Power Powwow

[frobones]

Thought I'd make a thread for discussing different powers and abilities. You have an idea or concept of a power for your hero but not really sure how to implement it using the M&M ruleset? This is the place to discuss it and get some help.

Here's some nice links I've found to get things started - a list of superhuman features and abilities in fiction: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_comic_book_superpowers#Probability_manipulation
www.comicvine.com/superpowers/12-49870/

I believe the steps to creating a fun character are to:
1) Define a brief idea for your hero RP/backstory
2) Get a high level idea of powers/feats that would compliment and/or contrast your hero.
3) Take your high level power ideas and truthfully implement it using the M&M ruleset.

If you follow this flow of thought, it should curb the urge to min-max. Just be sure you are at least competent in the Big 4: Toughness, Save DC, Defense, Attack. The PL of a campaign is generally accepted as the average, or expected, level of competency. So in other words, by some way, shape or form, the Big 4 should reach the PL cap. Here's an atomic think tank thread discussing this: www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=35816

As for the non-Toughness save, a total of (PL-2)x3 between the Fortitude, Reflex, and Will save bonuses is considered the average.

That isn't to say combat is everything, by all means shy away from combat if that's your design - but I believe you should at least be able to hold your own when we duke it hour for 2-3 hours per session.

With that said, let us use Paragons as the trial period for understanding the game and to make smarter decisions when creating heroes for Freedom City.

[redbstrd]

This post isn't exactly a power-related question, but this seems to be the appropriate place to post it without clogging up other threads.

"Fastball Special"

Telepathic Brute:

• Move action to throw Pathogen. Pathogen gains an Accelerated Move for the purposes of performing a slam attack as long as he moves at least 88 feet.
  
• Standard action to assist Pathogen (base attack is sufficient to automatically succeed on anything but a 1). Pathogen gets +2 to his attack roll.
  
• Can hit almost anything on Earth he can see, so the real limitation on damage is time to build up speed.

Pathogen:

• Full action to perform a slam attack. Pathogen gets a penalty of -2 to Defense.
  
• Pathogen makes a melee attack roll.
  
• Pathogen deals damage to his target based on the distance between him and the target, since speed builds up over the distance for slam attacks. He takes half of this amount himself.
  
• Every rank of Immovable (with the Extra: Unstoppable) mitigates damage to Pathogen by one rank.

Damage Chart:
10 feet - (Minimum normal) 1+2= 3 ranks, 1 damage to Pathogen
88 feet - (Minimum accelerated) 1+4= 5 ranks, 2 to Pathogen
360 feet - (football field) 2+4= 6 ranks, 3 to Pathogen
2126 feet - (world's highest skyscraper) 5+4= 9 ranks, 4 to Pathogen
2717 feet - (world's tallest building) 5+4= 9 ranks, 4 to Pathogen
5280 feet - (one mile) 6+4= 10 ranks, 5 to Pathogen
10,000 feet - (ceiling for helicopters) 7+4= 11 ranks, 5 to Pathogen
13,000-15,000 feet - (single engine plane) 7+4= 11 ranks, 5 to Pathogen
25,000-37,000 feet - (average jet plane altitude) 8+4= 12 ranks, 6 to Pathogen
up to 51,000 feet - (business class jet plane altitude) 9+4= 13 ranks, 6 to Pathogen
327,360 feet - (limit of Earth's atmosphere) 12+4= 16 ranks, 8 to Pathogen

If he bought 8 ranks of Immovable and its Extra: Unstoppable, he could be thrown into pretty much any object on Earth without taking damage from the slam attack. The important exception would be if the target object had more than than 8 ranks of Immovable itself. The worse case scenario would be if an object at the edge of the Earth's atmosphere had 16 or more ranks of Immovable. That would cause Pathogen to take a deadly 24 ranks of damage.

Overview - Both the Telepathic Brute and Pathogen use all of their actions for the round. Pathogen makes a melee attack at +2 but suffers a -2 penalty to Defense. Damage ranges from 3 to 16 ranks, though this amount can be raised through Power Attack.