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
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Winstar <markos.bdn@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,--
I have one player with just one power: 5HD in hardened HAR and 5HD in hardened LAR, as a focus. It's an armor. This means I need sources of damage getting to roll sets of width 7 just to scratch him. I know I can hit him with psy powers, or once he's out of his armor, but boss fights are becoming meaningless to him when it's a bout physical damage. Yeah, I know it's his only power and that's what he wants but I don't know... it doesn't feel right for the other party members.
I'm not familiar on how to hit his 3 motivations: protect the weak, a better world through his own tech, don't let the bad guys get his tech. Getting civilians killed infront of him and have the bad guys steal his tech feel like cheating to him, as it feels having a psy powered enemy on every fight.
I'd like to know what do you think.
Thank you in advance.
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