First up, is the team's leader, Defender.
DEFENDER“
Steady on people, it’s not as though we haven’t faced this type of thing before.”
Identity: Jeremy Stone
Side: Good
Affiliation: Defenders of the Realm
Sex: Male
Age: 28
Level: 6
Training: Endurance
Powers:
1. Heightened Endurance (A): +13
2. Heightened Agility (A): +9
3. Heightened Expertise: +4 to hit w/Archaic Weapons
4. Heightened Attack: +6 damage
5. Heightened Strength (A): +12
6. Martial Arts Training: +2 to hit, +4 damage
Weapons: Sword: +2 to hit, HTH +1d6 damage; Longbow: +4 to hit, HTH +1 damage (36 arrows carried)
Inventions:
1. Bulletproof/insulated uniform: Provides him with 8 points of Invulnerability.
2. The Griffon: Motorcycle - Use the motorcycle stats from the GM screen, with the following modifications. Top speed = 125 mph; Heightened Senses: Sensory System - 3x detect hidden & danger; Long Range Communications System - Links him directly to other members of the Defenders & with the Metropolitan Police Department's computer mainframe.
Weight: 175 lbs.
Basic Hits: 4
Agility Mod: -
Strength: 24
Endurance: 21
Agility: 24
Intelligence: 13
Charisma: 16
Reactions from Good: +2/Evil: -2
Hit Mods:.
Hit Points: 57
Healing Rate: 2.4
Power: 82
Accuracy: +6
Damage Mod.: +3
Carrying Capacity: 1,405 lbs.
Basic HTH Damage: 1d10
Movement Rates: 69”ground
Detect Hidden: 10% (30%)
Detect Danger: 14% (42%)
Inventing Points: 2.8
Inventing: 39%
Origin and Background: British. Former Para, now professional bodyguard.
Legal Status: British citizen with no criminal record
Origin and Background: Jeremy Stone is a former member of the British Army’s Parachute Regiment and an Olympic contender. He’s trained his body to be at the peak of human perfection. After his father, Timothy Stone, the 2nd man to be known as Defender, and mother were killed by IRA terrorists, he assumed the mantle.
Combat Tactics/M.O.: In combat Defender is usually in the thick of it. When facing more powerful opponents, he’ll tend to stay to the sidelines moving from position to position, engaging targets at long range with his bow. When faced with melee combat, he’ll usually engage with his word or in HTH with his martial arts, as his speed, agility, and strength are usually more than a match for most opponents he faces.
Personality/Character Traits: Defender is a natural leader. He’s firm, but fair and is highly admired by the general public. He’s also one of the most famous British supers. He’ll never retreat if there are innocent lives at danger.
Rouges Gallery: Killjoy
Notes: Here's some additional info on the various Defenders over the years.
The UK based hero, known to the general public as Defender, first appeared during the darkest days of WWII. For Great Briton, things looked bleak. With its back to the wall, battered round the clock by Nazi aircraft, and the threat of an invasion looming just over the horizon, the country needed a hero, someone to give the common man hope and help raise their spirits. As if on cue, that’s when Defender first appeared. The dashing young man, in the colorful costume, would appear whenever or wherever he was needed.
Little did the public know that in reality he was Malcolm Stone, special operative for the The Home Office's
Department of Strange Happenings, agent of Her Majesty’s government. His natural abilities enhanced through a combination of modern scientific techniques, and ancient magics, to near superhuman performance levels. Defender operated throughout the UK, and eventually Europe, executing missions as his handlers deemed necessary. During the war he faced such menaces as the
Iron Knight, and his arch foe,
Der Jager. He continued to operate well into the late 1960’s before finally retiring. He died peacefully in his sleep in late 1997.
Not long after Defender I‘s retirement, a new Defender appeared. Younger, and with a slightly more swarthy attitude than the original, he made his first appearance not long after the “Troubles” began in Northern Ireland. Unknown to the general public, this 2nd Defender was the son of the original. Apparently the process used to enhance his father’s abilities also had an effect on his bloodline.
His children, Timothy and Samantha, were both born with the potential to exceed things that could be achieved by normal humans. Timothy,
Defender II, had an enhanced metabolism that allowed him to heal his wounds, and boost his strength, speed, and agility to superhuman levels. His senses were keen to the point that he could hit moving targets with greater accuracy than most machines.
Samantha, who assumed the identity of the crossbow welding costumed adventurer
Lady Crimson, was born with the ability to resist the effects of hostile environments as well ignore the effects of poisons, and diseases. In addition, her senses were tuned to superhuman levels.
They operated first as agents of the Crown, then independently, and eventually became founding members of the Defenders of the Realm. Crimson, eventually retired to raise her two children, while Timothy continued to adventure until a serious injury forced his retirement.
During their many battles, both heroes managed to rack a sizable list of enemies, but none was more hated than the PIRA terrorist know as
O’Bannon. After several defeats at the hands of the original Defenders, he vowed revenge on them, or anyone associated with them, and promised to not only bring down Her Majesty’s government, but to destroy them and everything they held dear. He tried to make good on that promise when he managed to discover the identity of the 2nd Defender and his wife, and tried to assassinate them in their home. He was stopped by the remaining Defenders before he could carry out his plan.
However, his brutal assault on the Stone estate had a number of unintended consequences. It exposed several traitors within the Department of Strange Happenings, forced a crackdown on IRA activities, and most importantly, served as the genesis for the most recent incarnation of the Defenders of the Crown.
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