{"id":4627,"date":"2010-12-03T06:45:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T11:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2010-12-03T11:39:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T16:39:12","slug":"mayfairstivus3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/03\/mayfairstivus3\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayfairstivus Day 3 \u2013 Doctor Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back for the third day of Mayfairstivus<\/strong><\/a>, the nine day celebration of Mayfair Games\u2019 DC Heroes Role-Playing Game!<\/em> Today we\u2019ll be looking at the 1989 character card for Doctor Fate!<\/p>\n

If you are new to ONCE UPON A GEEK, then you may not know that I’m a tremendous Doctor Fate fan<\/a>!\u00a0 He’s one of my all-time favorite superheroes!\u00a0 Therefore, I wasn’t going to miss this chance to feature the role-playing stats for the “Ankh-Bolt Adventurer”! ….\u00a0 (yes, i just made up that nickname.\u00a0 i have to say it’s brilliant and you should all start calling him that.\u00a0 do this.)<\/em><\/p>\n

The first two editions of Mayfair’s DC Heroes Role-playing Game<\/em> came with collections of character cards which included statistics.\u00a0 Doctor Fate wasn’t lucky enough to merit a character card in the first edition, but by the release of the second edition in 1989 he was headlining his own monthly comic.\u00a0 Below you’ll find the Doctor Fate character card (front and back) included in the 1989 edition of the DC Heroes<\/em> RPG.<\/p>\n

DC HEROES ROLE-PLAYING GAME \u2013 SECOND EDITION \u2013 1989<\/h4>\n

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The statistics above represent the second incarnation of Doctor Fate.\u00a0 At this point in time, the Ankh-Bolt Adventurer was a composite being created by Eric and Linda Strauss.\u00a0 It’s a complicated tale.\u00a0 When the story started, Eric was a young boy and Linda was his step-mother.\u00a0 By the end, they were dead.\u00a0 Their spirits were living on in other people’s bodies, they were married to one another, and they were raising a baby fated to usher in a new age for all mankind.\u00a0 … Yeah, I know how it sounds.\u00a0 Trust me, it was really good.<\/p>\n

During the time when Mayfair had the license to DC Heroes<\/em>, they published a few different versions of Doctor Fate’s statistics.\u00a0 I considered posting them all here today, but decided just to focus in on the character card.\u00a0 These cards really were one of my favorite aspects of the box sets.\u00a0 I’ll be sure to include those other versions whenever I do a “Doctor Fate Week” here on ONCE UPON A GEEK.<\/p>\n

The art on the card isn’t the greatest, but I’ve certainly seen worse.\u00a0 It would have been nice if they’d had series artist Shawn McManus draw the card.\u00a0 He did a fantastic Doctor Fate!<\/p>\n

It’s worth noting that Doctor Fate’s “Sorcery” power is only rated at 20 points here.\u00a0 This is one of the weakest incarnations of Doctor Fate.\u00a0 The reason for this was that Eric and Linda were still learning the ropes as Doctor Fate, without the benefit of Nabu’s spirit within the helmet.\u00a0 Just in case you are wondering, Nabu was still around.\u00a0 He was inhabiting Kent Nelson’s animated corpse, and generally being a jerk to Eric and Linda.\u00a0 …. Yeah, I know.\u00a0 Trust me, it was really good.<\/p>\n

MAYFAIRSTIVUS<\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Don\u2019t forget, the Mayfairstivus celebration continues at the following blogs!\u00a0 Be sure to check them out throughout the Mayfairstivus celebration (Dec. 1-9).\u00a0 Also, I’d like to send a quick shout-out to Tom Hartley.\u00a0 Tom inadvertently created the Mayfairstivus holiday by selling his second edition DC Heroes<\/em> RPG box set to Frank Lee Delano (the mastermind behind the Mayfairstivus crossover event).\u00a0 Thanks Tom!<\/p>\n