The Book of Syndrome

[tcglkn]

The Book of Syndrome

C3G DISNEY COMICS SUPER SECRET EXCLUSIVE C2
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The figure used for this unit is a Modified McDonalds figure from the 2004 Incredibles set.
Its name is Syndrome (Just cut him off the top).

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Character Bio - After being scorned by his childhood idol, Mister Incredible, Buddy Pine made it his life goal to destroy superheroes, focusing on Mister Incredible specifically. This lead to his creation of the Omnidroids which he tested various models of on other retired superheroes before creating a model that even Mister Incredible could not defeat.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

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Outgoing Synergy:

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Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

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-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• C3G Con 2021 exclusive design brainstormed by tcglkn, SirGalahad, Soundwarp and Tornado
• Initial playtest: tcglkn
• Second playtest: Lord Pyre
• Third playtest: IAmBatman
• Art: Comic, Figure, Background
• Card Art by tcglkn

[tcglkn]

NAME = SYNDROME
SECRET IDENTITY = BUDDY PINE

SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = CHARLATAN
PERSONALITY = EGOTISTICAL

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 4

LIFE = 4

MOVE = 5
RANGE = 4
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 4

POINTS = 150

REJECTED FANBOY
At the start of the game, choose an opponent's Unique Hero to be Syndrome's Idol. If Syndrome can target his Idol, he cannot target any other figure. When Syndrome attacks his Idol, add one die to his attack.

ANDROID REMOTE CONTROL
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and before taking a turn with Syndrome, you may take a turn with an Uncommon Android Hero you control within 8 spaces. When rolling the 20-sided die for a special power on the Android's card, you may add 4 to the roll. You may not take any additional turns.

ZERO-POINT ENERGY TOSS
After moving and before attacking with Syndrome, you may choose a small, medium, or large figure within 4 clear sight spaces and roll the 20-sided die. If you roll 9 or higher, place the chosen figure on an empty space within 4 spaces of Syndrome. Chosen figures will not take leaving engagement attacks.

FLYING

[Ronin]

Originally Posted by tcglkn

CLASS = CHARLATAN

Nice.

[tcglkn]

Originally Posted by Ronin

Nice.

Just for you

[tcglkn]

Think we left this in a good enough spot so I propose we move to initial playtesting here.

@Arkham
@Arch-vile
@LordVenoc
@Lord Pyre
@MrNobody
@Ronin
@Soundwarp SG-1

[Arkham]

Looks good.

Only thoughts are some of the remaining ideas tossed around:

REJECTED FANBOY
At the start of the game, choose an opponent's Unique Hero to be Syndrome's Idol. If Syndrome can target his Idol, he cannot target any other figure. When Syndrome attacks his Idol, add one die to his attack. If Syndrome has not yet attacked a figure this game, he cannot be targeted for any attacks.

ANDROID REMOTE CONTROL
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and before taking a turn with Syndrome, you may take a turn with an Uncommon Android Hero you control within 8 spaces. When rolling the 20-sided die for a special power on the Android's card, if it has the Calculating personality, you may add 4 to the roll.

Not things I'm dead set on, but still figured I'd bring them up just in case they slipped through the cracks.

[MrNobody]

I’m generally hesitant to add too many “cannot be targeted until X” powers, just cause it feels like it’ll inevitably lead to weird cheese one day.

[tcglkn]

I'm also not interested in adding the can't be attacked line. The Incredibles were never fooled by him, all he fooled was the news and general public, but even that was very short lived.

I'm not too worried either way on the personality callout there. Right now Omnidrones are the only Uncommon Android with a d20 power, but I am fine adding that if we do not want to limit design space.

[Arch-vile]

I’d probably just let him bond with one chosen Uncommon Android rather than having him be an Android Leader guy, since he only worked with one Omnidroid at a time. But I dig the overall take here. Maybe also let him use Zero-Point Energy more than once so he can toss multiple Incredibles around.

Maybe have Rejected Fanboy affect the Android taking a turn too?

[tcglkn]

Originally Posted by Arch-vile

I’d probably just let him bond with one chosen Uncommon Android rather than having him be an Android Leader guy, since he only worked with one Omnidroid at a time.

You want him to choose one Uncommon Android at the start of the game and only work with that one? That seems a bit less fun to me and I don’t think any of our Uncommon Androids are particularly strong right now.

I’m a bit hesitant to let him throw multiple Incredibles around because they care about positioning, between Mister Incredible’s Heroic Duty, Frozone’s rescue, Elastigirl’s Wrap power and Violet’s Aura throwing figures constantly really counters then a lot.

[LordVenoc]

Is there a wording that lets him do it with all of that Uncommon Android? So not just picking a single Omnidroid, but picking all Omnidroids?

I generally really dig it. I could see kind of an inverse daring decoy where he can't be attacked while someone is engaged unless he's attacked, but that also sounds like way more words than it is worth theme wise.

[Soundwarp SG-1]

Originally Posted by LordVenoc

Is there a wording that lets him do it with all of that Uncommon Android? So not just picking a single Omnidroid, but picking all Omnidroids?

For an effect like that, I would just do something like:

"At the start of the game chose a Uncommon Android Hero in your army. Before taking a turn with Syndrome, you may take a turn with 1 Uncommon Android Hero you control that shares a name with the chosen Hero and is within 6 spaces of Syndrome."

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But personally I don't see a need to limit his options here. Dude controlled robots, robots need more leaders in C3G. I'm personally good with what's in the SP.

yea