03-02-2011, 08:57 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Land of the Britons
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[Supers] "Forgettable" Power Build Help?
I'm going to be starting a supers game soon, and one of the powers I'm trying to build has me a little stumped in how to make it. I want the super to be easily forgotten, this would be a super power (psi based likely) which is passively on (it's meant to have been on most of their life without them realising).
The goal is to have the person be all but forgotten when they are not around, and have details concerning them hard to recall in general. Here are a few key examples of how this would manifest:
Of cause repeated intimate/noteworthy exposure to them or active effort in attempting to remember them should lessen these effects somewhat, so while they're actually around and interacting with you its not hard to remember them. In effect they only exist in other peoples short-term memory and in a vague tip-of-the-tongue sense the rest of the time. The Forgettable Face perk is clearly a must for this power, but in and of itself its too weak, I need a full powered version of this which extends to things related to them as well as their appearance. It'd no doubt require will saves or similar for those affected, with modifiers for how well they know them or are actively trying to remember etc. But I have no idea how to build all of this, it seems like it might be some heavily enhanced/limited version of Mind Control (with Suggestion Only?), Zeroed, Obscure/Invisibility or perhaps Affliction. Probably with Cosmic and some sort of inverted Sense Based aspect so it applies when they're not seen/drawing attention to themselves. So, any ideas of how this should be built? Thanks for any help! |
03-02-2011, 09:23 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Vermont
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Re: [Supers] "Forgettable" Power Build Help?
I'd go with a combination of things:
Zeroed w/ Glamour would cover people thinking that written records are about someone else (resistable by will). Obscure w/ Defensive and No Signature would cover being unnoticed or overlooked. Chemilion and Invisiblity would be heavily discounted, I think, but would have the same effect. Perhaps something like Affliction (Delusion (I've never met this guy before) with Always On and Area Effect. As you mentioned Mind Control (Uncontrollable, Always On, Area Effect, Suggestion only, Only one suggestion (forget all about me) would probably do the trick in combination with some of the abilities listed above.
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03-02-2011, 09:39 AM | #3 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Re: [Supers] "Forgettable" Power Build Help?
I knew I remembered something very much like this coming up before. The Always Forgotten... thread from a few years ago might give you some ideas. I seem to recall more related threads as well, but couldn't find them with a quick search :/
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