The Book of Robot (Rudy Conners)

[Lord Pyre]

Actually, think we could make this change? That way it has more oomph that I was looking for (Allowing Robot to attack), but the movement boosts aren't too crazy, and it doesn't stack with Carry. Is that acceptable?

GUARDING THE GLOBE!
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and instead of moving Robot, you may either:

• Take a turn with any Unique Hero within 6 clear sight spaces of Robot; Or:
• Move any 2 figures you control up to 4 spaces each.

[IAmBatman]

I think that works, yeah.

So the ultimate with him would be to get him engaged and then pair him with two figures that can wound by moving, like Archangel and Human Torch.

[Lord Pyre]

I also kind of feel like he's justified enough character for a third power, one to reflect his brains rather than his leadership.

TACTICAL ADVANTAGE 2
While Robot is in play, you may add 2 to your initiative roll.

Simple and effective and plenty thematic. With the change to Guardians and this added, do we think that's set? Any other comments before I update the SP and get this ready for testing?

[SirGalahad]

I guess what would be helpful for us non-non-mainstream folks is some kind of parallels drawn between the relative strengths/weaknesses/power levels of these Indy characters to our mainstream comic universes. It's hard for some of us to take the time to do our own research to make these connections, so a lot of the questions that are asked are not out of distaste for the design or the character, as much as they are just trying to see where it belongs in relation to what we do know.

Maybe if that were part of the initial write-up for the figure, some kind of "on par with" __________ language would help the rest of us.

Just a thought--feel free to cuss/discuss.

[Lord Pyre]

Well, he's kind of like Oracle, in that he's brilliant and can come up with a plan for virtually any situation. But he's also a technological genius, building his robot automatons, which have many functions, including being similar to Iron Man's armor (Not nearly as powerful, they can't fly and don't have his arsenal, but he also goes through lots of them, so they're pretty disposable). Once when he was actually wearing the armor, he took it off and rebuilt in in battle to create a sonic disruptor to fend off an alien attack.

It's hard to pinpoint one specific character with him. So basically a combat Oracle, mixed with a bit of Iron Man/Hank Pym?

[IAmBatman]

Originally Posted by Lord Pyre

I also kind of feel like he's justified enough character for a third power, one to reflect his brains rather than his leadership.

Simple and effective and plenty thematic. With the change to Guardians and this added, do we think that's set? Any other comments before I update the SP and get this ready for testing?

I'd rather riff off of Oracle's tactical initiative boost power a tad more. How about:

TACTICAL ADVANTAGE 2
When rolling for initiative, you may add 2 to your roll if at least one Order Marker is on this card.

He'll very likely have the Order Markers anyway, but it slows down crazy combos with him.

[Lord Pyre]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

I'd rather riff off of Oracle's tactical initiative boost power a tad more. How about:

TACTICAL ADVANTAGE 2
When rolling for initiative, you may add 2 to your roll if at least one Order Marker is on this card.

He'll very likely have the Order Markers anyway, but it slows down crazy combos with him.

I kind of liked the simplicity of no OM's, I did that on purpose. What crazy combos would there be?

[IAmBatman]

Originally Posted by Lord Pyre

I kind of liked the simplicity of no OM's, I did that on purpose. What crazy combos would there be?

Well mostly you could get his and Oracle's initiative boosts both with no problem. Then there's any possible future boosts too.

I guess I'm more and more wanting to get away from unrestricted boosts of any type (D20, attack/defense/move/range, initiative, etc.). If you boost with zero restriction, then it's super easy to stack your boost with other future boosts until we end up with combos the competitive players complain are broken. Putting restrictions in place every time is one way to check against combined card power creep.

[Lord Pyre]

Alright, can't exactly argue with that.

[Lord Pyre]

Everything set here, then?

LIFE = 5

MOVE = 6
RANGE = 4
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 4

POINTS = 230?

GUARDING THE GLOBE!
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and instead of moving Robot, you may either:
Take a turn with any Unique Hero within 6 clear sight spaces of Robot; Or:
Move any 2 figures you control up to 4 spaces each.

CARRY
Before moving Robot, choose an unengaged friendly small or medium figure adjacent to Robot. After you move Robot, place the chosen figure adjacent to Robot.

TACTICAL ADVANTAGE 2
When rolling for initiative, you may add 2 to your roll if at least one Order Marker is on this card.

[IAmBatman]

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

Well mostly you could get his and Oracle's initiative boosts both with no problem. Then there's any possible future boosts too.

I guess I'm more and more wanting to get away from unrestricted boosts of any type (D20, attack/defense/move/range, initiative, etc.). If you boost with zero restriction, then it's super easy to stack your boost with other future boosts until we end up with combos the competitive players complain are broken. Putting restrictions in place every time is one way to check against combined card power creep.

Great point Bats