06-29-2020, 06:08 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Mar 2015
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Affecting Multiple Targets - Without Area Effect
Hi there, I feel like I may have missed something simple in the rules but I cannot seem to find a way to easily throw an enhancement on a power that lets me affect additional targets. For example, I want to build a Healing power that, with one use, lets me heal two(or more) targets.
Am I missing something? It would be great if I could apply this to many advantages - for other powers I've found hacky ways to get it to work, mainly using Affect Others and then removing the advantage from the character using it with a Negated Advantage modifier, but that doesn't work for most things I'm trying to do. If the modifier doesn't officially exist, any pointers in terms of house ruling it in would be appreciated. Thanks! |
06-29-2020, 06:19 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Nov 2008
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Re: Affecting Multiple Targets - Without Area Effect
Area Affect with Selective Effect for Afflictions and attack powers.
Another option is Affects Others, though you have to touch them unless it has Ranged
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06-29-2020, 07:04 PM | #3 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Re: Affecting Multiple Targets - Without Area Effect
Healing with Ranged (40%), Selective Area (+20%), and either Area Effect or Cone. Just remember though, the FP cost is based on total HP healed during a turn, so things will get expensive very quickly.
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06-29-2020, 08:35 PM | #4 | |
Join Date: Aug 2018
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Re: Affecting Multiple Targets - Without Area Effect
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Otherwise, if you enhance it with Ranged (B107) it starts with RoF 1 and Recoil 1 which you can boost via the Rapid-Fire enhancement (B108) then you can apply B409's Spraying Fire rules to it to heal multiple people in a single burst. Only thing I'm not 100% clear on is if we ever got a book quote or kromm post for how "costs fatigue" innate attacks work when using rapid fire or extra attacks or "dual" melee attacks. |
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06-29-2020, 09:50 PM | #5 | |
Join Date: Mar 2015
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Re: Affecting Multiple Targets - Without Area Effect
Thanks for the replies.
My main problem with Area Effect is that if I want to apply it to powers that work regardless of distance (a power that works with teammates you're linked to, no matter where in the world they are, for example) it becomes prohibitively expensive, especially given that I believe I have to have Detect with the same amount of Area Effect to target people that can't be seen. Though perhaps that's fairly priced - I am pretty new to building powers, so I'm not too sure. Quote:
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06-29-2020, 11:04 PM | #6 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Re: Affecting Multiple Targets - Without Area Effect
Healing is not an attack though, so it would not technically be a legal build. To make it legal, you would have to make Healing an attack by taking Ranged (+40%) and then take Melee Attack, Reach C, Dual Weapon (-20%), for a net +20% modifier. If you wanted though, you would instead make Healing Whips by taking Ranged (+40%) with Melee Attack, Reach 1-4, Dual Weapon, for a net +40% modifier. Strangely enough, you could parry weapons with either version, which would actually make Healing a defensive ability as well as a utility ability.
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06-30-2020, 07:13 AM | #7 |
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: earth....I think.
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Re: Affecting Multiple Targets - Without Area Effect
Another way to do this would be compartmentalized mind limited to one ability if it is a mental ability or Extra attack limited to one ability if physical. To target people you can't see take detect with precise or Lock-on and vague if you can't tell where they are but can still target them, slap on Cosmic, do die roll required and long range so that as long as they are within range you automatically sense them.
This way you can have the following: Ability + detect = target 1 person at a time Ability + detect + C.M. or E.A. = 2 people at a time. etc. This is how I would build this ability. Put it all together. |
06-30-2020, 09:35 AM | #8 | ||
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06-30-2020, 04:39 PM | #9 | |
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Re: Affecting Multiple Targets - Without Area Effect
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Also my guess is you'd probably take "Cannot Parry" for -5%, unless you wanted to be able to heal allies rapidly by having them attack you. Do you figure you could also take "Aura" after doing Ranged > Healing Attack and then just automatically roll to heal people who touch you without needing to parry? Or... if you kept it a ranged attack (ways to save points: reduced range, inaccurate) then (this goes outside OP scope) if you made it AE you could take "persistent" and making a "healing circle" that pulsed and healed each second... AE sounds like it would be complicated to deal with (I understand why OP would want to avoid) since you could have variable FP needed based on how much damage people incurred, plus dealing with repeated healing's cumulative penalties could be weird rolling. Last edited by Plane; 06-30-2020 at 04:42 PM. |
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06-30-2020, 05:48 PM | #10 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Re: Affecting Multiple Targets - Without Area Effect
The Healing Attack would be able to parry attacks normally (you would need 'Destructive Parry' to be able to heal when parrying an attack). Healing Aura would be (Aura, +80%; Melee Attack, C, No Parry, -30%; Ranged, +40%) to heal anyone who touches you, ally or enemy when the aura is on. Add Selective Effect (+20%) to selectively heal people who touch you when the aura is on.
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