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Sam Baughn · 08-23-2019, 03:41 PM

Powers has a couple of touch-based attacks, such as Deadly Skin and Stinging Skin. Most of the modifiers from those should apply.
The effect seems like an affliction. Immediate effects are likely to be something like Impulsiveness and Overconfidence. Longer-term ones (I guess these need to be a separate affliction... not sure if they can be combined with either link or follow-up) could include Bad Temper and Chronic Depression (as per the usual rules for stimulant withdrawal) and Insomniac. You may want to have secondary effects like Heart Attack or Addiction (Cocaine) in a cinematic game (which it probably is, if there are cocaine-themed superheroes).

So something like:
Affliction 1 (Always On, -20%; Aura, +80%; Contact Agent, -30%; Disadvantage, Impulsiveness and Overconfidence, +15%; Extended Duration, 10x, +40%; Melee Attack, -30%; Secondary Heart Attack, +60%) [22] + Affliction 1 (Always On, -20%; Aura, +80%; Contact Agent, -30%; Delay, Fixed, 6 Hours, +0%; Disadvantage, Bad Temper, Chronic Depression, and Mild Insomniac +35%; Extended Duration, 1,000x, +120%; Melee Attack, -30%; Secondary Disadvantage, Addiction, Cocaine, Very Expensive, Highly Addictive, Illegal, +5%) [26]
That's a pretty expensive package, but you will be very popular at parties...

08-23-2019, 03:41 PM	#2
Sam Baughn Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and some other bits.	Re: SnowFlame Powers has a couple of touch-based attacks, such as Deadly Skin and Stinging Skin. Most of the modifiers from those should apply. The effect seems like an affliction. Immediate effects are likely to be something like Impulsiveness and Overconfidence. Longer-term ones (I guess these need to be a separate affliction... not sure if they can be combined with either link or follow-up) could include Bad Temper and Chronic Depression (as per the usual rules for stimulant withdrawal) and Insomniac. You may want to have secondary effects like Heart Attack or Addiction (Cocaine) in a cinematic game (which it probably is, if there are cocaine-themed superheroes). So something like: Affliction 1 (Always On, -20%; Aura, +80%; Contact Agent, -30%; Disadvantage, Impulsiveness and Overconfidence, +15%; Extended Duration, 10x, +40%; Melee Attack, -30%; Secondary Heart Attack, +60%) [22] + Affliction 1 (Always On, -20%; Aura, +80%; Contact Agent, -30%; Delay, Fixed, 6 Hours, +0%; Disadvantage, Bad Temper, Chronic Depression, and Mild Insomniac +35%; Extended Duration, 1,000x, +120%; Melee Attack, -30%; Secondary Disadvantage, Addiction, Cocaine, Very Expensive, Highly Addictive, Illegal, +5%) [26] That's a pretty expensive package, but you will be very popular at parties... __________________ My blog.