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POWER PROFILE: ARMOR POWERS
ARMOR FEATURES
Armor is well-suited (no pun intended) for a variety of Fea-
tures, adding minor capabilities to the armor that do not
rate full-fledged power effects. Just a few of the many pos-
sible features include:
•
A small display screen or projector, perhaps even
able to produce translucent holographic images in
empty air. This is solely for the display and sharing
of information (and entertainment value) not an Il-
lusion effect.
•
A built-in piece of equipment costing 1 point or less,
including the equivalent of a cell phone, computer,
flashlight, or similar useful item.
•
A loudspeaker able to amplify the wearer’s voice,
like a built-in bullhorn (useful for crowd control and
cutting through noisy situations).
•
Built-in storage compartments or hidden places to
conceal things.
•
A data-storage drive, allowing the wearer to copy
and store digital information easily (perhaps with an
included interface cable or wirelessly).
•
A design that not only disguises the wearer’s identity,
but even allows the wearer to masquerade as a differ-
ent sex or pretend to be a robot rather than a person
in armor.
Armor Features are a great opportunity for retcons and
stunts involving the armor’s capabilities, such as having
just the right item in that hidden storage compartment, or
access to the right Feature at the right time.
Some acquire amazing powers by accident or virtue of
birth, but others
make
their powers or acquire them by
wearing them, in the form of armor, like the knights of old.
Suits of super-powered armor—and similar costumes—
have become staples of the superhero comics for both
heroes and villains. In their case the suit really can “make
the man” although it is often the person inside who counts.
ARMOR DESCRIPTORS
•
Armor:
Implies an external or worn suit of armor
rather than natural armor like exceptionally tough skin,
armor plates, or whatnot. This does not necessarily
mean the armor is Removable, although it may. Some
“worn” armor is actually integrated into the user’s body,
or cannot easily be removed. More often than not,
however, armor is a Removable device of some sort.
•
Technological:
Common, but also not required.
High-tech battlesuits are the most common col-
lections of armor powers. The kind of technology
involved may imply other descriptors, including cy-
bernetic, nanotech, or even things like clockwork or
retro “steampunk” suits. This descriptor makes armor
good for power stunts or applications of inventing
(
Hero’sHandbook,
pages 159–160) based around ju-
ry-rigging the armor in different ways.
•
Magical:
Technology is not the only source of power
armor, however. Some suits may have a “magical”
descriptor instead, ranging from enchanted suits
of mundane mail armor with enhanced protective
properties and other abilities to magical automatons
“worn” and piloted by a person inside of them.
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REMOVABLE OR NOT?
scriptors. Likewise, a “blaster” can be different types of
energy or even physical projectiles.
Power armor often has the Removable flaw (
Hero’sHand-
book,
page 149) as the wearer can take it off and, pre-
sumably, have it taken off, or be caught without it in
some situations. However, the flaw is not required, and
different suits of armor may have different degrees of
removability.
Blaster:
Ranged Damage •
2pointsperrank
CAPTURE WEAPON
A non-damaging ranged weapon intended to disable and
incapacitate opponents without harming them. A capture
weapon may be tranquilizer darts, stun gas, a taser, net, or
similar weapon. See the Dazzle, Sleep, and Snare sample
powers in
Chapter 6
of the
Hero’sHandbook
for additional
examples.
The Removable degree is the default. The armor can only
be removed when the wearer is stunned and defenseless
and takes some amount of time (GM’s judgment, but at
least a couple of rounds, to as long as a minute or more).
Easily Removable armor is relatively rare, but may be
dependent upon some easily removable component or
object; perhaps the armor has vulnerable exposed power
pods, cables, or other components an opponent can grab
in combat, rendering the armor inoperative.
Capture Weapon:
Ranged Affliction (Resisted and Overcome
by Fortitude; Impaired, Disabled, Incapacitated) •
2points
perrank
HOMING MISSILE
Some armor is not Removable at all in game terms, not
that the armor
cannot
be removed, just that it cannot be
removed against the wearer’s will in anything less than
hours. Perhaps the armor has such sophisticated security
a foe cannot remove it even when the wearer is incapaci-
tated. Rather than a flaw, the occasional Power Loss com-
plication might come into play (see
Complications
).
You launch a micro-missile with an on-board guidance
system, allowing it to lock onto and track its target. By
default the homing missile is a heat-seeker, tracking
its target by its heat emissions, but you can substitute
another Sense effect worth 1 point (or spend additional
points for a higher-ranked sense effect).
OFFENSIVE POWERS
Power armor usually has some type of offensive capability
provided by various built-in weapons.
Homing Missile:
Ranged Damage, Homing 2 Linked to Senses 1
(Infravision) •
3points+2pointsperrank
MACHINE-GUN
WEAPON ARRAYS
This weapon is a repeating type of blaster attack (see
Blaster
, previous): it may be a conventional machine gun
or chain gun firing solid projectiles (or rubber bullets) or a
pulsed energy weapon, depending on descriptors
Power-armor is a prime candidate for an array of differ-
ent offensive powers (weapons); each weapon is usable
one at a time, but not all at once. See the
Alternate Effect
modifier on pages 136–137 of the
Hero’sHandbook
for
details on arrays and how they are set up.
Machine-Gun:
Ranged Multiattack Damage •
3pointsperrank
MICRO-MISSILES
The array can represent multiple settings on a single
weapon—such as a blaster with direct and wide-beam
applications, or with different Damage descriptors
like laser and electricity—or it can represent the total
weapon capabilities of the armor, limited by things like
power usage and operator attention. An armor array
might even include non-offensive powers, if it repre-
sents management of the armor’s power or processing
capacity.
Your armor can fire explosive micro-missiles from an
arm-, shoulder-, or chest-mounted launcher. Although
the default effect of this weapon is Damage, see the
Gre-
nades and Explosives
section of
Chapter 7
of the
Hero’s
Handbook
for some potential Alternate Effects.
A micro-missile might have partial ranks of Burst Area
for three “tiers” of Damage: full Damage to the target of
a successful attack check, Burst Area Damage to nearby
targets in the blast radius, and half Burst Area Damage to
targets in the blast radius who make a successful Dodge
check.
Offensive armor powers can also make use of the Variable
Descriptor extra (
Hero’sHandbook,
page 145) to have dif-
ferent “settings” that are the same effect (such as Damage)
with different descriptors (such as fire, laser, impact, and
radiation, for example).
Micro-Missiles:
Burst Area Ranged Damage •
3pointsperrank
BLASTER
SURFACE SHOCK
The most basic type of armor weapon: a straightforward
ranged blasting attack. The attack may originate from
the armor’s gauntlets or arms, shoulder-mounted pods,
or from the chest-plate or helmet, depending on the de-
You electrify the exterior surface of your armor such that
anyone touching it gets a nasty shock, good for throwing
off grabs and gangs of minions.
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LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM
Surface Shock:
Affliction (Resisted and Overcome by Fortitude;
Dazed, Stunned, Incapacitated), Reaction (when touched) •
4
pointsperrank
The next most common defensive power for armor after
the protection it affords is some type of built-in life
support or sealed system, allowing the armor’s wearer
to operate in virtually any hostile environment. Some
power-armor is customized for particular environments,
such as aquatic, arctic, or deep space, with lesser ranks
of Immunity.
Alternate Effects of this power may include enough
voltage to do Damage or a version using another medium,
such as super-heating or cooling the armor’s surface.
Surface Shock:
Damage, Reaction (when touched) •
4points
perrank
The Gamemaster may wish to require a lower rank of Im-
munity, or permit the Quirk (missing some Immunities, –1
point each) for a Life Support System that does not cover
certain things, such as still requiring the armor’s wearer to
rest or resist diseases or poisons that manage to penetrate
the armor’s outer shell.
STRENGTH ENHANCEMENT
Your armor has a strength-enhancing exoskeleton, a
strength-reinforcing force field, or some similar system,
greatly magnifying your normal strength. Generally,
this Strength Enhancement affects all aspects of your
Strength rank, although some armor has ranks limited to
slow, sustained applications of Strength, essentially with
the Limited to Lifting modifier (see
Power-Lifting
,
Hero’s
Handbook,
page 123).
Life Support System:
Immunity 10 (Life Support) •
10points
MIND SHIELD
Your armor is attuned to aid you in resisting mental attacks
(generally Will resisted effects with a mental, psionic, or
psychic descriptor; see the
Mental Powers
profile).
A truly massive suit of armor may provide Permanent
and Innate ranks of Growth instead of or in addition to
Strength Enhancement.
Strength Enhancement:
Enhanced Strength •
2pointsperrank
Mind Shield:
Enhanced Impervious Will, Limited to Mental
Effects •
1pointperrank
DEFENSIVE POWERS
The primary power of armor is defensive, although differ-
ent suits of armor protect their wearers in different ways
and to different degrees.
Alternately, your armor’s systems might “screen out”
some specific mental effect or from mental influences in
general. If your armor only partially filters such things,
Limit the Immunity to half effect.
ARMOR
Mind Shield:
Immunity 5 (one mental power, such as psychic
mind control) or Immunity 10 (all psychic or psionic mental
powers) •
5or10points
The most basic armor power is its namesake: protection
against external sources of damage and injury. Some
powered armor is reinforced, shrugging off minor attacks
altogether, represented by ranks of the Impervious modi-
fier (see
Impervious Options
, following).
IMPERVIOUS OPTIONS
Armor often has the Impervious modifier (
Hero’sHand-
book,
page 141) applied to one or more of its defenses,
particularly Toughness.
For those who prefer an alternative to the game system
for Impervious Defense given in the M&M
Hero’sHand-
book,
consider one of the following options:
•
Limit Impervious ranks to no more than the series
power level (to limit their use in defense trade-offs
against power level limited attacks).
•
Impervious Defense ignores effects with a rank less
than its own (rather than equal to or less than half
its rank). You may wish to double the modifier’s cost
in this case.
•
When rolling resistance checks using an Impervi-
ous Defense, add 10 to a roll of 1–10, like spending
a hero point on a re-roll.
•
Make resistance checks normally but, if the effect
rank is less than your Impervious rank, reduce any
degree of failure by one; zero degrees of failure
counts as one degree of success.
Armor:
Protection •
1pointperrank
FORCE FIELD
Rather than armor plating or similarly protective materi-
als, power armor may protect the wearer by generating
a powerful force field. Descriptors vary from electromag-
netic to magical or even cosmic.
For some suits, the force field is effectively permanent in
duration: as long as the armor is worn and operating, its
defenses are “up”. Others may have continuous or sustained
duration force fields capable of greater mutability (usable
for stunts) but also subject to being shut-down under cir-
cumstances where the effect cannot be maintained. Note
that a permanent force field may have the Noticeable mod-
ifier (if the field glows brightly, for example), while non-per-
manent fields are noticeable by default.
Force Field:
Protection •
1pointperrank
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SENSORY SHIELD
ticated anti-gravity systems or magical flight capabili-
ties. These may have a rank of the Subtle modifier, being
almost silent in use.
Filters and baffles in your armor, particularly in the helm
or faceplate, are designed to shield your senses from
overload due to outside stimuli. This allows you to largely
ignore things like blinding light, deafening noise, nause-
ating odors, and so forth.
Thrusters:
Flight •
2pointsperrank
TUNNELING
If your armor only partially filters such things, Limit the Im-
munity to half effect (changing the cost to 3 points).
Armor designed for underground exploration might have
the ability to tunnel through soil and bedrock, using built-
in drills, digging lasers, or similar devices. Perhaps the
entire suit becomes a “tunneling machine” of sorts that
“flies” through earth and solid rock!
Sensory Shield:
Immunity 5 (Sensory Affliction Effects) •
5points
perrank
MOVEMENT POWERS
Power-armor may be equipped with propulsion systems,
allowing the wearer to move quickly in a number of dif-
ferent ways. Multiple propulsion systems may be bundled
together as an array of different movement powers.
Tunneling:
Burrowing •
1pointperrank
UTILITY POWERS
As mentioned under
Features
, power armor often has a
wide range of different utilities and devices built into it.
AQUATIC TURBINES
COMBAT COMPUTER
Powerful turbines deploy from your armor to propel you
underwater.
Computer systems in your armor analyze combat situa-
tions and potential threats and offers a variety of options,
even exerting some subtle influence over your move-
ments and actions to allow you to deal with unexpected
situations faster than having to think about them.
Aquatic Turbines:
Swimming •
1pointperrank
LEG HYDRAULICS
Combat Computer:
Enhanced Advantages (choose from
Assessment, Close Attack, Favored Opponent (previously
assessed), Improved Initiative, Ranged Attack, and
Uncanny Dodge) plus Enhanced Defense (Dodge and
Parry) •
1pointperrankofEnhancedAdvantages+1point
perrankeachofEnhancedDodgeandParry
Powerful hydraulic or other strength-enhancing devices
in the lower body of your armor greatly enhance your
leaping ability, allowing you to jump great distances.
Leg Hydraulics:
Leaping •
1pointperrank
LIMB EXTENDERS
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
Your armor features a comm system, allowing you to
communicate, usually via radio or cellular link, with
maximum range determined by its effect rank. Scram-
bled or encrypted communication systems apply the
Subtle modifier. This system is powerful and self-con-
tained, for the simple ability to tap into existing CB or
cellular communications, add an appropriate Feature
(cell phone or radio).
The arms and legs of your armor can telescope, extending
many times their normal length, controlled remotely by
you. This allows you to rise up on stilt-like legs or reach out
with extended arms to grab or attack.
Limb Extenders:
Elongation •
1pointperrank
SKATES
Comm System:
Radio Communication •
5pointsperrank
Roller skate wheels (or in-line skates) deploy on command
from the boots of your armor, allowing you to zip along
the ground. Your skates may even be rocket powered,
letting you move
really
fast! Unpowered skates should be
limited to around Speed 3, while rocket-powered or mag-
netic skates could be up to rank 7 or 8!
SENSORS
Power armor often comes equipped with sensor devices,
feeding into displays in the armor’s visor or helmet. Low-
light and Darkvision are particularly common, but virtu-
ally any Senses effect with an appropriate descriptor may
be included in power armor’s sensor package.
Skates:
Speed •
1pointperrank
THRUSTERS
Sensors:
Senses •
1pointperrank
The most common power-armor movement effect in-
volves rockets or other thrusters, allowing the wearer to
fly. Some types of armor may have even more sophis-
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OTHER POWERS
“Power armor” or, even more broadly, “power suit” can be
a descriptor for virtually
any
sort of power, simply saying
the power resides in the suit rather than the wearer. So, for
example all of the various fire powers (see
Power Profile:
Fire Powers
) could also be armor powers for a suit of “fire-
generating” armor, equipped with flamethrowers, able
to project a fiery aura, and so forth. Throw magic or alien
super-science into the mix, and you can even have super-
suits providing mental or mystical powers!
tion, such as armor intended for a faithful champion of
justice faltering when the wearer doubts his mission or
performs an unworthy deed.
RELATIONSHIP
Sophisticated high-tech armor might require a “support
staff” or “ground crew” to assist with its maintenance and
even operation. Such a helpful relationship may qualify as
a Benefit advantage, particularly if the ground crew has
useful skills or insights. Where the complication comes
into play is when members of the support staff develop
their own agendas or manage to get in over their heads,
and the hero has to come charging to the rescue.
ARMOR COMPLICATIONS
A number of complications can stem from wearing, using,
and maintaining a suit of power armor. Cutting-edge tech-
nology (or mysterious magic), power armor may come
with various known and unknown “bugs” or side-effects.
REPUTATION
It’s fairly easy for an armored character to get a reputa-
tion, one which may be attached as much to the armor
as to the person inside of it. For example, a hero who
adopted an infamous suit of military armor once used
in wartime might have to deal with the atrocities asso-
ciated with the armor, even though someone else was
using it at the time.
DISABILITY
A common concept is the armor that compensates for
some disability, such as giving an otherwise paraplegic
wearer the ability to walk, or a blind wearer the ability to
see (or some compensatory sense, like sonar imaging). In
essence, the character still has a disability, but the occa-
sions when it comes into play are dependent on whether
or not the armor is available and functioning normally
(see
Power Loss
, following).
RIVALRY
Power-armor is specialized technology (or rare magic or
the like) so armored characters often have enemies or
rivals with similar devices. For example, the inventor of
a suit of armor might have a rival who developed similar
technology but claims to have invented it first. The rivalry
between Ultramarine and Steelhead in the
EmeraldCity
setting is another example: step-siblings who each wear
a prototype aquatic armor design.
The flip-side of this is armor that
causes
some type of dis-
ability when it is worn and used. For example, the armor
might greatly reduce the wearer’s sense of touch, making
it nearly-impossible to feel anything outside of it, or it may
restrict the wearer’s senses apart from the armor’s own
sensor inputs.
SECRET
IDENTITY
Along with identity (see previous) armor wearers can have
various secrets, ranging from a troubled past to secrets
concerning the armor itself, where it came from, and how
it works. For example, perhaps the “maverick inventor”
who uses his power armor to fight crime is in fact a mili-
tary test-pilot posing as an independent to test a govern-
ment prototype in plain sight, or witnessed the death of
the real inventor of the armor and now uses it to try and
make things right.
A full-body suit of armor is an excellent means of conceal-
ing one’s identity. While most superheroes have to make
do with flimsy masks and changes of clothes or hair color,
an armored hero conceals virtually everything, possibly
including voice (filtered or distorted) and race, sex, or
species! (See
Armor Features
for armor this concealing.)
POWER LOSS
WEAKNESS
This is the primary complication associated with armor
powers. Under different circumstances, the armor may
fail, suffer damage, run out of power, or otherwise stop
working. This can be due to damage suffered in combat or
the course of adventuring, or other circumstances chosen
by the player and the Gamemaster. For example, getting
hit by a falling power cable may short-out or damage
armor systems, or they may be affected by radiation, elec-
tromagnetic interference, sunspots, or what have you.
Magical armor may likewise suffer power loss due to shifts
in the cosmic currents or changes in the wearer’s condi-
Power armor may have or cause weaknesses for the
wearer. Other than potential power loss (see
Power Loss
),
armor weaknesses may include a vulnerability to electrical
or magnetic attacks, vulnerability to technology-influenc-
ing effects (like a computer virus or a machine-controlling
villain), or even things like additional degrees of effect
from sensory attacks due to the armor’s sensor feeds or
the like. As usual, when the weakness comes into play, the
armor’s wearer gets a hero point.
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