MU1 - Gamers Handbook of the Marvel Universe

HISTORY

Dragon Man was an experimental
creation of Professor Gregson Gil-
bert of State University. The benevo-
lent professor had fashioned an
artificial dragon-like creature but
lacked the means to make it func-
tion. Having heard through secret
means of Gilbert's experiments, the
alchemist Diablo convinced the pro-
fessor to give the creature life
through one of Diablo's alchemical
potions. To Gilbert's shock and
regret, Diablo used his control over
the creature's will to seek revenge on
the Fantastic Four. The four man-
aged to vanquish the creature and
saw him disappear into a lake near
the university campus. Since the
time of Diablo's original animation
and control , Dragon Man has been
used as a pawn by such criminal
masterminds as Dr. Lemuel Dorcas,
Gregory Gideon, and the Machines-
mith. Dragon Man is currently under
the supervision of his creator, Pro-
fessor Gilbert.

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DRAX THE DESTROYER

.---..__ STATISTICS

F GD (10)
A EX (20)
S IN (40)
E AM (50)
R EX (20)
I TY (6)
P RM (30)
Health: 120
Karma: 56
Resources: FB (2)
Popularity: 10

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Arthur Douglas
Occupation: Former real estate
agent, later agent of Chronos
.-..... Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S.
with no criminal record .
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Burbank, California
Marital Status: Widowed
Known Relatives: Yvette Douglas
(wife, deceased), Heather Douglas
(daughter, deceased)
Base of Operations: Titan
Past Group Affiliations: None
,...-..., Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS CONTACTS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Drax has dealt with the Eternals of
Immortality: Drax can not be slain
by physical means. In addition to Titan and the Avengers.
Immortality, Drax has Unearthly Life
Support, Regeneration , and Recov-
ery powers, and is invulnerable to
heat, cold, electricity, radiation , tox-
ins, and disease. However, Drax can
,.-..., be Slammed or Stunned by physical
attacks. Drax can be killed only by
mental attack.
Force Blasts: Drax can fire beams
of Amazing power and range from
his hands that hit on the Force chart.
Flight: Drax can fly at Class 1000
speeds in space, but is limited to
Shift X speed while in a planet's
atmosphere.
Obsession: When in the presence
of his target, Thanos, Drax' mind
was consumed by a single
thought: kill Thanos. In this situa-

tion, Drax receives a + 1 CS to his

physical attributes and Force Blast.

TALENTS
Drax has the Resist Domination

talent.

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ROLE-PLAYING NOTES of his son Thanos cold no longer be Drax, purposeless again, used Cap- ,...._
When Douglas was recreated as ignored, and wanted to create a tain Mar-Vell as a scapegoat upon
being of sufficient power to defeat whom to vent his frustrations.
Drax, he existed for a single pur- Thanos. Enlisting the aid of his
pose: the destruction of Thanos. father Chrones, who millennia Sometime later, Drax was contact-
Once Thanos was destroyed by Cap- before had become a discorporate ed by his daughter Moondragon and
tain Mar-vell, Drax roamed the stars wraith, Mentor had Chrones seize invited to join her in her journey
without purpose. He is suicidial at the astral form (living conscious- through space in search of knowl-
times and easily provoked into a ness) of Arthur Douglas before it had edge. Drax accepted. The two rode
combat fury. completely fled from Douglas's body. aboard Moondragon's personal star-
Chronos and Mentor then fashioned ship Sensia, and came upon the
HISTORY a humanoid body from the Earth's planet Ba-Banis, a world of human-
soil, granted it superhuman powers, oid aliens caught in a vast civil war.
Real estate agent Arthur Douglas, and cast Douglas' spirit inside it. Moondragon decided to use her
his wife Yvette, and daughter Heath- Thus they created the being who mental powers to quell the conflict,
er, were driving across the Mojave would become known as Drax the and then decided to set herself up as
Desert from Las Vegas to Los the world's goddess. Drax recog-
Angeles when a spaceship carrying Destroyer. nized that her ambitions were igno-
the mad Titanian named Thanos Mentor blocked all of Drax's mem- ble and so sent their ship to Earth
passed overhead on a surveillance with a holographic distress mes-
mission to Earth. Wishing to keep his ories of his old life, instilling in him sage. The Avengers responded and
existence secret, Thanos destroyed monomaniacal hate for Thanos. For discovered Moondragon's world of
the automobile in case its passen- years, Drax served as Thanos's mentally enforced tranquility. Freed
gers had seen his ship, and then namesis, thwarting certain of the by the Avengers from his daughter's
landed to make certain they were Titanian's plans, but never crushing world of mental domination, Drax
dead. Satisfied that they were, Thanos himself. Thanos hired advanced toward her, seeking to end
Thanos left. Unknown to the Titani- legions of alien mercenaries just to her menace. In order to stop him,
an, his father Mentor had been moni- keep Drax away from him. Finally, in Moondragon mentally forced Drax's
toring his activities on Earth to Thanos's campaign to possess the life essence to vacate his artificial
examine his son's latest handiwork. Cosmic Cube, Drax, in the company body. Later, after subduing Moondra- ,,.---..
Mentor discovered that Heather of the Avengers, Captain Mar-Vell, gon and returning to Earth, the
Douglas was still alive, and took her and Moondragon, saw Thanos Avengers placed Drax's body inside
back to Titan to be raised. She later destroyed. Suddenly lacking a rea- Sensia and sent it into space pro-
returned to Earth as Moondragon. son for existence, Drax wandered grammed to self-destruct. Without
space in grim contemplation. By the Drax's spirit inside it, Drax's body
Mentor determined that the threat time he learned that Thanos had was destroyed when the Sensia
once again been killed, this time by exploded.
being permanently turned to stone.

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DREADKNIGHT

- STATISTICS

F EX (20)
A GD (10)

s GD (10)

E RM (30)
R RM (30)

I TY (6)
p GD (10)

Health: 70

Karma: 46
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: - 2

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Bram Velsing
Occupation: Former engineer
Legal Status: Exiled citizen of Lat-
-.. veria

Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Schonstadt, Latveria
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS make an Endurance FEAT roll TALENTS
Body Armor: The Dreadknight against the intensity of the gas or be Dreadknight is a Weapon Special-
stunned for 10-100 turns. The pistol
wears a suit of full-body armor that has 4 shots. ist with his lance ( +2 CS). He is a sci-
provides him with a Good Body He//horse: The Dreadknight rides
Armor and Excellent Resistance to Hellhorse, a mutated black stallion entist with the Engineering and
electricity. possessing bat-like wings and claws. Electronics talents.
Power-Lance: The Dreadknight It has the following statistics: CONTACTS
wields a specially designed lance of
Remarkable Strength material. It FASER I P None
can be used as a regular lance to do GD GD EX IN FB TY PR
Excellent damage, but it also has a 253
....--..,. number of offensive technological Health: 80 Karma: 12

devices built into it: Hellhorse has claws which do
• A pair of twin force-blast pods Excellent damage, and wings which
provide it with Poor flight.
that can fire a Force blast of Remark-
able strength at up to 100 feet, or 5
areas.

• An electrical entanglement
cable that can ensnare a target up to
2 areas away. The cable makes a
Grappling attack at Remarkable
Strength and on the next round, the
Dreadknight triggers an electrical
charge that automatically hits for

Remarkable damage.
• Two " penetro-shells" with a

range of 5 areas that do Amazing

damage.
Gas Pistol: The Dreadknight car-
ries a Typical strength material gas
pistol which fires a blast of Amazing
strength gas. He can fire at anyone
in the same area and the target must

ADDITIONAL NOTES: HISTORY Velsing encountered the winged r---
horse of the criminal Black Knight,
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Bram Velsing was a brilliant scien- which Victoria Frankenstein had
The Dreadknight is an arrogant tried to restore to normal , but had
tist in Latveria, who was not content only succeeded in further mutating.
man who thinks of nothing but Dr. Bram Velsing decided to use the
Doom's destruction, going to any to simply execute the technological horse, his scientific intellect, and ter-
lengths to facilitate a plan which rifying visage to seek revenge
might bring about the Latverian mon- schemes of his evil monarch, Doctor against Doom , under a new identity,
arch's downfall. the Dreadknight. When the
Doom. Learning of Velsing's rebeli- Dreadknight sought to steal the

ous ambitions, Doom had a mask secret notebooks of Victor Franken-
stein, Victoria Frankenstein thwart-
permanently fused to Velsing's face ed his plan with the aid of
Frankenstein's Monster and Iron
so that, like Doom's, his features Man, who had landed in Yugoslavia
en route to America. Though the
were hidden for all time. Anguished Dreadknight was left in the care of
the Children after his defeat, his cur- ,,.-- ""
and humiliated, Velsing fled Latve- rent whereabouts are unknown.

ria, and eventually fell under the care

of the Children, the genetic creations

of Dr. Victor Frankenstein, tended by

Frankenstein's great-

granddaughter, Victoria. While being

nursed back to health at her castle,

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DREADNOUGHT

- STATISTICS

F RM (30)
A EX (20)

S IN (40)
E MN (75)
R FB (2)
I EX (20)
P FB (2)
Health: 165
Karma: None
Resources: None
Popularity: -1O

BACKGROUND eyes: Range 3 areas, Incredible mouth: Range 2 areas, Amazing
Real Name: Not applicable Intensity. Intensity cold, 2 rounds attack before
Occupation: reloading is necessary.
Legal Status: Not applicable • Freon gas dispenser in
..---.Identity: Not applicable
Place of Creation: originally
HYDRA, now various Maggia con-

struction bases
Marital Status: Not applicable
Known Relatives: Not applicable
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Robotic
pawns of HYDRA and the Maggia
Present Group Affiliation:
,...--.,,

KNOWN POWERS

Body Armor: The Dreadnought
robots are constructed of Amazing
Strength titanium steel, which pro-
vides Amazing protection from phys-
ical attacks and Remarkable
protection from Energy attacks.
Dread noughts have Monstrous
Resistance to Heat, Cold, and Radi-
r-- ation attacks. Their limited program-
ming causes mental attacks and
illusions directed against them to
fail. They are equipped with simu-
lated hum an senses of hearing,

sight, and smell, and so may be
attacked in this fashion.

Weapon Systems: The Dread-
noughts are equipped with a host of
weapon systems:

• Flame-throwers located in
gauntlets: Range 1 area, Incredi-
ble fire damage, sufficient fuel for 6
attacks.

• Sharpened spikes fired from
knuckles: Range 4 areas, Typical
shooting damage, maximum of 9
such attacks.

• Electrical field: range Con-
tact only, Amazing electrical dam-
age.

• Gamma ray projected behind

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TALENTS HISTORY
Dreadnought robots have no tal-
The Dreadnought is a robot cre-
ents, being near-mindless ated by an unidentified team of tech-
machines. However, their program- nicians in the subversive
ming is designed to simulate Martial organization HYDRA for use in com-
Arts B, that of an American boxer. mando operations. It was first used
CONTACTS in an attempt to breech the SHEILD
Helicarrier and assasinate SHIELD
None director Nick Fury. Using a small
ADDITIONAL NOTES: arsenal of miniaturized weaponry
and his own combat skills, Fury man-
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES aged to overcome the robot. Later,
Dreadnought robots are perfect the Maggia crime family, under the
auspices of Madame Masque, stole
guards, following their prepro- from HYDRA the designs for the
grammed orders to perfection. They Dreadnought and manufactured
are totally unimaginative and have about a dozen for their own use.
no personality, creativity, or inter- Maggia technicians made a number
ests. of design modifications on the
Dreadnought in an effort to make it
more versatile. The ultimate design
of their work was a silver Dread-
nought.

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