Transforming vehicles, buildings, and such.

[Yamo]

What happens to the occupants of a vehicle or building when a Transform alters it dramatically?

Examples:

The Champions are flying at mach 5 miles above Millenium City in their V-Jet when the sinister Transformo changes it into a trout. What happens to the Champions?

Later, Transformo turns the White House into a giant, solid block of stone. Does he effectively get "free kills" against anyone in the building without LS: Self-Contained Breathing when he does this?

[Steve Long]

People, Vehicles, and Bases (buildings, etc.) are all separate objects in HERO System terms. As such, an attack against one doesn’t normally have the same effect on the others. You could Transform a character in a car without affecting the car, for example. A Transform against the car affects the car, but not the occupants.

Of course, common sense and dramatic sense tell you that there may be collateral effects. If you Transform the V-Jet into a trout, the Champions are now falling from 10,000 feet. If you change the White House into stone, people are trapped inside. And so on. But the GM should also interpret this in light of game balance. A Transform shouldn’t generally allow “free kills” against anyone not targeted; that could be extremely unbalancing. The collateral targets should at least have some chance to avoid or escape the effects.