icons: assembled edition
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An exclusive look inside the Assembled Edition of ICONS. This extract has 9 villains of the superhero RPG from Ad Infinitum Adventures and Green Ronin.TRANSCRIPT
PROWESS FAIR 4COORDINATION AVERAGE 3STRENGTH AVERAGE 3INTELLECT GOOD 5AWARENESS AVERAGE 3WILLPOWER GOOD 5
The Evil Eye: Light Control DeviceIncredible 7Extras: Dazzle, Flight, Force Field, Telekinesis
LEADERSHIP
OCCULT
POWER EXPERT (EVIL EYE)
INFAMOUS OLD WORLD LEGACY
MASTER OF THE EVIL EYE
RUTHLESS AND CUNNING SCHEMER
ABILITIES
POWERS
SPECIALTIES
QUALITIES
COUNT MALOCCHIO
Count Bernino Malocchio is the thirteenth of an infamous line. His predecessors were part of the cutthroat politics of the medieval Italian city-states, and his grandfather was a fascist collaborator and Axis agent, who used the powers of the talisman known as the Evil Eye. The eleventh Count Malocchio met his end in a rockslide in the Alps, but his infamy did not perish with him. Bernino sought out his grandfather’s final resting place, daring the treacherous peaks and valleys of the Alps. There he unearthed the = Evil Eye, and claimed its power for his own. Sacrificing a childhood mentor to seal a blood pact, he unlocked even greater power than previous possessors of the Eye imagined. It was not long thereafter that the twelfth Count Malocchio suffered a fatal “accident” and his son assumed the mantle of leadership.
8STAMINA
PROWESS AVERAGE 3COORDINATION AVERAGE 3STRENGTH AVERAGE 3INTELLECT GREAT 6AWARENESS FAIR 4WILLPOWER GOOD 5
ABILITIES
POWER (PLANT CONTROL)
SPECIALTIES
Plant ControlIncredible 7Extras: Binding, Burst
POWERS
THE GREEN WORLD ENDURES
GROWN BEYOND WHO HE WAS
SMARTER THAN YOU THINK
QUALITIES
THE CREEPER
Carl Wessler did janitorial and groundskeeping work at the Botanical Gardens, where scientists from the University were working on a variety of new fertilizers and fast-growth formulas. Carl was not supposed to sample the fruits (and vegetables) of the botanists’ labors, but they looked so good, and what was the harm? It wasn’t long before they discovered what he had been doing. The university was prepared to fire him, and Carl got angry. When he got mad, the plants listened. They grew, spilling out of their beds and creeping along the floor, at Carl’s command! He left the review board bound up in vines and left menial work—and Carl Wessler—behind forever. He was no longer just ordinary Carl, he was ... the Creeper!
8STAMINA
PROWESS AVERAGE 3COORDINATION GREAT 6STRENGTH FAIR 4INTELLECT FAIR 4AWARENESS GREAT 6WILLPOWER GOOD 5
ABILITIES
ATHLETICS
OCCULT
STEALTH
SPECIALTIES
AfflictionGreat 6Extra: Ranged
Mind ControlIncredible 7Limit: Only Reptiles
Wall-CrawlingGood 5
POWERS
HUNGERS FOR POWER
POISONOUS TRAITOR
SWORN TO DESTROY THE CHOSEN ONE
QUALITIES
GILA-MASTER
Gil Lonescale was always a bit of a snake, but Tom Crow, the medicine man of his tribe, saw potential in him and tried to untwist Gil’s path. When Tom’s other student, the slow-witted Daniel Morningstar, became Saguaro, Gil was consumed with jealousy. He went out into the desert himself, seeking power and the favor of the spirits, and got the bite of an irradiated lizard. The venom and sinister spirits he called upon transformed him into a reptile-man able to spit poison, and he swore the Gila-Master would destroy the “Chosen of the Spirits”!
9STAMINA
PROWESS GOOD 5COORDINATION FAIR 4STRENGTH AMAZING 8INTELLECT POOR 2AWARENESS AVERAGE 3WILLPOWER FAIR 4
SCIENCE
Damage ResistanceGood 5
FUELED BY RAGE
“GRUDGE SMASH!”
WILL NOT LET GO
ABILITIES
SPECIALTIES
POWERS
QUALITIES
GRUDGE
Parnell Tarrant wasn’t loved, or even liked, but he was respected, a capable scientist and researcher, but a man who knew how to hold a grudge, and repay every slight. He spent most of his time working in his field of radiation and its effects on cellular mutation, and cataloging the list of people who he’d show up one day. Then the accident: fired up with anger, careless with rage, and exposed to his own radiation bombardment, his cellular makeup transformed. Dr. Tarrant didn’t just hold a grudge, he was Grudge, and he would show them…show them all!
12STAMINA
PROWESS FAIR 4COORDINATION GOOD 5STRENGTH FAIR 4INTELLECT AVERAGE 3AWARENESS AVERAGE 3WILLPOWER FAIR 4
ABILITIES
ATHLETICS
DRIVE
SPECIALTIES
Fast AttackAmazing 8Fire AuraGood 5Fire StrikeGreat 6Super-SpeedAmazing 8
POWERS
DEVILISH
FASTER THAN HELL
OUTRUNNING HIS PAST
QUALITIES
SPEED DEMON
Eduardo Dacascos had wealth, but craved excitement. He became a race driver and nearly lost his life in a fiery crash. A blood transfusion saved his life, or perhaps it was Eduardo’s delusional “deal with the Devil.” The blood transformed him, able to move so fast the air ignited around him. He burned down the clinic and all records of his survival, allowing the world to believe he was dead when, in fact, he was reborn, as the Speed Demon. He embarked on an ever more daring life of crime: a courier, smuggler, and thief almost impossible to catch, with a roguish truly “Devil-may-care” attitude.
8STAMINA
BurrowingFair 4Damage ResistanceFantastic 9GrowthPoor 2Limit: Constant
LeapingIncredible 7Slashing StrikeGood 5
LOVES A GO OD FIGHT
MERCENARY MONSTER
“NOBODY STOPS THE TROLL!”
PROWESS INCREDIBLE 7COORDINATION AVERAGE 3STRENGTH FANTASTIC 9INTELLECT AVERAGE 3AWARENESS AVERAGE 3WILLPOWER AVERAGE 3
ABILITIES
ATHLETICS
MILITARY
SPECIALTIES
POWERS
QUALITIES
TROLL
Twelve feet of claws, horned, leathery green muscle, Troll was once Carter Cassidy, a hard-bitten mercenary, until one of his employers, a villainous mastermind with plans for conquest, used Cassidy as a subject for his newest “super-soldier” formula. It tapped into the merc’s “killer instinct” but manifested his darkest inner nature on the outside. Cassidy became the monster he truly was. In a rage, he destroyed the lab and escaped. Since then, he has become one of the most in-demand (and expensive) mercenaries in the world. Troll’s Growth is a permanent part of his Strength and Damage Resistance levels, without it there are “merely” Incredible.
12STAMINA
PROWESS NONE 0COORDINATION NONE 0STRENGTH NONE 0INTELLECT AMAZING 8AWARENESS GOOD 5WILLPOWER FANTASTIC 9
SCIENCE
Mental Blast Great 6TelekinesisGreat 6Extras: Blast, Force Field
TelepathyAmazing 8
BEYOND HUMAN W EAKNESS
BRAIN IN A TANK
HIGHLY EVOLVED
ABILITIES
SPECIALTIES
POWERS
QUALITIES
ULTRA-MIND
Evolutionary biologist Victor Slan developed methods to rapidly “force” evolution, bypassing millions of years of natural selection. When his project was cancelled, Dr. Slan broke into his lab and used his genetic accelerator on himself, transforming into a hyper-evolved “Ultra-Mind.” The forced evolution atrophied his body and Ultra-Mind developed a life support tank to house his disembodied brain. Ultra-Mind seeks to increase his own power, either through artificial enhancements or by further evolving to what he believes will be his ultimate state: a godlike being of pure mental energy, unshackled from physical existence altogether.
9STAMINA
PROWESS AMAZING 8COORDINATION INCREDIBLE 7STRENGTH INCREDIBLE 7INTELLECT FAIR 4AWARENESS GOOD 5WILLPOWER GREAT 6
ATHLETICS
WEAPONS
Damage ResistanceGood 5ImmortalityGood 5Weapons: Slashing Strike DevicesGood 5
BRIDE OF BATTLE
SISTERHOOD APOSTATE
SCALPEL OF CIVILIZATION
ABILITIES
SPECIALTIES
POWERS
QUALITIES
WARBRIDE
For centuries, the Sisterhood has chosen women to be champions of civilization, Brides of Battle, invested with a mystic power that makes them invincible warriors. On occasion, the vessel they have chosen has been wanting, but never before had she been truly mad. Not until Alethea, the Warbride. A survivor of war, raised and strengthened by the Sisterhood, she became the greatest of them, but turned away from their traditions. Invested with their power, she stole it for her own ends. The weak did not need defending: like a disease, they needed to be cut away, and she would be civilization’s razor-sharp scalpel.
13STAMINA