Steal This Character: Kai Leng (Mutants & Masterminds 3rd Edition, playable version)

PL 10, 150

60 + 5 + 19 + 40 + 26 = 150

Abilities: 60 pp

Strength: 5, Stamina: 5, Agility: 6, Dexterity: 0, Fighting: 10, Intellect: 0, Awareness: 4, Presence: 0

Defenses: 5

Toughness: 5/8, Dodge: 9/11, Parry: 10/12, Will: 5, Fortitude: 6

Skills: 19

Stealth 4 (10), Acrobatics 4 (10), Athletics 4 (9), Intimidate 8, Deception 8, Technology 6, Close Combat (Blades) 2, Vehicles 1, Slight of Hand 1

Advantages: 23 + equipment.

Krav Maga: All-out Attack, Chokehold, Improved Defense, Improved Disarm, Improved Hold, Improved Trip, Power Attack. 7 pp

Kung Fu: Defensive Attack, Improved Critical (Attack), Improved Sunder, Instant Up, Startle. 5 pp

Ninjutsu: Evasion, Improvised Weapon, Hide in plain sight, Takedown. 4 pp

Ranged Combat 7

Powers: 40 pts

Training: 18 points

• Pressure Points: Affliction (Dazed, Stunned, Incapacitated), Resisted and Overcome by Fortitude • 1 pp (AE of Strength Damage).
• Flurry: Multiattack, Variable Descriptor 2 (any attack effect you wield, only up to the attack’s rank) • 2 points +8 points.
• Parkour: Movement 5 (Environmental Adaptation (Urban), Safe Fall, Sure-Footed 2, Wall-Crawling 1), Limited to Moving in Urban Environments (4 ranks) • 6 points.
• Situational Awareness: Senses 1 (Danger Sense, visual) • 1 point.

Phantom Cloak: Passive Concealment (Normal Vision) • 2 points.

Armor: 25 points, Removable -5 • 20 points

Primary Array: 18 points

• Kinetic Barrier: Immunity 30 (attacks targeting Dodge), Concentration Duration • 15 points
• Pulse Blaster: Ranged Damage 4 • 1 point
• Electric Slash (Applies Area (cone) to strength based damage, adds electrical and biotic descriptors) • 1 point
• Electric Smash (Same thing, but with burst area) • 1 point

Shields: +2 Dodge, +2 Parry • 4 point Armor: + 3 Toughness • 3 points

Equipment: 13 ep, 3 points.

• N7 Valiant: 11 ep (Ranged Damage 5, Improved Aim)
• Monomolecular Blade: Strength Based Damage 3 • 1 ep
• Combat Knife: Strength Based Damage 1 • 1 ep

Notes: This is a fair approximation of the Kai Leng I use in my non-canon RP on Twitter. He’s missing a few traits here and there, but those can easily be considered stunts (gods, I love Mutants & Masterminds) or added in later. For a “villain” Kai Leng, you’ll want to bump up the PL (say, around 12 or 13) and add new traits to account for his cybernetic enhancements.

His abilities are a mix between the excellent version of the character found in the excellent novel Mass Effect: Retribution and a few pieces of equipment that approximate his abilities in the game. I was trying to strike a middle ground between the two versions of the character, and I think I managed it well enough.

In a Mass Effect game, he gets an Omni-tool for free. This version mainly uses it for communication.

I’ll be doing a “villain” version of the character later on, so stay tuned for that.