ASH WILLIAMS- Terrordrome Version
Role: Regular Guy-Turned-Man's Man
Movie Series: Evil Dead
PL 9 (126)
STRENGTH 2 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 12 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 4
Skills:
Expertise (S-Mart Employee) 4 (+6)
Expertise (Science) 2 (+4)
Initimidation 2 (+6)
Perception 5 (+7)
Stealth 2 (+6)
Technology 3 (+5)
Advantages:
Equipment 2 (Chainsaw +4, Boomstick- Blast +4- Reduced Defenses -1), Ranged Attack 6
Murderous Fighting Style:
Accurate Attack (Weak), Daze (Intimidation), Extraordinary Effort (Unleashed), Fascination (Intimidation), Fast Grab, Improved Critical (Chosen Weapon) 2, Improved Hold, Improved Trip (Throw), Power Attack (Power), Startle, Withstand Damage (Block)
Powers:
"Super Punch" Strength-Damage +2 (Feats: Improved Critical) [3]
"The Necronomicon" (Flaws: Easily Removable) [6]
"Vortex Spell" Blast 5 (Feats: Improved Critical) (Reduced Defenses -2) (7) -- (9 points)
- AE: "Zombie Spell" Summon 2 (Extras: Active) (Flaws: Limited to 2 Rounds) (Reduced Defenses -2) (2)
- AE: "Mini-Ash Spell" Summon 2 (Extras: Active) (Flaws: Limited to 2 Rounds) (Reduced Defenses -2) (3)
Offense:
Unarmed +12 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Chainsaw +12 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Moves +13 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Mini-Ash Spell +14 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Zombie Spell +12 (+4 Damage, DC 19)
Shotgun +10 (+5 Ranged Damage, DC 20)
Initiative +4
Defenses:
Dodge +14 (DC 24), Parry +15 (DC 25), Toughness +3, Fortitude +5, Will +10
Complications:
Disabled (A Farewell To Arms)- Okay, yeah, Ash cut off his right hand when it got possessed. He's compensated nicely, managing to jury rig a chainsaw to fit his stump. A good weapon, but maybe refere back to Leatherface. As I also mentioned earlier he made a prosthetic hand from a gauntlet, which gives him a bit more hitting power and allows him to crush things he wouldn't normally be able to (like a metal goblet).
Responsibility (This Is My....BOOMSTICK!)- Ash's favorite weapon though is his trusty 12-Gauge sawed off shotgun. That's right: cobalt blue steel, a chestnut stock, and a hair trigger. The damage Ash unleashes with that sucker is unreal and he never seems to run out of ammo.
Relationship (Give Me Some Sugar, Baby)- Ash likes the ladies and they tend to like him too.
Responsibility ("What'd You Say?")- One drawback of Ash is that he either has a poor short-term memory or just doesn't pay attention when someone gives him a bit of advice on what magic words to use in a situation dealing with the Necronomicon. But he gets it right....mostly...maybe not every last syllable.
Enemy (The %^^&ing Necronomicon)- The book of the dead has been a persistent thorn in Ash's side for a little over 30 years now and he's DAMN sick of it.
Weakness (Predictability)- These guys cannot simply "spam" out the same attack over and over again, as the opponent will expect the attacks, and be ready for them (and a counterattack). The third time he tries the same technique (or same combo of techniques) in a short span, they will be at -2 to Accuracy, AND to their Active Defenses in that round. All will decrease by 2 every successive round the same move is done.
Total: Abilities: 66 / Skills: 18--9 / Advantages: 8 + 10 / Powers: 10 / Defenses: 23 (126)
ASH WILLIAMS- Movie Version
Role: Regular Guy-Turned-Man's Man
Movie Series: Evil Dead
PL 8 (101)
STRENGTH 2 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 10 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 4
Skills:
Expertise (S-Mart Employee) 4 (+6)
Expertise (Science) 2 (+4)
Initimidation 2 (+6)
Perception 5 (+7)
Stealth 2 (+6)
Technology 3 (+5)
Advantages:
Equipment 3 (Chainsaw +4- Multiattack, Penetrating, Boomstick- Blast +5), Improved Critical (Boomstick) 2, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 6
Offense:
Unarmed +10 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Chainsaw +10 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Shotgun +10 (+5 Ranged Damage, DC 20)
Initiative +4
Defenses:
Dodge +11 (DC 21), Parry +11 (DC 21), Toughness +3, Fortitude +5, Will +10
Complications:
Disabled (A Farewell To Arms)- Okay, yeah, Ash cut off his right hand when it got possessed. He's compensated nicely, managing to jury rig a chainsaw to fit his stump. A good weapon, but maybe refere back to Leatherface. As I also mentioned earlier he made a prosthetic hand from a gauntlet, which gives him a bit more hitting power and allows him to crush things he wouldn't normally be able to (like a metal goblet).
Responsibility (This Is My....BOOMSTICK!)- Ash's favorite weapon though is his trusty 12-Gauge sawed off shotgun. That's right: cobalt blue steel, a chestnut stock, and a hair trigger. The damage Ash unleashes with that sucker is unreal and he never seems to run out of ammo.
Relationship (Give Me Some Sugar, Baby)- Ash likes the ladies and they tend to like him too.
Responsibility ("What'd You Say?")- One drawback of Ash is that he either has a poor short-term memory or just doesn't pay attention when someone gives him a bit of advice on what magic words to use in a situation dealing with the Necronomicon. But he gets it right....mostly...maybe not every last syllable.
Enemy (The %^^&ing Necronomicon)- The book of the dead has been a persistent thorn in Ash's side for a little over 30 years now and he's DAMN sick of it.
Total: Abilities: 62 / Skills: 18--9 / Advantages: 12 / Powers: 0 / Defenses: 18 (101)
-Groovy. Hailing from Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series comes Mr. Bruce Campbell himself. If you really are so inclined to find out a good deal about the making of the first Evil Dead with a lot of interesting stories then by all means go to Cecil Trachtenberg's Good Bad Flicks. He has at least one video on it.
-Abridged, some college students head into the woods for a weekend getaway. The cabin they occupy was once owned by an archaeologist who was translating his latest find there: the Necronomicon Ex Mortis (or Notorum De Mondo depending on which movie you watch). Loosely translated, it's the Book of the Dead. These mental giants read from it and voila....you have possessing demons flying all over the place.
-Ash here is the sole survivor of the first night and goes into the second night half mad before getting aid from said archaeologist's daughter and a few other people coming up to the cabin. More hilarity ensues until they decide to use the Necronomicon to not only make the evil in the forest corporeal but also open up a vortex and make that sucker someone else's problem. Ash again ends up sole survivor and is also pulled into the portal and finds himself in medieval England where he ends up leading some knights against an army of the dead before heading back to the 20th Century.
-After that we get a remake...which actually isn't a remake at all, it's just a different story set in the same universe. Ash even gets an appearance in the post credits sequence...kinda. And that's it. Oh until 2015 when Ash got his own TV show Ash vs Evil Dead, where he lays the smack down on some roody poo undead menaces alongside Lucy "Flawless" Lawless.
-The only hero of our characters here, Ash is merely a man....BUT WHAT A MAN! Well, truthfully he's somewhat Jack Burton-ish at times (WHY IS THAT NOT A CROSSOVER??!) but despite the regular humiliations he goes through, he's pretty badass. I mean he's a Timex man in that he takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. Physically he's in pretty good shape, at least in his prime, and even later on in his show for all the steps he's lost....guy's still pretty tough.
-And he's kinda smart too. Ash was a college student/S-Mart Employee who has at least some knowledge of engineering. After all, he rigged up his sweet custom chainsaw hand, turned his car into a war machine back in the past, built a prosthetic pneumatic hand from a knight's gauntlet, and even had some knowledge on how to make gunpowder. That ain't exactly the chicken feed.
-AND HIS WILL! Seriously, how many people could just cut their hand off with a chainsaw when they found it possessed? You might throw some of that into him being driven half insane from everything (Ash from the first movie is well...kind of an average guy, but by the second he's an half crazy, bad pun spewing, ass kicking MACHINE!). But to add to that....Ash is the only person in any of the Evil Dead movies to actually expel a possessing demon from his body by sheer force of will. Definitely the kind of guy you want at your side when you deal with any of the nasties in Terrordrome.
Jab's Notes: ANOTHER ONE I'VE SEEN! My best friend in High School bought Army of Darkness when we were in High School, and he was in LOVE with it- he pointed out that it played like the perfect video game- different levels, different challenges, etc. Ash fighting an army of clones, facing a skeleton and his army, and even gettint tossed into a Rancor Pit situation with an evil old witch. I saw Evil Dead many years later, and was pretty impressed- it's a pretty good "normal people thrown into crazy shit" flick. Campbell's If Chins Could Kill Autobiography includes a TON of stuff in how they had to scrimp and save for years to make the thing, then most of them got fined for appearing it in without their Screet Actor's Guild credits to save some money
.-And yeah, what the hell is up with Lucy Lawless. Xena ended like twenty years ago, and she's now ACTUALLY HOTTER than she was in that show (where she was a distant, DISTANT nominee for "hottest" compared with Hudson Leick's "Why Guys Like Crazy Bitches" psychopathic Callisto).
-Bruce Campbell's a fun actor, seemingly aware of how silly his career is, so he plays all of his roles as a Giant Ham, and like he was God's Gift to Women.
-Ash is a bit complicated to figure out in the game, as his Chainsaw is barely a big deal, but his Necronomicon-based stuff definitely is- three of his moves involve it- a Blast (a Vortex that sucks a guy in and spits him out), and two Summons, which I figured I'd actually include, as they help flesh out his Necronomicon Device. They operate in-game like regular Summons, though. Summons in the game seem to function a bit like Blasts- just Ranged Damage.
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