Instead of using the standard Invulnerability power, as written, characters would roll 1d8 and consult the following table to see how many points of Invulnerability their character has. Unlike the standard rules, attacks inflicting damage less than, or equal to, the character's Invulnerability score would be completely ignored.

1 - 3
2 - 5
3 - 7
4 - 10
5 - 12
6 - 15
7 - 18
8 - 20

The old Invulnerability power would be renamed Damage Reduction.

I'm also tinkering with a modification to Force Field that would be similar to the alternate FF rules Jeff Dee wrote for the Vigil fanzine. At the moment I'm stuck on what the Power requirements would be.

Ranger wrote on Jul 26^th, 2014 at 5:12pm:


Hmm...that's a little on the high end, as it averages out to 15 points of invulnerability, which would make the character far more resistant to damage than almost any of the attacks in V&V.

The reason I went with my point spread is I think it would represent the varying levels of Invulnerability you see in comics. Some guys can ignore things like bullets, and others can bounce tank shells off their chests. But, with all that said, let me know how it works out in actual play.

Ranger wrote on Jul 26^th, 2014 at 5:12pm:


Have you seen this? - http://www.villainsandvigilantesforum.com/public_html/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=...

I posted a house rule for modifying how armor would work.

Armor: For every 10 full points of Armor a character has, it would have a SR of 1. So if a character had Armor with an ADR of 120, his Armor would have a SR of 12 and it would ignore any attack that did less than 12 points of damage. The Armor could still be damaged as normal (any damage that penetrates would reduce its ADR), so it'd become less effective as it sustained more damage. So if the character undergoes an attack that does 20 points of damage, his armor would ignore the first 12 points, and the other 8 would penetrate the armor, reducing its ADR to 112.

One thing I would suggest though, is that GMs limit the amount of armor a character could have, so that things don't get out of hand.

I use Invulerablity as it is in the rules, but I also have a power called Invincibility that works as you describe.

The reworked version of Force Field I'm working on has a similar mechanic. The issue I'm running into, at the moment, is how much Power  the character would have to expend to keep the FF up each turn. I think there should be a cost, I just can't settle on what that cost should be. 

bumping this up as well.