Sentinel Comics RPG Core Rulebook

Calculating Villain Health
After putting together your villain by selecting their
approach and archetype, and then adding any
necessary upgrades and masteries to round them
out, you now have the necessary information to
calculate their health.
Each villain approach has a base health value.
That’s your starting point. To that, add the health
value from their archetype. Then, add times 5
health to round them out and make them a viable
threat, depending on the number of heroes. So, for
a villain that will be facing a team of 3 heroes would
get 15 additional health, whereas a villain you was
facing a team of 5 heroes would get an additional
25 health. Finally, if they have any upgrades, add the
health value from those upgrades. To simplify all of
this information, let’s represent it with an equation:
Villain Health = their approach health value,
plus their archetype health value, plus times
5, plus any upgrade health values.
always equals the number of heroes in a scene.
Finishing Touches
Once you’ve created your villain’s stats, you can add
notes about their appearance, personality traits,
and quirks. Villains are often defined as much
by their costume and mannerism as by their
powers and abilities. Vivid colors, strange
helmet, capes (ironic or not), and strange
speech patterns (speaks in haikus, grunts, or
limericks) are all part of the villainous package
that make them stand out when your players
meet them.
Whether you decide to write a complete
backstory for your villain or not, you can at least jot
down some of their motivations and antagonism
for something in their past, especially when it’s tied
to one or more of your players’ heroes. Even if you
don’t have a particular plan for connections to the
heroes, as the story evolves, be open to adding
to their history to make them fit as the perfect
antagonist to the players’ protagonists.
Villains Status by Health
Depending on their archetype and choice of abilities,
villains might use a different set of status dice and
not care about the Green, Yellow, and Red zones
like heroes do. Other villains work more like the
heroes, and as their Health decreases, they change
their status. For villains who need it, or for any time
you want to figure out a villain’s zone that is not
tied to the scene zone, use the following chart.
Max
Villain Health Chart
Green
Yellow
Red
100+ MAX-75 74-26 25-1
95 95-70 69-25 24-1
90 90-66 65-23 22-1
85 85-60 59-22 21-1
80 80-55 54-21 20-1
75 75-50 49-20 19-1
70 70-50 49-18 17-1
65 65-45 44-18 17-1
60 60-41 40-17 16-1
55 55-38 37-17 16-1
50 50-35 34-16 15-1
45 45-32 31-16 15-1
40 40-30 29-15 14-1
35 35-27 26-13 12-1
30 30-23 22-12 11-1
25 25-20 19-10 9-1
20 20-16 15-8 7-1
15 15-11 10-6 5-1
10 10 9 - 5 4-1
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