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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5334727" data-attributes="member: 19675">What RPG system are you using?  With something like HERO or M&M, you can define it the way you want...and what effects are involved.For example, I once ran an alien "Brick" type PC in a HERO campaign who had to eat her weight in food every day.  And terrestrial food occasionally caused her to have allergic reactions, so that was sometimes a problem.For what you're describing, you could make a HERO PC whose mass was extra high (either through a Disadvantage or a form of Density Increase or Growth), but who lost mass for every how many ever turns he flew (defined as a Drain of some kind).  Heck, you could even link a Flight speed boost to his lost weight as he converts mass to energy.And, as others have pointed out, whether your flight has an actual metabolic impact on your PC depends upon how you define it.Traditionally, wings usually are muscle powered.  But for Thanagarians, they're actually some kind of hypertech coupled to anti-grav belts.TK is usually depicted as being "free" energy, but more and more Sci-fi writers are showing psionics with real costs to your body, such as Pusher in X-Files or the psions in Scanners.  For the most part, their powers were mind control related, but there's no reason why you couldn't apply the same kind of logic to telekinetic flight.Then, of course, most tech based flight is powered by external batteries and power plants.  However, there's no reason that your technological powers couldn't be powered by your body's energy reserves, a la The Matrix.  (Yes, I know the Matrix's idea about using humans as energy plants was bad, but I'm just sayin'.)</blockquote>

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