Mutants & Masterminds Headquarters & Hideouts.pdf

M&M Superlink Sourcebook

LPJ9958

written by Lee Hammock

HEADQUARTERS & HIDEOUTS

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Devil’s Workshop

Introduction

Headquarters. Hideouts. Lairs. Labs. Be they

caves, mansions, space stations, or extra dimen-

sional hidey holes, bases of operation have long

been a staple of superhero stories. The best such

places were as much characters as the heroes and

villains of the tale, taking on a personality, style,

and feel of their own. A hideout spoke volumes

about its inhabitants, from the trophies kept there

to the location of the hideout, important facets of

the owner could be discerned. All in all, headquar-

ters are much more than places to simply hang

your cape and mask.

advanced feature. Advanced feature must be taken

separately for each type of feature; taking advanced

hangar has no effect on docks or libraries.

Astral Wards

The headquarters is warded against travelers from the

astral realm, making it difficult for them to travel or

see inside the headquarters. Any astral traveler

wishing to enter the headquarters must make a power

check, DC 10+ the power level of the headquarters,

to be able to see into or enter the protected headquar-

ters.

The skills each feature grants a bonus to are listed

below.

Advanced Feature

Skills

Armory

Repair (weapons and

armor only)

Computer

Computers

Astral Trap

Storage Facility

You may only select this feature if one of the charac-

ters using the headquarters has the Astral Trap power

(see Power Corrupted). This feature allows a char-

acter with the Astral Trap power to store trapped

astral essences in a special container in the headquar-

ters, allowing the Astral Trap character to free up

their limited number of slots for trapped astral

essences by transferring them the storage facility. As

a full round action the Astral Trap character can

place the object containing the astral essence into the

storage facility, at which point the astral essence is

transferred from the Astral Trap object to the storage

facility. All the normal rules for the Astral Trap still

apply while the astral essence is in the storage

facility. The storage facility can hold one astral

essence per power level of the headquarters.

Demolitions Lab

Demolitions

Dock

Repair (boats only)

Garage

Repair (ground vehicles

only)

This book contains additional rules for creating

headquarters, new rules for trainable skills and

feats, and the details on a number of headquarters

including history, abilities, inhabitants and maps.

Also included is an adventure to demonstrate how

to use one of these locations in your campaign.

Hangar

Repair (air/space vehicles

only)

Infirmary

Medicine

Laboratory

Science (one of choice)

Library

Knowledge (one of choice)

Workshop

Craft (one of choice)

Chapter 1 : New

Headquarters

Features

Advisor

Your headquarters has some vast reservoir of infor-

mation on a specific set of subjects, such as the

spirits of ancient scholars or a vast inter-dimensional

computer. When this feature is selected choose three

Knowledge or Science skills for the Advisor to know

about, in which the Advisor has a skill bonus equal

to double the power level of the headquarters. Once

per session you may ask the Advisor a question

which it answers to the best of its ability. This

feature may be selected multiple times, allowing 3

more topics with each selection or another use per

session.

Characters can gain additional features for their

headquarters by paying one power point per addi-

tional feature. All the features below may be

added to headquarters as per the normal rules.

Automated Features

This feature equips the headquarters with a number

of systems that activate automatically given a set of

parameters. Each time this feature is selected the

owners of the headquarters gain one automated

feature per power level of the headquarters. Each

automated feature will automatically activate one

headquarters feature or power the headquarters is

equipped with when a certain set of parameters is

met, such as when the base is under attack or suffers

explosive decompression. The parameters of the

activation must be able to be described in one

sentence, such as “Activate the healing power if

anyone injured enters this room.” The parameters

may only be based on things happening in the

vicinity of the base, so you cannot have an auto-

Advanced Feature

If a headquarters already has an armory, computer,

demolitions lab, dock, garage, hangar, infirmary,

laboratory, library, or workshop feature, this

feature can be added to improve the quality of the

feature. Advanced features add a +2 bonus to any

skill checks made within the advanced feature

involving the intended purpose of the advanced

feature, such as receiving a +2 bonus to Medicine

skill checks for advanced infirmaries or receiving a

+2 bonus to Repair checks on airplanes in an

advanced hangar. This feature may be taken up to

five times for each advanced feature, granting a

maximum of a +10 bonus to characters using the

Animal Quarters

A headquarters with this feature has facilities

specially built for the care, feeding, and housing of

animals. This includes large stalls, cages, roosts,

veterinary tools, and anything else used to take care

of animal occupants. The animal quarters can hold

one creature of large size per power level of the

headquarters, but taking this feature additional times

will double this number.

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Dimensional Alarm

The headquarters is equipped with some manner of

device that detects disturbances in the time/space

continuum. This means anything entering the base

using Teleport, Summon, Personal Dimensional,

Time Travel, or similar powers is immediately

detected.

mated feature to teleport characters out of danger

while they are fighting a villain on another continent.

If the activated power or feature requires a skill

check or attack roll the automated system is assumed

to have a skill bonus or attack bonus equal to half the

power level of the headquarters. Automated features

can only activate a given power once per round if the

power has an action of full or less. Powers with a

longer action require their normal time. This

includes such devices as automated medical bays and

magical sanctums that automatically summon

defenders when invaded.

Career criminal, low level super villain 20

Criminal boss, average super villain 15

Criminal overlord, worldwide super villain 10

Danger Sensor

Array

Headquarters with this feature have some manner of

sensors that automatically detect major threats to the

surrounding region, such as earthquakes, forest fires,

or bank heists. Whether this is by satellite images,

listening to radio and TV broadcasts, or thousands of

spying magical spirits, this system will detect impor-

tant natural disasters or criminal behavior within ten

miles per HQ power level. Purchasing this feature

more than once doubles the range of the array for

each time purchased.

Dimensional Gate

If the residents of the headquarters have ready

access to another dimension, such as the

Dimensional Travel power or Personal Dimension,

they may purchase this headquarters feature. This

feature is a permanent portal to a specific dimen-

sion that is easily traversable by anyone stepping

through the gateway. The destination dimension of

the gateway can only be changed by someone with

dimension traveling abilities and it can only be

changed to dimensions the person setting the

controls can reach themselves. Once activated the

portal remains open until actively closed and

works in both directions.

Civilian

Appearance

Headquarters with this feature are equipped with

sliding walls, hidden compartments and other such

devices that, when engaged, allow the building to

appear perfectly normal both inside and out. As a

full action one of the residents of the headquarters

can change the exterior appearance, the interior

appearance, or both. While the concealment devices

are engaged it requires a Spot or Search check, DC

20+ the power level of the headquarters, to notice

there is something amiss.

Deathtrap

No self respecting super villain should be caught

dead without at least one of these in his hideout.

Deathtraps are overly ornate ways to execute pris-

oners that, while seldom effective, overflow with

style and panache. The specifics of the deathtrap are

up to the creator, but escaping generally requires a

skill or power check requiring a full action against

DC 20+ the power level of the HQ. If the prisoner

does not escape after an amount of time chosen by

the deathtrap creator, the prisoner must make a

Damage save DC 15+ the HQ’s power level each

round as they are slowly killed by the deathtrap. All

deathtraps are automated; the super villain can leave

at any time, arrogantly assured of the imminent

demise of his enemies.

Dimensional Prison

A step beyond common jail cells, dimensional

prisons are small dimensional pockets where pris-

oners can be incarcerated. The prison dimension is

entered through a portal, taking no special abilities

to activate or travel through. Beings trapped in the

dimensional prison do not notice the passage of

time, do not age, and do not starve or dehydrate.

A dimensional prison can hold one prisoner per

power level of the headquarters. Placing a pris-

oner into or removing a prisoner from a dimen-

sional prison requires one hour of properly cali-

brating controls.

Criminal Database

This feature represents a large collection of data on

criminals, super villains and other miscreants housed

within the headquarters. Using this feature charac-

ters can quickly track down the criminal history of

many nefarious individuals, requiring a Computers

check against a DC based on the profile of the target

of the search, listed on the table below, minus the

power level of the headquarters. This database will

contain relevant information such as criminal history,

prison terms, last known address, known accom-

plices, etc. This information will not always be up to

date or even accurate, but often provides a place to

start and one or two clues.

Demolitions Lab

This laboratory is equipped for the creation and

defusing of explosive devices. It contains raw mate-

rials and the tools necessary to carry out these tasks,

and the entire room is heavily reinforced in case of

accidental explosions. The walls of the demolition

lab have double the hardness of the walls of the rest

of the headquarters.

Beings trapped in a dimensional prison can only

escape through outside assistance, such as dimen-

sional travelers or someone breaking into the head-

quarters. Prisoners with dimensional travel abili-

ties of their own may escape at the gamemaster’s

discretion.

Criminal Profile

Unimportant thug or very secretive

super villain

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Dimensional

Storage

Headquarters with this feat have the ultimate

closet. This feature is a portal to a small dimen-

sion where items can be stored for later retrieval.

The capacity of the dimension is practically unlim-

ited. The portal to the dimensional storage area

can only be opened once per day per power level

of the headquarters.

Environmental Suit

The headquarters comes equipped with some type of

suit or equipment that allows the inhabitants to

temporarily survive hostile environments, such as the

intense heat in a volcano or the vacuum of space.

The headquarters has one suit per power level and

they are can be tailored to fit any size or shape char-

acter. These suits require one minute to put on and

provide the wearer with one Immunity feat per power

level of the headquarters. These suits only have

power for six hours of continuous operation, after

which they must be returned to the headquarters to

be recharged.

power. This lab allows characters to change powers

with the Gadget power without becoming fatigued,

but doing so requires one hour of tinkering in the lab.

Intelligence

A headquarters with this feature has some type of

intelligent entity living inside it, such as an artificial

intelligence computer or ancient spiritual advisors.

The entity has a power level equal to one levee

below the headquarters’ power level, but it cannot

leave the headquarters. Most examples of this

feature will be immovable constructs or incorporeal

spirits. The Intelligence’s powers, if any, cannot be

accessed outside the base by the Relay power. The

Intelligence is effectively a sidekick that cannot leave

the headquarters.

Drones

Your headquarters is inhabited by a fleet of small

maintenance and cleaning units. These can be

anything from small automated cleaning robots to

a legion of dedicated cobbler gnomes. These

drones are considered 1st level minions but have

no skills beyond Craft, Profession and Repair

skills. The number of drones present is equal to

the power level of the headquarters x100. They

have no powers to speak of either and will not

engage in combat. They can be used to keep

watch on the headquarters.

Escape Tunnels

The area surrounding a headquarters with this feature

is riddled with escape tunnels, allowing easy escape

from the headquarters from a number of locations.

The headquarters has one escape tunnel per power

level and these tunnels pass either underground or

through nearby buildings, ending up to one mile

away per power level. The exits to these escape

tunnels are hidden, requiring a Search check, DC

20+ the headquarters power level, to locate.

Having this feature us different from having a head-

quarters that is a character, as described in chapter 2.

Instead this feature represents having an inanimate

headquarters with some kind of resident sentient

creature built into it, such as an intelligent computer

program or a ghost. The headquarters itself has no

special means of locomotion or interactivity because

of this feature.

Environmental

Controls

Creatures with a variety of different environmental

needs are able to survive within a headquarters

with this feature. Each room of the headquarters

may be sealed off and the environment of that

room changed to meet a number of different needs,

such as flooding rooms for aquatic creatures or

changing the dominate gas in a room to methane

for methane breathers. Generally changing a

room’s environment takes one minute and can be

done from the room affected or from any major

computer terminals in the headquarters.

Extra Capacity

A headquarters with this feature is larger on the

inside than the outside, possessing a dimensional

anomaly that makes their volume larger than it

should be for the size of the headquarters. This

allows the headquarters to have twice as many rooms

and hold twice as much stuff as a normal building of

its size. The feature may be taken multiple times,

each time doubling the interior size of the headquar-

ters.

Interstellar

Transmitter

This feature represents an ability to communicate

across interstellar distances instantaneously. Such

communication has a range of one light year per

power level of the headquarters and the transmitter

can only communicate with similarly equipped

installations.

Landmark

The headquarters is well known and well thought of

by those who live in the vicinity. Nearby residents

will try to protect the headquarters if they can and

think well of those who defend it from attacks.

Headquarters with this feature are often built within

historical monuments, famous buildings, or natural

wonders. The downside of this feature is that if the

characters do significant damage to their headquar-

If using the Headquarters as a Character rules from

chapter 3 this allows the headquarters character to

have one less level of Growth than would be

normally required to carry the headquarters. This

feature takes up no space.

This feature can also be used to make a room

deadly to its inhabitants, such as removing all the

oxygen from a room. Generally such efforts inflict

damage as per normal for the Suffocation power

with a power rank equal to the power level of the

headquarters.

Gadget Lab

This feature may only be taken if one of the charac-

ters based out of the headquarters has the Gadget

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