Necro_Kinder said:
Ok, so for Emotion Control, it's 2pp per rank, and with -2 in drawbacks, that's a change from 2:1 to 1:1, so does that mean he has Emotional Control 16? Or am I crazy and doing that completely wrong?
As Emotion Control causes a save but does not have an attack roll, its DC modifier (and thus rank) is limited to your PL. So you can't have Emotion Control above rank 11. It's a 2 pp/rank power with -2 pp/rank of flaws, which makes it 1 pp for 2 ranks. So you can get your maximum of 11 ranks by spending 5.5 pp, which means that you can take it as an alternate power of your main Hellfire Control power.
His fireballs (blast) are explosive, but this seems too extreme. They have a blast radius of 80ft? Bit too much for what I wanted. Even with burst they still have a radius of 40ft. Is there a way to limit this to say, 10-15ft with it still being at full power?
See the Area extra on page 112 and the Progression (reduce area) power feat. If you take a Burst effect and 4 ranks of the Progression feat, you can have an Area of 20-40 foot radius (your choice when you use the power). Of course, then you'd have to reduce the rank of the effect to get those additional pp.
Alternately, consider the Cloud area- this creates a Cloud with half the radius as a similar burst effect- so at PL 8 you'd get a 20 foot radius Cloud of Fire. A Cloud of Fire is also a more unique ability than a simple Explosion or Burst effect.
For his strike ability, I was thinking instead of just punching someone with a flaming fist, that he could actually make a Whip out of his Hellfire and use it for his strike. Would this mean he would have to take Alternate Power: Create Object? It's not special or anything, It's just cooler to say he's beating you with a flaming weapon than a fist. (Flaming sword seemed to cliche)
Your Strike power doesn't have the Mighty power feat, so at the moment it doesn't benefit from your strength bonus. That means it's probably an energy attack rather than punching someone with a flaming fist. If this is an energy attack, it's easy to rationalize that it takes the shape of a whip. In fact, add the power feat Extended Reach to it for 10 foot reach and a whip-like feel (even though it isn't actually solid).
If you wanted a flaming fist, Strike 12 [PF: Mighty] does the trick there (note that you can't have Strike 14 mighty because this would put you at 16 damage, over your limit).
If you want a somewhat solid flaming whip that is created from your powers but uses your Strength, you can add the Extended Reach power feat to Mighty Strike, so Strike 12 [PF: Mighty, Extended Reach] which costs the exact same 14 pp as the Strike ability you currently have.
Last thing, am I ever gonna finish this character? I thought point buy systems were supposed to be easier....
It's not bad once you get used to it.
Final note: I don't want to belabor the point, but at the moment your character's background seems a little lame. It's almost impossible to believe that you don't actually have demonic heritage. So let's assume the character has demonic heritage. He's been alive for over a hundred years and has never figured things out one way or the other? Yet he wandered around for 60 years trying to help random people out while they were scared. Didn't he figure it out that this wasn't working well after the first 10 years?
Furthermore, your character would have a really cool background if he did actually have demonic heritage and had learned about it. Then he'd be a religious angst-driven half-demon coming to grips with his powers and their sources while fighting evil with them. Kind of a cross between Nightcrawler and Angel from Buffy.
Here’s an example of how you could easily change his background to accommodate this.
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Brimstone was born with the name Michael Peterson, ironically named after the Arch Angel of the same name. He was born September 10, 1898. He was born like a normal child, no complications. The complications started after he was born. For you see, Michael Peterson was born…..different. His skin was not the pale pink of most babies, it was deep red with splotches of black, with lizard like scales. He also had two small horns coming from his forehead, wings, and a tail. Other than that he was a normal child; two arms, two legs, two eyes, right number of fingers and toes, etc.
Everyone in the room promptly fainted, with the exception of the doctor, who died of a heart attack. His parents, once they recovered from the initial shock, immediately took him to the nearest priest and demanded that he do something about this “Demon”. The priest knew not what to do. All his years of training and religious schooling just failed him. His instincts told his to destroy the monster, but his heart told him not to. He called out to the heavens, asking god if he should destroy the beast.
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During the night, he had a dream where an Angel appeared to him, saying, “Though this one is born of a father most vile, his humanity grants him the possibility of redemption.” So the priest decided to raise Michael in his faith and to teach him that though born of a demon father, he was an equal in the eyes of God. His task was complicated, though, when the young Michael began to display extremely unusual abilities—abilities that could only come from one source…[/sblock]
