Drell Posted May 6, 2009 Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 Hey there folks - looking to get some advice and/or write-ups of a power for a game I'm running. Long story short there's a dragon in my world that, among several other breath-weapon attacks, has one that produces a number of small cyclones that move around uncontrolled for a minute or so after the power's initially used, thrashing whatever is in the way. The AP maxima for the power is 150 pts., and I was thinking that the number of little tornadoes its' breath weapon creates is 3-5. I have a few different versions of it written up currently, but would love to know what everyone else would use... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted May 6, 2009 Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 Re: Need a hand, please... Area effect, non-selective, activation I'd use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice9 Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 Re: Need a hand, please... Summon is a fairly straightforward solution, although then you have to write up the cyclones as creatures: Summon 4 450-point Air Elementals, Loyal, Only Lasts One Minute Alternately - Area of Effect, Selective, Continuous, Uncontrolled, with the limitations Physical Manifestation and Only 3-5 Cyclones. Could go Nonselective instead of Selective, but then anyone in the area - including the dragon - would be targetted. The only problem is that with all the advantages, you're only ending up with an 8 DC attack - not very impressive for 150 AP, would it be credible against your PCs? Of course, you can add NND and still get 6 DCs, if that makes sense for the power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killer Shrike Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 Re: Need a hand, please... I'd agree with the Summoning of whirlwind effects. It will most closely give you the effect you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilFleischmann Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Re: Need a hand, please... How 'bout some application of Autofire? Perhaps with Activation? You could say the Activation applies to each individual cyclone instead of the whole power - which is statistically about the same. 5 "shots", 11- applied to each shot. Each "shot" is say, AE 1 Hex, Continuous, Uncontrolled (or Continuing Charges), with a limitation for "Appears in a random hex in a particular general area", which is proabably at least a -1 Limitation, because it means you can't really target an individual or group of individuals, unless the "particular general area" is very small. Then an additional -0 limitation for "Cyclones move randomly X" per segment in the area". Or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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