Doctor Mid-Nite
DC Universe Ready to Play
Power Level 10 ( 150 PP)
ABILITIES
Strength 2 Stamina 4 Agility 3 Dexterity 3
Fighting 5 Intellect 5 Awareness 3 Presence 2
POWERS
• Blindsight Senses 2 (Visual: Darkvision; E: Innate) [ 3 PP ]
• Martial Arts Damage 1 (Strength-Based) [ 1 PP ]
• Mid-Nite Goggles Feature 1 (Negates Blind Complication); Immunity 2 (Visual Dazzle Effects); Senses 2 (Auditory & Visual: Communication Link [1 ea]) (5 PP Base; F: Removable [-1 per 5]) [ 4 PP ]
• Nite Fighting Enhanced Advantage 2 (Evasion [1], Uncanny Dodge; F: Limited [Only while in Concealment]) [ 1 PP ]
EQUIPMENT ( 20 EP )
• Black Out Bomb Concealment 2 (Senses: Normal Visual: E: Attack, Area [Cloud, 15']) [ 8 EP ]
► Utility Belt (Array) [ 12 EP Total ]
□ Launching Grappling Hook Movement 2 (Safe-Fall, Swinging) [ 4 PP ]
□ AE: Move Object 3 (300 lbs.; E: Tether; F: Limited Direction [Attraction]) [ 1 PP ]
• Commlink [ 1 EP ]
• Cutting Torch Damage 2 linked to Weaken Toughness 2 (E: Affects Only Objects) [ 1 EP ]
• Handcuffs [ 1 EP ]
• Handheld Scanner Variable 1 (5 PP Traits; F: Limited to Senses, Slow) [ 1 EP ]
• Medical Kit [ 1 EP ]
• Rebreather [ 1 EP ]
• Universal Tool Enhanced Advantage 1 (Improvised Tools) [ 1 EP ]
ADVANTAGES
Chokehold, Defensive Roll (4), Equipment (4), Evasion (1), Favored Environment [Darkness], Improved Critical [Unarmed] (1), Improved Disarm, Improved Grab, Minion (4), Precise Attack [Close; Concealment], Redirect, Set-Up, Tracking, Uncanny Dodge
SKILLS
Athletics 3 (+5), Close Combat [Unarmed] 12 (+17), Deception 4 (+6), Insight 7 (+10), Investigation 5 (+10), Perception 7 (+10) Ranged Combat [Thrown] 7 (+10), Stealth 9 (+12), Technology 5 (+10), Treatment 15 (+20)
DEFENSE
Dodge (12) Base 9
Parry: (12) Base 7
Fortitude: (10) Base 6
Toughness: (4/8) Base -
Will: (10) Base 7
COMPLICATIONS
Blind: Without his special goggles, Doctor Mid-Nite is completely blind, except in pitch blackness.
WORKSHEET
Attack 17 Effect 3 Total: 20 (Unarmed)
Dodge 12 Tough. 8 Total: 20
Parry 12 Tough. 8 Total: 20
Fort. 10 Will 10 Total: 20
ABILITIES [ 54 pp ] + SKILLS [ 37 pp ] + ADVANTAGES [ 21 pp ] + POWERS [ 9 pp ] + DEFENSES [ 29 pp ] = 150 PP TOTAL
Build Notes
Doctor Mid-Nite is a character that I've always wished was more popular. I get the reasons he's not — the nocturnal vigilante archetype is dominated by the Batman and the hero-with-a-disability archetype is owned by Daredevil. Both of whom are hugely popular, so it's hard for a character like Doctor Mid-Nite to break through, despite having been around since 1941. It doesn't help that he has never been given a solo title. He has always appeared in anthology books, Justice Society of America team-focused titles, and one mini-series. This mini-series, the cleverly named Doctor Mid-Nite #1-3 is available in a trade paperback since 2000; given
the low page count, the character's lack of popularity, and the series age, you can usually snag the book for a Bargain Bin price. It's a great noir-inspired origin story for the third Doctor Mid-Nite, Pieter Cross, as he battles the Terrible Trio. Great inspiration for an introductory story for your next M&M campaign's "not the Batman" character.
Player Notes
With most of my Ready to Play Builds, I have left off Complications as these are mostly a role-playing concern and not a strictly mechanical one. However, with Ready to Play Doctor Mid-Nite, it was necessary to explicitly include his blindness as two of his Powers reference it. Doctor Mid-Nite's Goggles are a Removable Device that allows him normal Visual Senses, protects against some Dazzle Effects, and has a Communication Link to his owl companion, Hooty. Doctor Mid-Nite's innate Blindsight lets him see normally in darkness. Getting used to how these different modes of vision will impact you during game-play is definitely the tricky part of playing Doctor Mid-Nite. Apart from that, Ready to Play Doctor Mid-Nite operates much like any other "badass normal urban vigilante" sort of hero. Not too dissimilar from that other, slightly more famous, nocturnal crimefighter from Gotham. Doctor Mid-Nite isn't a great investigator compared to Team Gotham, "merely" being capable of pulling off Challenging Difficulty checks on a routine basis, but he's one of the greatest medical doctors in the DC Universe.
Player Tips
As is usually the case with my "urban vigilante" builds, Ready to Play Doctor Mid-Nite needs to make good use of his myriad Combat Advantages, Stealth Skill, and Utility Belt. It's usually to any vigilante's advantage to stay in concealment as much as possible, but Doctor Mid-Nite's combat capabilities go from "really good" to "ZOMG haxor!" when fighting in pitch darkness.
Game Master Tips
For the most part, Ready to Play Doctor Mid-Nite isn't any harder to include in a campaign than any other "urban vigilante" hero. If you've every run a campaign in that other roleplaying game about Flying Lizards & Forgotten Lairs where one of the players was a high-level Thief or Monk, then you've probably already seen most of the tricks the player of this sort of hero can pull off at the table. Ready to Play Doctor Mid-Nite is an absolute terror against mundane street criminals, but will have to work harder against superhuman opponents.
New Game Masters sometimes find it troublesome to have a single hero with radically different sensory input from the other heroes. We're so used to describing a scene using all five of our real senses (especially visual!) that having a hero with Superman's X-Ray Vision, Doctor Mid-Nite's Blindsight, Wolverine's super olfactory powers, or Daredevil's everything can pose a challenge. Doctor Mid-Nite is on the easier end of that spectrum: he's either blind (no goggles, not dark), sees normally when everybody else can (goggles on, not dark), or sees normally when nobody else can (darkness). His Communication Link with Hooty just let's him see and hear whatever his owl can, which is information that you were probably telling the player(s) anyway.
