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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 5259652" data-attributes="member: 21169">Early draft stage so far. Thoughts?House Rules & Recommendations1. Unlimited power points2. No PL limitsAim for PL 10 equivalent, ie attack bonus, damage or save DC, defense and toughness of 10. Saves are assumed to be two less than PL.Characters can be 'unbalanced', with a higher offense than defence, or vice versa. For example a PC could have +10 to hit, +12 damage, +8 defense, +10 toughness.The 'typical' PL 10 character has strong non-combat abilities in one area, such as movement, and three or less viable combat options, such as a standard attack, an area effect and a 'Sunday Punch' usable once per session. Skyrmion, below, is an example of a typical PL 10 character.A typical character, PL 10Skyrmion is a physicist at CERN. Acquired powers after an accident involving the Large Hadron Collider in 2008.COMBATAttack +10, Damage +10, Defense +10, Toughness +10.Fort +8, Ref +8, Will +8ATTACKSBaryonic Bolt. +10 to hit, +10 damageMeson Wave. Area Effect. DC 16, +6 damageLarge Hadron Collider. 1/session. +12 to hit, +16 damageOTHER ABILITIESFlight 7 (1000mph), sense + analyze high-energy particles, good scientific skills (physics, maths, computing) +15RecommendationsPLs for atypical charactersWide-ranging non-combat abilities – PL 8. Movement, investigative (mind reading or many enhanced senses), general purpose such as object creation, mind control, gadgeteering. Superman, Batman, Dr Strange, Mr Fantastic, Green LanternLimited non-combat abilities, strong in one area or weak in many – PL 10. Movement or enhanced senses or highly skilled. Flash, Daredevil, WolverineOnly good in combat, many options (9 or more). PL 10Only good in combat, several options (4-8). PL 11Only good in combat, limited options (3 or less). PL 12Only good in combat plus significant limits such as no ranged attacks or movement powers. PL 14. The ThingPL includes PL breakers, so for example perfect invisibility would be regarded as adding 7 to attack bonus (3.5 to OPL, just under 2 to total PL), Improved Critical (11-20) is effectively almost +5 to damage and so forth.Options in combatIt's probably best not to take a single very good attack power and use it all the time. Instead present yourself with multiple viable options, 3-6 or so. The aim is to give you a moderate number of competing, equally viable alternatives.OPL = Offensive Power Level, average of attack bonus and save DCDPL = Defensive Power Level, average of defence and toughnessOnly real limitations can increase the power level of a power. For example reducing defence if the character already has 0 defence isn't a limitation.Example offensive optionsArea Effect OPL minus 4.Affects two opponents simultaneously OPL minus 2.Perception attack, damage minus 4.Damage plus 'rider', such as Stun, OPL minus 2.Reduces defence for one round when used. OPL plus half whatever defence is reduced by. For example reducing DPL by 4 translates to a OPL plus 2 attack.Once per session. OPL plus 4.Once per campaign. OPL plus 10.Power works about 75% of the time*. OPL plus 1.Power only works 50% of the time. OPL plus 2.Power only works 25% of the time. OPL plus 3.Power only works 10% of the time. OPL plus 4.*This figure refers to when needed, the power is sometimes not available, not the total time the character is alive.DefencesSpecial defences, such as a once per session self-heal that auto-activates, count as options in combat. Very good defences such as wide-ranging regeneration or reflection would require weakening the character in other areas, such as taking no non-combat abilities.Avoid binary powersExamples: Impervious, immunities, very high attacks or very low defences/saves'DC-types''DC-types' are not recommended. These are superheroes that are either very very good, or totally useless. For example Superman is amazing, but loses all his powers when faced with kryptonite. These characters are very binary.Better would be a character who, say, gets +2 PL at night and -2 PL by day. Or a single power that doesn't work in the presence of kryptonite.</blockquote>

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