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<blockquote data-quote="Agamon" data-source="post: 4303010" data-attributes="member: 184">Re-familiarizing myself with the books, I remembered App. I in Ultimate Power.&nbsp; This is kinda what I was getting on about with possible problematic builds, keep in mind the powers mentioned in there (Boost, Drain, Growth/Shrinking, Summon and Variables, in particular).I agree with Steve that Deflect is underpowered if taken as a Standard action and am willing to let it break the PL by 4 ranks to compensate.I also like the house rule he suggests for Growth and Shrinking, making the modifiers proportional (+1 Str and Toughness, -1 attack and defense for each rank of Growth, vice versa for Shrinking).Powers that take a little longer to figure out don't make much difference in a relatively slow moving pbp, so no probs there.&nbsp; And otherwise, we'll go on a case by case basis.Not sure if this was necessary, I know you guys can come up with some awesome concepts without cheeseballing, but I thought I better throw it out there anyways.&nbsp; I shouldn't have to come down on anyone's builds with a sledgehammer, but I'm hoping to avoid hard feelings if I must. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />(I'm also hoping 'yes', or at least, 'yes, but' or 'maybe, if' is better for you guys than outright banning certain powers)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Agamon, post: 4303010, member: 184"] Re-familiarizing myself with the books, I remembered App. I in Ultimate Power. This is kinda what I was getting on about with possible problematic builds, keep in mind the powers mentioned in there (Boost, Drain, Growth/Shrinking, Summon and Variables, in particular). I agree with Steve that Deflect is underpowered if taken as a Standard action and am willing to let it break the PL by 4 ranks to compensate. I also like the house rule he suggests for Growth and Shrinking, making the modifiers proportional (+1 Str and Toughness, -1 attack and defense for each rank of Growth, vice versa for Shrinking). Powers that take a little longer to figure out don't make much difference in a relatively slow moving pbp, so no probs there. And otherwise, we'll go on a case by case basis. Not sure if this was necessary, I know you guys can come up with some awesome concepts without cheeseballing, but I thought I better throw it out there anyways. I shouldn't have to come down on anyone's builds with a sledgehammer, but I'm hoping to avoid hard feelings if I must. ;) (I'm also hoping 'yes', or at least, 'yes, but' or 'maybe, if' is better for you guys than outright banning certain powers) [/QUOTE]

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