Making MHR Characters: Deacon Frost (ANOHotMU #4)

I really don't like vampires.

Wait, that's not quite right. I like vampires all right, I just don't like what we, the creative types who make them up for a living, have turned them into. We took one book written by a guy with some really obvious baggage involving women and Eastern European foreigners and accepted it as gospel, later stitching in bits and pieces of legends from those same Eastern European cultures kind of piecemeal.

Some day, I'm going to make an
RPG character based on this
picture.

They still work in some areas, I guess. Robin McKinley's "Sunshine," for example, and Justin Cronin's "The Passage." Buffy and Angel managed to take vampires to some interesting places. Still, I find it really, really weird to have Wolverine crossing claws with Dracula. Deacon Frost, though? He's pretty cool.

See, he's a self-made vampire. I love that - he has no sire, no connection to any other living thing. He's really kind of a perfect predator, and better still, he's a mad scientist. So, immortal, super-powered, sociopathic and regards humans as interesting things to experiment on. Ooo, yes, I'll take two please. Which is kind of perfect because he can actually make doppelgangers of the people he drains.

I think this write-up does a decent job of demonstrating the strengths and weaknesses of vampires in a Marvel kind of way - if you have access to the things that can take out vampires, they're really just kind of a pain to deal with, but if you don't, well, you have a serious problem on your hands.

Deacon Frost

Affiliations

Solo 1d8

Buddy 1d4

Team 1d6

Distinctions

Empirical Thinker

Obsessed With Immortality

Self-Made Vampire

Alchemical Vampire

Enhanced Durability 1d8

Enhanced Reflexes 1d8

Enhanced Speed 1d8

Enhanced Strength 1d8

Mind Control 1d8

Psychic Resistance 1d10

Superhuman Stamina 1d10

SFX: Dopplegangers - Add a 1d6 and step up your effect die by +1 when using Alchemical Vampire to create assets.

SFX: Invulnerable - Spend a die from the doom pool to ignore physical stress or trauma unless caused by appropriate magic, sunlight or wood.

SFX: Multipower - Use two or more Alchemical Vampire powers in a single dice pool at -1 step for each additional power.

SFX: You Grow Weak Before Me - Step up or double Mind Control for one action. If the action fails, add a die to the doom pool equal to the normal rating of the power die.

Limit: Abjure the Holy - So long as there is a Cross complication or some other similar barrier, Deacon Frost cannot inflict physical stress or trauma.

Limit: Montesi Formula - Add a die to the doom pool when affected by vampire-specific Milestones, assets and complications.

Limit: Sunlight Vulnerability - Step up physical stress or trauma by +1 when caused by sunlight.

Covert Expert 1d8

Crime Master 1d10

Medical Master 1d10

Menace Master 1d10

Mystic Expert 1d8

Psych Expert 1d8

Science Expert 1d8