Val CHA Cost Roll Notes 14 STR 4 12- Lift 175 kg; 2 1/2d6 HTH damage [1] 16 DEX 18 12- OCV: 5/DCV: 5 15 CON 10 12- 11 BODY 2 11- 21 INT 11 13- PER Roll 13- 18 EGO 16 13- ECV: 6 18 PRE 8 13- PRE Attack: 3 1/2d6 16 COM 3 12- 6 PD 3 Total: 6 PD (0 rPD) 6 ED 3 Total: 6 ED (0 rED) 4 SPD 14 Phases: 3, 6, 9, 12 6 REC 0 30 END 0 26 STUN 0 Total Characteristics Cost: 95 Movement: Running: 7"/14" Leaping: 2 1/2"/5" Swimming: 3"/6" Cost Powers & Skills 47 Banzai Institute Gadgets: Variable Power Pool (Gadget Pool), 40 base + 7 control cost; VPP Can Only Be Changed Between Adventures (-1/2), Limited Class Of Powers Available Limited: Strange Tech Only (see GM) (-1/2); all slots OAF (-1) 11 .45 Colt Peacemaker: RKA 2d6-1, +1 Increased STUN Multiplier (+1/4); OAF (-1), 6 Charges (-3/4) 21 Martial Arts: Kenjutsu Maneuver OCV DCV Notes 4 1) Parry +2 +2 Block, Abort 4 2) Disarm -1 +1 Disarm; 24 STR to Disarm 4 3) Evade -- +5 Dodge, Affects All Attacks, Abort 4 4) Lightning Stroke +0 +2 4 1/2d6 Strike 5 5) Slashing Stroke -2 +1 6 1/2d6 Strike 0 6) Weapon Element: Default Element: Sword Perks 30 Contact: Various Members of the Blue Blaze Irregulars (Contact has useful Skills or resources, Contact is slavishly loyal to character), Organization Contact (x3) 15- 8 Contact: The President (Contact has access to major institutions, Contact has extremely useful Skills or resources, Contact has significant Contacts of his own, Good relationship with Contact) 11- 30 The Hong Kong Cavaliers (Six Followers) 6 Fringe Benefit: International Driver's License, License to practice a profession: Surgeon, Passport, Security Clearance: Special 10 Money: Wealthy 4 Reputation: International Adventurer and Superstar (A large group) 11-, +2/+2d6 Talents 6 Combat Luck (3 PD/3 ED) 3 Lightsleep 3 Perfect Pitch Skills 20 +2 Overall 16 +2 with All Combat 3 Acrobatics 12- 3 Acting 13- 6 AK: The World 16- 3 Breakfall 12- 3 Bugging 13- 3 Bureaucratics 13- 3 Climbing 12- 3 Combat Driving 12- 3 Combat Piloting 12- 3 Computer Programming 13- 3 Concealment 13- 3 Conversation 13- 5 Cramming 5 Criminology 14- 3 Cryptography 13- 3 Deduction 13- 10 Defense Maneuver I-IV 3 Disguise 13- 3 Electronics 13- 3 Fast Draw 12- 3 Forensic Medicine 13- 3 High Society 13- 3 Inventor 13- 3 KS: Kenjutsu 13- 3 KS: Music 13- 3 KS: Politics 13- 4 KS: The World Crime League 14- 3 Lockpicking 12- 3 Mechanics 13- 5 Navigation (Air, Dimensional, Land, Marine) 13- 3 Oratory 13- 3 Paramedics 13- 3 PS: Rock Musician 13- 3 Security Systems 13- 3 Shadowing 13- 3 Sleight Of Hand 12- 3 Stealth 12- 8 Systems Operation (Communications Systems, Medical Systems, Dimensional Sensors, Radar, Sensor Jamming Equipment, Sonar) 13- 3 Tactics 13- 7 TF: Common Motorized Ground Vehicles, Balloons & Zeppelins, Combat Aircraft, Helicopters, Large Planes, SCUBA, Small Planes 4 WF: Common Melee Weapons, Small Arms 3 Linguist 1 1) Language: Cantonese (basic conversation) 1 2) Language: French (fluent conversation) 1 3) Language: Japanese (fluent conversation) 1 4) Language: Latin (basic conversation) 1 5) Language: Russian (fluent conversation) 1 6) Language: Spanish (fluent conversation) 3 Scientist 2 1) SS: Biochemistry 13- 2 2) SS: Chemistry 13- 2 3) SS: Dimensional Physics 13- 2 4) SS: General Medicine 13- 5 5) SS: Neurosurgery 16- Total Powers & Skills Cost: 390 Total Cost: 485 100+ Disadvantages 10 Dependent NPC: Various Blue Blaze Irregulars In Trouble 8- (Normal; Useful Noncombat Position or Skills; Group DNPC: x2 DNPCs) 5 Distinctive Features: Piercing Eyes (Easily Concealed; Noticed and Recognizable; Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses) 25 Hunted: Hanoi Xan and the World League of Crime 11- (As Pow, NCI, PC has a Public ID or is otherwise very easy to find, Harshly Punish) 20 Psychological Limitation: Devoted to Doing Good, Protecting the World and Saving Lives (Common, Total) 20 Psychological Limitation: Takes Responsibilities as Idol Seriously (Common, Total) 20 Psychological Limitation: Extreme Scientific Curiousity (Common, Total) 15 Reputation: Extremely Well-Publicized, 14- 20 Social Limitation: Public Celebrity (Very Frequently, Major) 250 No Matter Where You Go, There Your Bonus Is Total Disadvantage Points: 485
Description: Buckaroo Banzai was born to internationally-reknowned physicist/inventors Masado and Sandra Banzai in 1950, while both were involved in the project to develop the Oscillation Overthruster and explore higher dimensions. Unfortunately, both were killed by the notorious criminal and head of the World Crime League, Hanoi Xan in 1955, orphaning young Buckaroo. He was raised in Denver by various friends of the family until he was fourteen, by which time it was clear that his genius and potential exceeded even his illustrious parents and he began to travel the world, learning many skills, attending several universities and gathering various allies. He fell in love once, with Peggy Simpson, and they planned to marry but Peggy was also killed by Hanoi Xan’s followers. Since then he has not allowed any one individual to become too close.
By the early 1980s, he is the head of the Banzai Institute, which is a well-known think-tank for the best, brightest and most unorthodox minds in the world to face the various problems of society, from crime to world hunger to exploration of outer space, and the inner dimensions. He’s also an international celebrity, with contacts from the highest and lowest stratas of society; he is a rock star, has his own line of comic books, and regularly plays golf with the President (who he also serves as a top technical advisor.)
He is aided by several groups of supporters. The innermost circle are the Hong Kong Cavaliers (Rawhide, Reno, Perfect Tommy, Pecos, Big Norse, and occasionally Pinky Carruthers), who are Buckaroo’s closest friends and fellow members of his touring rock’n’roll band. They serve as a modern-day equivalent of Doc Savage’s “Fabulous Five,” his closest advisors, and fellow warriors. Beyond that are the Blue Blaze Irregulars, hundreds of individuals around the world who have joined Banzai’s cause and provide him with information and support no matter where he travels. The Irregulars maintain “World Watch One,” a news-monitoring network connected by satellite to Banzai’s headquarters in Los Angeles.
Banzai is a philosopher, a deep thinker who is unafraid to rock out. He is unfazed by his celebrity, and will take any opportunity to reach out to the suffering and alone. He is fascinated by apparently insoluble problems, and constantly challenges those around him to think differently. The adventures chronicled in Across The 8th Dimension are still two years away.
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