The Book of Speedball

[tcglkn]

The Book of Speedball

C3G MARVEL SUPER SECRET EXCLUSIVE 15
THE WEB OF SPIDER-MAN

Comic PDF

Mini PDF

The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the Secret Invasion set.
Its model number and name are #038 / Speedball.

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Character Bio - After being exposed to extra-dimensional energy during an experiment, Robbie Baldwin received superhuman abilities. With the power to create a field of kinetic energy around himself, Robbie was about to absorb enormous amounts of energy directed at him. The "Speedball Effect" as he called it, allowed him to ignore damage and bounce around.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As a Mutate, Speedball has these Mutate Synergies.
• As a Crime Fighter, Speedball has these Crime Fighter Synergies.

Outgoing Synergy:

• N/A

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-Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses-

Immunities

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Benefits

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Weaknesses

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

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-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: tcglkn
• Second playtest: b57123m
• Third playtest: Hidicul (150 points)
• Art by tcglkn

[tcglkn]

NAME = SPEEDBALL
SECRET IDENTITY = ROBBIE BALDWIN

SPECIES = MUTATE
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = CRIME FIGHTER
PERSONALITY = RECKLESS

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 6

MOVE = 7
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 3
DEFENSE = 3

POINTS = 150

SPEEDBALL EFFECT
Speedball does not have to stop his movement when entering a water or lava space. You may ignore Speedball's height when moving. Speedball never takes falling damage or major falling damage.

KINETIC MOMENTUM
If Speedball inflicts one or more wounds with his normal attack, you may immediately move him up to 3 spaces and attack again. When Speedball moves with Kinetic Momentum, he will not take any leaving engagement attacks. Speedball cannot attack more than four times in a single turn.

KINETIC BOUNCE
When Speedball defends against an attack and you roll at least one shield, Speedball takes no damage and may immediately move up to X spaces. X equals the number of skulls rolled by the attacking figure. When Speedball moves with Kinetic Bounce, he will not take any leaving engagement attacks.

[Griffin]

Cool.

[Good Pig]

Looks fun tickle! Nice work.

I've been considering drafting Penance and wanted to see what you had in store here.

[tcglkn]

This guy is so hard to wound. In the Civil War story arch, he was caught in an explosion and blow halfway across the state and survived. I think it drained his powers though. I think I have a very simple fun design here.

[Good Pig]

I was just thinking about bouncing because of the Bouncing Boy design. What you have is great and simple, I was thinking of a play off that...

SPEEDBALL EFFECT
When Speedball defends against an attack, and you roll at least one shield, Speedball takes no damage and may immediately move up to X spaces, where X equals the number of skulls rolled by the attacking figure.

Kind of like how knockback works, but without counting your own skulls rolled.

[tcglkn]

That's cool. I like it. I'd love to see him punched halfway across the map by Thor.

[IAmBatman]

That's cool - I wonder if that's not something we'd want to use on more than one design (thus the Bouncing Boy reference) and would want a slightly more generic title on?
Overall the OP looks cool. I literally know nothing about this character except that he associates with Spidey at times.
One thing is that the design does scream "fast and balls to the wall" but I'm not sure about "Reckless." I'm OK with that being his personality, just not sure if that concept should be more present in his design or not.

[A3n]

That mini looks like something you would get if you mashed Blue Beetle (ted) & Booster Gold together.

[tcglkn]

I see him as reckless. He can take a fair amount of damage without taking any damage.

[IAmBatman]

I know, right? With just a sprinkle of Arsenal and Kid Flash in there for flavor.

[IAmBatman]

Originally Posted by tcglkn

I see him as reckless. He can take a fair amount of damage without taking any damage.

?? I'm not sure that second sentence makes sense, but I think I know what you're trying to say.
Isn't that a trait of Superman, though? The truly reckless do things even though it may cause them to take actual damage. If you can do things that would cause a normal person damage but you just shrug it off, you're not reckless - you're tough!