow Dork ! )
Hulk Tactics:
You have access to the Ultimate Brick book, with all the tricks listed in it. There are truck loads of schticks when you can do when you're strong enough to juggle the Statue of Liberty.
Use a power line as a whip, clear a street with a semi-trailer, break out windows across the street with your hand-claps, etc.
Hulk can toss a car through a crowd of enemy soldiers.
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SCARLET WITCH ROLEPLAY ITEMS:"PROVISIONAL" TEAM MEMBER
1 XP - when you must defend your right to even be an Avenger.
2 XP - when you fight right alongside a team member who doubts you
3 XP - when you prove yourself by taking physical or emotional trauma for the team
"IT WASN'T MY FAULT"
1 XP - when must assure a long-time friend, family member, or loved one that you are still worthy of their trust
2 XP - when an attempted reconciliation is disrupted by violence or a need for action.
3 XP - when you get a family member or long-time friend to trust you again or forgive your past screw-ups
S.W.TACTICS
Scarlet's hex transform is cumulative: If an enemy resists it, she'll try again. Machinery does not like her hex powers. Her hexes can backfire, but don't let that make you afraid to use them. Scarlet knows some basic karate, she does not have to let someone just grab her or beat on her.
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IRON MAN Role-play Bits:1xp - consume (or resist consuming) alcoholic beverages 2xp - brag about (or lie about) binge drinking & excessive partying.
3xp - drinks self into stupor (or checks into rehab).
1xp - shut down an enemy tech power
2xp - shutdown all of an enemies tech powers.
3xp - defeat a superior force with its own tech
Iron Man Tactics:
Stand Off and Shoot. Fisticuffs are best left for the experts. Don't be afraid of a move-through. See if a team-mate needs a ride somewhere. Choose your armor specialty carefully, since you can't change mid-fight.
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SERSI Ours can be a… “difficult” relationship…Roleplay Bits: 1 xp - when team discusses the relationship Eternals have with Earth
2 xp - when an argument erupts between Sersi and an Avenger
3 xp - when Sersi concedes (and shows with actions) that Avenger’s mission is paramount and agrees to be their magician for as long as the team needs her.
3 xp - when Sersi defeats an Agent of Thanos.
1xp - She uncovers some plot that is magical in nature.
2xp - She discovers some new magical tome or artifact.
3xp - She defeat a super villain without magic.
Sersi Tactics:
Her transform is cumulative, so if a foe resists, she should try again.
She can talk to animals, see magic, fly others, and heal people.
So she can turn the Abomination into a parrot, then train him to say he wants a radioactive cracker.
MOON-KNIGHT
ROLEPLAY BITS
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1xp - take a detour from the mission to get revenge
2xp - use a killing attack when pursuing vengeance
SHE-HULK ROLEPLAY ITEMS:
1xp - mention former rendezvous with heroes
2xp - recover while drinking and partying with other heroes
3xp - break up with a hero
1xp - legal expertise needed
2xp - defend hero in court.
TACTICS
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3xp - kill an opponent for vengeance -or- give mercy to an opponent along with an explanation of what you need from them in the future due to said mercy
2xp - take down a street level organization
2xp - confront another hero about their tactics, associations, activities.
MOON KNIGHT TACTICS
You have a whole fanny-pack full of bat-man style tricks. You are the caped marvel of this world, and if you can't take someone out, you can certainly humiliate them. You have danger sense, so keep asking the GM questions. No shame in ducking the big brawl if you go off camera and find a clue or two.
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SQUIRREL GIRL ROLEPLAY ITEMS: Great Lakes Avenger1xp - when a team you are a member of changes name.2xp - when an above average summoned squirrel dies.
3xp - when a team you lead gains widespread respect and recognition or you're forced to disband it.
Remember That Time I Beat Thanos?
1xp - when another character brings up one of your past victories
2xp - when you stress out an opponent with Resourceful Leader
3xp - the first time you defeat a villain with It's Canon Now in a way that causes the majority of table to cheer or leave the table in disgust.
S.G.TACTICS
Being nice to some people will eventually fail you, and you may have to get huffy with them, probably hit them or do something to get them to hurt themselves. Other notes: Cute But Deadly, Friend of the Squirrels , Resourceful, Smart and Capable. You have basic martial arts, so what you may have to do is delay someone with them until either your luck kicks in or you can get them in the way of that truck Hercules just tossed by.
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ROCKET RACCOON ROLEPLAY ITEMS:
Nice Save
1 XP - When you point out to a teammate the perilous situation another teammate is in, or you nag your teammates about an action they should or shouldn't have taken.
2 XP - When you perform a recovery action on an ally to get them back into the fight.
3 XP - When an ally that you brought back into the fight with your recovery action is the one to end a serious threat in a way that only that ally could end the threat.
1 XP - When you mention a threat that your teammates dismiss as being beneath their efforts.
2 XP - When one of your allies comes around to your way of thinking and advocates your course of action.
3 XP - When the threat that you mentioned proves to be so dangerous that your allies agree that they should have listened to you in the first place, or when all of your allies abandon you and you have to face this threat alone.
R.R. Tactics:
Many on the team are better fighters than you, but you have skills, and insight few others do. Plus you're an actual cop and can actually do that CSI crap to figure out what's really going on at a crime scene. Save one of your phases for a dodge, since people might be throwing cars around.
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TIGRA ROLEPLAY ITEMS:1xp - When you flirt with a hero
2xp - when you rebuff a hero's flirting with you.
3xp - when you break up with a hero.
1xp - when you admit to cute or mild cat-like behaviors.
2xp - when you admit to feral or disturbing feline behaviors.
3xp - when you manipulate a villain who flirts with you.
Tigra Tactics:
Like Squirrel Girl, Tigra's not going to directly wallop a super- villain into submission. But she is an excellent distraction, and very sneaky, and can certainly keep a villain's attention on what she wants while Hawkeye or Vision take the killing shot. Also with yor special brain, enemies that use mental attacks will usually fail to affect you, and you can surprise them with that fact.
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STAR-FOX ROLEPLAY ITEMS:1 XP When a friend charges into trouble, and you decide to follow them in order to keep them from getting into even more trouble.
3 XP When you take stress or suffer a complication while trying to keep the friend you followed into danger from suffering harm.
10 XP When you either decide to leave your troublesome friend to their own fate, or you finally resolve the danger that threatens them and you deliver them to safety.
STARFOX - Casanova, Honorable, Insatiable Wanderlust
Psych Master , Tech Geek , Cosmic Expert , Limit: Weakness for the Ladies. Get extra points and step up mental and emotional stress or complications from females.
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WASP ROLEPLAY ITEMS:1xp - when you aid another in battle 2xp - when you aid another in trauma to get them a recovery
3xp - if you get someone kicked off the team till they get help and get better.
1xp - when you flirt with a super-villain during battle.
2xp - when you take risks to help an ex.
WASP TACTICS:
Your attacks, though tiny, hurt most everybody. You can nickel and dime pretty much anyone right into the hospital. Since you are more fragile than the average Avenger, you should use your main power often: stay small and not get shot. If you can pull if off, you may augment your punch with your flight speed and your growth momentum to really konk someone by assuming full size like right under their jaw. You are quite adept at shooting guns right out of a thug's hand.
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KISA QUASAR
TEAM PLAYER
Role-Play Items:
1 XP — when you give support to another hero.
2 XP — when you’re given an official place (above honorary) on a team.
3 XP — when you either sacrifice something you hold dear for the benefit of your team or walk away from your team to avoid that sacrifice.
3xp - when you use all 12 of your major anima on a mission.
2xp - when you have to forcibly show someone your Quasar bands to make them take you seriously.
1xp - when your curiosity starts a fight or unleashes danger.
TACTICS: wild and varied.
THOR ROLEPLAY ITEMS: 1 xp - The first time you protect an innocent in a scene. or When you work Viking Heritage into an argument
2 xp - When you find a non-violent solution to a conflict.
3 xp - When you recover MJOLNIR with a noble, selfless act.
THOR TACTICS
Does most damage when personally hitting enemies with hammer in H-t-H. But hammer has many defensive options also. Thor is not a berserk pounder, but there are times when that's appropriate, especially in the face of trickery. Thor can instinctively block shots with his hammer. Thor is noble, honorable, and talks in an ancient way.
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THE VISION ROLEPLAY ITEMS:1xp - when you try to do a human activity.
2xp - put another either into (or out of) harm's way.
3xp - when you aid another in Recovery
3xp - when you sacrifice yourself or your goal for the team.
VISION TACTICS:
Use Desolid to avoid combat until you decide to strike. You can usually shut down enemy devices. As a robot, you are immune to many attacks that fell humans, and should not fear walking right into such an onslaught.
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ROLEPLAY
SUGGESTIONS
TACTICAL
ADVICE
FIGHT-MAN ROLEPLAY ITEMS:1xp - if you collect paraphernalia from a defeated enemy.1xp - for reminiscing during an ongoing fight about past fights & interesting foes.
1xp - for reminding group that they just might need to fight.
2xp - for losing a sidekick or if reminded of a sidekick loss.
-or- for talking the group into a fight they initially opposed.
3xp - for starting an unnecessary or ill-advised fight.