Watcher Datafile: Mr Fear
Larry Cranston is one of many criminals to use the name Mr. Fear, a Daredevil villain who weaponizes terror through a fear-inducing gas. Unlike a simple costumed crook, Mr. Fear works best as a psychological predator, turning a hero’s guilt, anger, and buried anxieties into weapons. In play, he should feel like a villain who may not beat a superhero in a fair fight, but can make every fight feel unfair by changing what the heroes think they are seeing.
Mr. Fear appears in Breakout (BR43) as one of the inmates of the Raft, but I wanted to make him a more elaborate character to center a session around, so this is Larry, the uncle of the Mr. Fear found in Breakout.
MR. FEAR
Larry Cranston, Secret
Affiliations
Solo d6
Buddy d4
Team d8
Distinctions
Dealer in Terror
Everyone Breaks Eventually
Your Mind Is the Crime Scene
Power Set: Fear Gas Arsenal
Fear Gas d10, Hallucinatory Panic d10, Gas Grenades d8, Chemical Sprayers d8, Protective Mask d8
SFX: Breathe It In: When Mr. Fear uses Fear Gas to inflict emotional stress or create a fear-based complication, add d6 and step up the effect die.
SFX: The Worst Thing You Can Imagine: When a target already has emotional stress, trauma, guilt, or a personal fear-based complication, step up or double Hallucinatory Panic.
SFX: Crowd Panic: Against multiple targets in an enclosed or crowded space, add d6 and keep an extra effect die. Use the extra effect die to create a scene complication such as Stampede, Everyone Is Screaming, or No Clear Exit.
SFX: Contaminated Scene: Spend a doom die to create a persistent scene complication equal to the die spent, such as Fear Gas in the Air or Poisoned Ventilation.
SFX: Masked Against His Own Work: When reacting against gas, toxins, smoke, or fear-based chemical effects, add Protective Mask and step up the effect die.
Limit: Counteragent: When the heroes obtain an antidote, ventilate the room, use sealed suits, trigger sprinklers, deploy filters, or expose Mr. Fear’s chemical delivery system, add d6 to the doom pool and create Fear Gas Neutralized d8 as a complication against him.
Limit: Gear: Shutdown Fear Gas Arsenal and add d6 to the doom pool. Recover it by activating an opportunity or taking a transition scene to rearm.
Specialties
Crime Expert d8, Menace Master d10, Psych Master d10, Science Expert d8, Tech Expert d8
About Mark Meredith
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