Post by Doctor Cyber on Sept 28, 2008 22:34:58 GMT -5
The power grid will be added at the end of your character bio. It is a chart that measures ten of your characters attributes. It will help us, as well as others who roleplay with you, to understand the extent of your characters power.
If playing a canon character, our job is to make sure the information is accurate as possible. If playing a non-canon, your description plays the most important role in determining your stats, so make sure you integrate detail and great descriptions n describing your abilities.
Also note that some attributes list peak-human. That means unless your character is metahuman, you cannot go higher than the number listed for peak-human.
Here are the benchmarks that will help you figure out where your character rates for each attribute. Additionally, the Power Grid for the JLA big 7 is on the next post, to give you an idea of where your character should fall and something to compare to.
STRENGTH
The maximum ability to lift (press) weight over one's head (under optimal conditions)
1. Below Average: Less than 150lbs
2. Average: 150 - 300lbs
3. Athlete: 300 - 800lbs
4. Peak Human: 800 - 1500lbs
5. Meta Human: Car lift cars, semi-trucks,
6. Super Human: Can lift tanks, airplanes
7. Legendary: Can lift small ships and buildings
8. Mythical: Can lift large ships, buildings, trains
9. Unearthly: Can lift nearly any man made object, mountains
10. Planetary: Can lift moons and other planetoids
SPEED
The speed at which you can travel, by running or flight
1. Below Average: Less than 5mph
2. Average: 5 - 12 mph
3. Athletic: 12 - 18mph
4. Peak Human: 18 - 25mph
5. Subsonic: 25mph - under Mach-1 (760mph)
6. Supersonic: Between Mach-1 to Mach-10
7. Hypersonic: Between Mach-10 and Mach-25
8. Omegasonic: Mach-25 and Half the Speed of light
9. Speed of light: Between 1/2 and the Speed of light
10. Warp speed: Transcending light speed; near instantaneous
DURABILITY
The ability to take punishment and resist bodily injury. Note, it can be possible to be rated high, yet still be vulnerable to piercing and slashing weapons (such as Wonder Woman). You can mark your stat high, but make sure you note any specifics that it doesn't work against.
1. Weak: Very fragile
2. Average: Normal ability to resist energy for human
3. Athletic: Conditioned to withstand moderate damage
4. Peak Human: Withstand greatest amount of damage humanly possible
5. Meta Human: Withstand attacks from street-level weaponry; brick hard skin
6. Super Human: Resist bullets and most low end military weapons; iron-hard skin
7. Legendary: Withstand high impact explosives; steel-hard skin
8. Mythical: Withstand tank fire and large missiles; titanium-hard skin
9. Unearthly: Virtually indestructible; withstand city-demolishing weapons; diamond-hard
10. Godly: Impervious to all conventional weaponry; takes mult-killoton devices to harm; promethium-hard
REFLEXES
Your ability and speed at which you react based on just your reflexes. The descriptions here are just estimates. Also note that the descriptions are based on pure reflex and agility only and not your characters skill. For instance Batman dodges bullets all the time, but yet only has peak-human reflexes. He can dodge bullets due to the combination of his skill AND reflexes.
1. Below Average: Very slow reaction time
2. Average: Average reaction time for a human
3. Athlete: One who regularly engages in activities requiring quick reflexes
4. Peak Human: Best reflexes humanly possible
5. Meta Human: Able to react and dodge low velocity projectiles (under 100mph, such as arrows) by reflex alone (no skill needed)
6. Super Human: Able to react and dodge high velocity proojectiles (bullets, etc); catch low velocity projectiles
7. Legendary: Able to react and dodge objects traveling at near-light peed
8. Mythical: Able to react and dodge objects traveling at light peed, such as lasers
9. Unearthly: So attuned that thoughts and reaction seem simultaneous
10. Godly: Actions begin before human brain can even complete a thought; appears clairvoyant
Intelligence
Intelligence is a combination of memory, processing information, multi-tasking, problem-solving, deductive reasoning, analytical skills, intuition, logic, understanding, and creativity.
While a computer may have the ability to do some of these task very well, it does not have reason, intuition, and creativity. These would be abilities and not intelligence. Intelligence requires the ability to understand from experience and use reason. Computers, due to their instruction-following nature, cannot have creativity. Understanding requires both logic and empathy. Computers are incapable of such empathy, and thus cannot have true understanding.
Many people are giving themselves to high of intelligence, due to the fact that they can store a lot of information or have a lot of knowledge, or can create advanced technology. While all those do play a factor with intelligence, the most important factors are problem-solving, deductive reasoning, analytical skills, intuition, logic, understanding, and creativity. If you have a lot of knowledge, list it under your abilities. If you can create advanced technology, listed it under skills. If you have all the factors of intelligence, then make sure it's in your bio and rate yourself accordingly.
1.- Below Average: Mentally impaired. Suffers from loss of memory, or has lack of thought process
2. Average: Average for a typical being. Able to retain simple data, calculate simple problems, has normal "common sense"
3. Gifted: Able to conceive data and information at a higher level than an average being. Can learn and understand complex data
4. Genius: Able to retain a vast amount of data; great deduction skill; understands complex and advanced technology
5. Super Genius: Conceive and create concepts beyond current technology; one of the brightest people on the planet
6. Supreme: Adopt and conceive concepts that are completely foreign; create technology decades in advance; understand foreign concepts, amazing reasoning and creativity, process vast amounts of data at inhuman speed
7. Legendary: Capable of mastering, understanding, and advancing every worldly subject; create technology a hundred years in advance
8. Mythical: Capable of mastering, understanding, and advancing every subject within a system; create technology centuries ahead of time
9. Unearthly: Capable of mastering, understanding, and advancing every subject within the galaxy; create technology a millenia ahead of time
10. Godly: Capable of mastering, understanding, and advancing every subject within the universe; create virtually anything from technology
*Photographic memory or Reflexive Memory does not mean you are necessarily intelligent. You could have average intelligence, yet have a photographic memory.
WILLPOWER
Overall metal resolve, self-control, resisting temptation, determination, focus; can also be a measure of pyschic power
1. Below Average: Great lack in self esteem, concentration, and focus
2. Average: Moderate focus for an average being. Enough willpower to perform typical stressful activities
3. Strong: Able to conquer some mental obstacles, could override most fears; may resist addictions
4. Incredible: Conquer any human stress, rational threat or fear; utter control of emotions
5. Amazing: Force of will so strong could override self-preservation; could quit any drug cold-turkey; would give their life up before "breaking"
6. Monstrous: Unyielding self-control, determination, can confront sanity threatening events without any ill effect to psyche; will so strong would allow friends to die before 'giving in'
7. Legendary: Can resist ultimate tempation (all your dreams come true); minimum requirement to be a Green Lantern. Few humans have this high of willpower.
8. Mythical:
9. Unearthly:
10. Godly:
STAMINA
How long you can exert yourself before tiring
1. Below Average: Winded very easily
2. Average: Maximum exertion for a few minutes
3. Athlete: Maximum exertion for an hour
4. Peak Human: Maximum exertion for several hours
5. Meta Human: Maximum exertion for half a day
6. Super Human: Maximum exertion for a full day
7. Legendary: Maximum exertion for several days
8. Mythical: Maximum exertion for a week
9. Unearthly: Maximum exertion for months
10. Everlasting: Never tires
FIGHTING SKILL
Ability or skill in combat. You don't have to know martial arts for the higher ratings, but you do need to have skill that equates to it.
1. Untrained: No formal training or experience
2. Amateur: Limited formal training
3. Trained: Attends a martial arts class at least twice a week
4. Professional: Black belt, with combat experience
5. Master: Recognized as a martial arts master; skill above this level is considered rare
6. Grand Master: Recognized as one of the best at a particular style of martial arts
7. Legendary: One of the top 100 fighters in the world
8. World Class: Recognized as being one of the top 20 fighters on the planet
9. Legendary: This skill puts the figter in the most elite category on earth, rating as one of the top 5 on the planet.
10. Godly: Among the best fighters ever, in all of history
ENERGY POWER
The power level at which you can discharge energy
1. None: Does not discharge any form of energy
2. Minor: A small amount of energy capable of bruising human skin
3. Moderate: Capable of causing moderate damage to normal humans, wood
4. High: Capable of causing severe damage to normal humans, can knock a hole in a 6" brick/concrete wall
5. Super: Capable of killing normal humans with one blast, can knock a hole in a 6" iron wall
6. Extreme: Capable of destroying a small concrete building; knock a hole in a 6" steel wall
7. Monstrous: Capable of destroying a small reinforced bunker; knock a hole in a 6" titanium wall
8. Unearthly: Capable of destroying a steel bunker; knock a hole in a 6" diamond wall
9. Godly: Capable of destroying a titanium bunker; could cause minor damage to promethium
10. Immeasurable: Could damage Inertron, the most dense metal in the DC universe
AURA
The power of natural charisma, presence, and ability to influence. Note, that those with dual-identities may have two aura, such as Superman. Superman, through his actions, has become a powerful figure on the world. Most of this, however, comes from your natural ability and not from things you have done to make a name for yourself. Clark might have a 2, where Superman would have a 5.
1. Below Average: Always goes unnoticed, hard to convince anyone of anything
2. Average: Average ability to influence others and go noticed
3. High: Has a certain appeal in a large crowd; has a relatively easy time influencing weak-minded persons
4. Amazing: A charisma that earns respect; can intimidate weak-minded persons easily; influence large gatherings
5. Incredible: An seemingly unnatural presence that demands attention and respect from most; can intimidate and influence with few words
6. Transcendent: An presence that can cause many to stand in awe, adoration, or fear; easily attract a small group of followers
7. Legendary: Has a presence that can cause nations to devote themselves; influence and intimidate with gestures and expressions
8. Mythical: Has a presence that can cause worlds to follow and submit their allegiance; words become law
9. Unearthly: Has a presence that can cause entire systems to submit their allegiance, out of fear, respect, or love
10. Godlike: Has a presence that can influence the galaxy; known throughout the universe; people worship
If playing a canon character, our job is to make sure the information is accurate as possible. If playing a non-canon, your description plays the most important role in determining your stats, so make sure you integrate detail and great descriptions n describing your abilities.
Also note that some attributes list peak-human. That means unless your character is metahuman, you cannot go higher than the number listed for peak-human.
Example of a completed Power Grid
Copy and Paste the following grid and modify it accordingly on any paint application.
If you are having problems, then request help from a staff member. Suggested action is to send a staff member the numbers for each stat, and ask him/her to create the powergrid for you.
If you are having problems, then request help from a staff member. Suggested action is to send a staff member the numbers for each stat, and ask him/her to create the powergrid for you.
Here are the benchmarks that will help you figure out where your character rates for each attribute. Additionally, the Power Grid for the JLA big 7 is on the next post, to give you an idea of where your character should fall and something to compare to.
STRENGTH
The maximum ability to lift (press) weight over one's head (under optimal conditions)
1. Below Average: Less than 150lbs
2. Average: 150 - 300lbs
3. Athlete: 300 - 800lbs
4. Peak Human: 800 - 1500lbs
5. Meta Human: Car lift cars, semi-trucks,
6. Super Human: Can lift tanks, airplanes
7. Legendary: Can lift small ships and buildings
8. Mythical: Can lift large ships, buildings, trains
9. Unearthly: Can lift nearly any man made object, mountains
10. Planetary: Can lift moons and other planetoids
SPEED
The speed at which you can travel, by running or flight
1. Below Average: Less than 5mph
2. Average: 5 - 12 mph
3. Athletic: 12 - 18mph
4. Peak Human: 18 - 25mph
5. Subsonic: 25mph - under Mach-1 (760mph)
6. Supersonic: Between Mach-1 to Mach-10
7. Hypersonic: Between Mach-10 and Mach-25
8. Omegasonic: Mach-25 and Half the Speed of light
9. Speed of light: Between 1/2 and the Speed of light
10. Warp speed: Transcending light speed; near instantaneous
DURABILITY
The ability to take punishment and resist bodily injury. Note, it can be possible to be rated high, yet still be vulnerable to piercing and slashing weapons (such as Wonder Woman). You can mark your stat high, but make sure you note any specifics that it doesn't work against.
1. Weak: Very fragile
2. Average: Normal ability to resist energy for human
3. Athletic: Conditioned to withstand moderate damage
4. Peak Human: Withstand greatest amount of damage humanly possible
5. Meta Human: Withstand attacks from street-level weaponry; brick hard skin
6. Super Human: Resist bullets and most low end military weapons; iron-hard skin
7. Legendary: Withstand high impact explosives; steel-hard skin
8. Mythical: Withstand tank fire and large missiles; titanium-hard skin
9. Unearthly: Virtually indestructible; withstand city-demolishing weapons; diamond-hard
10. Godly: Impervious to all conventional weaponry; takes mult-killoton devices to harm; promethium-hard
REFLEXES
Your ability and speed at which you react based on just your reflexes. The descriptions here are just estimates. Also note that the descriptions are based on pure reflex and agility only and not your characters skill. For instance Batman dodges bullets all the time, but yet only has peak-human reflexes. He can dodge bullets due to the combination of his skill AND reflexes.
1. Below Average: Very slow reaction time
2. Average: Average reaction time for a human
3. Athlete: One who regularly engages in activities requiring quick reflexes
4. Peak Human: Best reflexes humanly possible
5. Meta Human: Able to react and dodge low velocity projectiles (under 100mph, such as arrows) by reflex alone (no skill needed)
6. Super Human: Able to react and dodge high velocity proojectiles (bullets, etc); catch low velocity projectiles
7. Legendary: Able to react and dodge objects traveling at near-light peed
8. Mythical: Able to react and dodge objects traveling at light peed, such as lasers
9. Unearthly: So attuned that thoughts and reaction seem simultaneous
10. Godly: Actions begin before human brain can even complete a thought; appears clairvoyant
Intelligence
Intelligence is a combination of memory, processing information, multi-tasking, problem-solving, deductive reasoning, analytical skills, intuition, logic, understanding, and creativity.
While a computer may have the ability to do some of these task very well, it does not have reason, intuition, and creativity. These would be abilities and not intelligence. Intelligence requires the ability to understand from experience and use reason. Computers, due to their instruction-following nature, cannot have creativity. Understanding requires both logic and empathy. Computers are incapable of such empathy, and thus cannot have true understanding.
Many people are giving themselves to high of intelligence, due to the fact that they can store a lot of information or have a lot of knowledge, or can create advanced technology. While all those do play a factor with intelligence, the most important factors are problem-solving, deductive reasoning, analytical skills, intuition, logic, understanding, and creativity. If you have a lot of knowledge, list it under your abilities. If you can create advanced technology, listed it under skills. If you have all the factors of intelligence, then make sure it's in your bio and rate yourself accordingly.
1.- Below Average: Mentally impaired. Suffers from loss of memory, or has lack of thought process
2. Average: Average for a typical being. Able to retain simple data, calculate simple problems, has normal "common sense"
3. Gifted: Able to conceive data and information at a higher level than an average being. Can learn and understand complex data
4. Genius: Able to retain a vast amount of data; great deduction skill; understands complex and advanced technology
5. Super Genius: Conceive and create concepts beyond current technology; one of the brightest people on the planet
6. Supreme: Adopt and conceive concepts that are completely foreign; create technology decades in advance; understand foreign concepts, amazing reasoning and creativity, process vast amounts of data at inhuman speed
7. Legendary: Capable of mastering, understanding, and advancing every worldly subject; create technology a hundred years in advance
8. Mythical: Capable of mastering, understanding, and advancing every subject within a system; create technology centuries ahead of time
9. Unearthly: Capable of mastering, understanding, and advancing every subject within the galaxy; create technology a millenia ahead of time
10. Godly: Capable of mastering, understanding, and advancing every subject within the universe; create virtually anything from technology
*Photographic memory or Reflexive Memory does not mean you are necessarily intelligent. You could have average intelligence, yet have a photographic memory.
WILLPOWER
Overall metal resolve, self-control, resisting temptation, determination, focus; can also be a measure of pyschic power
1. Below Average: Great lack in self esteem, concentration, and focus
2. Average: Moderate focus for an average being. Enough willpower to perform typical stressful activities
3. Strong: Able to conquer some mental obstacles, could override most fears; may resist addictions
4. Incredible: Conquer any human stress, rational threat or fear; utter control of emotions
5. Amazing: Force of will so strong could override self-preservation; could quit any drug cold-turkey; would give their life up before "breaking"
6. Monstrous: Unyielding self-control, determination, can confront sanity threatening events without any ill effect to psyche; will so strong would allow friends to die before 'giving in'
7. Legendary: Can resist ultimate tempation (all your dreams come true); minimum requirement to be a Green Lantern. Few humans have this high of willpower.
8. Mythical:
9. Unearthly:
10. Godly:
STAMINA
How long you can exert yourself before tiring
1. Below Average: Winded very easily
2. Average: Maximum exertion for a few minutes
3. Athlete: Maximum exertion for an hour
4. Peak Human: Maximum exertion for several hours
5. Meta Human: Maximum exertion for half a day
6. Super Human: Maximum exertion for a full day
7. Legendary: Maximum exertion for several days
8. Mythical: Maximum exertion for a week
9. Unearthly: Maximum exertion for months
10. Everlasting: Never tires
FIGHTING SKILL
Ability or skill in combat. You don't have to know martial arts for the higher ratings, but you do need to have skill that equates to it.
1. Untrained: No formal training or experience
2. Amateur: Limited formal training
3. Trained: Attends a martial arts class at least twice a week
4. Professional: Black belt, with combat experience
5. Master: Recognized as a martial arts master; skill above this level is considered rare
6. Grand Master: Recognized as one of the best at a particular style of martial arts
7. Legendary: One of the top 100 fighters in the world
8. World Class: Recognized as being one of the top 20 fighters on the planet
9. Legendary: This skill puts the figter in the most elite category on earth, rating as one of the top 5 on the planet.
10. Godly: Among the best fighters ever, in all of history
ENERGY POWER
The power level at which you can discharge energy
1. None: Does not discharge any form of energy
2. Minor: A small amount of energy capable of bruising human skin
3. Moderate: Capable of causing moderate damage to normal humans, wood
4. High: Capable of causing severe damage to normal humans, can knock a hole in a 6" brick/concrete wall
5. Super: Capable of killing normal humans with one blast, can knock a hole in a 6" iron wall
6. Extreme: Capable of destroying a small concrete building; knock a hole in a 6" steel wall
7. Monstrous: Capable of destroying a small reinforced bunker; knock a hole in a 6" titanium wall
8. Unearthly: Capable of destroying a steel bunker; knock a hole in a 6" diamond wall
9. Godly: Capable of destroying a titanium bunker; could cause minor damage to promethium
10. Immeasurable: Could damage Inertron, the most dense metal in the DC universe
AURA
The power of natural charisma, presence, and ability to influence. Note, that those with dual-identities may have two aura, such as Superman. Superman, through his actions, has become a powerful figure on the world. Most of this, however, comes from your natural ability and not from things you have done to make a name for yourself. Clark might have a 2, where Superman would have a 5.
1. Below Average: Always goes unnoticed, hard to convince anyone of anything
2. Average: Average ability to influence others and go noticed
3. High: Has a certain appeal in a large crowd; has a relatively easy time influencing weak-minded persons
4. Amazing: A charisma that earns respect; can intimidate weak-minded persons easily; influence large gatherings
5. Incredible: An seemingly unnatural presence that demands attention and respect from most; can intimidate and influence with few words
6. Transcendent: An presence that can cause many to stand in awe, adoration, or fear; easily attract a small group of followers
7. Legendary: Has a presence that can cause nations to devote themselves; influence and intimidate with gestures and expressions
8. Mythical: Has a presence that can cause worlds to follow and submit their allegiance; words become law
9. Unearthly: Has a presence that can cause entire systems to submit their allegiance, out of fear, respect, or love
10. Godlike: Has a presence that can influence the galaxy; known throughout the universe; people worship
