Re: [ORE] Power question

Allan, 

I like that idea!

Yay! I'm going to use it.

I forgot to add the Mass capacity in the original post.

In my head I was thinking of a weight limit of 5-10 lbs. Like he could conjure cell phones, jewelry, black titanium VISA cards, or some other such nonsense. 

(This was a PC i had in Champions back in the day. He had merged with a dragon and his summon rich guys items power was the special effect of his DRAGON HORDE.)

Thank you to you and Wade for the replies.

On Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at 1:30:50 PM UTC-7, Allan Goodall wrote:

The A and D qualities are so that you can use your power's dice pool in an attack or defense. 

For a "rich guy can conjure anything" power to need, say, an Attack, it would have to be something like pulling out your phone, pressing a button, and suddenly your opponent is attacked by the black stealth helicopter that always follows you around, because you're that rich you can afford to have a fleet of protective helicopters following you 24/7.

You don't need that for a power that just acquires things, even if those things are, themselves, weapons. 

There is, however, the matter of capacity. Something like a "conjure anything" power usually has the mass capacity. Your dice pool would limit the mass of the objects you could conjure. But that's not really applicable to your power, is it? Your power is limited by "wealth", not "mass". A pallet of paving stones is a whole lot more massive than a Patek Philippe watch, but my own bank account could only afford one of those (hint: it's not the watch) and even then probably not with overnight delivery. 

I would recommend that you design the power around a specialized capacity, with your GM's permission of course. Make the capacity "wealth", "cost", "monetary value", "bucks" or something. Then come up with a scale that maps the number of dice in your pool to the capacity.

I'd recommend  1d = $1,000, 2d = $2,000, 3d = $4,000, 4d = $8,000, 5d = $16,000, 6d = $32,000, 7d = $64,000, 8d = $128,000, 9d = $256,000, 10d = $512,000. That progression is the same as the other capacities: the 10d capacity is 512x the 1d capacity. That puts you on the same relative capacity scale of a speedster or a teleporter.

Let's see, that would be 2d to conjure up a half decent laptop, 3d for a business class ticket anywhere, 4d for a motorcycle, 5d for a compact car, 6d for an SUV, 7d for a Stinger missile, 8d to charter a private jet anywhere (or a top of the line Hellfire missile), 9d to charter a yacht in the Caribbean for a week, and 10d for a suburban home (as a safe house, of course; you wouldn't live there).

And, yeah, half a million is still kind of limiting (as it should be; it's a really cheap power), so you'll need between 2 and 4 levels of Booster to get up to the filthy rich category.

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:44 AM, matt <iamaf...@gmail.com> wrote:

He wouldn't attack with the power. If he summoned a gun he could use that to attack. I was thinking that was why to have those qualities. But I can understand getting rid of those qualities.

Thanks for the reply.

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