[Supers] Green Lantern

[oneofmanynameless]

I was thinking about running a supers game and was wondering how best to build a Green Lantern type character (I'm mostly thinking in terms of the actual powers he and the other power ring wielders have, rather than the source of that power). Are any of the Supers templates appropriate? Would you mix multiple together? I'm sure this question has probably been asked before so if there is a good thread to look up I'd love a pointer.

[Donny Brook]

Originally Posted by oneofmanynameless

I was thinking about running a supers game and was wondering how best to build a Green Lantern type character (I'm mostly thinking in terms of the actual powers he and the other power ring wielders have, rather than the source of that power). Are any of the Supers templates appropriate? Would you mix multiple together? I'm sure this question has probably been asked before so if there is a good thread to look up I'd love a pointer.

The go to would seem to be Modular Powers (Cosmic) with a Will-Based roll, Physical Only +50%, and Focus-Limited (green forcefields) -5%.

[Imbicatus]

I’d say a big portion of the modular ability pool at any given time is TK with the visible limitation.

[Phantasm]

My Green Lantern expy's powers so far:

Powers:
Allies (5 Creations) (Minion; Requires Concentrate; Summonable (Constructs); Power Cosmic)
Binding 520 (Constricting; Increased Range: Line of Sight; Variable; Power Cosmic)
Concussive Beam: Crushing Attack 6d×5 (Increased Range: Line of Sight; Variable; Power Cosmic)
Damage Resistance 200 (Affects Others; Area Effect: 4 yd radius; Force Field; Hardened 1; Selective Area; Selectivity; Power Cosmic)
Energy Beam: Burning Attack 6d×5 (Damage Modifier: No Incendiary Effect; Increased Range: Line of Sight; Variable; Power Cosmic)
Energy Spear: Impaling Attack 6d×5 (Increased Range: Line of Sight; Variable; Power Cosmic)
Enhanced Air Move 4.5 (Complete Maneuverability; Instant Acceleration; Power Cosmic)
Enhanced Space Move 4.5 (Complete Maneuverability; Instant Acceleration; Power Cosmic)
Flight (Complete Maneuverability; Space Flight; Power Comic)
Heat Beam:
- Burning Attack 6d×5 (Cone: 1 yd radius; Increased Range: Line of Sight; Variable; Power Cosmic)
- Fatigue Attack 2d (Follow-Up; Power Cosmic)
Laser Beam: Burning Attack 6d×5 (Armor Divisor (2); Increased Range: Line of Sight; Variable; Power Cosmic)
Illusion (Power Cosmic)
Injury Tolerance (Damage Reduction /10) (Power Cosmic)
Telekinesis 34/520 (Based on Will; Super Effort; Visual; Power Cosmic)
Pressure Support (Power Cosmic)
Vacuum Support (Power Cosmic)

The key components are Flight, Damage Resistance, Allies, and Telekinesis. The TK and Allies covers 90% of the force constructs the various GLs have made, Binding the other 10%.

(In this particular case, I'm working off the Kyle Rayner version from the early- to mid-'90s. Replace the Power Cosmic (+10%) PM with any PM you wish.)

[whswhs]

The Improviser template in GURPS Supers was deliberately built to do this sort of thing—though I didn't do an "energy field" treatment. I think one would be fairly straightforward to come up with, though, using Modular Abilities.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by Donny Brook

The go to would seem to be Modular Powers (Cosmic) with a Will-Based roll, Physical Only +50%, and Focus-Limited (green forcefields) -5%.

GL could do all sorts of mental things. For example, his ring could function as a universal translator or mind reading device, or keep records (Photographic Memory).

[Kelly Pedersen]

Sadly, there's no template in Supers that's perfectly applicable to a Green Lantern-type character. However, you could make a decent start at one with the Kinetic template, specifically the Psychokinesis sub-type. That will give you the ranged manipulation and attack abilities, and flight. To replicate Green Lantern's "energy construct" aesthetic, add the Visible limitation to the Telekinesis.

The more multi-purpose energy construct abilities will need other advantages, though. The ability to come up with any object you happen to need will best be represented with Snatcher, I think. There's no existing modifier for Snatcher to make them obviously "fake" - I'd rate that at -20%, comparable to Visible for Telekinesis.

Creating constructs that act independently is best represented by Allies, with the Adjustable modifier (which I wrote up in the article "Super-Sorcery!" in Pyramid #3/105). It allows your Allies to be any from a variety of types, chosen when you summon them, rather than being a single fixed individual or identical copies.

Modular Abilities of some kind are probably necessary to build Green Lantern specifically, since the Power Rings can theoretically do anything the wielder can imagine and power with their will, but resist the temptation to spend all the character's points on that - you end up with a very, very expensive build that can probably actually do less at any one time than the character who built a bunch of specific abilities, and just saved Modular Abilities to cover the edge cases. Ultrapower, from Supers (p. 30), is also a good option for Green Lantern's flexibility.

[newton]

i saw that someone used wall on a crushing innate attack to create the green lantern power ring effect

[oneofmanynameless]

Originally Posted by Phantasm

My Green Lantern expy's powers so farf

Powers:
Allies (5 Creations) (Minion; Requires Concentrate; Summonable (Constructs); Power Cosmic)
Binding 520 (Constricting; Increased Range: Line of Sight; Variable; Power Cosmic)
Concussive Beam: Crushing Attack 6d×5 (Increased Range: Line of Sight; Variable; Power Cosmic)
Damage Resistance 200 (Affects Others; Area Effect: 4 yd radius; Force Field; Hardened 1; Selective Area; Selectivity; Power Cosmic)
Energy Beam: Burning Attack 6d×5 (Damage Modifier: No Incendiary Effect; Increased
Range: Line of Sight; Variable; Power Cosmic)
Energy Spear: Impaling Attack 6d×5 (Increased Range: Line of Sight; Variable; Power Cosmic)
Enhanced Air Move 4.5 (Complete Maneuverability; Instant Acceleration; Power Cosmic)
Enhanced Space Move 4.5 (Complete Maneuverability; Instant Acceleration; Power Cosmic)
Flight (Complete Maneuverability; Space Flight; Power Comic)
Heat Beam:
- Burning Attack 6d×5 (Cone: 1 yd radius; Increased Range: Line of Sight; Variable; Power Cosmic)
- Fatigue Attack 2d (Follow-Up; Power Cosmic)
Laser Beam: Burning Attack 6d×5 (Armor Divisor (2); Increased Range: Line of Sight; Variable; Power Cosmic)
Illusion (Power Cosmic)
Injury Tolerance (Damage Reduction /10) (Power Cosmic)
Telekinesis 34/520 (Based on Will; Super Effort; Visual; Power Cosmic)
Pressure Support (Power Cosmic)
Vacuum Support (Power Cosmic)

The key components are Flight, Damage Resistance, Allies, and Telekinesis. The TK and Allies covers 90% of the force constructs the various GLs have made, Binding the other 10%.

(In this particular case, I'm working off the Kyle Rayner version from the early- to mid-'90s. Replace the Power Cosmic (+10%) PM with any PM you wish.)

I feel like if you add Snatcher with some limitations you've got just about everything!

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by oneofmanynameless

I was thinking about running a supers game and was wondering how best to build a Green Lantern type character (I'm mostly thinking in terms of the actual powers he and the other power ring wielders have, rather than the source of that power). Are any of the Supers templates appropriate? Would you mix multiple together? I'm sure this question has probably been asked before so if there is a good thread to look up I'd love a pointer.

A lot can be done with Visible Telekinesis and Snatcher.