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A question for people who're used to making custom datafiles: how would you represent a power that can cause a boatload of collateral damage if it's used in a special way? I'm specifically thinking of someone whose powers are just 1) being invulnerable and 2) being able to fly fast, and uses their powers to fly into things at high speeds - if they try to hit one guy the collateral damage will probably just be limited to what they fly into, but if they try to hit the ground specifically, there will probably be an explosion with significant collateral damage. The actual powers are simple enough (Supersonic Flight d10, Godlike Durability d12, use the Flight when attacking) but I'm struggling on how to model things with SFX/Limits. Should I give it a single SFX that combines Area and Unleashed (something like "against multiple targets, double Flight dice, then add a d6 and keep an additional effect die for each additional target, but add the highest die to the doom pool if your action fails")? Or should I just give it the Area SFX and the Growing Dread Limit? The former feels clunky, but the latter Also, I'm not sure whether the invulnerability in this case would be better modelled as d12 Durability, d10 Durability with Invulnerable, or d12 Durability with Invulnerable. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 00:47 on May 17, 2014 |
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May 17, 2014 00:40
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Error 404 posted:So maybe you'd want something kind of like this? The problem is that the Collateral limit should only apply when they use one of their powers in a very specific way, and always applies in that case. It's only when the power is used with the Area SFX that it really causes collateral damage worthy of Growing Dread. If I give the character separate Area/Unleashed SFXs and a general Growing Dread limit on the whole power set, that means using the powers in a different way would also have collateral, and that they could use Area without Unleashed and vice versa. Maybe I should make a separate power set with that specific application of their powers so the whole set can get the limit and the mish-mash SFX doesn't apply to normal uses of their powers? And yeah, I know the similarities to Cannonball but his sheet doesn't have anything like that kind of "devastating area attack with huge collateral" thing going.
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May 17, 2014 08:54
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Both of those work. Thanks for the suggestions! e; for the record, this is what I ended up going with: quote:Ballistic I made Collateral d6, since it systematically applies to every attack using Flight and she also has Berserk to represent the flying people through buildings thing; I was a bit worried she'd be adding a million d10s to the doom pool otherwise. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 17:52 on May 18, 2014 |
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May 18, 2014 11:07
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