matt <iamafrayed@gmail.com>: Sep 12 09:01AM -0700
There is more than psi out there... how about entangle him? does he have to
breathe? throw him in the water... grapple him... "Magneto" shows up and
tears the armor off him. Now he has to spend time and resources (money) to
make a new armor.
That 3rd motivation, that's pretty weak. Is he like a Tony Stark?Does he
have a company? or is everything in his basement? His tech can be stolen
easily.
How about a bad guy with his armor? Or a bunch of bad guys with weaker
version of his armor?
You can have 1 out of 5 adventures dealing with him. Rotate between the
players so you are not 'showing favortism' or having one player in the
spotlight too much. Or you can mess with him as the subplot in each
session.
"Getting civilians killed infront of him and have the bad guys steal his
tech feel like cheating to him,"
If he doesn't want his disadvantages to be used against him then change
them. But they are supposed to used against him, that's the whole point...
they make the game better/more fun/interesting/etc.
On Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 6:36:20 AM UTC-7, Winstar wrote:
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Mark DiPasquale <mrbasselope@gmail.com>: Sep 12 11:06AM -0500
A handful of ideas:
- Knockback, strong opponents, and enemies who manipulate the
environment. Just because he's nigh-invulnerable to harm doesn't mean you
can't toss him around, use him as a bludgeon, bury him under rubble,
destroy the floor underneath him, throw him out a window, drop him in a
lake, or prevent him from getting to something important.
- Conflicts that aren't about who-beats-who-down-first. This guy is
telling you, as hard as he can mechanically, that he wants his character to
be impervious to direct harm. Give him that! Then put him into chases, in
the middle of heists, in situations with multiple simultaneous threats that
he has to triage between, or up against opponents equally impervious and
see what he comes up with to deal with a mirror-match. A good nemesis for
this sorta hero isn't a harmer like Cyclops, or a tank like Colossus, it's
somebody like Shadowcat or Nightcrawler who he can't catch.
- Foils or antagonists who are trying to make a better world through
technology, just like he is. Hell, make some of them genuinely altruistic.
It's not just about making the world better for him, it's about making it
better *his* way with *his* tech, so give him competition, people who
want to do it better, do it differently, do it using resources he also
wants or at costs he's not willing to pay. What if the bad guys don't go
after his tech, but after someone else's instead, because they think it's
better?
- Paranoia's easy to ratchet up on this'n. Does he have friends/allies?
Have enemies try to bribe them to steal his stuff, then escalate when they
refuse out of loyalty. Give him stalkers like reporters, former colleagues,
and rival researchers trying to record him in action so they can
back-engineer his armor, and when they get in trouble because they followed
him into conflict, that's one more thing for him to need to stay on top of.
Give him friendly allies who want him to share his tech with them just this
one time, and who then try to share it with less-trustworthy
friends-of-friends or enemy agents.
- His last two motivations are quietly in conflict: anywhere he makes
the world better with his tech is a target where enemies can get a hold of
it later on.
- He cares about his armor: even if you can't hurt it, you can mess with
it cosmetically. Cover him in sticky gunk or webbing, paint or tar,
foul-smelling substances or perfumes. Be careful with this one, I guarantee
it'll tick him off.
Anyhow, hope some of that helps.
-M
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