Powers and Power Creation

You can walk with the animals, talk with the animals, and fight with the animals on your side.   Basic Animal Control: Choose one favored type of animal. You may communicate with favored animals of this type as if they were human NPCs, although their understanding of the world is limited. In addition, you gain a […]

You’ve always got someone, or something, to watch your back.   Basic Creature Summoning: Once per scene, you can generate a creature that’s under your control. You might bring forth an elemental, or something mundane like a sidekick shows up to help out. When you take this power, create a creature with one aspect to describe […]

Your ability to disguise yourself as another person is uncanny. Who are you, really?   Basic Disguise: You can alter your face, build, and voice at will in order to become a completely different person. Once you spend time interacting with someone, you can imitate them near-perfectly. Gain a +2 bonus to Deception to oppose others […]

You can be an entire team, all by yourself.   Basic Duplication: Once per scene, you can create a copy of yourself up to one zone away. This copy has your aspects and skills, but it takes a -1 penalty to all rolls. The duplicate is not an NPC, but another character under your control. During […]

You’ve got a body as stretchy as rubber and twice as resilient.   Basic Elasticity: Your body stretches to incredible lengths. By stretching yourself, you can interact with objects and make melee attacks in an adjacent zone without moving. Additionally, you can contort your body into rough approximations of animals, objects, and tools, although your mass […]

You are a human capacitor, able to absorb pure energy into your body and release it at will.   Basic Energy Absorption: You may use Physique, with a +2 bonus, to defend against any energy-based attack and to overcome energy-based obstacles, simply by absorbing the energy into your body. Energy-based threats include electricity—such as stun guns […]

A classic power with innumerable variations: you can shoot stuff. Lasers from your eyes, fire from your fists, things like that.   Basic Energy Blast: You can fire a projectile of some sort, with a range of three zones, using Shoot.   Enhancements Master Energy Blast: Your shots are especially accurate. Gain +2 to Shoot when using […]

For many people, flight is the reason to activate their super gene. You are one of the lucky ones, able to take to the air as easily as most citizens walk down the street.   Basic Flight: You can move vertically through the air as easily as moving along the ground. Use Athletics to overcome obstacles […]

You have special insight into how stuff works, letting you assemble incredible devices with seemingly no resources.   Basic Gadgeteering: You have an intuitive understanding of machines of all types. Just by seeing a device, you can tell what it does, at least in general. In addition, you gain +2 to Crafts when repairing or building […]

You have a deadly touch. You don’t have to hit people to hurt them; just brushing up against them can be fatal.   Basic Harm: By maintaining skin-to-skin contact with another person for a moment, you deal them 2 physical stress. Additionally, when you attack a target using your bare hands, add 2 physical stress to […]

You are, invariably, the most popular person to have on hand during a fight. You make hurt people not hurt so much.   Basic Healing: You can make a Will roll against Fair (+2) opposition to clear another character’s physical stress. A character may only benefit from your ability once per scene. Additionally, you can use […]

You can make things that aren’t there…there.   Basic Illusion: You can project an illusory image, up to about human size, as far as one zone away. You can also generate sounds, including voices. You must concentrate to keep the illusion active. Others must actively try to see through your illusion. This is an overcome roll […]

You are a natural people person—whether people like it or not. You can’t control minds outright, but you can make them malleable.   Basic Influence: You can use Rapport to attack, defended against with Will. If you succeed against a nameless NPC, you may give them a task, which they will then attempt to fulfill. Against […]

Sorry, who said that?   Basic Invisibility: You can completely fade from view, including your clothes and anything you’re carrying. Cameras and similar devices cannot detect you at all, and you gain +2 to Stealth against being seen by living targets.   Enhancements Master Invisibility: You gain an additional +2 bonus to Stealth against being seen. Sharable […]

You always have what you need close at hand.   Basic Item Summoning: You can create simple items, such as hand tools or weapons, just by willing them into existence. If you want something with no moving parts that you can hold in one hand, roll Will against Average (+1) opposition; larger or more complex items […]

You have a powerful psychic bond with machines of all sorts. They do what you tell them to. You don’t even need a manual.   Basic Machine Control: You can control machines up to one zone away without touching them. Most machines won’t resist you at all, but something computerized will put up Fair (+2) opposition, […]

You know your way around computers. Maybe you studied to get that way, maybe you have a natural gift and just ‘get’ them but code is your weapon and the digital realms are your playground so long as you can get around sysadmins and intrusion countermeasures.   Basic Machine Control: You can control anything with a […]

You are what you touch.   Basic Material Mimicry: While in contact with any material—iron, stone, wood, and so on—you can alter your body to mimic that substance, turning into a living statue. To do so, create an advantage using Physique against Fair (+2) opposition. If you succeed, you gain an aspect reflecting your new state, […]

You come pre-armed for everyone’s inconvenience.   Basic Natural Weapon: You have some sort of built-in weaponry, whether it be claws or crackling energy that surrounds your fists. You gain +2 to Fight while brawling unarmed in close quarters.   Enhancements Master Natural Weapon: Your weapon is deadlier than most. Gain an additional +2 bonus to Fight […]

Walls are something other people have to deal with. You’ve always found it easier to ghost on through.   Basic Phasing: You can use Burglary to walk through walls and other physical barriers. A standard interior wooden door is a Fair (+2) obstacle, while thicker barriers of sturdier materials provide more opposition.   Enhancements Master Phasing: You […]