LLH in the DC Heroes RPG System: Body
Ooo, the Legionnaires have great Bodies!
(gets slapped)
Wait a minute! I clearly meant BODY - the Resistance Value used to resolve physical attacks. "This attribute represents a character's resistance to physical damage." Your Physical RAPs when you're not hurt are equal to your BODY, and if they are reduced to 0 RAP, you are unconscious. If they fall below (-1 x BODY), you are dead...just be thankful that only Killing Combat can reduce you to a negative score.
Benchmarks
1-2. A normal human who is susceptible to normal pain stimuli.
3-4. Body conditioned to withstand moderate damage without great pain. The individual can weather many blunt attacks, as a prizefighter or martial artist.
5-6. The body is conditioned to withstand the greatest amount of physical damage humanly possible. The individual possesses exceptional resistance to fatigue.
7-8. The body can endure attacks from street-level weaponry, such as knives, chains, bats and small-caliber guns. The body has a density equal to a brick wall.
9-10. The body is resilient enough to resist most military weapons, such as high caliber automatic rifles.
11-12. The body can withstand explosives that could demolish a reinforced concrete bunker. Characters with a body in this range literally possess steel-hard skin.
13-15. The body has density ranging from titanium (at a 13) to diamond hardness (at a 15). At this level the character is nearly invulnerable and can easily withstand anti-tank fire.
16-18. The body is virtually indestructible and can withstand highly charged plasma beams and direct hits from powerful demolition bombs.
19-21. At this level, the body is impervious to conventional weaponry save for nuclear munitions.
22-24. At this level, the body can survive the crushing forces of space for extended durations and survive the direct detonation of a multi-kiloton nuclear device.
25-27. Bodies in this range can withstand forces unleashed by gods.
28-30+. The body can resist a direct hit from a 100 megaton nuclear weapons.
Let's see which Legionnaire has the best BODY (gets slapped again).
BODY only
14: Charles
9: Stacy (partially or fully felinoid at max BODY)
8: Julia, Karen
6: Brittany, Mack, Sandi (Fusion), Stacy
5: Trent
4: Fran, Jamie
3: Jane, Quinn, Sandi (normal)
2: Daria, Jodie, Tiffany, Tom
There's a lot of range here. Some Legionnaires can be pretty much knocked out with one punch. Others are a lot more resilient. Part of the reason that Charles and Julia tied in the first Battle Royal was that they had both high DEX scores and high BODY scores, a combination that makes you just about unstoppable.
I've actually changed a few things. We have Sandi and Stacy represented twice, as their BODY scales can adjust due to their powers.
Charles's body undoubtedly comes the the physical mutations that his powers have brought on. He's just a hard guy to beat, both figuratively and literally. He's got a great BODY (well, no one has complained).
(gets slapped)
Wait a minute! I clearly meant BODY - the Resistance Value used to resolve physical attacks. "This attribute represents a character's resistance to physical damage." Your Physical RAPs when you're not hurt are equal to your BODY, and if they are reduced to 0 RAP, you are unconscious. If they fall below (-1 x BODY), you are dead...just be thankful that only Killing Combat can reduce you to a negative score.
Benchmarks
1-2. A normal human who is susceptible to normal pain stimuli.
3-4. Body conditioned to withstand moderate damage without great pain. The individual can weather many blunt attacks, as a prizefighter or martial artist.
5-6. The body is conditioned to withstand the greatest amount of physical damage humanly possible. The individual possesses exceptional resistance to fatigue.
7-8. The body can endure attacks from street-level weaponry, such as knives, chains, bats and small-caliber guns. The body has a density equal to a brick wall.
9-10. The body is resilient enough to resist most military weapons, such as high caliber automatic rifles.
11-12. The body can withstand explosives that could demolish a reinforced concrete bunker. Characters with a body in this range literally possess steel-hard skin.
13-15. The body has density ranging from titanium (at a 13) to diamond hardness (at a 15). At this level the character is nearly invulnerable and can easily withstand anti-tank fire.
16-18. The body is virtually indestructible and can withstand highly charged plasma beams and direct hits from powerful demolition bombs.
19-21. At this level, the body is impervious to conventional weaponry save for nuclear munitions.
22-24. At this level, the body can survive the crushing forces of space for extended durations and survive the direct detonation of a multi-kiloton nuclear device.
25-27. Bodies in this range can withstand forces unleashed by gods.
28-30+. The body can resist a direct hit from a 100 megaton nuclear weapons.
Let's see which Legionnaire has the best BODY (gets slapped again).
BODY only
14: Charles
9: Stacy (partially or fully felinoid at max BODY)
8: Julia, Karen
6: Brittany, Mack, Sandi (Fusion), Stacy
5: Trent
4: Fran, Jamie
3: Jane, Quinn, Sandi (normal)
2: Daria, Jodie, Tiffany, Tom
There's a lot of range here. Some Legionnaires can be pretty much knocked out with one punch. Others are a lot more resilient. Part of the reason that Charles and Julia tied in the first Battle Royal was that they had both high DEX scores and high BODY scores, a combination that makes you just about unstoppable.
I've actually changed a few things. We have Sandi and Stacy represented twice, as their BODY scales can adjust due to their powers.
Charles's body undoubtedly comes the the physical mutations that his powers have brought on. He's just a hard guy to beat, both figuratively and literally. He's got a great BODY (well, no one has complained).
Well, no woman (outside the Legionnaires who knew Charles before he got powers) has complained...
ReplyDeleteAlso, now you see why ANYONE who's come through USAES (both First AND Elite Academies) has (at minimum) a BODY of 5. They've literally been involved in intense, advanced physical training not only for half of their lives, but during their formative years. As TV Tropes says in that entry, Academy training is quite archetypal of 'The Spartan Way': 'Training from Hell' on an industrial scale.