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RANGE TABLES

Rank

Range A

Range B

Range C

Range D

Range E

Feeble

Contact

1 area

10 feet

2 miles

Poor

1 area

10 areas

1 area

25 miles

Typical

2 areas

5 areas

1 mile

4 areas

250 miles

Good

4 areas

10 areas

3 miles

16 areas

2500 miles

Excellent

6 areas

25 areas

6 miles

64 areas

25,000 miles

Remarkable

8 areas

1 mile

12 miles

6 miles

250,000 miles

Incredible

11 areas

2 miles

25 miles

250 miles

2.5 million miles

Amazing

20 areas

3 miles

50 miles

1000 miles

25 million miles

Monstrous

40 areas

6 miles

120 miles

4000 miles

250 million miles

Unearthly

60 areas

10 miles

250 miles

16,000 miles

2.5 billion miles

Shift X

80 areas

15 miles

500 miles

64,000 miles

25 billion miles

Shift Y

160 areas

30 miles

1200 miles

250,000 miles

250 billion miles

Shift Z

400 areas

50 miles

2500 miles

1 million miles

1/2 light year

CL1000

100 miles

80 miles

5000 miles

4 million miles

.5 light years

CL3000

10,000 miles

150 miles

12,000 miles

16 million miles

50 light years

CL5000

100,000 miles

250 miles

250,000 miles

64 million miles

500 light years

AREA OF EFFECT

Rank Name Radius (in feet)

Area

Volume

Feeble

3 sq. ft.

3 cu. ft.

Poor

12 sq. ft.

25 cu. ft.

Typical

200 sq. ft.

200 cu. ft.

Good

314 sq. ft.

3,140 cu. ft.

Excellent

707 sq. ft.

10,600 cu. ft.

Remarkable

1,256 sq. ft.

25,120 cu. ft.

Incredible

2,826 sq. ft.

85,000 cu. ft.

Amazing

7,850 sq. ft.

392,000 cu. ft.

Monstrous

100

31,400 sq. ft.

3,140,000 cu. ft.

Unearthly

200

125,600 sq. ft.

25,120,000 cu. ft.

Shift X

500

785,000 sq. ft.

392,500,000 cu. ft.

Shift Y

1,000

3,140,000 sq. ft.

3,140,000,000 cu. ft.

Shift Z

2,000

12,560,000 sq. ft.

25,120,000,000 cu. ft.

CL1000

1 mile

3 sq. miles

1.3 cu. miles

CL3000

2 miles

12 sq. miles

25 cu. miles

CL5000

5 miles

78 sq. miles

392 cu. miles

1 square mile = 28 million square feet

1 cubic mile = 147 billion square feet

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Table of Contents

Introduction.........................................................................2

Character Generation ........................................................3

How We Do It .................................................................3

Physical Form.....................................................................3

Type Definitions ..................................................................3

Origin of Power ...............................................................10

Primary and Secondary Abilities.......................................11

Weakness Generation ......................................................12

Power Generation ............................................................14

Power Categories .............................................................14

Power Listings ..................................................................18

Defense Powers............................................................18

Detection Powers .........................................................19

Energy Control Powers .................................................21

Energy Emission Powers .............................................26

Fighting Powers ............................................................29

Illusory Powers..............................................................31

Life Control Powers.......................................................35

Magical Powers.............................................................41

Matter Control Powers ..................................................49

Matter Conversion Powers............................................59

Matter Creation Powers ................................................63

Mental Enhancement Powers .......................................68

Physical Enhancement Powers ...................................80

Power Control Powers ..................................................82

Self-Alteration Powers...................................................86

Travel Powers ..............................................................93

Index ..............................................................................101

Range Table .............................................inside front cover

Area of Effect Table .................................inside front cover

Movement Table ......................................inside back cover

Simultaneous Action/Target Table ...........inside back cover

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All characters appearing in this gamebook and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks of the Marvel Entertainment Group. Inc. MARVEL SUPER HEROES and MARVEL SUPER VILLAINS

Credits:

Author: David E. Martin

Typographer: Kim N. Lindau

Keyliner: Stephanie Tabat

Cover Artist: Jeff Butler

Interior Artists: The Marvel Bullpen

Editor: Karen S. Martin

Welcome to the Ultimate Powers Book.

What you hold in your hands is a distillation of months of rather peculiar

research. The idea was to create an encyclopedic listing of the all the known

super powers ever to appear in any comic book, science fiction or fantasy

literature, film, or role-playing game. Once these were identified and catalogues,

the next phase was to fill in as many holes as I could imagine. What super

powers should exist but have not yet been used? I think I found most of the

holes; you can discover some of these as the more bizarre listings in the Ultimate

Powers Book.

The final phase was adapting all this work to a form that you, the player, can

use. Okay, here it is. In the Player’s Book of the MARVEL SUPER HEROES

Advanced Set, there is a character generation system that gives you a choice of

five basic character types plus a way of randomly determining what Powers and

Power ranks they possess. Other comic book role playing games have their own

systems. Most of them, I feel, generate characters that would have trouble

besting the assistants of many characters in comic books today. When I was

creating The Ultimate Powers Book, I wanted to create a system that would allow

players to generate anyone—from a bona fide deity (in comics terms, naturally)

to Aunt May. The character generation system that begins this book is what

resulted from that desire.

The Ultimate Powers Book is not a game in itself. Rather it is a supplement

designed to enlarge the character generation system of the game you are

already playing. Think of it as souping up for game mechanics.

This book also retains its original purpose, that of a way to interpret existing

comic book characters and hopefully create new ones. As I sit here banging

away on the keyboard, I like to think that maybe somewhere in here in the

genesis for the next comic book super hero.

I’ve said enough. You have a new world to explore, the world of Ultimate Power.

Enjoy!

This book is not an exact replica of the original Ultimate Powers Book, as it

contains addenda material and minor typographical corrections. Text appearing in

red is from “The Ultimate Addenda”, an article by David Edward Martin which

appeared in Dragon Magazine #122, June 1987.

CHARACTER GENERATION

HOW WE DO IT

The following is a system for creating new

characters in the Marvel Universe or

whatever section of the Multiverse you

play in. Newly generated characters have

the advantage of being unique to the

player, and thus (in my eyes, at least) the

player has a firmer commitment to them. A

player Invests more of his energy and

imagination in a character he creates

himself. They also offer an advantage to

the Judge. Because player-generated

characters don't have to adhere to

someone else's continuity, all restraints in

that area of the game are gone. All bets

are off and anything can happen.

The Ultimate Powers Book generation

system has seven steps.

• Generate a physical form.

• Generate an Origin of Power.

• Generate Primary Abilities.

• Generate Secondary Abilities.

• Generate a Weakness.

• Generate Powers.

• Give your character life.

48-19

60-61

52-53

54-57

61-62

63-64

66-66

71-72

Surgical Composite

Modified Human

Demihuman

Cyborg

—

Organic

Muscular

Skeletal

Extra Parts

Centaur

Equiman

Faun

Felinoid

Lupinoid

Avian

Chiropteran

Lamian

Merhuman

Other

Artificial

limbs/organs

Exoskeleton

Mechanical

Body

Mechanically

Augmented

Human

Shape

Usuform

Metamorphic

Computer

—

physically and genetically altered. The

Fantastic Four are examples of this type.

Induced Mutants roll their random

ranks for Primary Abilities on Column 1

of the Random Ranks Table.

Induced Mutants can raise any one

Primary Ability +1CS.

Random Mutation: The hero was born

to Normal Humans, but a freak twist of

genetic fate made him a mutant from

birth. Most of these are the Mutants

found in the Marvel Universe, such as

the X-Men.

Random Mutants roll on Column I of

the Random Ranks Table.

They gain one additional Power.

Resources are reduced -1 CS.

Endurance Is raised +1CS.

73-74

76-76

Cyborg

77-79

Cyborg

Breed Mutants: The hero's parents were

Mutants, as were any number of

preceding generations. Breed Mutants

form tribes and have close-knit families;

this is a defense mechanism born from

generations spent hiding their true selves

from normal society. Examples of Breed

Mutants include the Inhumans.

Breed Mutants roll on Column 1 of the

Random Ranks Table.

Intuition is raised +1CS.

Endurance is raised +1CS.

Breed Mutants must have at least one

Contact, usually their tribe.

80-82

Robot

83-84

85-86

Robot

Angel/Demon

Deity

Animal

Vegetable

Abnormal Chemistry

Mineral

Gaseous

Liquid

Energy

Ethereal

Undead

Compound

Changeling

The joy and exasperation of random

creation is that even when you think you

know where you're heading, you can still

be taken in a completely different direction

by a roll of the dice. Each of the seven

steps contains factors that can totally

revamp your character. You can even

interpret the same sets of numbers in

dramatically different ways.

Physical Form

Your character's physical form is what he

looks like now. Oh, he might have been

born a relatively normal child in Cleveland,

Ohio, but this category is how people see

him now. The player can either select one

of the body types below or be brave and

let the dice do it for him. Deliberate

selection is recommended if YOU are

setting up a special campaign that

requires certain types of characters, like

on other worlds or in other eras.

Androids: These are artificially created

organic beings. An android is made of

laboratory-created protoplasm and grows

to maturity in an artificial womb. More

intricately made Androids can actually

interbreed with Normal Humans. One

example is the Vision. Androids generally

resemble the race that created them;

alien androids can be any shape.

Androids roll on column 4 of the

Random Ranks Table.

Popularity is initially lowered -1CS.

Androids may raise any one Ability +1CS.

Androids gain one Power.

Androids have at least one Contact, the

lab tech or scientist who created them.

Type Definitions

Normal Human: The body is completely

normal and possesses no detectable ab-

normalities. Any Powers the hero

possesses have left no visible mark on

the body.

Random ranks are rolled on Column 2

of the Random Ranks Table, page 6 of

the Player’s Book and reproduced in this

text for your convenience.

Resources are increased +1CS.

Dice Roll

01-26

26-30

31-33

34-35

36-38

39-46

Physical Form

Normal Human

Mutant

Android

Humanoid Race

Sub-form

—

Induced

Random

Breed

—

Humanoid Race: The hero is a normal

member of a human-like race from

"somewhere else." This may be another

world, era, dimension, or lost land hidden

somewhere on the Earth. Most can pass

as Normal Humans with a little disguise

Induced Mutant: The hero started life

as a Normal Human, "then something

happened." As a result of a freak

happenstance, the hero has been

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