Point Based Heroes Unlimited Character Enhancement: v 1.1
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While there is much to be said for the random element of Heroes Unlimited character creation, there is a growing number of people who wish that there were some sort of point based system of character enhancement. With that in mind, I hereby present, the Heroes Unlimited Point Enhancement System (v. 1.0):

STEP 1: Roll up your characters as normal. The points are applied to the final character:

STEP 2: Assign points to players. All players in the group should get the same points (unless you use points to reward/punish for game behavior). For characters equivalent to the standard hero, you should grant no points. These peopel can still improve their characters, but they must first take some disadvantages. GMs should decide just how many points to allocate based on how strong they want the players to be.

STEP 3: Start trading: Below, certain aspects of the character are listed, along with point cost. You may "buy" or "sell" them for the point cost listed. You may not sell off a character aspect after you have started play, however, you may sell improvements as you receive them. For example, once gameplay begins, you cannot go "Hey, I think I'll sell a level of my Streetwise skill!" after the character is finalized, however, upon reaching a new level, you may say "I'll sell this level's bonus to my Streetwise skill." GMs may make an exception to this rule involving powers if they so desire "Wow, my energy expulsion power is weakened, but I can fly faster now!"

NOTE: There are 4 main aspects that can be added to/subtracted from with points: Skills, combat/WP skills, powers, and attribute scores. GMs may assign a limit to how many points can be transferred from one area to another.
GMs may also limit how many levels up or down a power of skill may be raised (2 to 5 is a fair range for this) per level. This means that , for example, once you have raised your energy expulsion power by 2 levels (if that were the limit your GM set on power raising) then you could not purchase more levels for it until you raised a level.

Skills

Purchasing New Skill Slots: 5 points for one secondary skill slot. 12 points for one additional skill slot in a professional skill program (for example, if you have the Pilot skill program and want 3 advanced pilot skills instead of just 2 it would cost you 12 points for that one extra slot). You may use these slots to purchase any skill that fits that type.

Purchasing Specific New Skills (not combat or WP): 5 points. Add 2 points if the skill is not percentile, and add 2 points if the skill is not available as a secondary skill. Add another 4 points to cost if the skill is not related to any of the character's skill programs (unless the skill is available as a secondary, of course). The player may sell a maximum of one level of a skill upon purchase. NOTE: use the following listing to sell skills.

Selling New Skills (not combat or WP): A professional quality skill will get you 5 points. A secondary skill will get you 3 points. GMs may limit the number of skills you can sell (1 professional per skill program and 3 secondary is a fair ruling). NOTE: If a skill costs more than one selection, then multiply the cost by how many selections it would cost. For example, the secondary skill of holistic medicine would get you 6 points, not 3. This only applies if the character had to spend extra pskill slots to purchase it.

Percentile Skills Levels: 0.4 points for each percentile point added per level. For example, a skill with a +5% per level bonus would have a level cost of 2 points. Streetwise, however, would have a 1.6 point cost due to the +4% per level bonus.

Combat/WP SKills

NOTE: It is possible to sell levels in combat and WP skills, but it is impossible to reduce them to below level 1.

Combat Skills & WPs: Purchase these by buying skill slots (see above section). Physical skill slots (sometimes needed to purchase a N&SS martial art) cost 12 points, even if you do not have the physical skill program.

Combat Skills Levels: HTH: Basic: 4 points. HTH: Expert: 5 points. HTH: Martial Arts or Assassin: 6 points. Ninjas & Superspies Martial Arts (non Exclusive): 6 points. Ninjas & Superspies Martial Arts (Exclusive): 7 points.

WP Skill Levels: 4 points each.

Powers

Super Abilities: 15 points for minor, 30 points for major. (if you use ultra powers, then it's 45 points for minor ultra and 60 points for major ultra). This purchase gets you a roll on the super ability tables (unless you buy an ultra power, then you get your pick). To purchase a specific power costs you 16 for minor or 32 for major. Add 4 points for every weaker version of that power available in that category from the main book and add 2 points if the power does not raise in level).
For example, selecting Extraordinary Physical Strenght specifically would cost you 18 points (16 for the specific selection and 2 because it does not go up in levels). Selecting Superhuman Strength specifically costs you 22 points, because in addition to those considerations, there is also a weaker minor power (Extraordinary Physical Strength)

Psionic Powers: Major psi powers cost the same as major powers, Healer, Phyical or Sensitive psi powers cast the same as minor powers.

Magic Spells: 10 points plus 3 points per level bracket of the spell

Magic Speel Levels: 3 points plus 1 point per level bracket of the spell.

Super Ability/Psionic Power Levels: 5 points for a minor power level, 10 points for a major power level. Powers may be reduced to as low as level -2

ISP/PPE: 2 points per 1D6 ISP or PPE.

Power Stunts: See Power Stunts list at end of article

Mega Hero Powers: All except Undeath or Immortality count as majors. Undeath and Immortilay count as minor ultras.

Mega Hero Weaknesses: See Disadvantages, below

Attributes

NOTE: This is completely optional, and GMs may forbid direct manipulation of attributes if he/she feels that they are too unbalancing. If you do allow attribute manipulation, then you should limit the amount of change. For example, saying that you cannot buy or sell more than half of the original roll)

Attribute Points: 3 points per one point of an attribute.

Disadvantages

• Vulnerable to Psionics (See Mega Hero listing): Adds 10 points
• Vulnerable to Magic (See Mega Hero listing): Adds 8 points
• Vulnerable to Light (See Mega Hero listing): Adds 9 points
• Deadly Metal (See Mega Hero listing): Adds 14 points. Adds an additional 5 points if the metal can harm the character just by proximity. Subtract 5 from thsi point bonus if the metal is very rare and subtract another 4 points if this metal is also dangerous to humans.
• Vulnerable to Fire (See Mega Hero listing): Adds 15 points
• Vulnerable to Cold or Heat (See Mega Hero listing): Adds 14 points
• Must Transform to Use Powers (See Mega Hero listing): Adds 4 points.
• Solar Powered or Night Powered (See Mega Hero listing): Adds 14 points.
• Loves the Opposite Sex (Hey who doesn't! Seriously though, see the Mega Hero listing): Adds 2 points.
• Slow and Ponderous (See Mega Hero listing): Add 10 points.
• Extremely Nearsighted (See Mega Hero listing): Add 10 points.
• Allergy (See Mega Hero listing): Add 7 points.
• God Syndrome (See Mega Hero listing): Add 3 points.
• Addiction: Add 8 points for alcoholism and 14 points for drug addiction
• One roll on random insanity table: Add 12 points.
• Frenzy: Add 8 points.
• Power By Association: Add 9 points
• Crazy Man: Add 8 points.
• Split Personality: Add 15 points plus 8 points for each addtional personality (so 2 extra personalities would give you 23 points).

Adapted From Marvel Superheroes game

• Bruiser: The character's PS goes up by 2D6, but he rolls 1D10, not 1D20 to strike. Add 4 points.
• Guilt Ridden: The character has something in his past he is very guilty about. He is at -5 on any combat rolls and -25% on any skills when attempting anything related to what eh feels guilt about. Add 12 points.
• Lightweight: Despite the character's strength, the only damage bonus he ever gets is due to combat training or natural weapons. He gets no damage bonus from a high PS. Also, if the Supernatural Strength power is possed, he will always inflict damage as though he were two strata below his actual P.S. score. For example, a character with 40 Supernatural Strength would inflict 4D6 on a standard punch, not 6D6. Characters cannot take this limit unless they have a PS above 25 or sueprnatural strength. Add 14 points.
• Panicky: The character overreacts to threats. Whenever there is danger, the character must save vs. Horror Factor (12 for a minor threat, 14 for a fairly major threat, 16 for a major threat,a nd 18 for a very major threat). Add 8 points.
• Triggered Powerless: Something can cause the character to completely lose all powers while exposed to it. If the item is very rare (a rock from your long gone home planet, a special magic crystal, etc.) add 5 points. If the item is rare, but accessable (something that any industrialist can make) add 8 points. For something fairly common but not likely to be run into every day (something like diabetes medicine or something), add 10 points. For something very common (something like a common window cleaner, cigarette smoke, etc.) add 20 points. If the item must be ingested (with the exception of smoke), then only add 1/4 of this bonus.
• Unlucky: The character just can't get a break. Whenever he rolls, he rolls twice and uses the worst roll. Also, the GM can feel free to have stuff happen at the least opportune moments

Adapted From Champions Fuzion game

• Absent Minded: The character is always preoccupied. He is at -5% on any skill which requires memory retention. Also, unless the player specifically states that his character does something, the GM is under no obligation to assume he did it, even if it is common sense ("No, I'm sorry, you didn't say you were going to load your gun, so it's empty"). Add 9 poiints
• Dyslexia: The character has a neurological problem which makes it hard for him to read. Any skills requiring reading are at -25%, and any skills involving writing are at -40%. However, the character can perform a skill at no penalty if someone else takes on the actual reading or writing. For example, a novelist with this problem could "write" at his normal skill level by dictating to a secretary.
• Epilepsy: The character suffers epilectic fits. Use the frenzy rules to determine when the attacks occur. While suffering a seizure, he is at -7 on any combat maneuvers and can only defend against attacks. Note: If the character is subjected to telepathic probing, or a light effect liek the strobe light stunt listed below, then he must save vs. psi or suffer a seizure. Seizures last for 3D4 melees. Add 14 points.

Power Stunts/Limits

NOTE: Limits give you back points, but those points may only be used with the power being limited, unless otherwise noted. Most of these were adapted from Marvel Super Heroes

Minor

Adhesion

Bend Light

• Blinding Flash: The character can use his energy power to create a bright but otherwise harmless energy flash. The effect is equivalent to the Blinding Flash spell. Costs 6 points.
• Strobe Light: The character creates a rapid flashing of light. All those who see this are at -2 on all combat rolls for 2D4 melees. Costs 6 points.

Body Weapons

Clock Manipulation

Energy Expulsion (works with all distance energy expulsion powers, and may also be applied to any power which offers a distance attack as a sub-power. If used for these, then you may add 50% tot he point cost and have the stunt apply to all such sub-powers under that one major power)

• Blinding Flash: The character can use his energy power to create a bright but otherwise harmless energy flash. The effect is equivalent to the Blinding Flash spell. Costs 6 points.
• Energy Sword: the character can create a sword (or other melee type weapon) fromt he energy. Inflicts the same damage as the ranged blast, but cannot be thrown or projected. Use normal strike bonuses fro that weapon type. Costs 7 points.
• Explosive Blast: The character's blast will explode on impact. This does 1D6 more damage than a standard blast, and has a blast radius equal to one foot plus one foot per 3 levels of the power.At third level and above, the character may control his power to prevent the bolt from exploding. Costs 5 points.
• Ricochet: See Super Energy Expulsion power listing. Costs 6 points.
• Touch only (Limit): The character cannot project the power, but can apply it by touch (or through conductive substances). Returns 5 points to this power (if used for a major power, then all projective attacks suffer this limit, but control attacks do not). Cannot be used with energy sword, ricochet, or explosive blast.

Energy Expulsion: Light

• Strobe Light: The character creates a rapid flashing of light. All those who see this are at -2 on all combat rolls for 2D4 melees. Costs 6 points.

Super Strength stunts (usable with Exptraordinary PS, Superhuman PS, Sueprnatural PS, or any character which has a strength rating of superhuman or better and a PS of 25 or better)

Super Speed (running) stunts (usable with any power that lets the character run at 50 MPH or higher)

• Inaccurate (Limit): Character suffers a penalty of -1 per 25 miles per hour on any combat roll and -5% on any skill involving dexterity. Returns 5 points to this power.
• Run Up Walls: The character can run up walls and even on the ceiling. Can run for 5 feet per power level before dropping off. Costs 6 points.
• Water Run: The character can run over the surface of water without sinking. Can run for 5 feet per power level before sinking. Costs 6 points.

Flight Stunts (Usable with any power that lets the character fly)

• Flight Prowess: While in flight only, the character has a bonus of 1 point per 5 power levels of the flight power added to his P.P. score. Costs 6 points.

Flight: Winged

• Downdraft: The character may hover in place over a person and flap his wings to produce a sudden wing gust. The victim of this attack must roll to parry, and if his roll is above the power level of the Winged Flight power, then he remains standing at no penalty, otherwise he is staggered and loses a melee action. Costs 6 points.
• Feather Attack: The character can fire his feathers at an opponent. Range is 30'. The strike uses the same strike bonuses as an energy expulsion power, and inflcits 1D6 damage plus 1D6 damage per two power levels. Costs 9 points.
• Wing Attack: The character has one additional melee attack, but this can only be performed with the wings. The character may use his wings to attacks more than once per melee but this will require using one of his regular melee actions. Wings do 2D4 damage, plus one half of the character's PS damage bonus and 2 damage per level of the flight power (raise this bonus to 4 if supernatural strength is possessed). Strike bonus is equal to 1/2 of the normal strike bonus plus the one per 2 power levels of Flgiht: Winged. Costs 8 points.

Flight: Wingless

• Flight Prowess: While in flight only, the character has a bonus of 1 point per 5 power levels of the flight power added to his P.P. score. Costs 6 points.

Healing Factor

Heightened Sense of Hearing

• Empathy: the character can tell the general emotional state (and can also tell if a person is lying if they roll below the power's level on a 20 sided die) just by the sound of his/her voice and vital signs. Costs 4 points.
• Hear Psychic Energy: The character can hear the enrgies that psi powers and astral beings use. This means he can detect psionics. Costs 7 points.

Heightened Sense of Smell

• Empathy: the character can tell the general emotional state (and can also tell if a person is lying if they roll below the power's level on a 20 sided die) just by the odors emitted by that person. Costs 4 points.

Heightened Sense of Taste

Heightened Sense of Touch

NOTE: Heightened Senses stunts do not work if there is a strong sensory stimulatus ro a saturation of sensory stimulus. For example, using a smell stunt int he sewer or a hearing stunt at a heavy metal concert would be next to impossible

Manipulate Kinetic Energy

Mental Stun

Multiple Limbs

Nightstalking

Power Channeling

Radar

Super Vision: X-Ray

Underwater Abilities

Major

Shapeshifter stunts (can be used by alter phyical body, alter facial features and stature, or shapeshifter)

Alter Limbs

Alter Metabolism

General Alter Physical Structure stunts (cna be used with most any APS power)

APS: Electricity

APS: Fire

• Smokescreen: The character can create billowing clouds of smoke. Works the same as the Cloud of Smoke spell. Costs 4 points.
• Updraft: The character can use heat control to create an updraft, which reduces fall damage by 2 points per power level. Costs 4 points.

APS: Ice

• Ice Ramps: The character can skate along on an ice ramp. The ramp can be 5 + 2 feet per level of APS: Ice off of the ground, and can move at a spd of 3 times the power level of APS: Ice. Evasive maneuvers are not easy, so while riding an ice ramp, the character is minus one to parry and minus 6 to dodge (unless he decides to just jump off the ramp, in which case he can dodge with no penalty). Sections of the ramp will melt as they are no longer needed. Every five foot length of the ramp has 50 SDC. If any section is broken, the whole ramp collapses. Costs 10 points.
• Ice Sculpture: The character can create complex and decorative ice forms. Costs 2 points, and the character must have the art skill.
• Ice Parts: The character may create ice forms to replace a part of a machine or to effect structural repairs. This costs 4 points, and the character would need the appropriate skill to fix or create that part if a complex device is being repaired (for example, to replace a car door, he would need the auto mechanics skill, however, to create an ice slab to fill in a doorframe would not require a special skill, unless one wanted the door to be a working model, in which case carpentry would be required.)

APS: Liquid

APS: Metal

APS: Plant

APS: Plasma

• Smokescreen: The character can create billowing clouds of smoke. Works the same as the Cloud of Smoke spell. Costs 4 points.
• Updraft: The character can use heat control to create an updraft, which reduces fall damage by 2 points per power level. Costs 4 points.

APS: Smoke

APS: Stone

Animal Abilities

Animal Metamorphosis

Bio Armor

Bio-Ghost

Chameleon

• Blend Others: The character can use his chameleon power on others as well as himself. TO do this, the character msut remain in constant contact witht he person (if he breaks contact, the chameleon effect will immediately fade fromt he affected person). Also, if the other person does not wish to be chameleoned, he can attempt to save (vs. nonlethal poison). Costs 8 points

Cloaking

General Control elemental Force Limits (Applicable to all Control Elemental Force powers. Players may also, if the GM so agrees, use these with other control type powers such as gravity manipulation, plant control, or magnetism)

• Runaway Power (Limit): The character can start elemental attacks, but has trouble ending them. Whenever he uses his elemental powers, he must roll one 20-sided die (with no bonuses). If he rolls above the power level of his CEF power, then the power effect used runs amok for 1D4 minutes per power level (so a CEF: Earth induced earthquake at level 6 would cause the ground to crack up randomly for 6 to 24 minutes!) The character may attempt to stop these runaway effects twice per melee, but he must roll under one half of his power level (other characters with CEF: Earth can stop these attacks by rolling under the power level and adding their power level to their total). Taking this limit gives the player 14 points to use with this APS: power only.

CEF: Air

• Air Elemental: The character can create an air "creature" which is under his mental control. This creature will have 5 hit points, 2 PS (considered extraordinary), 3 PP, and 4 Spd per level of the CEF: Air power. The elemental will have 1/3 of the character's combat bonuses (save for the damage bonus, which is based solely on the thing's PS). The character divides his attacks between his physical body and the elemental. The elemental cannot be easily harmed by physical means, however, any attack which inflicts the full remained HP of the thing will cause it to disperse, and magical and psionic (non-telepathic) attacks will do normal damage. For every 4 damage done to the elemental in one attack, the character takes one damage direct to hit points. Telepathic attacks will afflict the character. Only one elemental may be made at one time. Once the elemental is destroyed or dispelled, the character must wait one hour minus 3 minutes per level of the CEF: Air power before trying to make a new elemental. Costs 15 points.
• Air Shield: The character can, as a parry action, whip up a small shield of air. This shield will soak up 2 kinetic damage or 1 energy damage for every power level of CEF: Air. Costs 8 points.
• Ice Control: The character gains a control over ice. This confers all abilities of APS: Ice,e xcpet for the ability to actually transform into ice. The character can even purchase stunts for this sub-power as if he possessed APS: Ice (unless the stunt involves the being actually being made of ice). Costs 20 points, but the character may buy the full APS: Ice power at a later date for only 16 points.
• Suffocation: The character can cause the air around a particular person to thin, so that he cannot breathe (standard choke damage). To use this power requires teh character to spend 2 actions per melee renewing his concentration. This can also be used to foul machines which require air intake. Costs 10 points.

CEF: Earth

• Earth Elemental: The character can create an earth "creature" which is under his mental control. This creature will have 15 hit points, 2 PS (considered supernatural), 2 PP, and 1.5 Spd per level of the CEF: Earth power. The elemental will have 1/4 of the character's combat bonuses (save for the damage bonus, which is based solely on the thing's PS). The character divides his attacks between his physical body and the elemental. Telepathic attacks will afflict the character, not the elemental. Only one elemental may be made at one time. For every 5 damage done to the elemental in one attack, the character takes one damage direct to hit points. Once the elemental is destroyed or dispelled, the character must wait one hour minus 2 minutes per level of the CEF: Air power before trying to make a new elemental. Costs 15 points.
• Earth Ramps: The character can skate along on a ramp of Earth. The ramp can be 5 + 2 feet per level of CEF: Earth off of the ground, and can move at a spd equal to the power level of CEF: Earth. Evasive maneuvers are not easy, so while riding an ice ramp, the character is minus one to parry and minus 8 to dodge (unless he decides to just jump off the ramp, in which case he can dodge with no penalty). Sections of the ramp will crumble away as they are no longer needed. Every five foot length of the ramp has 65 SDC. If any section is broken, the whole ramp collapses. Costs 10 points.
• Earth Sculpture: The character can create complex and decorative forms out of earth and stone. Costs 2 points, and the character must have the art skill.
• Earth Parts: The character may create earth forms to replace a part of a machine or to effect structural repairs. This costs 4 points, and the character would need the appropriate skill to fix or create that part if a complex device is being repaired (for example, to replace a car door, he would need the auto mechanics skill, however, to create an earth slab to fill in a doorframe would not require a special skill, unless one wanted the door to be a working model, in which case carpentry would be required.) Also, the character must have a ready supply of earth available to be manipulated.
• Tremors: The character can send small shock waves through the ground. They do not do damag,e but can knock people over. These waves have a range equal to 3 feet per level of CEF: Earth and require a dodge roll above the power level of the effect to avoid getting knocked down. Large characters have a bonus of +1 to resit this effect for every five feet of height over five feet (so a ten foot tall character would be +1 to resist this effect) and characters with multiple legs or wheel are not knocked over, but will be at -1 on on all combat rolls until they have taken their next action, unless they resist the attack.
• Grounded (Limit): The character must be physically touching earth or stone (must be at least boulder sized, having a pebble in your pocket won't help you) or this power will only work at half of it's level. This allows five points to be spent on CEF: Earth, or, you can opt to have this weakness apply to all of your character's powers, in which case this limit gives you 10 points to spend anywhere you like.

CEF: Fire

• Fire Elemental: The character can create a fire "creature" which is under his mental control. This creature will have 8 hit points, 2 PS (considered extraordinary), 3 PP, and 4 Spd per level of the CEF: Fire power. The elemental will have 1/3 of the character's combat bonuses (save for the damage bonus, which is based solely on the thing's PS). The creature's touch inflicts 1D6 damage plus 1D6 per 3 levels of CEF: Fire. The character divides his attacks between his physical body and the elemental. The elemental cannot be easily harmed by standard physical means, however, water and cold attacks do double damage and any attack which inflicts the full remained HP of the thing will cause it to disperse, and magical and psionic (non-telepathic) attacks will do normal damage. Telepathic attacks will afflict the character. For every 5 damage done to the elemental in one attack, the character takes one damage direct to hit points. Only one elemental may be made at one time. Once the elemental is destroyed or dispelled, the character must wait one hour minus 3 minutes per level of the CEF: Fire power before trying to make a new elemental. Costs 15 points.
• Fire Restraints: The character can create cages and domes out of flame. Duration is indefinite, but the character msut remain in range and is minus 1 APM while these forms exist. Escape is possible, but to break through these means taking 1D6 plus 1D6 per 3 level sof the CEF: Fire power in damage. Costs 5 points.
• Fire Sculpture: The character can create complex and decorative forms out of flame. Duration is indefinite, but the character msut remain in range and is minus 1 APM while these forms exist. Costs 2 points, and the character must have the art skill.
• Smokescreen: The character can create billowing clouds of smoke. Works the same as the Cloud of Smoke spell. Costs 4 points.
• Updraft: The character can use heat control to create an updraft, which reduces fall damage by 2 points per power level. Costs 4 points.

CEF: Water

• Dehydation: The character can damage living creatures by actually drawing the water out of them. This attack works at a touch range only, and, after concentrating on the effect (and maintaining contact for the whole time), inflicts 1D4 damage, direct to hit points. Costs 9 points.
• Fog: The character can create fog (see CEF: Air). Costs 6 points.
• Precipitation: The character can control precipitation (see CEF: Air). Costs 16 points.
• Propulsion: The character can cause a water vehicle to travel at speeds up to 30 MPH per level of CEF: Water without harm. He can also keep land vehicles afloat and move them at half of this speed. While performing this feat, the character is at minus 3 attacks per melee. Costs 9 points.
• Water Elemental: This creature will have 8 hit points, 3 PS (considered superhuman), 3 PP, and 6 Spd per level of the CEF: Water power. The elemental will have 1/3 of the character's combat bonuses (save for the damage bonus, which is based solely on the thing's PS). The creature's touch inflicts 1D6 damage plus 1D6 per 3 levels of CEF: Water to any fire or heat based beings. The character divides his attacks between his physical body and the elemental. The elemental cannot be easily harmed by standard physical means, however, fire and heat attacks do half damage, electrical attacks do full damage, and any attack which inflicts the full remained HP of the thing will cause it to disperse, and magical and psionic (non-telepathic) attacks will do normal damage. Telepathic attacks will afflict the character. For every 5 damage done to the elemental in one attack, the character takes one damage direct to hit points. Only one elemental may be made at one time. Once the elemental is destroyed or dispelled, the character must wait one hour minus 3 minutes per level of the CEF: Water power before trying to make a new elemental. Costs 17 points.

Control Insects & Arachnids

Control Kinetic Energy

• Absorption: The character can absord one point of kinetic damage per power level (must consciously do this, counts as a parry) and apply that energy toward one of his physical stats. For every 5 damage he would have taken from the attack, he can raise his PS, PP, or PE by one, or his Spd by 2. This only lasts for 2 of his actions. The character may choose instead to simply redirect the absorbed damage elsewhere at the cost of an action (or at his opponent, if his opponent is within grappling range, without costing an action). A separate strike roll must be rolled for this effect. Absorbed damage does not affect the character, but any damage over this amount does. Costs 8 points.

Control Others

Control Radiation

Control Static Electricity

Copy Physical Structure

Create Force Field

• Energy Bottle: The character can attempt to catch energy attacks (counts as a parry action) within a force field. If successful, the character can then release the energy from the bottle later for full damage. To bottle an attack, the character must decide how much of his force field SDC he wishes to use. The bottle takes the damage, but the energy is not depleted. If he uses less SDC than the attack inflicts, then the bottle is destroyed and any excess damage goes through and hits its target.Liekwise, if an attack agaisnt the shield depletes the remaining SDC, then the energy is released. Bottle SDC may not be reutrned tot eh general force field SDC pool, and must be regenerated normally. Costs 10 points.
• Force Cushion: The character can create a force cushion (no dimension may be larger than 6 inches per power level) which can absorb one point of kinetic damage per each point of force field SDC pumped into it (maximum of 2 points per level may be pumped into the field). The cushion does not take damage from these attacks, but force cushion SDC cannot be returned to the general force field SDC pool and msut be restores normally. This can also be used to make furniture. A beanbag chair would require 4 force field SDc. A rigid form chair or couch requires 8 force field SDC. Costs 6 points.
• Force Field Lenses: The character may create lenses out of force fields. Creating simple optical lenses takes 1D4 melee actions (only one action if the character has a lens-making skill) while the character adjsuts the force field to reract the lens just right. Creating lenses for lasers or advanced tech requires the character to also have the appropriate skill to repair that sort of lens. While the lens is in existence, the character must sacrifice one action per melee or the lens will haev a 10% chance per melee of losing its calibration and needing to be reshaped. Each lens takes 2 force field SDC, and may be dispelled normally, giving the SDC back to the force field SDC pool. Costs 6 points.

Darkness Control

• Absorb Light: The character can absorb light damage (up to 5 plus the power level) by using darkness. This counts as a parry action. Costs 6 points.
• Shadow BLindness: The character can fire a blob of darkness at a victim's eyes, blinding him for 2D4 melees if it hits. Costs 10 points.

Disruptive Touch

Divine Aura

Energy Absorption

• Absorption Boost: This allows the character to boost one phsycial stat from energy attacks. For every 10 damage he would have taken from the energy, he can raise his PS, PP, or PE by one, or his Spd by 2. This only lasts for 2 of his actions. Costs 5 points
• Absorption healing: For every 5 damage that an attack would do, the character gets to replenish one SDC (HP healing requires 7 eenrgy damage to restore one HP). Costs 7 points

Force Aura

Gravity Manipulation/Weight Manipulation

• Induce Nausea: The character can use a subtle manipulation of gravity or weight to induce nausea. The victim of this attack must roll greater than 5 plus 1/2 the power level on a 20 sided die (save bonus vs. nonlethal poison is added ot the saving throw) or suffer the following penalties for 2D4 melees: -2 on all combat rolls, loss of initiative, loss of 1 APM, damage bonus is halved, and the victim has a 10% chance for each melee of vomiting (takes the whole melee, no actions other than defense (-5) may be attempted. Costs 8 points.

Growth

Holographic Memory Projection

Intangibility

• Scrambling: If the character phases through an electronic machine, it is scrambled (if it fails a save vs. psi) and will not function properly for 2D4 melees. This effect cannot be prevented, except by not passing through electronics. Costs 14 points.
• See Astral Beings: While intangible the character can see astral beings, ghosts, etc. Costs 6 points

Invisibility

• Make others invisible: The character may make other objects or people invisible. Range is touch, and the duration is one melee plus one melle per 3 levels. Costs 7 points.
• Invisible to Living Beings Only (Limit): The character has the invisible haze psi power, but does not require ISP to use it. Returns 3 points to the invisibility power.

Invulnerability

• Invulnerable to Scans: The character's structure is not only highly resistant to damag,e but it also blocks scanning waves such as x-rays and electromagnetic waves. Costs 5 points.

Item Reduction

Lycanthropy

Magnetism

• Assembly: the character can assemble machines through magnetic manipulation. This requires a mechanical skill, but when using magnetic power, the skill is at +5% and takes half the time. Costs 7 points.
• Entrapment: The character can use his power to wrap a malleable metal around an opponent. Costs 3 points.
• Magnokinesis: The character has such a refined control that he is effectively a telekinetic in relation to metallic objects. See the telekinesis listing for details and see the Hurl/Repel Objects lsiting under Magentism for weight limits. Costs 6 points.
• Stun: The character can stun a living being by disrupting the nervous system of the flow of blood. He can also disrupt most robots by performing similar assaults against control systems. Equivalent to Mental Stun power. Costs 10 points.

Mechano-Link

Multiple Beings/Selves

Negate Super Powers

Negative Matter

Plant Control

Shrink

• Regrowth Attack: The character can get into position while small,a nd then rapidly grow to his full size and deliver an attack. he is minus 2 to strike, but his opponent will be minus 4 to dodge. Also,t eh momentum of the growth adds 20% to the total damage. Costs 14 points.

Slow Motion Control

Sonic Absorption

Sonic Flight

• Flight Prowess: While in flight only, the character has a bonus of 1 point per 3 power levels of the flight power added to his P.P. score. Costs 12 points.

Sonic Power

• Hypnosis: the character can make hypnotic suggestions by using subtle modulations of his voice. Works just like the hypnosis psi power, but he victim is +2 to save. Costs 9 points.

Spin at High Velocity

Stretching

Teleport

• Displacement: If the character teleports into an object, and that object is lighter than his total weight limit, it trades places with him. Costs 14 points.
• Gateway: Instead of teleporting, the character creates a gateway between the two locations. Costs 8 points.
• Teleport Others: The character can teleport other people or objects by touch or at a range of 10' plus 2' per level (requires a successful strike roll to teleport from a distance). Costs 10 points, however, a player may take this option for free if he limits himself to being unable to self teleport.

Tentacles

Transferral/Possession

Vibration