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Alternative Psionic improvement in GW d20

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#1
zombiegleemax
Nov 17, 2003 8:10:52 The old Marvel Super Heroes game had a method for developing
power stunts off of your base powers. Essentially if you
knew a base power like "Matter Manipulation: Fire" you could
form fire into all kinds of cool shapes. However it was not
easy to reliably achieve a particular effect (like a cage of
fire) unless you had developed a particular "power stunt" called "Cage of Fire".

Anyway the way you got power stunts was practice. After
successfully performing the stunt 10 times you got to write
it on your sheet and the penalty for using it was negated.

We could to this with psionics. Essentially a Psionic
character can attempt ANY psionic power for which he meets
the prerequisites. Attempting such an "untrained" Power has
a -4 circumstance modifier to the activation roll and all
failures deliver (primary) feedback.

After a Psionic has successfully performing the effect 6
times (these must be "real" or "important" tests at the GMs
discretion. Practicing in ideal circumstances provides no
significant benefit towards being able to use the power
"under fire") the Psionic character may add the power to
his/her character sheet.

Comments?
#2
lissa
Apr 15, 2004 19:17:16 Sounds interesting. May try that in a Gamma World I'm hoping to start this weekend. :D
#3
BRJN
Apr 16, 2004 20:58:39 In a similar vein, the GWv1 rules allowed any character with Mental Mutations to get a +1 Mental Strength score (permanent bonus) for every 20 successful Mental Attacks.

For myself, I liked better the opportunity in v4 to have each individual Mental Mutation (with a score) to get a permanent bonus after so many sucessful uses. This was not a standard rule.

My character has the mutation where you can 'disconnect' the target's muscular control nerves for a few seconds, causing them to fall in a heap. Man, the trouble I could cause with THAT if I had a near-nil chance to miss!

You would have to write the chains of 'basic' and 'improvements' mutations yourself, of course.
#4
zombiegleemax
May 05, 2004 7:53:18 Fantastic powers are great until they are used against you!!

Fair and balanced games are the best!

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#1 zombiegleemax Nov 17, 2003 8:10:52	The old Marvel Super Heroes game had a method for developing power stunts off of your base powers. Essentially if you knew a base power like "Matter Manipulation: Fire" you could form fire into all kinds of cool shapes. However it was not easy to reliably achieve a particular effect (like a cage of fire) unless you had developed a particular "power stunt" called "Cage of Fire". Anyway the way you got power stunts was practice. After successfully performing the stunt 10 times you got to write it on your sheet and the penalty for using it was negated. We could to this with psionics. Essentially a Psionic character can attempt ANY psionic power for which he meets the prerequisites. Attempting such an "untrained" Power has a -4 circumstance modifier to the activation roll and all failures deliver (primary) feedback. After a Psionic has successfully performing the effect 6 times (these must be "real" or "important" tests at the GMs discretion. Practicing in ideal circumstances provides no significant benefit towards being able to use the power "under fire") the Psionic character may add the power to his/her character sheet. Comments?
#2 lissa Apr 15, 2004 19:17:16	Sounds interesting. May try that in a Gamma World I'm hoping to start this weekend. :D
#3 BRJN Apr 16, 2004 20:58:39	In a similar vein, the GWv1 rules allowed any character with Mental Mutations to get a +1 Mental Strength score (permanent bonus) for every 20 successful Mental Attacks. For myself, I liked better the opportunity in v4 to have each individual Mental Mutation (with a score) to get a permanent bonus after so many sucessful uses. This was not a standard rule. My character has the mutation where you can 'disconnect' the target's muscular control nerves for a few seconds, causing them to fall in a heap. Man, the trouble I could cause with THAT if I had a near-nil chance to miss! You would have to write the chains of 'basic' and 'improvements' mutations yourself, of course.
#4 zombiegleemax May 05, 2004 7:53:18	Fantastic powers are great until they are used against you!! Fair and balanced games are the best!