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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Meteoric" data-source="post: 4849737" data-attributes="member: 84326">I added my own comments in yellow italics.[sblock=Stats]KNOCKBACK -1I count Defensive Roll for knockback.Ooh, nifty! Powers:Environment Control (Light, 2 pts/rank) +6 (Extras: Linked (Environment Control (Heat, 2 pts/rank) +6), Feats: Slow Fade, Alternate Power x2) (27 points, 4 pts/rank)For Environmental Control, I like the "Mix-and-Match Environments" option on p. 49 of UP. This turns Environmental Control into something like a limited Variable Power, in your case working off appropriate light/heat descriptors.I really need to pick up Ultimate Power <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/blush.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":blush:" title="Blush    :blush:" data-shortname=":blush:" /> I'll try to get that tonight, I keep meaning to and forgetting. It sounds like the UP way would work better. Also, forgive me for being obtuse, but what are you Slow Fading?The Slow Fade was for the Environment Control specifically. Normally, it would fade at 1 point per round as a sustained power, so sustaining it would run from full power to zero in 24 rounds (less than 3 minutes). I wanted him to be able to put out light/heat for a little longer than that; an application of Slow Fade would make it lose 1 point per minute sustained. It definitely does not apply to the Dazzle or Strike parts of the array, those lose 1 point for each use as normal.*Alternate Power: Strike +6 (Extras: Penetrating, Linked (Deflection (all ranged attacks) +6); Descriptor: Light)I think something went wrong here (and it may be my math). You've got 24 pp in your array. Penetrating Strike 6 is 12 points. Deflect All Ranged Attacks 6 is 18 points. That's too many points.Also, I'm not picturing how Linked Strike-Deflect would work. Is the idea that any time Re-Khenemetsi Strikes he also gets a chance to Deflect any ranged attacks that happen to head his way?I guess I screwed the math up. As to the concept, the Deflect was intended as kind of a defensive Dazzle - while he's fighting, the light from the blade flashing around is intense enough to disrupt aiming. The more I think about it the less I like the idea, so I'm thinking I should just leave that alternate power at Strike +6 (Penetrating), for a total of 12 points. I'm not sure how the Fades flaw would interact with that, though. The array loses 1 point with each use, but the Strike would be a 12-point power in a 24-point array. So for example, after 12 uses, is Strike:  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Still at full strength, the first 12 points acted as a 'buffer', or </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Completely gone, the first 12 points started deducting immediately, or </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Half strength, the array 'pretends' that the Strike has 2 extras that do nothing so that it fills the 24 point total, or </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Something else?</li> </ul>Hm, Re-Khenemetsi needs a contraction, it's a mouthful even typing it... I really intended it to be as much a title as a name. Perhaps he goes by Khene (pronounced ken-eh).[/sblock]Edit: Okay, the whole fading question is basically circumvented because I thought of something really obvious, namely, that a weapon made out of THE SUN should probably be a light source. So, that alternate power could have Strike, and a half-strength Environmental Control, possibly linked together.One store didn't have UP, I'll check the other store near me tomorrow. Failing that there's Amazon.</blockquote>

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