Name: Invisible Woman (Sue Richards) Val Char Cost 10 STR - 20 DEX 30 18 CON 16 10 BODY - 13 INT 3 11 EGO 2 15 PRE 5 14 COM 2 5 PD 3 5 ED 1 5 SPD 20 8 REC 4 36 END - 30 STUN 6 Characteristic Rolls: STR: 11-, DEX: 13-, CON: 13-, INT: 12-, EGO: 11-, PER: 12- Run: 6", Swim: 2", Jump: 2", Lift: 100kg Cost Powers END/Roll 112 Multipower: Invisible, solid force constructs, 1/2 END +1/4, Invisible to sight +1/2, indirect (thru Force Wall) +1/4 14-m Force wall: 20 PD, 20 ED 22-m Invisibility: Sight, no fringe, usable against others (+1), 8x human mass (+3/4), ranged (+1/2) 18-m Telekinesis (places and expands appropriate force constructs): 30 STR 3-u Flight (expands a force construct under her): 8 4-u Suffocation (sphere around head): 2d6, NND (+1), continuous (+1), defense is not having to breathe. 16-m Force spheres (physical EB): 8d6 21-m Force sphere restraints (Entangle): 8 DEF, 1 BODY (-1/2) 1-u Telekinesis: 10 STR, useable only by one other at range (+3/4), no range (-1/2), only with force wall (-1/4), no fast movements (-1/4), user must already have the STR (-1/4), 4x END (-1 1/2) Cost Skills, Talents, Perks Roll 16 +2 w/all combat 10 Perk: Wealthy 3 Paramedic 12- 3 Pilot 12- 100+ Disadvantages 10 DNPC: Franklin Richards, her son (slightly less powerful), 11- 25 Hunted: Dr. Doom (MP, NCI), 11- 20 Psych: Code v.s. Killing (com, tot) 10 Psych: Feels inferior to her husband (com, mod) 5 Psych: Loves husband (Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic) 10 Public Identity: Susan Storm Richards OCV: 7; DCV: 7; ECV: 4; Mental Def.: 0; Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12 PD/rPD: 5/0; ED/rED: 5/0 Costs: Char.: 92 Disad.: 80 Powers: + 243 Base: + 100 Exp.: + 150 Total: = 335 Total: = 330 Background: Sue probably had the worst characterization of any of the members of the Fantastic Four. She started as Reed's girlfriend--nothing more. She snuck aboard Reed's rocket ship with her brother, Johnny, and got her powers from cosmic rays like the rest of the team. For the first few issues of the book, she basically had little life of her own, and was mostly just the girl for the rest of the team to rescue. Originally, her powers were only invisibility, not usable against others. Sue has also developed and increased her abilities more than any other member of the Fantastic Four, to the point that she is perhaps the most powerful member. A large amount of this is due to the writing of John Byrne. During his run on the book, she discovered several new applications of her abilities, developed a personality in her own right, and changed her name from the Invisible Girl to the Invisible Woman. Now, she normally leads the team when Reed is absent and has developed a good grasp of her powers and how to use them. Sue has occassionally had jobs over the years, but they rarely lasted long. Instead, she spends her time with her husband and their son, Franklin, who is a powerful mutant. She lost her second child despite the best efforts of some of the greatest minds in the Marvel Universe. Description Sue is a fairly attractive woman in her mid-thirties. She has blonde hair and normally wears the Fantastic Four team uniform, a blue jumpsuit with a white circle and a blue four on the chest. She is usually the peacemaker in a situation, and is fairly easy-going. (If this sounds strange to you, it is probably because you haven't read about the real Invisible Woman and are familiar with the pod-person who has taken her place.) When she is invisible, there isn't much to describe. Character Concept Susan Storm Richards is the wife of Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) and a member of the Fantastic Four. Her powers are based on her ability to generate solid force constructs. All of her constructs are, by nature, invisible, and she can also turn herself invisible. She has developed several different uses for these constructs over the years and is now an extremely powerful character. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Explanation of Powers Initially, all that Sue could do was turn invisible. The ability to manipulate force constructs was developed (added) later, and her invisibility now seems a bit out of place. Her (main) telekinesis is defined as the ability to place constructs and expand or contract them. Some of the more common uses are expanding a construct underneath a character to lift them off the ground, or placing a soft construct underneath a falling character so they don't take damage. Her flight is a manifestation of her telekinesis (she expands a construct underneath her feet). Her NND attack is simply an air-proof bubble around her foe's head, which causes them to sufficate. Her physical energy blast is defined as throwing many small force bubbles at her enemy. If you want, you can include the invisible force daggers she uses now as an RKA; I personally think it is against the character concept. She has been know to occassionally restrain characters by placing force bubbles around their limbs or even their entire bodies. Her second TK is designed to simulate her ability to make her force walls flexible. With a great deal of effort, she can allow characters inside her force wall to affect things outside the force wall without reducing the protection of the wall. The characters literally bend and stretch the force wall with their hands. Tactics The Invisible Woman is a formidable opponent on her own, but when she is with the rest of the Fantastic Four they are virtually unstoppable. Sue defends the rest of the team with her force walls, often becoming invisible so she can work unnoticed. She can also serve as the team scout, exploring dangerous areas while invisible. Her ability to turn others invisible can hide the team or confuse opponents, and her attacks, although not as strong as those of the rest of her team, can be very effective at the right time. Since all of her powers are invisible, she can take part in a battle without ever revealing her location. Possible Extensions and Campaign Use I'm not sure if this character really is as strong as her point totals seem to indicate. There is quite a bit of minimaxing with the EC and possibly a multipower that would make her abilities a lot cheaper. In fact, as written, she is a very good example of the problem with ECs. I feel like I'm missing a few skills, but for the life of me I can't think what they would be. Perhaps Conversation or Persuasion. Sue, and anyone she was protecting, would be almost impossible for the average superhero to take down. She is the main thing that makes the Fantastic Four almost invincible in battle. She is unlikely to get involved in a campaign unless she stumbles across something accidentally, or it affects her teammates or her son. George adds: This writeup has been rewritten following Russ Allbery's request; the version as he wrote it cost 775 (!) points due to using a 10 point EC rather than the MP for the powers. But since Russ left it up to someone else to rewrite, I took advantage of the opportunity to include some good details from Samuel Bell's writeup, while keeping Russ's characteristics and (much) lower power level. The advantages listed for the whole multipower don't apply to all the powers in it at obvious places: Invisibility doesn't take the Invisible advantage, Flight and Force Wall don't take Indirect, and the second TK doesn't take reduced END since it takes increased END. The second TK takes the (-1/4) Only with Force Wall rather than the (-1/2) Linked, since she can use the Force Wall without the TK. I am afraid I reject Sam's "Personal Immunity" to allow the creator of the force wall to shoot through it as too powerful - consider an Energy Projector with a cheap force wall. Right now the fact that Force Walls are equally hindering for the creator is a major disadvantage. Instead use indirect, pay on the attack, not the wall. Similarly the smaller TK is written the way it is (with lots of complex modifiers) rather than just an "Indirect on STR usable by others" because Indirect on STR could also be too easily abused. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write-up copyright © 1995 by Russ Allbery (rra@cs.stanford.edu) and George Ruban (ruban@mtl.mit.edu) Permission granted to duplicate and transmit, as long as this note is not removed.