Megascale with Barrier?

[Arc Esu]

Can you apply Megascale to the height, length, or thickness of a Barrier (for example, to create a Barrier that could protect a city from a meteor strike)? If so, does applying it once affect each aspect (height, length, thickness), or would you need to buy it multiple times (like you would to affect both the range and Area of Effect of an attack power)? If buying it once does affect all three, does it have to affect all three the same way (i.e. could I make a Barrier where 1 meter = 10 km for length, but 1 meter = 1 km for height, and leave the thickness at the standard 1/2 meter)?

[Steve Long]

Re: Megascale with Barrier?

 

Unless the GM rules otherwise, characters can buy MegaScale to affect the height, length, or thickness of a Barrier. If bought for Barrier only once, it can affect up to all three of the dimensions of the Barrier at once if the character desires (though it doesn’t have to), but it has to apply in the same way to all affected dimensions. For example, if a Barrier (10m long, 4m high, ½m thick) has MegaScale (1m = 1 km), the character could convert the length and width meters both into kilometers while leaving the thickness at ½m, but he could not make the length meters equal 1 km each while the height meters only equal .25 km each. However, if a character buys MegaScale for Barrier multiple times, he can define which dimensions each of the Advantages applies to and affect them separately. (At the GM’s option, a character could buy the ability to do this by increasing the value of MegaScale by +¼ per additional dimension to be affected separately rather than buying the Advantage a second time.)