The Book of Squirrel Girl

[Yodaking]

I kind of like that SA direction Quazil. Gives it a little more flexibility while not being a tedious as rolling 6 attacks of 1 and hoping for a whiff on defense.

[Lazy Orang]

Putting it all together, this is what looks good to me:

NAME = SQUIRREL GIRL
SECRET IDENTITY = DOREEN GREEN

SPECIES = MUTATE
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = STUDENT
PERSONALITY = ENTHUSIASTIC

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 4

MOVE = 6
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 4

POINTS = 160

NOT YOUR TYPICAL SUPERHERO
If Squirrel Girl is within clear sight of an Agent, Crime Fighter, Reject, or Soldier you control, she is considered to have the same class as that figure. Instead of moving with Squirrel Girl, you may place a brown Squirrel Marker on this card. A maximum of 999 Squirrel Markers can be placed on this card.

SQUIRREL SWARM SPECIAL ATTACK
Range 6. Attack: Special
Before attacking with this special attack, remove 1 or more Squirrel Markers from this card. Start the attack with X dice, where X is equal to the number of Squirrel Markers removed. You may attack with any number of dice, until all X attack dice have been rolled.

SQUIRREL LEAP
After attacking or defending, you may move Squirrel Girl up to 3 spaces. When counting spaces with Squirrel Leap, ignore elevations. Squirrel Girl may leap over water without stopping, leap over figures without becoming engaged, and leap over obstacles such as ruins. Squirrel Girl may not leap more than 12 levels up or down in a single leap. Squirrel Girl never takes falling damage and is never attacked when leaving an engagement.

[Qualizium]

Originally Posted by Yodaking

I kind of like that SA direction Quazil. Gives it a little more flexibility while not being a tedious as rolling 6 attacks of 1 and hoping for a whiff on defense.

Oh, is that how the original power was supposed to work? I had understood it as being able to boost the power on the additional attacks (at the cost of more markers, of course) as well, but reading it again, I'm not actually completely sure.

I brought up the Fist-Fusilade-style wording because I thought it felt like a more intuitive way of doing things - you have a pool of dice, split them up any way you like.

[Yodaking]

Originally Posted by Qualizium

Oh, is that how the original power was supposed to work? I had understood it as being able to boost the power on the additional attacks (at the cost of more markers, of course) as well, but reading it again, I'm not actually completely sure.

I brought up the Fist-Fusilade-style wording because I thought it felt like a more intuitive way of doing things - you have a pool of dice, split them up any way you like.

I'm not sure what the intent was, which is why I asked this question yesterday but Johnny39 hasn't been on yet to respond.

Originally Posted by Yodaking

Just want to clarify here, if she has 6 markers on her card she can remove all of them and either make one attack of 7 or 7 attacks of 1, but she can't mix the two and make 3 attacks of 4?

Your wording and mechanics is my preference.

[Tornado]

How about if Squirrel Leap activates after moving, attacking or defending?
Then maybe drop Move to 5 since she would essentially be an 8.
I could see an increase in the Leap height if it fits theme-wise. Would love for her to Leap on tall buildings.

[Lazy Orang]

Originally Posted by Tornado

How about if Squirrel Leap activates after moving, attacking or defending?
Then maybe drop Move to 5 since she would essentially be an 8.
I could see an increase in the Leap height if it fits theme-wise. Would love for her to Leap on tall buildings.

Sounding good!

[johnny139]

My intent on Squirrel Swarm was that you could make multiple attacks of varying die numbers. So, Qualizium, what you suggested was pretty much my intent only worded in a clearer way! Definitely happy to go with that one.

Tornado's suggestion there actually works for me and really resolves my concerns. I think in that case I'd want to drop it to 2 move on the leap, and maybe even down to 4 move base move... a bit concerned she'll be unthematically bouncy, and you'd be getting way too many markers, but that'll be testing.

I'll put together a more formal final suggestion when I'm not on my phone.

[Confred]

Originally Posted by johnny139

NAME = SQUIRREL GIRL
SECRET IDENTITY = DOREEN GREEN

SPECIES = MUTATE
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = STUDENT
PERSONALITY = ENTHUSIASTIC

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 4

MOVE = 6
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 4

POINTS = 160

NOT YOUR TYPICAL SUPERHERO
If Squirrel Girl is within clear sight of an Agent, Avenger, Crime Fighter, Loser, or Soldier you control, she is considered to have the same class as that figure.

SQUIRREL SWARM
Instead of moving with Squirrel Girl, you may place a brown Squirrel Marker on this card, up to a maximum of 999 Squirrel Markers. Once per round, you may remove any number of Squirrel Markers from this Army Card. If you do, Squirrel Girl has a Range Number of 6 and Attack Number of 1 until the end of this turn, and when attacking with Squirrel Girl, you may attack one additional time or roll 1 additional attack die for each Squirrel Marker removed this way.

STEALTH LEAP 12
Instead of her normal move, Squirrel Girl may use Stealth Leap 12. Stealth Leap 12 has a move of 3. When counting spaces of Stealth Leap 12, ignore elevations. Squirrel Girl may leap over water without stopping, leap over figures without becoming engages, and leap over obstacles such as ruins. Squirrel Girl may not leap more than 12 levels up or down in a single leap. If Squirrel Girl is engaged when she starts her Stealth Leap 12, she will not take any leaving engagement attacks.

What fun.

I lol'd at both Loser" and "999

[Confred]

Originally Posted by johnny139

Second power is her, uhh, calling squirrels to gather them together and unleash a swarm that can take out the likes of Doom and Galactus. We always specify the number of Markers needed in C3G, so I went with an absolutely ridiculous one - conceivably, yes, you can roll 1000 attack dice in one turn. Good luck getting there. If this power feels too weak, I'd be fine either giving her a passive way to accrue Squirrels (maybe one per round?) or upping the strength of the attacks (2 dice per squirrel?).

If need buff, keep squirrel at 1 and increase base from one

[Confred]

Originally Posted by johnny139

The fact that I still have Loser here shows how old this design is. Loser should be Reject, correct, which will be the synergy for the Great Lakes Avengers. Avenger has no synergy (and probably never will). I like it as a theme nod, and it's a supported class per the original Vision, but it could get confusing with Avengers Markers so cutting it might be smart.

Splitting the Swarm and the marker gathering might be smart. I tortured the wording a lot - it was originally an SA - trying to get it to read coherently. Four powers is rough but they'd be pretty simple, so it'd probably be cleaner overall.

I enjoyed Loser" and red herring synergies are fun, especially for offbeat figures

[Confred]

Originally Posted by Qualizium

Alternatively, (assuming you definitely want to go for the goofy high limit) you could have nine single-squirrel markers and nine 10-squirrel markers. It would mean more markers piled on the card at a time, but it would also make the markers more interchangeable, which means you'd never have to go rooting through your pile for a specific one, you just have a pile of singles and a pile of tens, and you grab them as necessary.

If you want to avoid stacks of markers on the card, you could give her a double track to place beside her card (similar to Dr Manhattan's tracker, but with two adjacent tracks instead of one), and two markers to track her squirrel count like so:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90

I'm more worried whether it feels very squirrel-girl-y (or fun) to have her hanging in the back, not moving, just spending turns building up a big swarm of squirrels. Of course you can throw her into melee before you start gathering markers, but I'm not sure she has the survivability for that to be a very attractive option.

I like that you're considering the logistics of all the markers. I on the other hand delighted inthe thought of the card being buried with squirrels.
I also don't like turtle strategy. Perhaps simply after moving or after a turn.

[Confred]

Originally Posted by Tornado

Which power would you drop?

I think the easiest solution would be to increase her Defense if need be.
Hard to say right now. I reckon if I start to see a pile of squirrels on her card I may try to get over there and assassinate her which could happen with her 4L, 4D which could add to the fun.

Going to be one where larger tests will probably show the truest results.

How does she defend herself in the comics?
Is she agile (defense)? Does she just tank the hit (Life)? Do the squirrels sacrifice themselves? Do they form up like in Batman Ninja?