The Book of Magneto

[Balantai]

Magneto's bio:

Magneto was born Max Eisenhardt sometime in the late 1920s to a middle class German Jewish family whose father, Jakob Eisenhardt was a highly decorated World War I veteran. Surviving discrimination and hardship during the Nazi rise to power, Kristallnacht, and the passing of the Nuremberg Laws, in 1939 Max and his family fled to Poland where they were captured during the German invasion of Poland and sent to the Warsaw Ghetto. Max and his family escape the Ghetto, only to be betrayed and captured again. His mother, father, and sister were executed and buried in a mass grave, but Max survived possibly due to the manifestation of his powers. Escaping from the mass grave, he is ultimately captured yet again and sent to Auschwitz, where he eventually becomes a Sonderkommando. While at Auschwitz, Eisenhardt reunites with a Roma girl named Magda, with whom he had fallen in love when he was younger, and with whom he escapes the prison camp during the October 7th 1944 revolt. Following the war, he and Magda move to the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, and adopts the name "Magnus". Magda and Magnus have a daughter named Anya, and live uneventfully until one night when an angry mob burned their home down with Anya still inside. Enraged at the mob preventing him from rescuing Anya, the young Magneto's powers manifest uncontrollably, killing the mob and destroying a part of the city. Magda, terrified at Magneto's power, leaves him and later dies giving birth to the mutant twins Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. Wanted by the authorities for the deaths and destruction in Vinnytsia, while searching for Magda, Magnus paid a Romanian forger George Odekirk, to create the cover identity of "Erik Lehnsherr the Sinte gypsy" for him.

"Erik", relocated to Israel, where he met and befriended Charles Xavier while working at a psychiatric hospital near Haifa. There, lengthy debates are held by the two regarding the consequences humanity faces with the rise of mutants, though neither reveals to the other that they both in fact possessed mutant powers. However, they are forced to reveal their inherent abilities to one another, while facing Baron Von Strucker and HYDRA. Following the battle, Erik (now dressed as Magneto) leaves, realizing that his and Xavier's views are incompatible, with a cache of hidden Nazi gold, which provided him with the financing to launch his goals.

[IAmBatman]

Gees ... that's a doozy of a bio. Anyway we can shorten that any?
I'll update the first post with that for now, though.

[Balantai]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

Gees ... that's a doozy of a bio. Anyway we can shorten that any?
I'll update the first post with that for now, though.

Don't blame me...blame Wikipedia.

[IAmBatman]

Ah, gotcha.

[Balantai]

Thanks, Bats

[IAmBatman]

No prob. Thanks for posting it!

[Xn F M]

Would it be possable to change that last line in the bio to this:

Following the battle, Erik (now dressed as Magneto) realizes that his and Xavier's views are incompatible. He leaves with a cache of hidden Nazi gold, which provides him with the financing to launch his goals.

It's really difficult to follow that last bit as it's written.

[DEATHWALKER 1970]

A quick question about Magnetic Throw.... If Magneto is engaged with one or more opponents, can he only use Magnetic Throw on those figures, or can he choose any figure he wants?

[NecroBlade]

Anyone he wants. It's not a normal or special attack, so it's not restricted by engagement rules (like Braxas' Poisonous Acid Breath).

[Griffin]

Originally Posted by DEATHWALKER 1970

A quick question about Magnetic Throw.... If Magneto is engaged with one or more opponents, can he only use Magnetic Throw on those figures, or can he choose any figure he wants?

It is the same situation that Sonlen finds himself in. Even if a figure is engaged, they may still use a special power that targets a non-adjacent figure. So unless you are Mystique, an engaged figure cannot "attack" a non-adjacent figure, but, an engaged figure can target a non-adjacent figure with a "special power" like Dragon Swoop or Magnetic Throw.

If you need to, you can look up the definition of "Special Power" in the glossary of the DnD rulebook. It will confirm what I have just told you.

[DEATHWALKER 1970]

Originally Posted by Griffin

It is the same situation that Sonlen finds himself in. Even if a figure is engaged, they may still use a special power that targets a non-adjacent figure. So unless you are Mystique, an engaged figure cannot "attack" a non-adjacent figure, but, an engaged figure can target a non-adjacent figure with a "special power" like Dragon Swoop or Magnetic Throw.

If you need to, you can look up the definition of "Special Power" in the glossary of the DnD rulebook. It will confirm what I have just told you.

Thank you N&G!
No need to look anything up! I believe, and agree with, you.
It was the Braxas-like situation that had me wondering, and since Magneto can do damage with the power, a situation arose in a recent game, where I was in doubt.

[Hogg]

Can someone explain "place or remove the magnetic shield marker" to me? Place where? On the map or the card?

It isn't very clear.