Artie Archbunker "The Hack"

Artie Archbunker "The Hack"

Archetype: Normal Human • Career: Blue Collar • Power Level: 2 Motivations: xxx

Characteristics

Brawn	2	Agility	2	Intellect	2
Cunning	3	Willpower	4	Presence	3

Skills

General Skills
Skill (Char)	Rating		Skill (Char)	Rating
Arcana (Int)	–		Athletics (Brn)	1*
Computers (Int)	–		Cool (Prs)	2*
Coordination (Agl)	–		Discipline (Wil)	2*
Driving (Agl)	4*		Knowledge (Int)	–
Mechanics (Int)	2*		Medicine (Int)	–
Operating (Int)	–		Perception (Cun)	2*
Piloting (Agl)	–		Resilience (Brn)	1*
Skulduggery (Cun)	–		Stealth (Agl)	–
Streetwise (Cun)	4*		Survival (Cun)	–
Vigilance (Wil)	2*
Combat Skills
Skill (Char)	Rating		Skill (Char)	Rating
Brawl (Brn)	3*		Gunnery (Agl)	–
Melee (Brn)	–		Ranged (Agl)	1
Social Skills
Skill (Char)	Rating		Skill (Char)	Rating
Charm (Prs)	1		Coercion (Wil)	1
Deception (Cun)	–		Leadership (Prs)	–
Negotiation (Prs)	2*–

Talents

• Tier 1: Bar Brawler, Let's Ride, Clever Retort, Customer Service Experience, Smooth Talker, Talk Shop, All Terrain Driver, Deep Pockets, Hidden Storage, Know Somebody, Prior Service, Redundant Systems, Unremarkable, Grit, Rapid Reaction • Tier 2: Grit, Rapid Reaction, Dirty Tricks, Probing Question, Robust Skill Training • Tier 3: Grit, Rapid Reaction • Tier 4: • Tier 5:

Powers

Power Rating: 2

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Combat

Soak: 2 • Ranged Defense: 0 • Melee Defense: 0 Wound Threshold: 12 • Strain Threshold: 17

Attacks

xx

Experience Points

Earned: 275,500

Spent Experience

275,500

Talents

Archetype

• Intuitive Solution: Once per Issue, when Artie is forced to attempt a Check using a Skill he has no Ranks in, he may spend a Story Point to use his Ranks in a Characteristic in place of that Skill (thus allowing him to build a Dice Pool using two Characteristics instead of a Characteristic and Skill. A suitable Narrative explanation must be given to explain how the chosen Characteristic applies.

Combat

• Bar Brawler: Artie adds to Brawl checks and combat checks using improvised weapons.
• Dirty Tricks: After Artie inflicts a Critical Injury on an enemy, that character upgrades their next check once.
• Rapid Reaction (Rank 3): When determining Initiative, Artie may suffer up to 3 Strain to add an equal number of to his roll.

Movement

• Let's Ride: Once, during Artie's Strip, he can use and Incidental to mount or dismount from a vehicle or animal, or move from one position in a vehicle to another (such as from the cockpit to a gun turret). In addition, if Artie suffers a short-range fall (see page 112) from a vehicle or animal, He suffer no damage and lands on his feet.

Social

• Clever Retort (Rank 1): Once per Conflict, Artie may activate this Talent as an Out-of-Turn Incidental to add to another character's Social Skill Check.
• Customer Service Experience (Rank 1): After Artie rolls a Charm Check, but before cancelling and resolving results, he use an Incidental to spend 1 Strain to remove one .
• Smooth Talker (Rank 1): When Artie performs a Charm Check, he may spend to gain additional .
• Talk Shop: Artie may use an Incidental when making a Charm check targeting an engineer, mechanic, scientist, or similar individual to count their ranks of Charm as equal to their ranks in Knowledge or Mechanics.
• Probing Question: If Artie knows his targets Flaw or Fear motivation, he inflicts 3 additional Strain anytime he uses a Social Skill against that Character.

Skill Enhancement

• All Terrain Driver: Artie does not suffer penalties for driving in rough terrain.
• Unremarkable. Any character wishing to find or identify Artie in a crowd suffers an automatic to their roll.
• Robust Skill Training: Artie now counts Cool, Coordination, and Vigilance as Career Skills.

Utility

• Grit (Rank 3): Artie increases his Strain Threshold by 3.
• Deep Pockets: Once per Issue, Artie may use a Panel to produce a small but narratively useful item from their pockets, backpack, or similar receptacle (it turns out the item had been there the whole time). Your GM has final say as to what items can be produced with Deep Pockets, but generally the item should have a small cost and have an encumbrance of 0 or 1.
• Hidden Storage (Rank 1): Artie has a hidden storage compartment in his European Satchel that holds items with total Encumbrance of 1.
• Know Somebody (Rank 1): Once per Issue, when attempting to purchase a legally available item, Artie may use and Incidental to reduce its Rarity by 1.
• Prior Service (National Taxi Work's Alliance): Artie was formerly a member of the national union of taxi drivers. Artie gains Drive as a Career Skill and in addition, once per Issue, Artie may collect a small favor from any other member of the organization, even if they do not currently him any favors.
• Redundant Systems: Once per Issue, Artie use a Panel to take a Redundant Systems action; make an Easy () Mechanics check to harvest components from a functioning device to repair a broken one without breaking the first device.

Powers

Enchanted Mail Order Items (Mystic/Tech)

Artie's strange abilities are granted from a collection of 'classic' gimmick item's once available to order from comic books and pulp magazines. Left behind in his cab by a odd-ball fair, after driving the weirdo to the Newark Airport. Items purchased from these adds, miraculously arrive via private courier from the Cryptic Camelot Classics Company... "Please allow 5-7 Business for Delivery."

• Edge: Unexpected Gizmo (Reskinned Forces of Creation)
  • Artie may spend a Heroic Moment to manifest an entirely new Power, with a number of Ranks equal to the highest number of Ranks from powers within this Set. This temporary Power lasts for a single Page, and Artie may select an equal number of Effects for this new Power as normal. This momentary ability is not restricted by any Limit's which may have applied to the Power used for determining its Ranks, but this Power Sets Weakness does apply, as normal.
• Weakness: Bag of Tricks (Reskinned Tools on Hand)
  • Artie's Powers are completely provided by these strange items he has collected since that fateful cab fair. All Powers with this Source are considered to have the Object Limit applied to them, making them vulnerable to damage or even destruction. In addition, the Narrator may spend a Story Point at the start of an Issue to render one Power with this Source to be unavailable to Artie until he spends a Story Point to narratively alter the scene, and allowing the use of that power once again.

Archie's Bag of Tricks

• Charles Atlas's Guide to Strength (Boosted Characteristic - Brawn - Rank 2) 30xp
  • Effects - Effective, Amazing: You gain any time you use this power when making a Brawn Check. You also may reduce the Difficulty of any Non-Combat Brawn Check you make by 2.
  • Concentrated Effort (Heroic Moment): You may use a Heroic Moment to reduce the difficulty of a single Brawn check to a Simple (-). This reduction lasts for a number of Pages equal to your Ranks in Boosted (Brawn), but you must concentrate on this effect to maintain it, meaning that if you do anything else, the effect ends.
• Count Dante's Black Dragon Fighting Society (Boosted characteristic - Agility - Rank 2) 30xp
  • Effects - Flexible, Triumphant: Before Resolving an Agility Check when using this power, you may exchange for or for twice. In addition, up to twice per issue, before resolving your check, you may spend and add a to your result (this does not count as being "rolled").
  • Concentrated Effort (Heroic Moment): You may use a Heroic Moment to reduce the difficulty of a single Agility check to a Simple (-). This reduction lasts for a number of Pages equal to your Ranks in Boosted (Agility), but you must concentrate on this effect to maintain it, meaning that if you do anything else, the effect ends.
• Joy Buzzer (Attack Power - Brawl Based - Rank 3, Limit: Close Combat) 55xp: Grants you a Damage 7 Attack.
  • Effects - Electrifying (Reskinned Terrorizing), Shocking 2 (Reskinned Psychic) - All count as Electricity Based: You Attack inflicts Strain, instead of Wounds, and Ignores Soak without an appropriate Immunity. You may spend to cause your target to become Staggered for 3 Pages. Staggered Characters cannot take Actions during their Panels. In addition, your attack gains Disorient 3 (which is activated with and Immobilizes opponents for the Duration of the Disorient. Disoriented Opponents suffer to all Tests for 3 Pages. Immobilized opponents cannot move. When if both Immobilized and Staggered are applied to the same opponent, that opponent loses their Strip.
  • Spectacular Attack (Heroic Moment): You gain 2 Ranks in your Attack for a single Strip, and may select up to two additional Effects to apply or you may use 1 or more of these additional Ranks to temporarily remove a Limit applied to this power, but may not ignore the Weakness applied by this powers Source.
• Exploding Whoopie Cushions (Attack - Ranged Based - Rank 3, Limit Charges) 55xp: Grants you a Damage 7 Attack (Short Range)
  • Effects - Blast, Impact: Your Attack gains the Blast 3 Quality. It also gains the Knockdown Quality, and you may move your enemy up to one Range Band away on a successful hit.
  • Spectacular Attack (Heroic Moment): You gain 2 Ranks in your Attack for a single Strip, and may select up to two additional Effects to apply or you may use 1 or more of these additional Ranks to temporarily remove a Limit applied to this power, but may not ignore the Weakness applied by this powers Source.
• Propeller Beanie (Movement Power - Rank 2) 30xp
  • You ignore the effects of Difficult Terrain, and cannot be immobilized unless the net scored on the attack are greater than 2.
  • Effects - Aerial, Distance: You may use this power to Fly, ignoring objects or effects on the ground which would impede you movement, from on point to another. At the end of your movement, you return to the ground. When you move, you do so using Planetary Scale Ranges, effectively allowing you to move anywhere during Structured Conflicts.
  • Fast Track (Heroic Moment): For the rest of the Page, increase the Ranks in this Power by 2 and you may select up to 2 additional effects.
• Bag of Tricks (Utility - Rank 4 - Limits: Fragile Object, Charges) 85xp:
  • Smoke Bombs (Disruption, Selected Once - Perception and Vigilance): You may target an enemy and apply to any Perception or Vigilance checks they make until the end of their next Strip.
  • Stink Bombs (Disruption, Selected Once - Athletic and Acrobatics): You may target an enemy and apply to any Athletics or Acrobatics checks they make until the end of their next Strip.
  • X-Ray Specs (Augment, Selected Once - Perception and Vigilance): You target yourself or an ally and add when rolling Perception and Vigilance to notice things.
  • Range (Selected Once): Artie can now use the effects of Bag of Tricks out to Medium Range.
  • Pandemonium (Heroic Moment): For the rest of the Page, increase the Ranks in this Power by 2 and you may select up to 2 additional effects.

New York Cabbie (Special Training)

Archie spent his life in the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple. He's seen the full spectrum of human behavior and life experience has taught him to expect the strange and unexplainable.

• Grit (Ranks 1, 2, 3) 30xp
• Rapid Reaction (Ranks 1, 2, 3) 30xp
• Unremarkable (Rank 1) 5xp
• Dirty Tricks (Rank 2) 10xp
• Probing Question (Rank 2) 10xp
• Robust Skill Training (Cool, Vigilance) (Rank 2) 10xp
• Drive Rank 3 and 4 35xp
• Streetwise Rank 4 20xp
• Cool Rank 1 and 2 15xp
• Vigilance Rank 1 and 2 15xp
• Brawl Rank 2 and 3 25xp
• Ranged Rank 1 10xp