Rev up?

[kito]

I have no name for this power yet.

One of my players wants a super strength power with a twist, They want to have normal strength but buy activating there power they receive a large amount of Super strength for a few panels.

What I got so far is this any help (espousal with pricing would be great) (or a good name)

Rev UP! CL+5? (going with absorption/reflection but feels pricey)

Choose any action [Or Mod?] (except Int?) and receive the AN worth of the selected Action Equal to the duration of stone you put in?

-Gain AN of power to pre-selected action
-stones = panel of duration


e.g Strong Gal want to lift a car but only has the STR of 2, But with the Rev UP! Action of 9 she can easily lift the car. Putting 3 stones into Rev Up! strong gal now has the Str of 9 for the next 3 panels, now putting 9 stones into her new STR she lift up the car with little effort.

Advantages:

Adaptability: +5 Can change Action before each use: E.g 2 stone into rev for STR of 9 then 2 panels later 2 stone into rev for speed of 9.
No AN limit: +3 Can go over Action of 10 and Rev up will now Add with your current AN not replace it.
2 for 1 : +3 Gain rev Up! to 1 mod as well as your selected action.

Disadvantage:

Time to Rest -3 can not user rev Up! again until half the AN of the last use has passed round up. e.g Strong Gal just finished a big fight and has run out of rev Up! after 9 panels of action she knows she need to wait 5 more panels before she can use rev up again.

All I got any help be great.

[Neros]

Seems like allot for something that should be simple.. I would proberbly go more in the line of: pay for the highest Strength and then with the difference in the "normal" Strength as a discount in red stones. The duration could some kind of trigger that needs to be active (like rage). But if you want the player to be able to control for how long it lasts, maybe just allow them to be able to spend stones from the energy pool directly.

[kito]

it seems simple to me it just phase shift but u get an action(in this case super strength) instead of phasing, it's the closest I can think of to match what they want.

[Neros]

Well if it does what the players want and you feel it works, it should be fine

But does the power stack with the existing Strength or does it substitude it? If it substitudes it, I think +5 may be abit to much since getting it at higher than 3 would be very pricy.

[kito]

it substitutes it tho for +1 advantage i have it add to STR should i make the price +4? you think? I have been thinking making it CL+3

[Neros]

I am kinda going more in the line of it even being lower than +3. If you buy a Strength of 4, it costs you 2w. Buying the Action at 4 with a +3 costs 6w. So you are saving some Creation Stones by buying a permanent Strength. From my own player perspective, I would not want it to work like this. But if your players are okay with it working like that, it is fine.

A thing I believe that is very important to consider here; what is the "advantages/differences" gona be from buying the Action instead of normal Strength besides it is meant to be "higher"? If there is very little, the price should reflect that.

Idea: How about making it into an option for Strength itself? Spend stones into Strength to increase it by x for x panels? Or are the players hooked on the idea of having an Action for this?

[kito]

there not hooked on it,(have not even told them about this idea yet) all I have to go on is they want to be normal until they active there STR power then they want to be like as strong as colossus they also want some kind of weakness for when there power turns off so they have to be smart with how they use it, I based it of phase shift so far because there last hero was a phase shiftier and i wanted it to have a similar feel to what there used 2.

+2 CL i guess and ill make the Add on a +2 so it would be +4 if they stack.