Joseph Glass

[Mergleplex]

Joseph Alexi Teferi

Height: 5'10"
Weight: 154 lbs.
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Brown
Species: Mutant/Mystic

ABILITIES
Intelligence: 5
Strength: 2
Agility: 2
Speed: 2
Durability: 3

Health: 3
Energy: 10

ACTIONS
Close Combat: 4
(Weapon Modifier)
- Hand to Hand
- Knives
- Kendo

Ranged Combat: 4
- Rifle
- Knives

Mastery of Glass: 9
- x2 Damage
- Create/Manipulate Glass
- Absorb/Phase Glass
- One Target Only
- Very Short Range and Line of Sight only.

Art: 6
- Only in conjunction with Mastery of Glass
- Sculpting

Concentration: 7
- No Intelligence Bonus
- Only in conjunction with Mastery of Glass

General Knowledge: 3
- Glassware
- Quantum Mechanics
- Mutants

Hunting: 4
- Wilderness Hunting
- Urban Tracking

Social Skills: 5
- City Night Life
- Socialite
- Streetwise
- Server

Vehicle Operation: 5
- Motorcycle
- Dirt Bike
- Snowmobile
- ATV

Hockey: 4
Skiing: 4
Restaurant Service: 4

MODIFIERS
Limited Prescience; Mastery of Glass
Contracted Legacy v1.3b
. A very rare version of the viroid which affects humans as well as mutants (counting for -15). Thanks to unique physiological differences Joseph does not suffer ill effects of the viroid, and cannot spread it easily (bringing it back down to -10).
Extra Sensitive to Sound:
. Nature of powers causes bodily liquids to become glass upon contact with air, resulting in painfully shattering experiances when introduced to intense vibration.
Mutant:
. Openly a Mutant with society. Appears human.
Won’t Break the Law:
. Not a Do-Gooder, but not evil either. As much as any other citizen of a fine city would be.
Wealth: (0)

EQUIPMENT
Kevlar L.L. Bean Hunting Jacket (+1 Def)
Sunglasses, Leather Gloves, Shitkickers
I.D.
$500 bucks
Various Glass Utensils (darts, blades, marbles, spikes, rods)
Modified Dirt Bike
Description: 1 person, max.
Difficulty to Operate: 1
Resistance to Operate: 2
Defense Modifier: 0
Vehicle Damage: 1
Maneuver Modifier: 5
Speed: 4
Weight: 1
DESCRIPTION
Joseph doesn’t care for being normal. After growing up in the woodlands of Maine and the outskirts of Bangor he realized that normal wasn’t something that really coult be attained. He was born to a moderately wealthy family that had taken into retirement in the prestine woods of the North-East, and for most of his life was a typical young man. He ate, breathed, and slept Hockey for a good portion of his childhood, while later on going into business with a few friends and their families to build a restaurant in the middle of their small town. The establishment took off, and so did Josephs own powers. He was the first recorded Meta-Human to ever have come from Maine, much less Mutant, and surprisingly the intolerance was nowhere to be seen up in ‘the sticks’ as he warmly talks of his home. Somewhat amazing as it may be that an entire culture derived of white-boy rednecks who hunt and get drunk can accept something so different, Joseph and his community had turned into almost the epitome of how life should be outside the sticks. But soon he moved out for the sake of living his own life, Joseph met the intolerance which he had formerly been shielded by. A good-time loving woodsman with the power to manipulate and summon glass wasn’t the strangest mutant, but one which openly shared with the public his abilities and did not seem to fear for an instant was.
Joseph has the power to manipulate and create glass and glass-like objects. He mostly does so in a manner akin to a Telekinetisist, shaping the glass either with his hands or through typical glassblowing methods, though in spite of this he can still create a shape in an instant. As an interesting side-effect from his powers being able to pierce through dimensions and slide a substance from one to another (with an accompanied *Bamf*), Joseph cannot touch Glass or anything related to it. He has a difficult time handling the substance (even if he had created it) for the fact that he phases through such an object without even concious thought. And even if he focuses, the best he can do it repel the glassware away from him. Aside from creating one of the most underrated substances known to man Joseph has a keen eye for detail and very good aim; which is made up for by never bothering with practice.
Joe just wants to find a place to work where he can use his powers for something other then bongs and pipes. With his former expertise in the restaurant business back at home, the best thing he can come up with is finding a good job in a bar or café, and trying like hell to keep the Metahumans from tearing it up…

[psistrike]

Okay I didn't read your whole background on the character and everything looks good except one major thing.You list more then 9 Actions for the character which goes against the rules of the game book.
His Restaurant Service Action could simply be a specialization of his Social Skills Action,

[Mergleplex]

And I've been thinking of that very fact the entire time I've been cleaning my house and waiting to head to work at five. But, there is a key point to his having more then 9 Actions, one which I've been dying to argue with someone..

Ya see, in my games, all of the players had to read over the rules and tell me line-for-line how they made their characters. So they went ahead and did so, rumbling around the two availible books and making a few new Actions to boot. Overall, my players made a good switch from D&D 3.5 to MURPG, and even made some very original characters.
But there was a hitch. Each player asked me about the nine action total, something to the effect of "Do you really want a Front-Line Mutant with a 9 in Strength, 8 in Durability, and still looking to squeeze five white stones into one of his already obscene powers?" I run a game where the players are somewhat high powered in the sense that everyone else can still kick their rears. In my small divergance from the typical Marvel Universe I've thrown in Morlocks living on the streets like gangs of homeless, Metahumans making up 35% of the population, and all of the Supers in the books being only shadows to what they really even out to be.

Take Venom for instance. Venom is the most poorly done character in the entire book, not even getting a portion of the power he honestly had at hand. He can't fudge leaping at someone and morphing into a massive set of jaws to crush and eat the villain as a standard attack. He can't throw in the fact that he can become liquid and even sustain being hit by a speeding train.

Carnage in this ruleset becomes a massive menagerie of Modifiers that all mimic Claws, Toughness, and Tendrils. He's on the same level as Green Lantern, even though you really can't make GL in MU without giving him 100 White Stones and Mastery of [glow=green,2,300]Green-Stuff[/glow].


It seemed to be a balance issue in the game that worked rather well, until my players made their characters. I was sick for a day afterwards, considering that with so little space for them to work with, they almost instantly had to assign their major powers and throw maybe a few red stones into a few social and knowledge pieces. Then they were still over the limit for Actions. So I expanded, telling them that the limit is at 12 for the time being, and if they need to go over the limit then I'll throw them down such an evil path that they'll hate me more as a MU DM then they ever did as a D&D DM.

Mind you, my roomate is also DMing a few sessions of MU. Joseph is the character I use there, and it was the first character we made. Period. This is version 7.5 of the character after implimenting a bunch of rules and doing a bunch of tests, and sure enough he can still hold his own. Back when he had 3's in all of his Abilities he still got mopped by everything my DM threw at me. That's something, considering I'm a vicious Min/Maxer on top of it.


And as a final little bit, this v7.5 of Joseph Glass has a v7.5b to use, one that has increated knowledge and Social Skills instead of the last three Actions which set him over the limit. If anything, he's made with the house rule "9 Super-Actions, and Yes, Ninja is a Super-Action. Everything flavor- and social-wise is uneffected by the number of actions."