Armitage Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 Super smell. Think about it the next time you go to the bathroom. Spider Robinson's Hugo-winning novella "By Any Other Name" featured a future in which a scientist released a virus that enhanced the human sense of smell to superhuman levels. His expectation was that it would cause people to stop polluting once they were more sensitive to its effects. Instead, people became physically unable to live in cities, or even any large groups, and civilization collapsed. In the comedy superhero movie "The Specials", gadgeteer superhero Mr. Smart creates a device that gives him a superhuman sense of smell. He eventually exclaims in disgust "The world is covered in urine", but the device gets stuck on his face and he can't remove it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 No love for "Change Environment"? You folks disappointment me. There is so much misery potential in this with weather SFX alone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 Super smell. Think about it the next time you go to the bathroom. Supertasting already exists, and people that have it often hate it because it makes so many common foods simply inedible. In fact, we used to have a supertaster on this board who would talk about the downside. On the upside, Ben & Jerry's (and many other food companies) seek out supertasters for the research divisions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massey Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 Cassandra Power, Precog, no conscious control, Limitation (no predictions that you can benefit from), (no predictions that will be believed by anyone else ) Saying "I told you so" gets boring.. That would only suck if you're a nice person. If you're a prick and like to laugh at the misfortunes of others, that power rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 Some friends of mine were in a Champions campaign where one NPC would-be hero had an amazingly sucky power. The Wheatfield Avenger had Superman-level powers -- pre-Crisis Superman-level powers -- but only when he was within a wheat field. And none of his powers could extend beyond wheat fields. So there he is, standing in a field in Eastern Washington (or Ukraine, or Argentina, or other places they grow lots of wheat), waiting for crime to happen so he can stop it with his amazing cosmic powers. It never does. Okay, so he's a good friend to have if you can somehow lure the supervillain into a wheat field. Good luck with that. (More than once, anyway.) Dean Shomshak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kesedrith Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 I will offer the Teletaster: Taste, Discriminatory, Analysis, Targeting....and ranged. Yeah, don't focus too long or hard on that passing garbage truck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 Anybody else remember Tongue Tongue from the Tick? Tongue Tongue is the atrocious creation of the nefarious Dr. Mung Mung. He is made up entirely of tongues and he's fairly enormous ... He can taste anything he touches, even evil ... Tongue Tongue's mind was swapped with Arthur's. Arthur was appalled because he could taste the floor and Tongue Tongue wept because he had but one small tongue to taste an entire world. When Arthur was in Tongue Tongue's body he found out that movement was difficult because the drool kept him from gaining traction on the floor. Arthur, after being mind transferred: "I can ... taste ... everything!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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