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Glasnost

An Example of Converting a
Champions Character to Everway

Glasnost is a character from my Overman 1994 game who has also been incorporated into the London Champions and Moscow Superheroes universe. There is a separate page detailing his Background and History. This page is here to show how I converted Glasnost the Champions player character into Glasnost the Everway non-player character. As such, we have:

The Champions character sheet.
The Everway version of the sheet.
Some notes on the conversion between the two.

GLASNOST (The Champions Version)

Real Name	:	Piotr Vladimirovich Vatutin
Played By	:	Matthew Fitzgerald
Year Born	:	1961
Formerly known as Krasney Schit (Red Shield).

Sex	:	Male
Nationality	:	Russian
Base of Operations	:	Mobile

VALUE	STATISTIC	COST	POINTS
23+	Str	x 1	13
20	Dex	x 3	30
23	Con	x 2	26
12	Body	x 2	4
18	Int	x 1	8
13	Ego	x 2	6
23	Pre	x 1	13
24	Com	x ¹/₂	7
15+	PD	x 1	10
15+	ED	x 1	10
6.2	Speed	x 10	32
10	Rec	x 2	0
46	End	x ¹/₂	0
36	Stun	x 1	0
TOTAL :			159

OCV	(Dex / 3)	:	7+
DCV	(Dex / 3)	:	7+
ECV	(Ego / 3)	:	4

Intelligence Roll	(9 + Int / 5)	:	13-
Ego Roll	(9 + Ego / 5)	:	12-
Dexterity Roll	(9 + Dex / 5)	:	13-
Perception Roll	(9 + Int / 5)	:	13-
Constitution Roll	(9 + Con / 5)	:	14-

POWERS / TALENTS / SKILLS / PERKS

POINTS

10rPD, 10rED Damage Resistance

2d6 Aid to Body, Only to Initial Value, OAF (Healing Box)

Radio Listen and Transmit, OAF (Radio)

MultiPower	:	Gravity / Personal Mass Control
	m	5d6 Def 5 Entagle
	m	10d6 EB, versus PD
	m	Strength 30 Telekinesis
	m	14" Flight, 0 Endurance, 2 x non-Combat Velocity (201.6 kph)
	m	+10rPD, +5rED Force Field, Area Effect (Radius), 4 x Radius (8"), 0 Endurance
	u	6 Levels Density Increase, 0 Enduarance [gives +30 Str, +6 PD, +6 ED, -6" KNB, 64 x mass]
	u	Desolidification, Activate 8-
	u	Missile Deflection vs All Attacks, Reflection to Attacker, +5 to Roll
	u	Missile Deflection vs All Attacks, +5 to Roll, Ranged, Costs End, Activate 15-

10 [50]

9 [45]

10 [47]

9 [45]

4 [45]

1 [13]

5 [50]

3 [34]

Defence Manoeuvre

+5 Skill Levels with MultiPower

Oratory 14-

Seduction 14-

Paramedic 13-

Tactics 13-

Stealth 13-

Navigation 8-

Survival 8-

KS : Ballet 8-

PS : Soldier 13-

TF : Grav Vehicles

WF : Small Arms

WF : Vehicle Weapons

Russian - native

English - idiomatic, native accent

Serbo-Croat - basic conversation

TOTAL :

177

DISADVANTAGES	POINTS
Code vs Killing (common, strong)	15
Honourable (common, strong)	15
Russian Patriot (common, moderate)	10
Always Looks on the Bright Side of Life (common, moderate)	10
Enraged if Innocents Hurt (uncommon, 14- into, 11- out of)	10
Public Id	10
Reputation 11- (Hero)	10
1d6 from Electromagnetic Powers (uncommon, instant)	5
3d6 from Drains/Transfers (common, instant)	20
3/2 x Stun from Sonics (uncommon)	5
3/2 x Stun from Poisons (common)	10
Distinctive Features - Handsome and Impressive (concealable with Major Effort, major reaction)	15
Hunted (Durak, more powerful, 8-)	15
Hunted (Islamic Fundamentalists, less powerful, 14-, limited area)	10
Hunted (The KGB, as powerful, non-combat influence, 11-, Mildly Punish)	15
Watched (PRIMUS, as powerful, non-combat influence, 11-)	10
Mystery Disadvantages	5
TOTAL :	190

POINTS TOTAL := 159 + 177 = 336 (100 base points + 190 from disadvantages + 46 experience)

GLASNOST (The Everway Version)

Real Name	:	Piotr Vladimirovich Vatutin
Played By	:	Matthew Fitzgerald
Year Born	:	1961
Formerly known as Krasney Schit (Red Shield).

Sex	:	Male
Nationality	:	Russian
Base of Operations	:	Mobile

Description :

Amazingly handsome, square-jawed, and entirely heroic-looking.

Statistics

EARTH	:	7	(Tough)
AIR	:	6	(Presence)
FIRE	:	6	(Strength)
WATER	:	5	(Stealth)

VIRTUE	:	Won't Kill; Honourable; Patriotic
FLAW	:	Various Hunteds, Susceptibilities and Vulnerabilities
SECRET	:	None
GOAL	:	Help Russia Back to Greatness

Powers and Skills
Gravity / Personal Mass Control Powers (F, V x 2, M x 5) These allow Glasnost a variety of abilities (though he cannot do all of them at full strength at the same time): Increase his Density to give himself effectively Strength 9, Toughness 9, No Knockback, 6500 kilos mass. Decrease his Density to the point he can move through solid matter and be almost immune to harm (Desolidification). Give a 'gravitational charge' to a being. This increases the Gravity affecting them for a while, or until they break free; Fire (Strength) 7 or less beings are immobilised by this; higher strength beings are slowed. Generate a gravitational energy blast (a physical effect) which can kill beings of Earth 7 or less in one full hit, and can be spread. This does knockback. Generate gravitational Telekinesis with strength as for an effective Fire of 7; this has no fine manipulation ability. Use his gravitational manipulation to deflect attacks fired at him away from him, and back at the attacker if he wishes, and can also protect others at range (though without the ability to reflect the attacks). Fly himself and others close to him at 200kph. Generate a gravitational field which protects everyone in a 15m radius about Glasnost; physical attacks effectively have 3xM knocked off them; energy attacks have 1xM knocked off.	8
Healing Box (F, M) The box heals all of a person's physical wounds when it is placed in physical contact with them, over the course of ten seconds or so, using needles which it sticks into the injured person. Note that normally Instant Regeneration costs two points; the cost of the Box is reduced both because it is quite slow (but not slow enough to be merely Rapid Healing), via a Focus, and it requires conscious effort to be used rather than being on constantly all the time.	1*
-2 Earth with Resist Mental Powers (use as Earth 5)	-1/2
+2 Fire with Use Powers (use as Fire 8)	1
+2 Air with Soldiering (use as Air 8)	1
+1 with Dodge (use as Fire 7)	1/2

Total Points = 7 + 6 + 6 + 5 + 8 + 1 + -1/2 + 1 + 1 + 1/2 = 35

NOTES ON THE CONVERSION

Glasnost has a Dexterity of 20 (the normal human maximum) and a basic Strength of 23; therefore basic Fire is 6 (the natural human maximum), but with a specialisation in Strength to reflect his strength being over that value.
Likewise Air, based on an Intelligence of 18 and a Presence of 23. As Glasnost has no mental powers, factoring his Ego for offensive purposes into his Air score does not need to be done. His specialisation in Presence subsumes his Oratory and Seduction skills.
His Constitution is 23, over the statistic maximum for a normal human, so therefore an Earth of 7, with a specialisation in Tough to reflect his Damage Resistance. He has an 'anti-specialisation' in Resistance to Mental Powers to reflect his relatively low Ego score and lack of Mental Defences. Note that I am not counting Body as very important in the Earth score; this is mainly because in Champions Constitution and defences which count much more towards a characters overall damage resistance.
His extra skill in Soldiering reflects his skills in those areas, subsuming Tactics, Survival, his Transport Familiarity and his Weapon Familiarities.
His paramedic skill is something he knows, but is not specialised in, so it is not listed explicitly on the character sheet.
His extra specialisations in Use Powers and Dodge reflect Glasnost's many skill levels in the use of powers possessed by the Champions version of the character. There are not as many levels in Use Powers as might be expected because of the way in which Champions skill levels must be split between offence and defence.
His Water score of 5 represents the fact that his Perception roll is high - at the base given for his Intelligence score - but he has no enhanced perceptual skills. His specialisation in Stealth represents the fact that this is the only Water-based skill the Champions version of the character possesses.
The powers conversion is very much a GM call. Their being Frequent is obvious. Their being twice Versatile is likewise easy from the wide range of abilities Glasnost has. The number of Major's is the part which is most a GM call, and is basically how powerful the GM thinks the character is or should be.