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bcd · 05-10-2011, 07:16 AM

Both abilities seem to have the problem that they treat Area Effect as if it were a Volume Effect, which it is not. As a consequence they are only going to affect a 6' thick disk through the universe.

Additionally, there is reason to believe that the area effect follows the curvature of the planet rather than spreads out into space in which case it is a reasonably effective world killer but no universe slayer. (Of course, any world which could have someone with this ability also seems likely to be able to recover from such an extinction event.)

05-10-2011, 07:16 AM	#7
bcd Join Date: Aug 2009	Re: Broken abilities your GM will never let you have Both abilities seem to have the problem that they treat Area Effect as if it were a Volume Effect, which it is not. As a consequence they are only going to affect a 6' thick disk through the universe. Additionally, there is reason to believe that the area effect follows the curvature of the planet rather than spreads out into space in which case it is a reasonably effective world killer but no universe slayer. (Of course, any world which could have someone with this ability also seems likely to be able to recover from such an extinction event.)