[Movie Supers] Iron Man

[ErhnamDJ]

I like the idea of using Alternate Form. It's elegant and you have to pay points for the stuff you get.

But there are certainly instances where it might not work as you would like. It would be nice if you could purchase a different Alternate Form for different parts of your body. One for your head, to represent the helmet, and another for each leg, and so on.

If you were able to do that, then you could get close to what we would expect to see in the films. But using Alternate Form as-is doesn't allow for something like his leg armor getting ripped off. I don't know if that's possible. If it's not, then maybe Alternate Form would work.

Otherwise you end up needing to purchase each individual ability as a gadget, which probably costs a lot less. But then you have to figure out how to swap out the armor. Tony might well own a hundred different suits of armor each with its own abilities.

I guess you could give him a Modular Ability to handle that, but it's going to be much more expensive. Whereas if you go the Alternate Form route you can purchase a Modular Ability that allows him to swap around his Alternate Forms.

I don't know if I would allow that were I the GM, though. It's nothing but a huge point break over purchasing those abilities as gadgets. The thing isn't animate. I guess it can be stolen, but gadgets can as well.

I wouldn't allow it to be purchased with money, since it's not something you can just purchase. If we were allowing that, then Thor should purchase his hammer with money. They're both technological items that could theoretically be put up for auction, or be reproduced and sold, but that doesn't seem right either that you could get those powerful abilities that way.

The best I can think of is to use Alternate Form, but to give each ability in the form its own separate gadget limitation DR with (Leg only, -x%; Leg armor, -x%) and separate DR for the chest, arms, face, head, crotch, and so on.