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Nothing really minor about 30 points.

 

 

Humm... Regeneration, 1 BODY per turn, can regenerate limbs. No need for the hospital.

 

Better yet: Regeneration (1 BODY per Minute), Can Heal Limbs, Usable Simultaneously (2 people) (+1/2) (28 Active Points). You don't need a hospital, and if you visit one you can become the hospital.

 

+30 INT or PRE would be far more useful, though (I'd still take the regen and hit every children and veterans hospital in North America)

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My 12 point power

 

Back To My Place:  Major Transform 2d6 (person into person who lusts after me, heals back normally), Attack Versus Alternate Defense (Mental Defense; +0), Alternate Combat Value (uses OMCV against DMCV; +1/4), Works Against EGO, Not BODY (+1/4) (30 Active Points); Limited Target (Minds of women only) (-1), No Range (-1/2)

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My 12 point power

 

Back To My Place:  Major Transform 2d6 (person into person who lusts after me, heals back normally), Attack Versus Alternate Defense (Mental Defense; +0), Alternate Combat Value (uses OMCV against DMCV; +1/4), Works Against EGO, Not BODY (+1/4) (30 Active Points); Limited Target (Minds of women only) (-1), No Range (-1/2)

 

That's creepy. Seriously.

 

Agreed. No better, in a moral sense, than spiking the gal's drink and "helping" her semi-conscious body back to your lair.

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Another power I'd consider (5th Ed):

 

Major Transform 1d6 (non-precious metals into precious metals), Improved Results (any precious metal; +1/2); Limited Target (non-precious metals; -1/2), No Range (-1/2).

 

The treasury departments of pretty much every government on the planet would probably soil themselves at the thought of someone running around with such a power, but used carefully I could make myself rich in a fairly short time (and squirrel away the lion share of my wealth in anonymous off shore holdings).

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Life support. self contained breathing.

 

The Umbrella Academy comic had kraken who's sole power was not having to breathe made him a badass secret agent don't need scuba gear to infiltrate that compound enter through the chimney full of toxic gasses drop smoke and gas grenades and kick ass while every one else is choking.

 

One of my personal favorite builds was 2"stretching doesn't cross intervening space so many possibilities from the obvious reaching inside a vending machine or opening a door from outside to the more deadly pulling the pin on a grenade on some ones belt while hiding or for that matter dropping one of your own at their feet or even just tripping them down some stairs.

 

Not sure it would fit in the active points total but I had a concept for a crime boss he has a super power full optic blast over 20d6 only his end battery for it takes a whole day to charge so he can deliver dozens of 1d6 blasts or 1 giant tank killer he's made his name by using his blasts sparingly but maximising the public damage so people think the only reason he doesn't use it more is that's what minions are for.

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I had a concept for a crime boss he has a super power full optic blast over 20d6 only his end battery for it takes a whole day to charge so he can deliver dozens of 1d6 blasts or 1 giant tank killer he's made his name by using his blasts sparingly but maximising the public damage so people think the only reason he doesn't use it more is that's what minions are for.

 

That's.... BRILLIANT!

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Agreed. No better, in a moral sense, than spiking the gal's drink and "helping" her semi-conscious body back to your lair.

 

That's why chicks dig vampires, or am I wrong. There are and have been several vampire themed shows that have vampires seducing women with mystical attraction. Their primary target audience is female, and the shows are quite popular. Not sure why you had to turn this ability into an IIF used to drug women. The ability could simply be that one would be soooo darn charming that no female could resist that person and want to be with them. –which is how I intended it. Maybe I should have called it "Got Game" instead.

 

 

One of the reasons why I love this game is the ability to create your own special effects to the powers crafted. So I don't know what is creepier, me producing a talent/abiltiy to seduce women, or you subverting that ability into a drug (IIF) and relating it to criminal activity.

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All the life support powers are pretty handy doesn't need to sleep would seriously increase my netflix time and no need to eat would save you a fortune on food and I'm sure a lot of Americans would love safe in low temperatures right about now.

 

One more cheap but useful power would be normal strength and running bought with zero end work all day without getting tired follow some one relentlessly the implacable man.

 

How about a few inches of flight with zero end a little super strength and a space suit might take you a while but you could be a one man space program.

 

Another hero I designed with a relatively minor power was grenadier he got his powers from an experimental medical treatment after being badly injured during the Falkland war the effect was most pronounced in his arms so he got extra strength only for throwing and some Hand 5o ganr attack but paired with a belt load of special purpose grenades it made him quite dangerous.

 

Dr midnights only power was seeing in the dark combined with darkness grenades makes a lot of normal kooks pretty helpless.

 

A few points of telekinesis with fine control would be awesome even just for turning off the light switch when your in bed.

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Some of my characters have a template that I refer to as, "Advanced Human Type." It included (for various characters):

  • Immunity to disease
  • Reduced need for sleep (8 hours/week, usually interpreted as 1 hour/day)
  • Slower aging
  • A few points of PRE/COM
  • Small amounts of Flash Defense
  • 3-5 points in one or more other primary chracteristics
  • low-light vision
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Telekinesis, STR 12, with Fine Manipulation.  Anyone who has found themselves seated at one side of the room and the remote or the mobile phone on the other side can appreciate this.  Also, you can tidy up the room or do the dishes or even fetch snacks or drinks from the kitchen without leaving your chair--provided you have line of sight.  (One word--mirrors. Or cameras tied in to your smartphone. But that's more than one word. :winkgrin: )

 

And if you have the Sleight-Of-Hand skill, you could pick pockets from a distance, or change channels on TVs in bars, or tie shoelaces together--or anything else your fiendish mind could imagine. :sneaky:   You could also have a decent career as a stage magician--STR 12 would be enough to levitate a person without the use of a rig, or make handkerchiefs dance in the air all by themselves.  (Sawing a person in half would still require a trick cabinet, however.  That's not something you want to get wrong. :ugly: )

 

Hope that helps.

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