Val CHA Cost Roll Notes 15 STR 5 12- Lift 200 kg; 3d6 HTH Damage [3] 18 DEX 16 13- 14 CON 4 12- 13 INT 3 12- PER Roll 12-/13- 11 EGO 1 11- 15 PRE 5 12- PRE Attack: 3d6 6 OCV 15 6 DCV 15 4 OMCV 3 4 DMCV 3 3 SPD 10 Phases: 4, 8, 12 5 PD 3 Total: 5 PD (0 rPD) 4 ED 2 Total: 4 ED (0 rED) 5 REC 1 28 END 2 11 BODY 1 25 STUN 3 Total Characteristic Cost: 92 Movement: Running: 12m/24m Leaping: 4m/8m Swimming: 4m/8m Cost Powers & Skills 2 "Slowly Lookin' All Around": +1 PER with Sight Group Perks 3 "An Arizona Ranger": Fringe Benefit: Federal/National Police Powers Talents 3 "Handsome Ranger": +1/+1d6 Striking Appearance (vs. all characters) Skills 6 "The Ranger's Aim Was Deadly": +2 with Pistols 8 "Forty Feet Between Them": Penalty Skill Levels: +4 vs. Range Modifier with Pistols 3 "An Arizona Ranger": AK: Arizona 12- 2 Animal Handler (Equines) 12- 7 "The Swiftness Of The Ranger Is Still Talked About": Fast Draw: Pistols 15- 2 KS: Criminal Law And Procedure 11- 2 KS: The Law Enforcement World 11- 0 Language: English (idiomatic; literate) 2 PS: Ranger 11- 3 "He Rode Into The Town": Riding 13- 3 Streetwise 12- 2 Survival (Desert) 12- 0 TF: Equines 2 "Big Iron On His Hip": WF: Handguns, Rifles, Shotguns Total Powers & Skill Cost: 51 Total Cost: 142 175+ Matching Complications 5 Distinctive Features: Badge and/or Big Iron On His Hip (Easily Concealed; Noticed and Recognizable; Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses) 10 Psychological Complication: "Didn't Have Too Much To Say" (Common; Moderate) 20 Social Limitation: Subject To Orders (Very Frequently; Major) Total Complications Points: 142
Description: “Big Iron” refers to an Arizona Ranger, who came to the town of Agua Fria in search of the outlaw Texas Red. His handsome features are offset by his demeanor, which is all business. He’s also quite quick with a gun, as Texas Red learned the hard way, when “Big Iron” shot him down in the street at 11:20 AM.
Big Iron can be found in the Marty Robbins’s song Big Iron. While technically a Western Hero character, you can easily use him in a Pulp Hero game (with virtually no changes) or a Dark Champions campaign. If you need to make him more powerful, give him Lightning Reflexes with his pistol, a SPD of 4, and any number pistol-related Super-Skills seen in either Dark Champions or Pulp Hero.
(Big Iron created by Marty Robbins, character sheet created by Michael Surbrook)
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