Green Lantern John Stewart and the Silver Surfer for Strands of Fate

Green Lantern John Stewart for Strands of Fate

I am a big fan of the old Justice League and Justice League Unlimited cartoons, so for me, the best Green Lantern is John Stewart. Although from the 90s comics, I have a soft spot for Guy Gardner.

Cosplayer unknown, from Pinterest.

Character Name: Green Lantern / John Stewart
Player Name: Various

Details

XP 0
PL Galaxy- Class
FP/Refresh 10
TL 4

Aspects

Defining Aspect

Ex-Marine turned Power-Ring-Wielding Space Cop

Character Aspects

Ambition: Serve the Lantern Corps. and make the galaxy safe.
Background: Former Marine, former Architect.
Conviction: “I’ll challenge anyone if it means doing what’s right. My Marines superiors, the Guardians of Oa, anyone.”
Disadvantages: Gets on others’ bad side when his judgment conflicts with theirs.

Specialty Aspects

Exceptional Skill: Born Sniper (Agility)
Foes: Many intergalactic criminals (Persuasion)
Gear: The Power Ring (Resources)
Help: Katma Tui, The Green Lantern Corps., Hawkgirl, the Justice League (Persuasion)
Inferior Skill: Compromise (Persuasion)

Physical Abilities

Agility 3
Endurance 3
Perception 3
Strength 3

Mental Abilities

Craft 1
Knowledge 2
Reasoning 2
Willpower 5

Social Abilities

Deception 2
Empathy 3
Persuasion 3
Resources 2

Power Abilities

Affinity – Power Ring 5
- Power Source: Green Lantern’s Light

Advantages

Engineer (Architect, -1, SoP pg. 6)
Experienced *5 (-10, Increased Abilities, SoP pg. 16)
Hard Style (-1, SoP pg. 7)
Iron Will (-2, SoP pg. 19)
Long Shot (-1, SoP pg. 8)
Weapon Specialty (Projectile Firearms, -1, SoP pg. 10)
Lantern Ring Powers (Total -24).
- Computer Implant (Ring Built-In AI, -1, SoP pg. 63)
- Control (Power Ring Constructs, -7, SoP pg. 154)
  - Modifiers: Summon from Nothing (-2)
- Environmental Protection (Space, -1, SoP pg. 71)
- Flight (-3, SoP pg. 72)
  - Modifiers: Fast and Agile (-3)
- Mindlink (-1, SoP pg. 92)
- Photographic Memory (-2, SoP pg. 104)
- Read Thoughts (-2, SoP pg. 121)
  - Modifiers: Universal Reading (-2)
- Sense (Energy, -3, SoP pg. 125)
- Weakness: The Power Ring can be separated from John (+1)
- Weakness: The Power Ring has a limited energy charge, and can run out mid-battle if too heavily used (+1)

Stress

Physical 6
Mental 7
Social 5
Wealth 4

Gear

Common street clothes
Green Lantern Uniform (formed by the ring)

The Silver Surfer for Strands of Fate

One of my favorite characters ever, it’s Surfy!

This was a tricky writeup. There’s no equivalent in Strands of the old Advanced Marvel Super Heroes ‘Power Stunt’, but I think it’s fair to allow a PC to flex their powers in new and different ways just by spending a Fate Point. This also allows characters to use Powers they maybe didn’t have a budget for, that they don’t actually use in the fiction that much, and/or that Strands doesn’t actually have stats for.

One example of such a Power is PC-capable non-vehicle FTL flight. In many ways, FTL flight is just an extension of the Fate fractal; your campaign extends through space? Okay, spend a Fate Point and tell me how you’re getting to the next star system. Done, simple.

Another thing I’ve been hand-waving away with a lot of PC writeups is secret identities. You don’t have to buy the Alias Advantage to have a secret ID, of course, and many of these characters don’t really need the extra Aspects, so I don’t think there’s a real need. If you really want, though, you can tweak the characters I post so they have a the Alias Advantage. I’d love to see alternate versions of any of these characters.

Cosplayer unknown, sorry.

The Surfer is an absolute monster in terms of points. A lot of his Powers could probably be folded back into Control (Cosmic Energy), but many of them he can just do, easily, so it doesn’t seem right that he should need to roll for them and risk failure.

Character Name: The Silver Surfer / Norrin Radd
Player Name: Various