Crimefighter (Rank 1)

You apply your keen intelligence to outwit the dark forces, reveal corruption, and put a stop to illegal activities. Though some see you as a super-detective able to piece together fragmented clues and unravel complex mysteries that stump the police, you can also hold your own in a fight. You might be skilled in various martial arts, tactical combat, and/or strategic use of nonlethal gadgets, ensuring you can subdue opponents of all kinds.

You often work alone in the shadows, but sometimes you join other heroes, especially when they are looking for a way forward against a particularly cunning villain. You being part of the team means they gain something of your reputation—a terrifying enigma who will pursue criminals wherever they might lead.

Background

• Your parent was a proud, long-serving member of a superhero group. You've dedicated yourself to taking up their role (if not their mantle).
• Busy fighting crime, you recently missed an engagement important to your secret identity.
• You've never had much. You've decided to fight crime, but you're also open to endorsements.
• A few months ago you learned your efforts to put down one villain helped give rise to another.
• You noticed some bad behavior but figured it wasn't your problem. But then someone you love was murdered. Now you never look the other way.
• The police sometimes take a dim view of your efforts, as happened last week, ruining your case.
• Your protege of many years struck out on their own a few weeks ago.
• Despite what you've always thought, you recently learned you may have some living relatives.

Crimefighter Abilities

• Able to take three more minor wounds and one more moderate wound
• Add +2 to Might Pool
• Add +3 to Speed Pool
• Add +5 to Intellect Pool
• Add +1 Edge in Pool of your choice
• Freely use all weapons
• Freely use all armor
• Two power shifts
• One ability from the Origin Superhero Abilities list
• At tier 3 and tier 6, choose an appropriate ability from the Science Fiction Genre Abilities list or the Fantasy Genre Abilities list

Always Tinkering: You build a single-use technological device. You can choose its effect from the low-power manifest cypher table. Your device cypher counts toward your cypher limit (or to the limit of anyone you give the device to). If you are already at your cypher limit, your choice of one of your current cyphers shorts out, had to be salvaged for parts to create the new device, or something similar, and the new device takes its place.

At tier 3, you can choose a low or medium-power manifest cypher as a single-use device.

At tier 6, you can choose a low, medium-, or advanced-power manifest cypher as a single-use device.

Ten minutes to build.

Sleuthing (3 Intellect): When you're tracking a target, looking for anything out of the ordinary (such as a clue or a single piece of evidence) at the scene of interest, or otherwise attempting to learn something about a mystery, you can ask your GM one question about the task and get a very short, helpful answer that might be obvious to your character, but not to the player who doesn't have their character's experience. Action.

Super Combatant: You are trained in a specific attack of your choice, such as eye lasers, punches, or guns; or in a broader category of attacks such as light bashing weapons, light bladed weapons, light ranged weapons, medium bashing weapons, medium bladed weapons, medium ranged weapons, and so on.

At tier 2, you can choose to become specialized in the same attack method you chose at tier 1, but you must gain the skill normally.

At tier 6, you can become an expert in a specific attack method (either the one you chose at tier 1 or another weapon skill you're already specialized in), but you must gain the skill normally. Enabler.

Superheroics: Choose one Pool: Might, Speed, or Intellect. For tasks using your chosen Pool, add your rank to the amount of Effort you can apply, allowing you to apply additional levels of Effort to tasks in that Pool.

In addition, you can choose to push yourself so hard that you take a moderate wound in exchange for two free levels of Effort you can apply to tasks in your chosen Pool (as long as this doesn't push you past your Effort limit for that Pool).

Finally, add your rank as a bonus to your recovery, with those points going only into the Pool you have chosen. Enabler.

Part of Superheroes