The Book of Night Thrasher

[Dr. Jekyll]

I am not a good writer. Thanks tickle for simplifying this stuff. It does however remove Mickey's little bonus. Not a big deal to me, this works.

[tcglkn]

I'm indifferent on how you want to do the bonding power but I thought the Skate Pack power would clear things up and only give the boost to the figures we wanted to give it to.

[Dr. Jekyll]

Alright, I really like where we are at here. Any objections on this before I update the OP?

NAME = NIGHT THRASHER
SECRET IDENTITY = DWAYNE TAYLOR

SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = LEADER
PERSONALITY = DEDICATED

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 4

MOVE = 5
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 5

POINTS = 180

NEW WARRIORS
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and taking a turn with Night Thrasher, you may take a turn with a Crime Fighter you control within 6 clear sight spaces of Night Thrasher, adding 1 to its attack number if it has a Reckless personality. You may not take any additional turns with other figures you control.

SKATE PACK 2
At the start of the game, after Order Markers are placed and before initiative is rolled, you may place up to two Utility Equipment Glyphs of different types on this card. Night Thrasher can equip a Utility Equipment Glyph even if there are other Utility Equipment Glyphs on this card, up to a maximum of 2. Night Thrasher cannot lose these glyphs by receiving wounds unless he is destroyed. Night Thrasher adds one to his defense while equipped with Glyph of Utility: Fiberglass Skateboard.

ESCRIMA ASSAULT SPECIAL ATTACK
Range 1. Attack 3.
Choose up to two figures to attack. Roll 3 attack dice once for all affected figures. Each figure rolls defense dice separately. After attacking with this special attack, Night Thrasher may attack with this special attack one additional time.

NAME = UTILITY: FIBERGLASS SKATEBOARD

TYPE OF GLYPH = EQUIPMENT

POWER TEXT = During this figure's normal move, for each level of height it moves down it may move 1 additional space to maximum of 3 additional spaces. At any point before or during their normal move, this figure may subtract 2 from their movement to ignore elevation changes of up to 4 levels up or down for one space, or two spaces if they have the Skate Pack special power.

[tcglkn]

Looks great to me.

I am a fan of the simpler bonding, not every power needs to reinvent the wheel.

[MrNobody]

Is that where we landed with the New Warriors power? The optimal move there will be to have him sit as far back as possible and repeatedly do double turns with Spidey and Nova or what have you. I think I'd pick him over Luke Cage most of the time.

I also just realized that the change to the language of the skateboard is a mechanical change, making it considerably slower. If we're okay with that it's fine, but figured I'd point it out.

I know this design has gotten into the weeds way more than I was expecting, and I just want to say I think you've done a great job of handling it, Jekyll.

[tcglkn]

Night Thrasher still has to be within 6 spaces of the second Crime Fighter taking a turn. So he can't sit too far back.

[Dr. Jekyll]

Originally Posted by MrNobody

Is that where we landed with the New Warriors power? The optimal move there will be to have him sit as far back as possible and repeatedly do double turns with Spidey and Nova or what have you. I think I'd pick him over Luke Cage most of the time.

I also just realized that the change to the language of the skateboard is a mechanical change, making it considerably slower. If we're okay with that it's fine, but figured I'd point it out.

I know this design has gotten into the weeds way more than I was expecting, and I just want to say I think you've done a great job of handling it, Jekyll.

Originally Posted by tcglkn

Night Thrasher still has to be within 6 spaces of the second Crime Fighter taking a turn. So he can't sit too far back.

No I definitely grabbed the wrong version, thanks for saying something Nobody. Also thanks for the kind words. I updated it with the one we settled on earlier. What is the mechanical change you see, it seems pretty similar?

[tcglkn]

Originally Posted by MrNobody

I also just realized that the change to the language of the skateboard is a mechanical change, making it considerably slower. If we're okay with that it's fine, but figured I'd point it out.

How so? I didn't think I change the mechanics or the board when tightening up the wording.

[MrNobody]

Before, NT was trading a normal move of 2 to gain a leap of 2. Now, he's subtracting 2 from his move to get 2 spaces of pseudo-flying on his normal move. So if he subtracts his last 2 move it now does nothing, where before it would let him leap 2 spaces.

Like I said, don't really think it's a problem if we want to do it that way (certainly much cleaner overall), but I do believe it's different.

[tcglkn]

During this figure's normal move, for each level of height it moves down it may move 1 additional space to maximum of 3 additional spaces. At any point before or during their normal move, once per turn this figure may ignore elevation changes of up to 4 levels up or down for one space, or two spaces if they have the Skate Pack special power.

Ah I see. I think this is easier. Why subtract the move for the jump, just make it once per turn.

[MrNobody]

That sounds good. Might make sense to put him back as a Crime Fighter now as well? No strong reason to keep him as a Leader I think.

[Dr. Jekyll]

Or something like this?

NAME = UTILITY: FIBERGLASS SKATEBOARD

TYPE OF GLYPH = EQUIPMENT

POWER TEXT = During this figure's normal move, for each level of height it moves down it may move 1 additional space to maximum of 3 additional spaces. At any point before or during their normal move, this figure may subtract 2 from their movement to jump 1 space ignoring elevation changes of up to 4 levels up or down, or jump 2 spaces if they have the Skate Pack special power.