The Book of Super-Man

[LordVenoc]

The Book of Super-Man (Kong Kenan)

C3G DC WAVE 42
SUPERMAN FAMILY


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Mini PDF

The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the Rebirth set.
Its model number and name are #016 / Super-Man.

The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the Rebirth Fast Forces set.
Its model number and name are #005 / Super-Man.

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Character Bio - Teenager Kong Kenan was a bit of a bully for most of his life. After standing up to the villain Blue Condor a bit instinctually while on the news, he was selected by the Ministry of Self Reliance. The Ministry imbued him with the powers of the deceased Superman, giving him the powers of the Man of Steel. However, Kenan's powers worked a bit differently, as he had to learn to tap into his powers via the Tao Te to access them.

After mastering this and synchronizing with a mystic artifact, he has come to embody the principles of Yin and Yang. His team, the Justice League China, acts independently from the Ministry of Self Reliance.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• N/A

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As a Kryptonian, Super-Man has these Kryptonian Synergies.
• As a Champion, Super-Man has these Champion Synergies.

Outgoing Synergy:

• N/A

Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:

• N/A

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• N/A

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: LordVenoc
• Second playtest: Arch-vile
• Third playtest: Ronin
• Fourth playtest: FreshFoods
• Art: Comic, Figure, Background
• Card Art by Soundwarp

[LordVenoc]

NAME = SUPER-MAN
SECRET IDENTITY = KONG KENAN
SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = CHAMPION
PERSONALITY = DETERMINED

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 5

MOVE = 6
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 5
DEFENSE = 5

POINTS = 290

BALANCED KRYPTONIAN QI
Super-Man has the species of Kryptonian in addition to what is listed on this card. When rolling defense dice for Super-Man, unless the attacking figure rolled more blanks than Super-Man, the most wounds he can receive is 1.

ALL-YIN FOCUS
Before you move Super-Man, you may activate All-Yin Focus. For the rest of this movement, Super-Man is not attacked when leaving an engagement and can move through all figures, Fortress Walls, and obstacles. When Super-Man attacks a figure he moved through this turn with a normal attack, you may subtract 1 shield from the defending figure's roll.

ALL-YANG FOCUS
After rolling attack dice for Super-Man's normal attack, if he did not use All-Yin Focus this turn, you may choose a different adjacent figure for each blank rolled. Each chosen figure receives one wound.

SUPER STRENGTH
FLYING

[LordVenoc]

Potential tweak I'm thinking here:

Originally Posted by LordVenoc

NAME = SUPER-MAN
SECRET IDENTITY = KONG KENAN
SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = CHAMPION
PERSONALITY = DETERMINED

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 6

MOVE = 5
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 5
DEFENSE = 5

POINTS = 270

BALANCED KRYPTONIAN QI
Super-Man has the species of Kryptonian in addition to what is listed on this card. When rolling defense dice for Super-Man, if Super-Man rolls the same number of shields as the attacking figure, Super-Man receives no wounds.

ALL-YIN FOCUS
Super-Man can move through all figures and obstacles such as ruins, and is never attacked when leaving an engagement when using All-Yin focus. When Super-Man attacks with a normal attack, if he moved through the defending figure this turn, after defense dice are rolled, you may subtract 1 shield from the roll.

ALL-YANG FOCUS
When Super-Man attacks with his normal attack, if he did not move with All-Yin Focus this turn, after rolling attack dice, you may choose one adjacent figure for each blank rolled. Each chosen figure receives one automatic wound.

SUPER STRENGTH
FLYING

Could also make it same number of blanks, or even just more blanks. I like the equivalent schtick and leans his survivability in a different direction that isn't so "moar dice" in its approach.

[SirGalahad]

Originally Posted by LordVenoc

BALANCED KRYPTONIAN QI
Super-Man has the species of Kryptonian in addition to what is listed on this card. When rolling defense dice for Super-Man, if Super-Man did not roll fewer blanks than the attacking figure, the most wounds he can receive is 1.

ALL-YIN FOCUS
Super-Man can move through all figures and obstacles such as ruins, and is never attacked when leaving an engagement when using All-Yin focus. When Super-Man attacks with a normal attack, if he moved through the defending a figure he moved through this turn with a normal attack, after defense dice are rolled, you may subtract 1 shield from the defending figure's roll.

ALL-YANG FOCUS
When Super-Man attacks with his normal attack, if he did not move with All-Yin Focus this turn, after rolling attack dice, you may choose one adjacent figure for each blank rolled. Each chosen figure receives one automatic wound.

Comma Reduction

[tcglkn]

Originally Posted by SirGalahad

Comma Reduction

What kind of dish do you use that sauce for?

[SirGalahad]

Originally Posted by tcglkn

What kind of dish do you use that sauce for?

To be perfectly honest, I prefer my Comma Reduction over any red meat, cooked medium, medium rare, or rare, paired with a dry, elegant Cabarnet, or, for very special occasions, such as weddings, wakes, and mitzvahs, with a sweet, classic Chardonnay, either of which followed by a single scoop of smooth, hand-churned French vanilla ice cream, topped with chocolate sauce, whipped cream, chopped nuts and a single, homemade Maraschino cherry, despite the minute amount of Red 40 it contains.

[SirGalahad]

Ronin's All-Yin suggestion makes good sense.

[tcglkn]

Originally Posted by LordVenoc

ALL-YANG FOCUS
After rolling attack dice for Super-Man's normal attack, if he did not use All-Yin Focus this turn, you may choose one a different adjacent figure for each blank rolled. You may not choose the same figure more than once. Each chosen figure receives one wound.

This is way better.

[LordVenoc]

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[LordVenoc]

Main changes from LCW:

Corrected name to go with the Eastern Notation (Kong Kenan vs Kenan Kong)

Dropped Defense by 1.

Went with the swapped ordering/combining of power I put up at the end to get it all more feeling like an offense/defense pairing and hopefully reducing how much it feels like powers 1 and 4 are the go-tos. I do see that I need to tweak wording on Zhèn and Duì as he's supposed ignore LEAs as well there.

[Arch-vile]

Looks like a solid direction. Is there an English translation to the power names? I'm just curious what they mean or if they stand for something specific.

[LordVenoc]

English translation is the eight programs of the Tao Te. The names are just like Mountain, Earth, Marsh, etc. They caused a fair bit of confusion on some things (Like Marsh being Super Breath) so I felt like the Chinese names was a better route to convey theme without simultaneously confusing theme.