How to make a 'ring of friend shield' in MnM?

[RangerWickett]

I'm trying to make characters for a one shot, two lovers with devices that let them take the wounds of the other. How would I pull that off with Mutants & Masterminds.

 

[Ben Robbins]

You could start with Interpose, increase it to Reaction (+1) and increase range to "anywhere" (fudged one above Perception, +3). Looks like 5 pp, pseudo-legal.

EDIT Oh, and flaw it to only work on each other. So 4 pp each.

 

[takyris]

That's good for avoiding damage. For taking damage for each other, you might go with a triggered Heal with the Empathic flaw. Up the range to Perception, lower the Action to Reaction, and then apply a special "Only for my true love, wherever (s)he is" extra that nets to +0 (+2 for advancing Perception to "wherever" and -2 for "only works on one true love").

 

[RangerWickett]

That's good for avoiding damage. For taking damage for each other, you might go with a triggered Heal with the Empathic flaw. Up the range to Perception, lower the Action to Reaction, and then apply a special "Only for my true love, wherever (s)he is" extra that nets to +0 (+2 for advancing Perception to "wherever" and -2 for "only works on one true love").

So heal is 2 per rank, -1 for empathic, +2 to go from touch to perception, +4 to go from full action to reaction, -2 for limited to just one person (who is not me). That's 5 pp per rank, plus 1 on top of that for triggered.

This is a device that is hard to take away, so the device costs 4 pp per 5 pp of the power. So let's say there's one rank of healing (5pp) and the ring also grants your true love a +8 bonus to Constitution checks for recovery purposes (Regeneration 8 ranks with a penalty, since it only works with the ring). So that makes the cost 5pp + 7pp + 1pp for the trigger. And we'll add in a 1pp super sense communication link, and a 1pp emotion control to let you grant the emotion 'Hope' to your love.

So that's 15pp worth of powers in a 12pp device. And the way it works is, whenever the other person wearing the ring is hurt, I can choose to heal them 1 hit by taking that damage myself. That sounds fair.

 

[RangerWickett]

With, of course, a restriction of only once a round, right? Because otherwise, it's invincibility for one person.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I'd also make sure that that ring has a restriction that it makes any damage that the "protector" recieves bypass regeneration. This would prevent the person who becomes the "meat shield" from shrugging off the damage it inflicts; thus making the damage more significant and would prevent the ring bearer from abusing the power (and their lover).