Snake Mountain

DC Heroes RPG

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SNAKE MOUNTAIN

[BODY 16, INT 02].

Snake Mountain has a Mana Factor: +1 (DC Heroes: Magic sourcebook, pg. 19 for rules covering Mana Factors for locations.)

Features:

• CRYSTAL BALL TABLE [BODY 08, Remote Sensing: 28, Bonuses and Limitations: Remote Sensing may become scrambled if another magician is nearby. And the caster’s motives are counter to Skeletor’s; Powers used through the Crystal Ball table use Remote Sensing’s APs for their Range.]
  Skeletor has many view screens with the same abilities as the table but they are mechanical in nature instead of magic.
• FORCE FIELD PRISON [Force field: 25, Stretching: 02].
• NULLIFIER RAY [BODY 08, Electrical Control: 12, Bonuses and Limitations: Electrical Control only generates an EMP attack wherever the Ray strikes. AV/EV is an attack against all electronic equipment in Normal Range, with OV/RV based on the amount of shielding the equipment has (determined by the GM/the Universal Modifier table].
• TRANSPORT BEAM [BODY 08, Teleportation: 16, Bonuses and Limitations: Teleportation is mystic linked, R#0].
• TRACTOR BEAM [BODY 08, Attraction/Repulsion: 07, Bonuses and Limitations: Attraction only, R#2].

Vehicles:

• SKY-SLED [BODY 07 INT 01, Flight: 07, Energy Blast: 12, R#3, Cost: 106]. Occasionally, Skeletor will fit his own Sky-sled with a Telekinetic Beam, Telekinesis: 07, R#2].
• BASHER [BODY 08, Flight: 07, Energy Blast: 12, Paralysis: 12, Teleportation: 04. Bonuses and Limitations: Paralysis and Teleportation are beam-weapons fired from the front of the Basher it uses the driver’s vehicles skill as AV, R#2].

• DOOM-BUSTER [BODY 08, Flight: 07, Flight (space travel): 26, Life Sense: 12, Energy Blast: 12, Sealed Systems: 20, R#2, Bonuses and Limitations: Life Sense has the discerning bonus allowing the pilot to identify specific individuals].
• JET-PACK [BODY 05 STR 03, Flight: 06, R#3]. Occasionally, Skeletor will store one of these on his ship as one more method of escape.
• DRILLING MACHINE (episode “The Search”) [BODY 10 STR 07, AV 07, Alert (Intruders enter the tunnel being drilled): 10, Digging: 10, Force Field: 10, Remote Sensing (Audio/Visual): 10, Running: 02, Super Ventriloquism: 10, R#5, Bonuses and Limitations:
  • Remote Sensing is activated through a view screen and is Contingent Upon Alert.
  • Super Ventriloquism allows the Drilling Machine operator to project their own voice to the intruder. Remote Sensing lets them see and hear their response.
  • Force Field has range (+1).
  • 02 APs is the Drilling Machine’s maximum speed even while Digging.]
• ROTON [BODY 10 STR 05, Digging: 09, Energy Blast: 07, Flight: 06, Ice Production: 06, R#5, Bonuses and Limitations: Ice Production may only be used to trap victims in blocks of ice.]

• LAND SHARK [STR 09 BODY 15 INT 01, Claws: 12 (teeth), Running: 05, Hardened Defenses, R#2]. The pilot must use their Vehicles (Land) skill to maneuver the teeth into position for a bite otherwise the bite occurs directly in front of the Land Shark.

Weapons:

• Light energy rifles or pistols [BODY 05, Energy Blast: 05-07, Ammo 10, R#2].
• Invisibility Helmet (X2) [BODY 04, Invisibility: 04, R#0].
• Paralysis rod [BODY 04, Mystic Freeze: 08, R#0].
• Paralyzer rays (guns) [BODY 04, Paralysis: 06, Ammo: 10, R#2].
• Freeze-pistol [BODY 05, Ice Production: 06, Ammo: 10, Bonuses and Limitations: Ice Production only used to freeze targets in blocks of ice, R#5].
• Heat-gun [BODY 06, Laser beam: 09, R#5]. These cut through the floor of the Palace. Skeletor says it cuts through anything.
• Sleep Grenades (X10) [BODY 04, Fog: 03, Sleep: 05, Grenade Drawback, R#5]. (episode “Assault on the Hive”).
• Elastium net – Skeletor said it is not only one of the strongest materials in the universe but it also stretches. Well, whatever. Battle-Cat grabbed it in his teeth and ripped it to shreds.

Miscellaneous:

• Activator [BODY 04, Earth Control: 12]. It was used to cause an already active volcano to erupt explosively.
• Banishment Beamer [BODY 05, Dimension Travel (Banishment only): 12, Range: 07, Bonuses and Limitations: Dimension travel only sends a target hit by the ray a distance through dimension equal to the RAPS earned.]
• Robot Bird [DEX 03 STR 00 BODY 01, Claws: 01, Flight (Winged): 05, Shrinking: 06, Telescopic vision: 02]. Built by Skeletor to track Man-At-Arms. It has built in camera eyes that send a visual feed back to Snake Mountain’s crystal ball table (episode “Masks of Power”).
• Laser mines (X24) [BODY 05, Bomb: 05, Grenade Drawback, R#5].
• Monitor [BODY 02, Detect Energy: 14, Bonuses and Limitations: Detect Energy is discernible]. (Episode “Daimar the Demon”).
• Laser Bars [BODY 02, Laser Beam: 12.] These beams of energy project from floor to ceiling. A suitable doorway must be already in place for the laser bars to take affect. Seen in the episode “Disappearing Act”.
• SPIDER DROIDS [BODY 02 DEX 02 STR 02 INT 01, Skin Armor: 02, Snare: 04, Laser Beam: 08, Flight: 07, R#2].

• HUNTER ROBOTS [BODY 02 DEX 02 STR 03 INT 02, Claws (bite): 03, Flight: 01, Laser Beam: 08, Radio Communications: 14, Running: 04, Skin Armor: 02, Military Science (Tracking): 05, R#2, Bonuses and Limitations:
  • Flight only allows the Hunter Robots to hover about a foot off the ground.
  • Radio Communications represents the robots homing signal. It transmits the robots’ location.
  • NOTE: Only about a third of Hunter Robots are fitted with Laser Beams.]

Robot Knights AKA Hover robots

Skeletor had a contigent of ten of these flying robots when he took control of the Royal Palace.

Powers:

Claws: 03 (Whirling blades), Detect (Skeletor’s Gadgets or Artifacts): 06, Digging: 04, Energy Blast: 04 (eye-blast), Flight: 05, Skin Armor: 02

Bonuses and Limitations:

• Digging is Contingent on Claws.
• Detect is not built into all of Skeletor’s Robot Knights and so is represented by making it minor Marginal (any of Skeletor’s allies may pay for the individual Robot Knight to have this power active).

Motivation:

Follow Programming.

Raven Raven

“Raven Raven, fly to me. Raven Raven, what did you see.”

Skeletor gained a human-faced raven as a spy. Episode: “Energy beast”.

Powers:

Claws: 01, Flight (winged): 05, Shrinking: 05, Telescopic Vision: 02

Bonuses and Limitations:

Shrinking is always on.

Skills:

Thief (Stealth): 07

Drawbacks:

Serious Irrational attraction to speaking in rhymes.

Motivation:

Mercenary.

Screeech

A bionic falcon created by Skeletor to attack He-man from above. When first seen it was large enough to carry Cringer on its back. After this initial appearance, it was a normal sized falcon.

The first Screeech must have been damaged when it crashed through the wall of Snake Mountain. The smaller version, a second design, is primarily used for distraction. Screeech appears in three episodes – “Fraidy Cat”, “Visitors from Earth” and “The Toy Maker”.

Screeech MK I

A 383 points Character.

Powers:

Claws: 05, Flight (winged): 06, Growth: 03, Self-Link (Gadgetry): 07, Telescopic Vision: 07

Bonuses and Limitations:

Growth is always on and already factored in (-1 FC).

Screeech MK II

A 453 points Character.

Powers:

Claws: 02, Electrical Control: 06, Flight (winged): 06, Self-Link (Gadgetry): 07, Shrinking: 04, Telescopic Vision: 07

Bonuses and Limitations:

• Electrical Control is only useable for jamming frequecies and only when Screeech is screeching (-2).
• Shrinking is always on and already factored in (-1 FC).

Advantages:

Lightning Reflexes, Sharp Eye.

Design notes

Grayskull had only one entrance/exit. Snake Mountain, on the other hand, had a variety of entrances, exits, secret passages, and tunnels.

Throughout the series the writers and directors did not seem quite sure how to get the heroes and villains in and out of Snake Mountain.

The man-faced raven, may not have a name. Or it may be simply “raven” or it might be “raven raven”. The Raven might be homage to Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven poem  .