Re: [ORE] [WT] Character help!

On Jul 23, 2012, at 8:55 PM, BronyPwny <sharks1288@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> . BUT, it could be ruled that since I WANT the power to do shock damage anyway, and that's what my character does, then the damage limit flaw could easily be a zero point flaw, and i could keep the full power flaw.
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> I also know that, yes, you can kill with enough shock damage, but I understood it's a LOT harder to do so, which is why I am pushing for the damage limit. My character is about lights, changing them, making them brighter, dimmer, and overall controlling them, but not changing the physics of the light. He can't make UV light any other type of light in the light spectrum. That's why i was looking for daze and interfere effects, rather then pure attacks, as the attack really didn't make a bunch of sense in the first place (how do you damage with unmodified light?) but the power works well with the theme of the character (lightshows and lasers go hand-in-hand), so having it seems rather natural. Heck we could switch the power from being an attack to a useful ability, take out the attack only extras and flaws, and make it an interfere/daze ability somehow, that'd probably work out better, that way it ISN'T a damaging ability, it's just a sudden beam of light that catches people off guard and makes them see spots for a round.
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I thought you meant you had inferred a way to take the Full Power flaw but not really suffer a penalty and that perhaps that was a misunderstanding of Shock damage as inherently nonlethal. You've clarified that isn't the case.

While the character can't make UV light any other type of light (because you say so, not because the rules prevent that from being the case, or at least as I built the powers) it's possible that if you had Sun or moonlight available (or expensive tanning bulbs) and a Variable effect power with an If/then Light manipulation flaw you could filter out all the other frequencies of light and have pure UV Rays which might illuminate things (like body fluids or invisible ink) or be used to burn things if focused.

As for damaging with unmodified light, hold a magnifying glass in place under the sun, that's why the power name I used was "They're All Ants!" Magnification is just a focusing mechanism channeling photons into a more narrow or broader path (expanding an image on one side of the lens and focusing the light to point on the other). essentially a complicated form of reflection or refraction.

Modifying light by changing color is refraction or filtering. If you defined your character's power as Photon Manipulation you could probably justify almost anything with it, altering the wave-like properties to create material forms, propelling yourself at near light speed on photonic waves, inducing atomic fission etc. I digress. Light is a byproduct of an immensely powerful phenomena in the cosmos and (maybe the second) fastest thing in a vacuum so there's no reason you can't be as powerful as you want.

I don't recommend not having a damaging effect handy, light shows don't open locks, knock down doors or send a message to a gang leader that you're not to be messed with, but if you have a decent brawl pool, or a gun you're covered there so play as you like.

It seems somewhere we started working at cross purposes. Your Initial post was a request for help giving your character a little oomph so he contributed to the party on par with the Magneto clone. I did my best to provide an example of effective and efficient uses of your points that weren't I win buttons or powers that replaced stats and skills (like Cosmic power, it can essentially be turned into any "Solve This!" for enough Willpower). I encourage you to explore the possibilities on your own (especially since you have a copy of the book yourself).

Good Luck!

-Matt

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