Bob Schroeck Wrote:, ah, that's the rub. You never know what a new song will let him do, and that might change your yardstick. But some hard limits built into V&V might help. His maximum Growth limit is 7 times his height (the balloon incident was exempted from this by the GM because he was effectively paralyzed during it and couldn't use it). Resurrection is fairly expensive (as a discrete power/advantage) IIRC, and might make for a good benchmark.
Heh, 7x his height is not even going to register compared to some of the other things he can do, so that’s not a good metric.
Resurrection however, that’s scary expensive. The base example out of GURPS Powers (pg 151) is 229 points per level of affliction. How good is Doug at it? Does it “always” work on normal people (so, technically, he’d need 7 levels to give a normal person a +6 to their single HT 10 roll to resurrect for 1,603 points), or is it hit or miss (50% chance for a normal person so 1 level would be enough).
Plus other changes like, can he do it at range. Does he have to touch them. Does it not work on special people, other than those who the MWPD have deemed unresurrectable. But, there’s a reasonable metric. Call Doug’s “template” 1,500 points. Sure, he’s expensive, but that really isn’t that bad. And, if you use Multiplicative Modifiers, like I do in my Supers games, resurrection only comes out to 83 points (10 levels is 823). So, giving Doug a template cost of 1,000 points works and gives him some wiggle room.
And, with MM, it only takes 982 points for the first stripe of something I had in mind for Songbird and The Loon. Mwa-ha, ha ha ha.
robkelk Wrote:Does this power build allow Doug to grant powers to others? There's more than one song in his jukebox that does just that...
Bob Schroeck Wrote:I think that would be a trait of the "form" in question, but I don't know if the classic "Usable on Others" would be the right way to quantify it.
Bob is spot on. The form could either have Affects Others, some Area Effect and what not, or it could have an Affliction to temporarily grant the power to someone.
So, Morph, with about 1,000 points . . . I think we might be able to make Doug on about 2k points with Multiplicative Modifiers. Which, is expensive, but not too terribly out there. My IST supers are sitting at about 800-850 points right now.