This is such a good GR. Including the motorcycle bystander is par excellence. Your take on Penance Stare is the best representation of this power to date and a neat mechanism to boot.

I do agree with Jaysol, the bike's speed power should have added, "takes damage from an attack"

That aside, this guy is really, really freakin' good. Well done sir.

I feel like it's curbed significantly by the fact that it can never come back once it's destroyed. One solid hit of 3 damage will take the Hellcycle out of play and leave Ghost Rider a Ghost Pedestrian.

whoops, "...from an attack" should have been in there. thanks for the correction
thank you, kindly. I wanted an emphasis on ghost rider himself and not just his bike, so this take seemed fun, and it seems we should have a hellcycle now that vehicles are a thing.
lol

-10 points for making me reread the vehicle rules. +20 points for a great Johnny; as everyone is saying I love that Penance Stare power. His bike is an interesting strategic option - do you run it around as a one-time nuke, or let him ride it as a shield/taxi, waiting for a chance to ram, and accepting Blaze is going to take some damage when it finally wrecks?

At 60 he's also surprisingly fearsome - Invincible means he's going to most likely have to at least be double-tapped, which means lots of Mystic damage, and he has a ton of healing and even more reducers down the dial to keep on hammering away at folks.

Yeah is disproportionately complicated to how much it is used, but there's some fun potential tial there. Glad you like the rookie and Tha KS for highlighting the 60pt option. Between his steal energy, his own take on the champions and that click of invince, he should give his opponents plenty of opportunities to taste that mystics ta. I enjoyed the opportunity to drop his defense to a 16 start to balance his heavier reducer for the cost and it let me ramp his end defense for staying power.

Btw, most of his flavor text is bike jargon

#cc026 Veteran Darkstar
Real Name: Laynia Petrovna
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 7
Points: 90/60/30
Keywords: Champions, Grandmaster's Pawns, Soldier, Soviet Super-Soldiers, Winter Guard, X-Corporation

9 10 17 3

10 10 17 3

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11 10 17 3

10 9 17 3

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10 9 18 2

9 9 17 2

8 8 16 1

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

(+5)Soviet Siblings: UNIQUE MODIFIER - If Darkstar is adjacent to a friendly character named Vanguard, they both modify their defense values by +1.
Champions: Whenever an opposing character is KO'd, place a square of hindering terrain within 1 square of each friendly character with the Champions keyword.
Dark Blast
Dark Dimensional Jump: Darkstar can use Phasing/Teleport, carrying up to 3 friendly characters. After actions resolve, you may instead give her action token to a carried character.
Mistress of Shadows
Catapult
Darkfield
Shadow Shaping: If Darkstar occupies hindering terrain, she and adjacent friendly characters can use Stealth. Otherwise, she and adjacent friendly characters can use Energy Shield/Deflection.
Black Shield
Wall
Worker For The People
Darkforce Constructs
Socialism

Again you show you mastering of the craft in you tier design. Each level so appropriate for their cost.

Both special powers are extremely nice. The ability to give another character the action token is just cool. So is the Stealth/ESD ability.

#cc027 Veteran Vanguard
Real Name: Nicolai Krylenko
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 5
Points: 75
Keywords: Death's Minions, Soldier, Soviet Super-Soldiers, Winter Guard

8 10 18 3

9 11 17 3

8 10 16 3

7 10 16 2

7 9 17 2

6 9 17 2

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

(+5)Soviet Siblings: UNIQUE MODIFIER - If Vanguard is adjacent to a friendly character names Darkstar, they both modify their attack values by +1.
Servant of The State
Mutant Power
Hammer And Sickle: Vanguard can use Flurry. When he does, he may use Blades/Claws/Fangs with the second attack.
Opposing Force: Vanguard can use Super Senses, increasing his result by +1 for each action token on him. When an opposing character misses him with an attack, they are dealt knockback equal to their printed damage value after actions resolve.
Force Field
Socialism
Winter Guard
Hammer Toss

That is an elegant Vanguard, I've shuffled some ideas for the Soviet Super Soldiers around, but your take on the siblings is outstanding.

BCF on second flurry attack = Nice!
Knock back opponents that miss = super nice!

Finally getting some new Soviet Super Soldiers that are worth a damn = priceless.

Thanks, going for another cheap distilled essence for the rookie, the now standard 60 option all the champions have and a flexed vet that was attempting to not just retread the CA version. The taxi ability came from the idea that the tropics trips through Darkforce dimension tends to take it out of others, so why not let someone else take the burden of the trip, especially a support piece, enabling her to take another trip sooner than later

All total, the champions played together have cause for celebration each time they score a ko, cause that's going to have a huge game swinging effect with all their cumulative disparate effects. Makes it worth overextending to get that killing blow
Thank you, kindly. He was designed in tandem with his sister, so it felt fitting to debut him shortly after so the synergy is more apparent. On top of everything else, he can get esd and +1 defense from darkstar, making his opposing force all the more formidable
Thanks! The hammer & sickle effect was rather simple, but a nice little flavor perk, and the more of those to a dial, the better, I say. The opposing force seemed the simplest way to affect defensive kb without over complication, so I'm glad it's going over well.

Mostly I'm surprised this guy still hasn't been made. He's the quintessential commie for crying out loud . Sculpt reference lifted straight from his ohotmu entry

#cc006 Veteran American Eagle
Real Name: Jason Strongbow
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 6
Points: 70
Keywords: Anti-Registration, Archer, Detective, Pilot, Police, Warrior

11 10 18 3

10 11 17 3

9 10 17 3

8 10 17 3

8 9 16 2

7 9 16 2

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

An Eagle from America!
Strongbow
Grappling Hook
Champion of The Navajo
True Grit
All Five of Them
See It Coming A Mile Away
All-American
Just a Little Old-Fashioned Justice

That's a nifty American Eagle that I'd want to run on every police team I put together, also a nice surprise for detective teams.

It still amazes me that characters like Vanguard and American Eagle ever got the greenlight. Vanguard especially just kinda came across like an attempt at creating a Russian superhero from somebody who knew nothing about Russia except their flag.

These designs feel very right for the characters, especially Vanguard.

But I still can never help but be a bit "shake my head"ish about superheroes specifically designed around either a loose concept of national identity or around a vague understanding of ethnic culture.

Well Vanguard is supposed to be a propaganda hero, he was a part of a state sponsored super team and he and his friends do rebel against the state. He still uses his hammer and sickle even after losing his position as a state hero because he was trained to concentrate his powers though his foci.

American Eagle did later get some much needed character development and a refocusing into more of a super powered lawman than a traditional superhero. Also he lost the costume....which was probably for the best.