Donatello

[MrNobody]

Donatello



Card PDF

NAME = DONATELLO
IDENTITY = N/A

UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
SPECIES = TURTLE
CLASS = NINJA
PERSONALITY = BRILLIANT

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 4

MOVE = 5
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 6

POINTS = 160

BRILLIANT ADVANTAGE
Add 1 to your initiative roll for each ally adjacent to Donatello. If you win initiative, you may inflict a wound on a figure within 4 clear spaces of Donatello.

STAFF TRIP 14
After Donatello's move phase, you may choose an adjacent enemy and roll a d20. On a 14+, you may move the chosen figure 1 space, ignoring swipes.

COMBAT FLIP 14
During Donatello's transition and after combat against an enemy, you may maneuver him up to 2 spaces. During this maneuver, Donatello has Flying and Stealth, but may not move more than 14 levels up or down.

FACTION = TMNT
PUBLISHER = IDW
KEYWORDS = Mutagen, Science
SYMBOLS = N/A

WORLDS COLLIDE: Donatello is a realist, technician, and brilliant scientist. His primary weapon is the bo staff.

Resources and Rulings

• The suggested figure for this unit is a Heroclix figure: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #104 / Donatello
• See this card's wiki page for synergies and strategies!

Credits

• Legacy design: quozl
• Playtesters:
  • Arch-vile
  • IAmBatman
  • MrNobody
• Card art: japes
• Comic creators: Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird

Updates

• N/A

[MrNobody]

As long as nobody else has concerns with this direction, I'm pretty happy here too!

[Yodaking]

I have no qualms with the effects of Tech Genius. Initiative boosts and auto-wounds seem like good additions to the faction. The name though seems off. I don't know how the two things are related.

I also think it's a little weird that it says he's a amateur scientist, and then we give him the science keyword. What is the genesis of him being the Turtles tech guy anyway? Did they steal some college text books or something.

[MrNobody]

Yeah I remember LP felt the name was off too. Does Turtle Tech feel better?

I can totally edit the bio, I’ve just been copying their 1.0 iterations there.

[IAmBatman]

Suggested edits. Wouldn't go with Turtle Tech unless you make something in the ability Turtle-specific.

TECH GENIUS
Add 1 to your initiative roll for each ally adjacent to Donatello. If you win initiative, you may inflict a wound on a figure within 4 clear spaces of Donatello.

STAFF TRIP
Before Donatello's move phase, you may choose an adjacent enemy and roll the d20. On a 12+, you may move the chosen figure 1 space, ignoring swipes.

[japes]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

Suggested edits. Wouldn't go with Turtle Tech unless you make something in the ability Turtle-specific.

I was going to say the same thing. It's a somewhat reusable power so unless adding something turtle related...

Maybe make it be adjacent Turtles instead of all allies and then call it Turtle Tech?

Or adjacent Turtles or figures with Science Keyword? IDW April qualifies for the keyword I think. She's Baxter Stockman's Assistant and uses her brain to come up with stuff with Donatello in the heat of the moment

[MrNobody]

Made Bats wording updates.

One thing I really appreciate about the 1.0 Turtles is that (outside of Leo) all of them are workable as generalist heroes, and I've definitely used them as such. So I'm kinda hesitant to limit it to Turtles only or Turtles/Scientists.

Would any of these names work for people?
Scientific Advantage
Genius Gadgetry
Genius Gizmos

[Lord Pyre]

Gadget Strike?

Is there any specific gadgets he's used in the comic that we can rep with this power?

[IAmBatman]

Originally Posted by MrNobody

Made Bats wording updates.

One thing I really appreciate about the 1.0 Turtles is that (outside of Leo) all of them are workable as generalist heroes, and I've definitely used them as such. So I'm kinda hesitant to limit it to Turtles only or Turtles/Scientists.

Would any of these names work for people?
Scientific Advantage
Genius Gadgetry
Genius Gizmos

Fwiw I think you could thread the needle by making the initiative boost based on adjacent Turtle Allies and still be plenty viable in other builds (since there are lots of ways to win initiative and auto wounds are always good).

[japes]

Originally Posted by MrNobody

Made Bats wording updates.

One thing I really appreciate about the 1.0 Turtles is that (outside of Leo) all of them are workable as generalist heroes, and I've definitely used them as such. So I'm kinda hesitant to limit it to Turtles only or Turtles/Scientists.

Would any of these names work for people?
Scientific Advantage
Genius Gadgetry
Genius Gizmos

Scientific Advantage sounds cool and resuable.

[MrNobody]

Seems like conversation has stalled here, so I updated to Brilliant Advantage. (Realized it might be smart to stray away from the word Scientific if Science is gonna be a synergy thing.) If that works for everyone, I propose we move to Initial Playtesting with all the Turtles!

[IAmBatman]

Yea