Been a week or so since I did a villain writeup, so here's a new one. Actually, old one.
This guy's (these guys?) been showing up in my supers games since the early 80s, but
I'm just now getting to converting him to SCRPG. Comes up pretty faithful to his
original Champions 1st edition incarnation, which is impressive given how very
different the two games are mechanically. And yes, I was inspired to do him when I
randomly rolled a Creator/Loner archetype/approach, which is so silly it made me
smile.
The Brute Squad, Multiplying Muscular Menace
Roger Dreyfus is a former Penn
State football star whose sports career came to a crashing halt when he was caught in a
game-rigging scandal and then, when confronted, manifested his mutant duplication
powers and inhuman strength under stress. He's gone on to become a fairly well-known
minor-league supervillain who specializes in sports-related crimes, particularly
robbing the box offices of soccer events ("It's phony football!"). Roger usually works
"alone" except for a team of duplicates, although with sufficient motivation he'll work
with other villains for short jobs. Definitely not at his best as a team player,
though. His connections to organized crime date back to the cheating scandal, and he'll
sometimes work as super-powered muscle when the price is right, in which case he might
show up alongside some mundane gangers or family soldiers.
Description: A tall,
heavily-built man wearing two-toned black and blue bodysuit with red gloves and boots.
If you give him a a few minutes there'll be a whole bunch of him.
Gender: Male Age: 34
Height: 6'3" Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown Buzzcut Skin: Tanned Caucasian Build: Defensive
Tackle
Approach: Creator Archetype: Loner
Health: 25 + (5 x H)
Powers: Strength d10,
Momentum d8, Vitality d8, Duplication d6
Qualities: Fitness d10, Alertness d8,
Conviction d8, Criminal Underworld Info d8, Disgraced Football Jock d8
Status: (# of
allied villains in scene) 0 - d10 / 1-2 - d8 / 3+ - d6
Abilities:
Blitz (A) Attack
using Strength. Use your Max die. Recover health equal to your Mid + Min dice.
Make
Another Brute (A) Use Duplication to create a lieutenant of the same die size as your
Max die.
Need Some Extra Hands (A) Use Duplication to create a number of minions equal
to the value of your Max die. The starting die size of these minions is the same as the
die size of your Min die.
The Only One That Matters (R) When a non-minion ally in this
scene is defeated, roll your single Conviction die to Boost yourself.
Upgrades &
Masteries (use whenever he's a solo villain):
Group Fighter (I) +20 Health. When you
take an action that lets you make an Attack, also make an Attack using your Mid
die.
Master of Conquest (I) As long as you are in command of your own forces,
automatically succeed at an Overcome to seize an area or capture civilians.
Tactics
The
Brute Squad prefers to sit on the sidelines (sometimes hidden out of sight, even) using
Make Another Brute over and over again to slowly fill the scene with tough duplicates
of himself. As they get knocked out he'll Boost himself with The Only One That Matters,
usually stacking up bonuses for use with Blitz if he needs to get personally involved.
If seriously pressed he'll use Need Some Extra Hands to create a bunch of less-potent
duplicates all at once, but they usually come out all weedy looking and he hates seeing
his other selves like that so he tries to avoid using the ability. When operating
without other villains he should have his Group Fighter upgrade and Master of Conquest
mastery (which uses his duplicates as "forces" there). If involved in a team he usually
lacks either.
His lieutenants are usually exact copies of himself and seem to share his
thoughts and senses, while his minions are frequently much smaller and more lightly
built, with d6 minions being about 5'6" and weighing around a hundred pounds. Without
at least one other self in play his Alertness should drop to a d4 since he lacks the
extra eyes and ears.
He usually pairs Fitness with Duplication and Strength when
building die pools, since his copies draw on his life energies and his fighting style
relies on his ripped physique rather than grace or skill. His Disgraced Football Jock
RP quality gets used for making throwing attacks, intimidating people, quoting sports
statistics, and finding old contacts whether they really want to talk to him or not.
His Conviction is that he'd have been the best football player in history if things had
gone differently, that soccer sucks, and that at the end of the day he's the only
person that really matters in the world. Bit of a sociopathic narcissist, really.
