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(F5) Weapon Tinkering (79-98) The
hero can devise and assemble any weapon that can be made with the available
materials. By means of a red FEAT, the hero can even improvise a means of
creating unavailable materials (adamantium, for example). Provided he has the
resources, the hero can assemble a functional copy of any weapon. As to what
weapons he can make, use the Resource costs listed in the Hardware section of
the Player's Book (pages 42-46). Compare the Power's rank with the cost of the
desired weapon. Equal or lower cost weapons can be created on a green FEAT. A
cost of one to three levels higher requires a yellow FEAT. A cost of four to six
levels higher requires a red FEAT. If the cost of the desired weapon is more
than six levels higher than the hero's Power rank, it is an impossible FEAT.
Example: Dr. Fixit has Excellent Weapons Tinkering and access to his
brother-in-law's junkyard. He wants to build a battle-copter with adamantium
armor. The copter has an Amazing cost. True adamantium has a Shift X cost;
secondary adamantium has an Unearthly cost. Dr. Fixit makes the yellow FEAT; his
copter will work. He doesn't have any adamantium, though, and tries to
improvise. He fails to make a red FEAT; neither batch of "home-brewed"
adamantium worked. Oh well, he can always convert that old boiler he found into
armor plate. When
creating the hero, the player can choose to make the character a
jack-of-all-trades or specialist in a particular field. If he chooses to
specialize, he can raise the rank +2CS. Categories of weapons include:
Needless
to say, the player will have to develop stats for anything he comes up with. If
he successfully copies existing technology, like the Iron Man battlesuit or a
SHIELD Plasma Beam Handgun, he can simply use the established stats for that
device. Weapons Locker (MHAC8) by Epperson and Grubb is a valuable aid to the
player of a hero with this Power. A clever character can also use this Power to
make money off of other characters by building weapons on commission. After all,
somebody's got to be building all those super-weapons that fill the pages of
comic books… |