thank you, kindly. this is one that's been floating around in the back of my head ever since wwe came out. seems like a perfect match of material and is probably only a matter of time before the powers that be run with it for its crossover appeal alone. i'm just trying to beat them to the punch

but yeah, i'm burnt out, so this'll be my last one. i just really don't enjoy the direction the game is going in and i don't want to design around it. so instead of being frustrated, i'm going to simply step away. it's also why i'm posting 2 dials a day instead of my usual tempo of 1 so as not to draw it out. maybe if the game reverses course and heads back to the robust and rich design milieu we had before the madness set in, and maybe if power creep leap actually reverses, but til then i'll be fading off into the sunset with good memories and more clix than i'll ever have time to play in my obsolete format

so, here's to POWERBOMB! i hope it'll be a fun ride. it sure was fun to design ...and redesign as i kept cramming more dials, concepts and subthemes in here to make the most of it

#ucwf052 Scarlet Spider
Real Name: Kaine Parker
Team: Spider-Man
Range: 5
Points: 70
Keywords: New Warriors, Spider-Man Family, Animal, Assassin, Brute, Monster

11 10 18 3 1

10 11 17 3 2

9 10 17 3 3

8 10 18 1 4

8 9 17 1 5

7 9 16 1 6

KO KO KO KO 7

KO KO KO KO 8

KO KO KO KO 9

KO KO KO KO 10

KO KO KO KO 11

KO KO KO KO 12

웃: █, OO>
All Of The Power, None Of The Responsibility: Perplex, but Scarlet Spider cannot modify other friendly characters. // Scarlet Spider cannot be healed.
Signature Move: The Mark Of Kaine: Pin. FREE: If Scarlet Spider has 1 action token, Exploit Weakness at no cost but only to target a character he hit with an attack on your last turn. Scarlet Spider cannot be given a costed action this turn.
A Second Chance: Probability Control, but he may only target himself or characters attacking him. POWER: Turn Scarlet Spider to click #4.
Dying From The Day He Was Created
With Great Power Also Comes The Ability To Rain Down Hell On Those Would Prey On The Weak
Organic Webs
My "We Should Break His Face" Sense Is Tingling
Sting Of Kaine
A Genetic Clone Of Peter Parker
I'm Not Spider-Man
A Lab Experiment Gone Wrong
Spider-Man Can't Talk To Spiders

Dang, I like this Kaine.

All Of The Power, None Of The Responsibility, this captures Kaines ethos ( grumpy and pessimistic though it is ) and sets up A Second Chance very well.

Which brings me to the all scarlet click four and his ability to return to it. What a fun mechanic, always keeping him on the edge of KO. Very suspenseful, I love that feeling of skirting the edge.

My "We Should Break His Face" Sense Is Tingling, this is the most Kaine flavor text ever. Bravo for working it in!

I really like that opening click, like a punch in click form. Kaine has one job and he means to be about it.

hahaha, yeah, he's the living embodiment of a grumpy old man. his ethos is completely flipped, but despite himself he's too much peter parker to not still do good. but just don't expect it next time! he says next time...


on the opening click kaine has some extra reach with that 11 charge (that can be perplexed up for an amazing 7 move) to really get out there and grab a heavy and introduce it to someone with a case of the P.O.s why that's not a good idea . simple bruiser start with the bf and strength lets him do the work simply with the tricks to come. i also incorporated the bf as the counter to his printed range. it's really there for the rce surprise that i absolutely 100% put in there for the cheesy all-scarlet click but serves to represent his fantastically creeptastic ability to summon spiders to crawl all over you . so, til then he gets the thematic grump in full form and it all comes together. the printed dmg values dropping to 1 when bf goes bye-bye offset by the bcf to help him feel like he's fighting for his life as he hangs by a wall-crawling finger onto the edge, as you say. i'd go on about the second chance/all of the power setup, but you hit it perfectly on the head

the mark of kaine was one of those things that comes up in a set design that just gets to gel with everything else vibing around. in avengers forever i got tons of venn diagram overlaps surprisingly in the subthemes. here, i've got a non-wrestling inclusion in a wrestling set where someone actually has a signature move that would just so happen to work quite well with the mechanics involved. and the continued penetrating dmg from the pin roll helps to make it feel like the lingering tssss of his grip. i put it as an SP instead of a to keep it a bit fairer given the FREE and since he doesn't have blue click numbers to be pinned in return. originally it was just an SP, but i was like, dang, man, it's right there. so i added signature move to the title and slipped in the Pin. i thought about it well after the fact, but was like, "now or never" and i'm glad i went for it. it helps the set to feel more included to me

"Leave Me Alone" is a great power for what it represents. She's got a nice dial for 45 pts. I like the top click of SC for the extra defense to allow her to push onto that nice 11 attack with PP. She is a great partner for old Ben too.

I always felt bad for Sharon. She was a fun and interesting character in Thing's comic, but when she moved onto the FF, she changed for the worse (literally and metaphorically). Her character was just never written the same after they ended the thing's series. Of course, the FF had gone to pot after Byrne's run, so I guess no one was being written very well.

What a great story this was. His pride gets him turned into an alligator. Somehow as a kid I saw him ending up as a gator living in the zoo as a happy ending??

The dial does a great job of reflecting this transformation. The exploit weakness is nice. I like the slam attack up top. Makes a nice set up for the EW.

fair and fair. she got a rough hand dealt to her. and the f4 wasn't at it's best after byrne. but tbf, the dramatic shift in her character came during cap's run and run-in with the power broker. when he dropped her off on the f4's doorstep, she was already damaged. it was just a downhill run from there for the poor thing. her understandable but unfortunate misandry is dialed in with the gender-specific triggers. fortunately for us, the genre of the superhero is full of the kind of names that makes this easier to design

after her case of mistaken identity on the top click, i give her the stat boost for when she's loosened up and ready to work and her varied work history gets to provide the longest flavor text ever ever ever ever . then her stats drop off modestly, but she's packing perplex and we all know how that goes. it should serve to keep her dmg up and stack potently when facing off against mr wrong.
yeah, shoot in and flip 'em. follow up with a chomp. rinse and repeat or go for the big slap. top dial i wanted his humanity showing and the skills to take centerstage. then he gets less tricksy and more eatsy as he deteriorates.

i love that kid reno saw that as a happy ending . man, we were conditioned with some wild stuff in children's programing back in the day, so i don't blame you. then again, the concept of him wrestling forever probably appealed, so who knows. i find it wilder that he wasn't a one-and-done but of all characters was surprisingly pulled from the depths of limbo to show up in a marvel boy throwdown in a compilation title and then to be part of a rando villain team tangling with nightcrawler at a circus. i guess that story stood out to other kids, too, that happened to grow up into writers


gator grant was knowingly a deep cut (well, i guess not so deep after all ) but my proclivities aside sets should have deep cuts into their primary theme to help make the set more distinct and give depth and fresh breath to the game as a whole. here's to deep rosters, my friend

#ucwf107 Nova
Real Name: Sam Alexander
Team: Police
Range: 7
Points: 25
Keywords: Avengers, Champions, New Warriors, Nova Corps, Cosmic, Police

9 10 17 3

8 10 17 3

7 9 16 3

0 5 0 0

0 4 0 0

0 3 0 0

0 2 0 0

0 1 0 0

9 11 18 3

10 10 18 2

11 10 17 2

KO KO KO KO

Curfew: When this power is revealed, after resolutions place Nova in your Sideline. // SIDELINE ACTIVE: If there are no friendly characters on the map, Nova is KO'd. At the beginning of your turn, deal Nova 1 click of unavoidable damage.
We Can Do This! We Can Win!: Probability Control. Nova cannot be healed passed this click. // SIDELINE ACTIVE: When this power is first revealed, place Nova in your opponent's starting area.
If You Ever Come Up Against A Villain That's Invulnerable To Bouncing, You Can Give Me A Call
You're Trying To Punch Me? Wow. You Know I'm Called, Like, The Human Rocket, Right?
Yep. You Know What's Coming Next, Right?
It Involves Butts And Kicking
Practice Makes Painful
I'm Not Really Interested In Fighting Fair With A Bully
I Am The Help
Will Someone Just Call Me Nova For Once?!

What a fun take on Sam, that's 25 points that isn't going to be wasted.

He makes a great disposable taxi that can either be pushed to sideline or used as a tie-up or blocker for whoever he was carrying and then if you're lucky he'll come from behind to catch your opponent unaware.

If not your opponent isn't going to be scoring those points unless they perform a total team wipe on you.

He does come roaring back onto the map with a corker of a click, Hyper-sonic with some decent range and Prob to back it up isn't anything to sneeze at.

Personally I'd try to hang onto that Prob, but you do make a voluntary push onto RCE tempting.

And the Police TA on top of it all, dang.

initially i was ok with sliding in the subtheme without sam, leaning on his handful of existing clix to cover it down, but then i felt like i could at least make an LE work. along the way, my LE list grew so big it became an honest-to-goodness gravity feed (talk about a throwback, eh?). but at first i wasn't quite sure how i'd do it, but in reading the warriors mini, he's like barely in it. there at first for the team initiation, then totally disappears into his own drama before coming back for the finale. so, i decided to dial that . it certainly helped that the initial conversation between vance, robbie and sam's mom to get him to join included a curfew and mandatory check-ins so thematically it fits even more. despite his small footprint, new warriors made me like sam. i was fairly indifferent on richard's replacement but vol 5 gave him some personality i enjoyed. good banter always helps

but the real reason he's so cheap is because he was the last one i dialed from this lineup and it didn't add up with much room left for him, so i had to come up with some clever way to make a 25pt nova work


initially, he's simple run and gun, a little defense, nothing to write home about. but if he gets his curfew trick pulled off, that back-end return of the cavalry could net a nice swing in your favor as he returns to snag some credit . the sneaky bit here is that it's using countdown mechanics but nothing on the dial says he stops on that [5]. so a foolish (or baited) opponent could wind up hitting him hard and knocking his dial deeper into the curfew only for sam to come out of it quicker

#ucwf034 Debrii
Real Name: Deborah Fields
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 0
Points: 30
Keywords: Initiative, New Warriors, Celebrity

7 10 17 1

7 11 17 1

7 10 17 1

6 10 17 1

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

⦿: █ (Destroy)
Telekinetic Magnet: Telekinesis, but only to make a RANGE Object Action with a light object. FREE: Generate a standard light object in a square of debris terrain within 6 squares and line of fire.
Did I Say Trash?: If Debrii occupies debris terrain, Poison, Perplex, Super Senses.
Great. I Joined The New Warriors To Get Famous, And Now I'm Going Underground With A Bunch of Vigilante Fugitives!
"Unique" Interpersonal Skills
Debrii Was The Only One Pulling Her Weight!
All Right, People! Let's Do This!!
Uh-Uh, That Ain't Gonna Happen To Debrii, No Way!
Doesn't Matter. Whatever It is… Ain't Nothing We Can’t Handle.

Well apparently Deborah is a messy girl and leaves a wake of destruction behind her, but fear not there is a purpose to all her disarray!

Telekinetic Magnet, this makes her feel like a junior Magneto in a fun and easy way.

Did I Say Trash?, dang this is a heck of an opening Defense special, especially when combined with her opening Stealth.

....So she's an "In third person" talker huh?

Oh I imagine her teammates didn't get tired of that!

For thirty points she worth it just to use as a petite bulldozer, clearing the way for her team.

It does appear that she has Boot as her movement symbol on her dial and Wing on her power description and considering she's hovering I'm guessing the Wing is her symbol.

thanks for the symbol catch! i've adjusted it accordingly. you're assumption was acute. deb wasn't annoying to her teammates, she didn't have any! she was forced onto the team by the network and her fb pretty much sums up how well that went over even if she'd been recruited of their own accord. BUT she's the last holdout of a roster (even if it is vol 4...) and she's got a neat power that just marries to clix too well

of course, i had to have some debris interaction to the max, including her to play into it. your estimation of her as a little magneto is pretty spot on as i took inspiration from the still great gsx mags for her design. she gets mad bonuses in terrain-of-the-same-name but is super vulnerable otherwise. the stealth my mention the underground, but it's demonstrating her ability to make a literal particle shield when she's got the fuel to use it. and since she's sitting in stealth, she's gonna need her to not be irrelevant, since the printed 0 range relies heavily on her offensive use of tk (yeah, i said it! wanna fight? ) so she's light on dmg but, in her niche, high on utility with way more annoyance than 30pts should have. just like the character!

#ucwf053 Rage
Real Name: Elvin Haliday
Team: UCWF
Range: 0
Points: 65
Keywords: Avengers, Initiative, New Warriors, Brute

9 10 17 3 1

10 10 18 3 2

9 11 17 3 3

8 10 16 4 4

8 9 16 4 5

7 9 16 3 6

KO KO KO KO 7

KO KO KO KO 8

KO KO KO KO 9

KO KO KO KO 10

KO KO KO KO 11

KO KO KO KO 12

Signature Move: Single-Leg Crab: POWER: If Rage has 1 action token, Submission Hold at no cost. When he uses it, he may instead deal his printed damage value if no character has used Leadership this turn.
--And I Believe In Truth, Justice, And The Dignity Of Man: If a friendly character with a lower point value has been dealt damage this turn, Battle Fury, Empower. Modify Rage's speed +1 for each friendly character with a shared keyword that was dealt damage by an attack since your last turn.
So? You All Gonna Sit And Wait For Orders?!
Or Are We Gonna Start Acting Like Super Heroes?!
I've Got Super-Human Strength…
You Kids Just Run Along Home. There Aren't Going To Be Any More Drugs Sold Out Of This Building.
…I'm Virtually Indestructible--
Nobody Cares If Super-Villains Fight Super Heroes!
That Don't Mean Diddly-Squat To Some Kid In The Inner City…
…I Just Want To Use My Powers To Make Life Better For Mankind
And If You Don't Know It, Most of Mankind Is The Little Guy Who Never Gets The Benefit Of Your Heroics!

#ucwf027 Battlestar
Real Name: Lemar Hoskins
Team: UCWF
Range: 0
Points: 80
Keywords: Bold Urban Commandos, Project Pegasus, S.H.I.E.L.D., UCWF, Wild Pack, Brute, Celebrity, Soldier

8 10 18 3 1

8 11 18 3 2

7 10 17 3 3

7 9 16 3 4

7 9 17 2 5

6 10 18 2 6

KO KO KO KO 7

KO KO KO KO 8

KO KO KO KO 9

KO KO KO KO 10

KO KO KO KO 11

KO KO KO KO 12

Signature Move: Lightning Lemar: If Battlestar has 1 action token, Lightning Speed.
No Zombie Gets Past Me!: STOP. Plasticity. When Battlestar is attacked by a character with the Monster keyword, Impervious.
Try And Stop Me, Powell! I Gots Lots To Prove And Nothin' To Lose!: PROTECTED: Incapacitate, Mind Control. 웃 █, █. FREE: If Battlestar failed a breakaway roll this turn, make a close attack.
Hailing From The City Of Chicago--
A Man Who Was Destined For A Great Career In The UCW Before His Country Came A'Callin'--
I Just Wanted To Do The Best Heel Turn I Could For You
Make Your Comeback As Exciting As Possible
The Best Partner A True American Could Ask For
I Don't Cut And Run
All I'm Askin' Is A Chance To Prove Myself
We're A Team, Man! We Stick Together!
Somebody Asked For Back Up?