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Turbo Teen - A Continuation

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When I first converted Turbo Teen into a character for my campaign , I started wondering about the kind of adventures he would go. The type that most often came to mind were of the "Reluctant Hero crossed with The Fast and the Furious or Baby Driver" variety. Brett remains the central protagonist of the story with Pattie serving as his team's primary investigator, Alex being their Tech Guy, and Brett Jr being the audience stand-in who ends up on the receiving end of the exposition. Possible plot lines include the Return of Turbo's nemesis Dark Rider, Dark Rider (or Alex Jr) gaining powers similar to Brett's, and other adventures based on (or paying homage to) any movie centered around car chases or races. There are a couple of scenes that keep coming to mind: The first is the arrival at Alex's house after Brett, Pattie, and Brett Jr give their initial pursuers the slip. Bunch of wrecked Trans Ams along both sides of Alex's driveway, a cras...

Turbo Teen

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"It was a stormy night when a bolt of lightning forced me off the road.  My car skidded into a government laboratory where a top secret experiment was underway.  I swerved into the path of Dr. Chase's Molecular Transfer Ray, causing me and my car to become one...the Incredible Turbo Teen!" For the past few days I have been thinking off-and-on about this old cartoon from the 80's and, after a little bit of poking around on the internet for details that had escaped my memory over the course of the last 34 years, I put together what I feel is a fair representation of Turbo Teen. I am presenting him as closely as I can, adjusted for age in a version that may appear as an NPC in my campaign when the group finally makes it to Earth . Turbo Teen (a.k.a. Brett Matthews) – circa 2012                  CR: 5 Male middle-aged Human (Mutant) Metahuman 3 NG Medium Humanoid Init: +2, Senses: Liste...