SPEEDBALL
Robbie Baldwin

AFFILIATIONS
Solo d4
Buddy d6
Team d10

DISTINCTIONS
Boundless Energy
Colorful Force Bubbles
Quick with a Joke

POWER SETS
SPEEDBALL EFFECT
Kinetic Blast d8
Leaping d8
Superhuman Durability d10

SFX: Invulnerability. Spend 1 PP to ignore physical stress or trauma.

SFX: Kinetic Crash. If using Leaping in a pool to inflict physical stress on an opponent, double it for that action. Afterward add your second-highest rolling die from that action to the doom pool.

SFX: Rebound Attack. On a successful reaction against a kinetic-based attack action, convert opponent’s effect die into a Speedball Effect stunt or step up Kinetic Blast until used in an action. If opponent’s action succeeds, spend 1 PP to use this SFX.

SFX: Versatile. Replace your Superhuman Durability die with 2d8 or 3d6 on your next roll.

Limit: Uncontrollable. Change any Speedball Effect power into a complication to gain 1 PP. Activate an opportunity or remove the complication to recover that power.

SPECIALTIES
Acrobatics Expert d8
Combat Expert d8

MILESTONES
BOUNCE
• 1 XP when you discuss how you used your powers in a creative way in the past.
• 3 XP when you use Speedball Effect to create an asset for your team or a complication for your enemy.
• 10 XP when you either end directly a global threat using the Speedball Effect Power Set or use your XP to create a new way to use the Speedball Effect.

GOOFBALL
• 1 XP when you make a joke of a serious situation.
• 3 XP when you use humor to help a teammate deal with a serious situation during a Transition Scene.
• 10 XP when you either set aside humor for an entire act because a situation has become too serious for laughs or make a joke in the midst of a truly terrible tragedy, hoping to help cope with the pain through humor.

History
Robbie is the son of a district attorney and an actress; his parents often forced him into the middle of their arguments. An after-school intern at Hammond Labs, Robbie became intrigued by an experiment involving an extra-dimensional energy source. When he snuck in to observe the experiment, he was unwittingly exposed to the otherworldly energy. Robbie became Speedball and cut his teeth against a host of hometown villains. He soon expanded his area of adventures to New York City. In New York—on the day Terrax attacked—Speedball assisted the group of young heroes that became the original New Warriors.

Speedball’s time with the New Warriors included team-ups with notable heroes such as Spider-Man, Daredevil, and the Fantastic Four. The New Warriors fought against powerful foes such as Juggernaut, and the White Queen and her Hellions, in addition to battles of great cosmic importance. He’s been part of every incarnation of the team, including the newest reality-television based incarnation.

Personality
When Speedball’s powers initially manifested, their unpredictability led others to see him as a joke. Speedball embraced it and relished being a goofball and prankster. On the New Warriors, Speedball provides a light-hearted counterbalance to more serious teammates, including Night Thrasher’s dour thirst for justice and vengeance. Speedball genuinely loves being a super hero, even if sometimes he wishes his powers were more formidable.

Speedball’s immature antics help hide his determination to master his unusual powers and contribute to his team. He’s succeeded in steadily gaining more control—and use—of his Speedball Effect. Speedball has evolved from a slapstick hero barely in control of his powers to a more focused teammate, without losing his exuberance or sense of humor. Beneath his bubbly demeanor, however, those that know him often wonder if there’s an undercurrent of something less pleasant.

Abilities & Resources
Robbie developed his powers after exposure to radiation at Hammonds Labs. Whenever he’s exposed to kinetic force, his body gains size and mass and is surrounded by chromatic “speed bubbles” that protect and redirect any force used against him. Impacts that would have harmed him now cause him to bounce harmlessly in another direction. Initially even minor exposure to impact would cause his powers to manifest, but he’s since learned to control his powers. At times, he’s shown the ability to project his force bubbles as a blast or extend his field beyond his own body to protect others.

Speedball has been a staple of every incarnation of the New Warriors and can count on many of them to back him up, even when they’re not active teammates. Speedball was close with all the New Warriors, but maintains stronger ties to Nova and Rage.