NegativeLogic

Re: Truth-Telling Gaze Thank you for this - that helps a great deal. I'm amazed at how quickly I've received so many helpful replies.

Re: Truth-Telling Gaze Thank you all for the responses, it's given me a lot of food for thought (especially around defining the specifics). Lucius - I suppose my phrasing should have been better. "No additional control over the person" is what I meant. I was attempting to convey that the mentalist could not cause any effects aside from the trance-like state and answering of questions, and that's all the subject could do (stand there and answer questions - but it does force them to just stand there and answer).

Hello, I'm very new to the Hero system, but my friends and I have been playing around with it for a couple months, and are really enjoying it. That being said, some concepts I find are still a bit of a challenge to figure out how to implement. As the title suggests, what I'm trying to build is an ability where someone could gaze into the eyes of the subject in question, put them into a trance, and force the person to answer truthfully all questions asked (or at least attempt to get them to answer truthfully). All they can do though is answer questions - the practitioner has no other control over the person, and the gaze must be maintained at all times. What would be a good way of going about this? Would mind control be the answer? Thanks!

Re: Brand new to the system That's awesome, thank you! It's a very different system to what I'm used to, so it's taking some mental re-arranging to come up with things.

Re: Brand new to the system Thank you all for the very quick advice! I guess I need to get in the right mindset of thinking about effect and context first and foremost, all your suggestions are very helpful. I'm thinking transform may make the most sense, but I'll have to do some more reading I think.

Hi, I'm brand new to the Hero system (just picked up 6th edition a couple weeks ago) and my group and I are very exicted about transitioning, since the flexibility seems incredible (overwhelmingly so). We're finding it a bit daunting to wade through all the material, but it's finally starting to make some sense. One of my players wants to make an ability that would allow him to accelerate the growth of a target plant very rapidly (ie: a year's worth of growth in a short amount of time), and I'm really at a loss as to how I'd construct that. This would be flavoured as a magical spell, but that's neither here nor there, really. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.