Doug's Musical Ability, in GURPS

[Bob Schroeck]

If he’s just working off of karate damage, he’s not going to be able to annoy a super.

Different game systems have different results -- Doug's hand-to-hand in V&V compares favorably (very favorably, in fact) to off-the-shelf Energy Blasts (1d20), Lightning Bolts (2d8) and most other "typical" power attacks. (Mind you, if the owners of those attacks have Int and/or Agility over 10, they're also getting to hit and damage bonuses, so "live fire" totals are going to be different from the basic descriptions.) Also, actual damage-stopping ability in V&V is surprisingly rare -- Invulnerability, as noted above, and Armor, which is ablative (# points of armor left = % chance that the armor will intercept the damage, and be reduced by it) -- along with the mechanism for "rolling with" a hit (which swaps PP damage for HP damage) are the only ways to reduce incoming damage. The way V&V handles combat, Doug can literally pound his way through any armor -- not exactly the "gentle caress" you mention above.

To be gaurenteed of killing him in one shot, he'd need to be hit with 1,520 points of damage (more than a tank gun does; you're looking at a 73d × 6 attack!). And, it's likely that, no matter what, he'll have to be taken to -5 × HP to take him down.

And that's not even factoring in his field, which will tend to keep him from getting hit in the first place.

And if you think that's bad... Silverbolt has something like 130 points of armor and over 250 hp, IIRC; I don't even want to think about what would be needed to take out a real GURPS version of her. (As opposed to Argurous Astraph, who was merely inspired by her and built to fit the IST setting.)

He's a Chumbawumba song.

So just imagine what happens when he uses that song, as he did (mostly off-screen) in DW2...

Egads, that's short compared to what he can do in GURPS.

Again, different game systems, different mechanics. V&V bases jump distance off of Carrying Capacity, oddly enough, where GURPS does it off of Basic Speed; of course we're going to get two different results.

V&V 2E is a late-first-generation RPG, one of the first where the character stats were used to directly calculate other abilities and quantities. Some of those calculations are clearly dodgy, and a few are obviously pulled out of a hat. But it still does what it does very well, which is produce the feel of 4-color comics in a roleplaying setting.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.