How Would You Create an "Anatomical Separation" Power?

[Crisis911]

There's a concept I really like but can't figure out how to build: a character who can detach his body parts (arm, leg, head, etc) and move them around and control them separately. For example, he could make his arm detach and fly off to punch a bad guy, or he could detach an eye and fly it around to do some reconnaissance, etc.

 

How would you build that?

[Steve Long]

I would build that by buying the "Let Me Lend You A Hand" power on page 48 of Champions Powers, which does exactly what you want. It's built with Summon, so you have to create separate character sheets for each body part, but that's easy enough.

[randian]

These seem like special effects, not powers. "Detach arm and punch bad guy at range" is a physical Blast and detaching your eye to look around is Clairsentience.

[Duke Bushido]

And it seems that someone did Voltron a couple of decades ago using Duplication, just looking at it from the other end.

 

 

[Crusty]

On 5/23/2020 at 10:44 PM, randian said:

These seem like special effects, not powers. "Detach arm and punch bad guy at range" is a physical Blast and detaching your eye to look around is Clairsentience.

Gets sketchy if the body parts can take damage to do it that way

[Ninja-Bear]

3 minutes ago, Crusty said:

Gets sketchy if the body parts can take damage to do it that way

I think by either putting on Backlash or a custom limitation would be fine.

[unclevlad]

3 hours ago, Crusty said:

Gets sketchy if the body parts can take damage to do it that way

 

Then use Stretching instead of Blast.

(OK, so I love Extra Limbs, STR only with Extra Limbs, and Stretching only with the extra limbs.....)

[Crusty]

On 9/5/2020 at 11:04 PM, unclevlad said:

 

Then use Stretching instead of Blast.

(OK, so I love Extra Limbs, STR only with Extra Limbs, and Stretching only with the extra limbs.....)

Elegant 👍

[Crusty]

On 9/5/2020 at 8:39 PM, Ninja-Bear said:

I think by either putting on Backlash or a custom limitation would be fine.

Custom limits sketch me out a little. I haven’t used Backlash in a while. How would it work here?

[Ninja-Bear]

Simple Backlash means that the character could take damage from a Power that normally wouldn’t pass on the Damage. It’s mainly used on Force Wall but can be applied as needed.

[Crusty]

18 hours ago, Ninja-Bear said:

Simple Backlash means that the character could take damage from a Power that normally wouldn’t pass on the Damage. It’s mainly used on Force Wall but can be applied as needed.

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