Rate my "Big Bad Evils"

[Alonsua]

There are two of them, I will post one for now. You´re free to rip it and find its weaknesses.

ALEXANDER KING
Male; 09/01/88; 6' 3"

"Paragon human, he is a power-hungry man who seeks to rule over the world, believing humanity to be on its path to self-destruction and himself to be its only possible saviour. Being the product of a thousand years eugenic experiment, he devoted himself to the study of bioengineering in order to further improve his already not-so-human condition through the use of several metamorphic viruses, gaining superhuman strength and speed in the process."

ATTRIBUTES
Strength 15 [50] Dexterity 15 [100] Intelligence 15 [100] Health 15 [50]

ADVANTAGES
Absolute Direction [5] Absolute Timing [2] Accelerated Learning 2 [40] Ambidexterity [5] Animal Empathy [5] Appearance (Very Handsome) [16] Breath-Holding 2 [4] Burst Reflexes (Altered Time Rate 1, Increased Basic Speed 4; Costs Fatigue 2 FP) [108] Catfall [10] Charisma 3 [15] Claws, Blunt (Hands) [3] Claws, Sharp (Hands; Switchable) [6] Combat Reflexes [15] Common Sense [10] Damage Resistance 3 (Tough Skin) [6] Doesn´t Breathe (Oxygen Storage x100) [14] Doesn´t Sleep [20] Eidetic Memory (Photographic) [10] Explosive Strength (Increased Strength 5; Costs Fatigue 1 FP/second; Emergencies Only) [30] Extra Arm 2 (Foot Manipulators; Short) [4] Extra Fatigue Points 10 [30] Fearlessness 5 [10] Filter Lungs [5] Fit, Very [15] Flexibility (Double-Jointed) [15] Hard to Kill 1 [2] Hard to Subdue [2] High Pain Threshold [10] Improved G-tolerance [5] Innate Attack (Follow-up 1d toxic; HT-4 to resist; onset 1 minute; 1 hour 4 cycles; 2/3 HP -2 ST/DX/IQ/HT) [8] Intuition [15] Language Talent [10] Lifting ST 3 [9] Lightning Calculator (Intuitive Mathematician) [5] Longevity [2] Metabolism Control 2 [10] Mimicry [10] Nictitating Membrane 3 [3] Night Vision 5 [5] Perfect Balance [15] Pitiable [5] Plant Empathy [5] Pressure Support 1 [5] Radiation Tolerance (PF: 2) [5] Rank 8 [40] Rapid Healing, Very [15] Reduced Consumption 2 [4] Reputation 2 [10] Resistant (Acceleration +3) [2] Resistant (Disease +8) [5] Resistant (Ingested Poison +3) [4] Single-Minded [5] Status 7 [0] Striker, Crushing (Elbow) [4] Striker, Crushing (Shin) [4] Striking ST 3 [15] Talent 3 (Animal Friend; Artificer; Born Entertainer; Born Soldier; Born War Leader; Business Acumen; Computer Wizard; Craftiness; Empath; Forensics Whiz Kid; Healer; Impersonator; Musical Ability; Natural Copper; Natural Scientist; Smooth Operator; Truth-Seeker) [255]; Teeth, Fangs [2]; Temperature Tolerance 5 [5] Versatile [5] Voice [10] Wealth, Multimillionaire 3 [125]

LANGUAGES
Chinese Group (Gan, Hakka, Mandarin, Min Bei, Min Dong, Min Nan, Wu, Xiang, Yue (Cantonese)); English Group (Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Jamaican, Creole, Louisiana Creole); German Group (Austro-Bavarian, German, Yiddish); Scandinavian Group (Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish)

DISADVANTAGES
Curious [-5] Duty (Company) [-5] Enemy (The Media) [-15] Fanaticism (Transhumanism) [-15] Megalomania [-15] Obsession (Rule Over The World) [-10] Overconfidence [-5] Secret (Illegal Research; Imprisonment) [-20] Sense of Duty (Alexandra Romanov) [-2] Sense of Duty (Team) [-5] Workaholic [-5]

PERKS
Biting Mastery [1] Citizenship (American) [0] Concealed Carry Permit [1] Deep Sleeper [1] Deep Study [1] Extended Hearing (High) [1] Extended Hearing (Low) [1] Honest Face [1] Iron Arms [1] Iron Legs [1] Iron Neck [1] Long Fingers (Switchable) [1] Low Rejection Threshold [1] No Hangover [1] Passing Appearance (Passing Complexion) [1] Penetrating Voice [1] Perfume [1] Photogenic [1] Pressure-Tolerant Lungs (Dense) [1] Pressure-Tolerant Lungs (Thin) [1] Rehearsed Role (Policeman) [1] Reproductive Control [1] Robust Hearing [1] Robust Vision [1] Sanitized Metabolism [1] Style Familiarity (Double Trouble; Kumango Silat; Military Leadership; Wushu) [4] Sure-Footed (Ice; Sand; Slippery; Snow; Uneven; Water) [6] Unusual Training (Dual-Weapon Attack (Karate/Knife/Pistol)) [3]

QUIRKS
Attentive [-1] Like (Bioengineering) [-1] Like (Guns) [-1] Like (Knives) [-1] Like (Leading) [-1] Like (Punning) [-1]

SKILLS
Accounting [4]-15; Acrobatics [4]-15; Acting [2]-15; Administration [2]-15; Area Knowledge (San Francisco; Lived there) [1]-15; Bioengineering (Genetic Engineering) [24]-20; Bioengineering (Microbioengineering) [16]-20; Bioengineering (Tissue Engineering) [16]-20; Biology (Earthlike) [8]-15; Cartography [2]-15; Climbing [2]-15; Combat Art (Karate) [4]-15; Computer Operation [1]-15; Cryptography [4]-15; Current Affairs (Business) [1]-15; Current Affairs (Headline News) [1]-15; Current Affairs (High Culture) [1]-15; Current Affairs (People) [1]-15; Current Affairs (Politics) [1]-15; Current Affairs (Popular Culture) [1]-15; Current Affairs (Science & Technology) [1]-15; Current Affairs (Sports) [1]-15; Current Affairs (Travel) [1]-15; Diagnosis [4]-15; Diplomacy [4]-15; Disguise [2]-15; Economics [4]-15; Electronics Operation (Medical) [2]-15; Electronics Operation (Scientific) [2]-15; Electronics Operation (Security) [2]-15; Electronics Operation (Surveillance) [2]-15; Escape [4]-15; Expert Skill (Military Science) [4]-15; Expert Skill (Political Science) [4]-15; Fast-Draw (Knife) [1]-15; Fast-Draw (Pistol) [1]-15; Fast-Draw (Ammo) [1]-15; Filch [2]-15; Finance [4]-15; Forced Entry [1]-15; Forensics [4]-15; Geography (Political) [4]-15; Guns (Pistol) [1]-15; Hazardous Materials (Biological) [2]-15; Holdout [2]-15; Intelligence Analysis [4]-15; Interrogation [2]-15; Intimidation [2]-15; Judo [4]-15; Jumping [1]-15; Karate [4]-15; Knife [1]-15; Law (American/Medical) [4]-15; Leadership [2]-15; Lip Reading [2]-15; Lockpicking [2]-15; Market Analysis [4]-15; NBC Suit [2]-15; Observation [2]-15; Parachuting [1]-15; Pharmacy (Synthetic) [4]-15; Philosophy (Transhumanism) [4]-15; Photography [2]-15; Physician [4]-15; Physiology (Human) [4]-15; Poisons [4]-15; Propaganda [2]-15; Psychology [4]-15; Public Speaking [2]-15; Research [2]-15; Savoir-Faire (Dojo) [1]-15; Savoir-Faire (High Society) [1]-15; Savoir-Faire (Military) [1]-15; Scuba [2]-15; Search [2]-15; Smuggling [2]-15; Soldier [2]-15; Stealth [2]-15; Surgery [8]-15; Survival (Arctic) [2]-15; Survival (Bank) [2]-15; Survival (Deep Ocean Vent) [2]-15; Survival (Desert) [2]-15; Survival (Fresh-Water Lake) [2]-15; Survival (Island/Beach) [2]-15; Survival (Jungle) [2]-15; Survival (Mountain) [2]-15; Survival (Open Ocean) [2]-15; Survival (Plains) [2]-15; Survival (Reef) [2]-15; Survival (River/Stream) [2]-15; Survival (Salt-Water Sea) [2]-15; Survival (Swampland) [2]-15; Survival (Tropical Lagoon) [2]-15; Survival (Woodlands) [2]-15; Swimming [1]-15; Tactics [4]-15; Traps [2]-15; Urban Survival [2]-15; Writing [2]-15

TECHNIQUES
Close-Quarters Battle (Guns/Pistol) [2]-17; Dual-Weapon Attack (Guns/Pistol) [5]-15; Dual-Weapon Attack (Karate) [5]-15; Dual-Weapon Attack (Knife) [5]-15; Kicking (Karate) [3]-15; Mission Assignment (Leadership) [6]-15; Motion-Picture Camera (Photography) [3]-15; Rope Up (Climbing) [2]-15; Scaling (Climbing) [4]-15; Slip Handcuffs (Escape) [6]-15; Targeted Attack (Pistol/Skull) [5]-12; Targeted Attack (Knife/Vitals) [3]-14

[whswhs]

How do you have a thousand-year eugenics experiment? Mendelian genetics is less than 200 years old.

[Alonsua]

ALEXANDRA ROMANOV
Female; 24/11/91; 6' 3"
Extremely intelligent and canny, she is a young woman who seeks to rebuild the entire human race in her image and likeness through biological mass destruction and forced evolution. For her, the humanity in its current state has met an evolutionary dead-end. Alexandra is the developer of an advanced metamorphic virus which grants her great psychic powers with which she is able to control huge numbers of ants. She has also created her own variety of giant ants, with each weighing up to fifteen pounds and considering her their queen.

ATTRIBUTES
Strength 15 [50] Dexterity 15 [100] Intelligence 15 [100] Health 15 [50]

ADVANTAGES
Absolute Direction [5] Absolute Timing [2] Accelerated Learning 2 [40] Ambidexterity [5] Animal Empathy [5] Appearance (Very Beautiful) [16] Breath-Holding 2 [4] Burst Reflexes (Increased Basic Speed 4; Costs Fatigue 2 FP) [18] Catfall [10] Charisma 3 [15] Claws, Blunt (Hands) [3] Claws, Sharp (Hands; Switchable) [6] Combat Reflexes [15] Common Sense [10] Damage Resistance 3 (Tough Skin) [6] Doesn´t Breathe (Oxygen Storage x100) [14] Doesn´t Sleep [20] Dominance Pheromones (Mind Reading (Formicids; Scent Only; Telecommunication; Broadcast; Long-Distance) Mindlink (Tens of miles; Formicids) Telecommunication (Telesend; Formicids; Broadcast; Long-Distance)) [112] Eidetic Memory (Photographic) [10] Explosive Strength (Increased Strength 5; Costs Fatigue 1 FP/second; Emergencies Only) [30] Extra Arm 2 (Foot Manipulators; Short) [4] Extra Fatigue Points 10 [30] Fearlessness 5 [10] Filter Lungs [5] Fit, Very [15] Flexibility (Double-Jointed) [15] Hard to Kill 1 [2] Hard to Subdue [2] High Pain Threshold [10] Improved G-tolerance [5] Innate Attack (Follow-up 1d toxic; HT-4 to resist; onset 1 minute; 1 hour 4 cycles; 2/3 HP -2 ST/DX/IQ/HT) [8] Intuition [15] Language Talent [10] Lifting ST 3 [9] Lightning Calculator (Intuitive Mathematician) [5] Longevity [2] Metabolism Control 2 [10] Mimicry [10] Nictitating Membrane 3 [3] Night Vision 5 [5] Perfect Balance [15] Pitiable [5] Plant Empathy [5] Pressure Support 1 [5] Radiation Tolerance (PF: 2) [5] Rank 8 [40] Rapid Healing, Very [15] Reduced Consumption 2 [4] Reputation 2 [10] Resistant (Acceleration +3) [2] Resistant (Disease +8) [5] Resistant (Ingested Poison +3) [4] Single-Minded [5] Status 7 [0] Striker, Crushing (Elbow) [4] Striker, Crushing (Shin) [4] Striking ST 3 [15] Talent 3 (Animal Friend; Artificer; Born Entertainer; Born Soldier; Born War Leader; Business Acumen; Computer Wizard; Craftiness; Empath; Forensics Whiz Kid; Healer; Impersonator; Musical Ability; Natural Copper; Natural Scientist; Smooth Operator; Truth-Seeker) [255]; Teeth, Fangs [2]; Temperature Tolerance 5 [5] Versatile [5] Voice [10] Wealth, Multimillionaire 3 [125]

LANGUAGES
Chinese Group (Gan, Hakka, Mandarin, Min Bei, Min Dong, Min Nan, Wu, Xiang, Yue (Cantonese)); English Group (Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Jamaican, Creole, Louisiana Creole); German Group (Austro-Bavarian, German, Yiddish); Scandinavian Group (Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish)

DISADVANTAGES
Curious [-5] Duty (Company) [-5] Enemy (The Media) [-15] Fanaticism (Transhumanism) [-15] Megalomania [-15] Obsession (Become a powerful queen) [-10] Overconfidence [-5] Secret (Illegal Research; Imprisonment) [-20] Sense of Duty (Alexander King) [-2] Sense of Duty (Team) [-5] Sense of Duty (The Hive) [-5] Workaholic [-5]

PERKS
Biting Mastery [1] Citizenship (British) [0] Concealed Carry Permit [1] Deep Sleeper [1] Deep Study [1] Extended Hearing (High) [1] Extended Hearing (Low) [1] Honest Face [1] Iron Arms [1] Iron Legs [1] Iron Neck [1] Long Fingers (Switchable) [1] Low Rejection Threshold [1] No Hangover [1] Passing Appearance (Passing Complexion) [1] Penetrating Voice [1] Perfume [1] Photogenic [1] Pressure-Tolerant Lungs (Dense) [1] Pressure-Tolerant Lungs (Thin) [1] Rehearsed Role (Policeman) [1] Reproductive Control [1] Robust Hearing [1] Robust Vision [1] Sanitized Metabolism [1] Style Familiarity (Courtesanry; Double Trouble; Wushu) [3] Sure-Footed (Ice; Sand; Slippery; Snow; Uneven; Water) [6] Unusual Training (Dual-Weapon Attack (Karate/Pistol)) [2]

QUIRKS
Attentive [-1] Collector (DNA) [-1] Like (Animals) [-1] Like (Bioengineering) [-1] Like (Musicing) [-1] Token (Necklace) [-1]

SKILLS
Accounting [4]-15; Acrobatics [4]-15; Acting [2]-15; Administration [2]-15; Animal Handling (Apocrita) [2]-15; Animal Handling (Canoidea) [2]-15; Bioengineering (Genetic Engineering) [24]-20; Bioengineering (Microbioengineering) [16]-20; Bioengineering (Tissue Engineering) [16]-20; Biology (Earthlike) [8]-15; Carousing [1]-15; Cartography [2]-15; Chemistry [4]-15; Combat Art (Karate) [4]-15; Computer Operation [1]-15; Connoisseur (Music) [2]-15; Current Affairs (Business) [1]-15; Current Affairs (Headline News) [1]-15; Current Affairs (High Culture) [1]-15; Current Affairs (People) [1]-15; Current Affairs (Politics) [1]-15; Current Affairs (Popular Culture) [1]-15; Current Affairs (Science & Technology) [1]-15; Current Affairs (Sports) [1]-15; Current Affairs (Travel) [1]-15; Dancing [2]-15; Diagnosis [4]-15; Diplomacy [4]-15; Economics [4]-15; Electronics Operation (Medical) [2]-15; Electronics Operation (Scientific) [2]-15; Expert Skill (Epidemiology) [4]-15; Fast-Draw (Pistol) [1]-15; Fast-Draw (Ammo) [1]-15; Finance [4]-15; Forensics [4]-15; Guns (Pistol) [1]-15; Hazardous Materials (Biological) [2]-15; Intimidation [2]-15; Jumping [1]-15; Karate [4]-15; Law (British/Medical) [4]-15; Linguistics [4]-15; Makeup [1]-15; Market Analysis [4]-15; Mathematics (Statistics) [4]-15; Musical Composition [4]-15; Musical Instrument (Piano) [4]-15; NBC Suit [2]-15; Pharmacy (Synthetic) [24]-20; Physician [4]-15; Physiology (Apocrita) [4]-15; Physiology (Canoidea) [4]-15; Physiology (Human) [4]-15; Poisons [12]-20; Propaganda [2]-15; Psychology [4]-15; Public Speaking [2]-15; Research [2]-15; Savoir-Faire (Dojo) [1]-15; Savoir-Faire (High Society) [1]-15; Sex Appeal [2]-15; Singing [1]-15; Sociology [4]-15; Surgery [8]-15; Veterinary [4]-15; Writing [2]-15

TECHNIQUES
Chest Surgery (Surgery) [4]-15; Close-Quarters Battle (Guns/Pistol) [2]-17; Dual-Weapon Attack (Guns/Pistol) [5]-15; Dual-Weapon Attack (Karate) [5]-15; Head Surgery (Surgery) [4]-15; Kicking (Karate) [3]-15; Rare Diseases (Diagnosis) [6]-15; Targeted Attack (Pistol/Skull) [5]-12

[Alonsua]

Originally Posted by whswhs

How do you have a thousand-year eugenics experiment? Mendelian genetics is less than 200 years old.

With huge research labors to find remains and records so the researchers could pick the fittest humans in the whole history in order to blend the DNA of the best 46 individuals into a single zygote.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by whswhs

How do you have a thousand-year eugenics experiment? Mendelian genetics is less than 200 years old.

Clearly a comic book reality and therefore that's not an issue. It could be aliens or just secret societies that were far ahead of their time.

[Alonsua]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Clearly a comic book reality and therefore that's not an issue. It could be aliens or just secret societies that were far ahead of their time.

Blending DNA from the fittest people in history and a lot of trial and error also helps, and it gives you a certain aura of evil when dead children count in the hundreds.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by Alonsua

With huge research labors to find remains and records so the researchers could pick the fittest humans in the whole history in order to blend the DNA of the best 46 individuals into a single zygote.

I don't think that is what is meant by "eugenics." The movement that went by that name worked over a span of generations, and through normal sexual reproduction.

Aside from the name, what is the actual process you have in mind? It seems vanishingly unlikely that you could find remnant DNA from the best 46 individuals in human history. Some of them may not even be known by name; and the odds are that any one of them might have had their remains disposed of in a way that didn't allow DNA extraction. I suppose you could collect DNA samples from all the human remains you had access to (though doing collection from indigenous American remains would probably have to be done in secret, given how hard many tribal governments fight against it); do you mean "the best 46 of all the people whose remains we could sequence?"

And what is your criterion for "best"? If you can look at the DNA sequence by itself, and say, "okay, this person was fit in the following ways," then you must have solved the problem of interpreting DNA; and then you could just generated random sequences on a computer, feed them into your sequencer, pick the best, and use them as seeds for more random DNA, never bothering with actual human DNA. Or if you can't do that, youi can only work with remains of people whose biographies you know, which isn't going to be very many. And then there's the criterion of "best": Do Genghis Khan count as the fittest human being who ever lived?

[whswhs]

Giant ants? Just how much pseudo-science is this campaign tolerating? Ants breathe by diffusion of air through tracheae, and at current oxygen concentrations, you can't get much over a square centimeter cross section. That would give you an ant around 450 feet long. You really need a respiratory pigment in the blood to get as big as 30 pounds.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by whswhs

Giant ants? Just how much pseudo-science is this campaign tolerating? Ants breathe by diffusion of air through tracheae, and at current oxygen concentrations, you can't get much over a square centimeter cross section. That would give you an ant around 450 feet long. You really need a respiratory pigment in the blood to get as big as 30 pounds.

Once again, comic book reality.

As to actual criticisms...that many talents is simply pointless. You might as well just bite the bullet and give him an IQ of 18.

[Maz]

Originally Posted by Alonsua

ALEXANDER KING
Male; 09/01/88; 6' 3"

"Paragon human, he is a power-hungry man who seeks to rule over the world, believing humanity to be on its path to self-destruction and himself to be its only possible saviour. Being the product of a thousand years eugenic experiment, he devoted himself to the study of bioengineering in order to further improve his already not-so-human condition through the use of several metamorphic viruses, gaining superhuman strength and speed in the process."

That sounds like the perfect villain. Control the world "for their own good" that never gets old :)
I mean that. It works better IMO than "destroy the world becasue why not". ... I always like Laweful Evil better as villains than Chaotic Evil.
And he has a good mix of fascism and more than a hint towards wanting to cleanse the unfit.

From his different trait it also seems he has a lot of socio-econoic power which can give him direct political influence as well as the wealth to have lots of minions. Thats always a plus for a big bad evil.

He also seems to have the stats to hold his own in an inevitable fight vs. the heroes who come to stop him. Ofcourse depending on the powerlevel, but with the high bases stats, very high skills and epsecially the possibility for Altered Time, he is not easily stopped by physical force.


Specific traits:
Pitiable. I don't think this will fit because, at least I read him as the typical dictator to be and it just seems weird for him to look like some innocent person you would want to care for. But this might be deliberate?

Megalomania + Obsession + Overconfidence: I feel like these overlap too much. Overconfidence states "Overconfidence is like Megalomania (p. 144) on a smaller scale". So it feels like doubledipping to have both. This is even more true for his obsession, because Megalomania literally means "Obsession - rule the world" in GURPS terms.

Enemy: How is The Media an enemy? Are they watchers? Do they target him more than any other famous person. Are there perhaps a specific paper or journalist who are 'gunning' for him? If there are, this might be a useful ally for the PC's.

Other: He definitely sounds like a person who might be Callous though.
He could also be a Bully ("The strong has a right to rule the weak") but that's not in his personality right now, but is a typical villain trait, and could open up for why some of his allies/henchmen might want to go against him despite his formidable charisma/reaction bonus.

Quirks: His "like bioenginering" seems redundant when he already have Fanatism (Transhumanism). Same for "likes leading" when he already has Megalomania. He also "likes knives and guns". What exactly does this mean for him? Does it mean than in a potential combat-situation he is going to prefer to fight using knives and guns? Because all of his natural attacks seems to suggest he would prefer unarmed combat. Or maybe it's just that his an avid collector an connoisseur of fine guns and knives? This might be a good way for the PC's to get close to him if they can offer a rare or old special knife or gun.
I love his "likes punning" that's also awesome for a big villain. :)



I must admit I never put this much effort into statting my villains up. :D