The Book of Super-Man

[IAmBatman]

When attacking an enemy figure with Super-Man, or immediately before an enemy figure attacks Super-Man with a normal attack, you may choose one of the enemy figure's special powers to negate for the rest of the figure's turn.

[LordVenoc]

Not sure how that conveys the Super Hearing theme, but yeah the easier parallel is nice.

[IAmBatman]

Largely the same way as the auto shield does. He's anticipating their attack due to hearing their heart speed up, so he's able to compensate in advance.

Also, no end users are going to know that represents super hearing either way, except maybe you (I'll forget)?

[Soundwarp SG-1]

Negating things in the middle of someone else's turn feels like it could get messy rules-wise.

[IAmBatman]

Fair enough. I do think something more parallel is needed for that bullet, though. Maybe conditional auto skull/auto shield or something.

[LordVenoc]

I don't know that anything else really has that much of a parallel going on (other than the first bullet purely for just being a stat increase). I'd rather swap stuff around than do something to compromise the first half, as honestly don't see much other way to well capture the strength against magical stuff there without it.

[Ronin]

Cool to see this guy underway! I dig it.

Not really sold on Unprepared as a personality. Is there a specific reason we're doing that over a reuse of something else that's more like a personality?

[Spidey'tilIDie]

I imagine it’s because he just woke up one day, went to school, started developing powers. It was very unexpected and part of his early schtick was being unprepared for what came next.

[LordVenoc]

Yeah he was not expecting things to go like they did. He got blasted with the energy that gave him the powers, but the development was slow and a bit erratic till he specifically started training with Master I-Ching. Given this write up is specifically about mid-run as far as original solo series goes, we're probably fine moving more toward something like Brash/Brazen/Headstrong/Cocky. That sort of thing.

[IAmBatman]

Would Naive fit?

[LordVenoc]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

Would Naive fit?

He was honestly kind of a bully before he got the powers, so Naive would feel kinda off for me. That's why I kinda leaned toward something like Brash or even Arrogant.

[LordVenoc]

Had this as a potential to get a little more symmetry on the last power:

•Kǎn and Xùn: When attacking with Super-Man, choose one of the defending figure's special powers to negate for the rest of that attack. Figures attacking Super-Man may not add to their Attack number with special powers on the cards of other figures.

So it gives a little of the "ignore something they can do" feel by letting you kind of ignore the other support figures. So like, no Cap/Star-Lord/Wonder Woman boost for his enemies. Could see going a bit in reverse and letting his stats be unable to be reduced, but that gets a little messy with Kryptonians and Kryptonite stuff.