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Real Name: Hobie Brown
Occupation: Professional technician, occasional adventurer
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Bronx, New York
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Mindy (wife)
Base of Operations: Long Island
Past Group Affiliations: None
Known Powers:
None
Equipment:
Claws: The Prowler wears gauntlets made of an Incredible strength rank material. He uses them to scale verti cal stone and concrete surfaces (climbing with Good ability), leaving large holes where he has passed. The claws inflict Remarkable Edged damage.
Flechettes: The wrists of his gauntlets are capable of firing sharp-tipped, diamond-shaped, metal flechettes. They inflict Good Ranged Edged damage. Hobie only fires one flechette per turn and seeks to disarm instead of kill.
Gas: The wrists of his gauntlets also contain gas canisters capable of fir ing a variety of gases including:
- Remarkable potency knockout gas. Victims must make an Endur ance FEAT or be knocked uncon scious for 1-10 turns; a Red FEAT is required if Endurance is less than Remarkable, a Yellow FEAT if Endurance is Remarkable or higher.
- Weakness gas that affects all stats by —1 CS (health is not af fected). An Endurance FEAT is re quired to resist, with the same modifiers as the knockout gas.
- Compressed air blast (Remark able damage).
- Obscuring fog in one area (— 4CS to attempts to spot, fog lasts 1-10 turns). Prowler uses this to escape.
Weakness:
If a powerful telepath can psionically contact and awaken Matthew’s personality, Matthew may battle Anthony for bodily control (using Psyche as a Slugfest attack).
Talents:
Prowler has Martial Arts B.
Contacts:
Prowler has connections with Spider-Man. He has been offered work from the Silver Sable, but it remains to be seen if he’ll take it.
Role-Playing Notes:
Hobie Brown was a determined young kid when he first wore the Prowler suit. Now he is older and doesn’t feel the urge to adventure as strongly as he once did. Hobie is devoted to his friends, and is willing to put himself at risk for them. Brown is a talented inventor and might be a source of gadgets for player characters.
History:
Hobie Brown was a talented kid to whom no one would listen. Despite his obvious talent at design and invention, people looked down on him whenever he suggested something new and innovative. Instead of getting work where his talents were useful, he was a window washer. Finally, to prove his ability, he turned to crime. He designed a costume with a number of tricks and went out to steal the payroll of The Daily Bugle as the Prowler. His plan was to return the money as Hobie Brown, and be come a hero—and most important of all, to impress his girlfriend, Mindy.
The Prowler’s foray into the criminal world was a disaster. He was caught stealing the payroll by Peter Parker, the alter-ego of the Amazing Spider-Man. During the confrontation, Parker was accidentally sent hurtling through a window, and used his spider powers to save himself. Brown, on the other hand, was left in anguish, thinking that he was a murderer.
In order to redeem himself, Brown lured Spider-Man to a fight at a jewelry store, hoping to defeat him. He didn’t. When Spider-Man unmasked him and heard Brown’s story, he let him go, believing that the Prowler was through with crime. Brown eventually married his love, Mindy, and settled down to a professional career. He has not entirely abandoned the Prowler identity; once he even applied with the Defenders, but these days he only becomes the Prowler when his friends are threatened.
Recently when Spider-Man was accused of theft by The Daily Bugle during Silver Sable’s efforts to incriminate criminal recluse Winston Walker, Prowler teamed up with Rocket Racer to exonerate him, and ended up in battle against the Sandman. The battle was finally cut short by Spider-Man, and Prowler was offered freelance work with Silver Sable’s organization.