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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 5111836" data-attributes="member: 2795">Glommed from Mutants &amp; Masterminds:Characters can throw any object they can lift, up to a heavy load. You cannot throw your maximum load, only drop it adjacent to you. Picking up an object is a move action, while throwing it is a standard action, so it's possible to pick up and throw an object in one round.The distance you can throw an object is based on its weight and your Strength. You can throw your heavy load 5 feet, which is also the base range for throwing. For every 5 points of Strength you have over the minimum required to lift an object as a heavy load, double the base range.Improvised thrown objects have a range increment of 10 feet.So, a Large PC with a 22 Strength wants to throw a 200-pound ally. IIRC, it takes a 15 Strength for 200 pounds to be a heavy load. The Large PC has an equivalent 27 Strength for carrying capacity (IIRC). That puts the Large PC 10 points over the minimum required to lift the ally as a heavy load. The Large PC can throw his ally 20 feet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark Chance, post: 5111836, member: 2795"] Glommed from [i]Mutants & Masterminds[/i]: Characters can throw any object they can lift, up to a heavy load. You cannot throw your maximum load, only drop it adjacent to you. Picking up an object is a move action, while throwing it is a standard action, so it's possible to pick up and throw an object in one round. The distance you can throw an object is based on its weight and your Strength. You can throw your heavy load 5 feet, which is also the base range for throwing. For every 5 points of Strength you have over the minimum required to lift an object as a heavy load, double the base range. Improvised thrown objects have a range increment of 10 feet. So, a Large PC with a 22 Strength wants to throw a 200-pound ally. IIRC, it takes a 15 Strength for 200 pounds to be a heavy load. The Large PC has an equivalent 27 Strength for carrying capacity (IIRC). That puts the Large PC 10 points over the minimum required to lift the ally as a heavy load. The Large PC can throw his ally 20 feet. [/QUOTE]

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