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09-19-2019, 09:17 PM | #1 |
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I'm building a Psi power... ish - Vocal Stun Effect, Affects everyone who can hear it
So I'm looking to build it off of Rapier Wit, the differences: It will require Concentration, it will affect everyone who can hear him, and everyone who shares a language with him (but not necessarily the non-language that he is speaking), swapping from Public Speaking to IQ (Public Speaking is too easy to raise).
I'm tentatively calling it Glossolalia, but in actuality it is the language of the Elder Things, the pure thought forms manifested in vocal sounds (and colors, smells, ASMR, it's a partially Telepathic power). So... my question is how do I build it? Specifically the "Effects everyone who can hear him", I've got the rest. |
09-19-2019, 09:27 PM | #2 |
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Re: I'm building a Psi power... ish - Vocal Stun Effect, Affects everyone who can hea
Umm, that's like a standard Sense-Based/Hearing-Based attack/affliction (p. B109).
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09-19-2019, 09:52 PM | #3 |
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Re: I'm building a Psi power... ish - Vocal Stun Effect, Affects everyone who can hea
Not quite. I don't believe there's a way to build an Area Effect attack that affects "everyone who sees/hears/smells/whatever me". You need to build it with enough Area Effect to affect whatever you think is a reasonable max radius and slap Sense-Based on it.
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09-19-2019, 10:00 PM | #4 |
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Re: I'm building a Psi power... ish - Vocal Stun Effect, Affects everyone who can hea
I'm avoiding Affliction as that path is insanely expensive. And there has to be a way that goes from "affects one target" to "affects multiple targets" easily that I'm just missing.
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09-19-2019, 10:02 PM | #5 |
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Re: I'm building a Psi power... ish - Vocal Stun Effect, Affects everyone who can hea
Really the only way to do it, like I said, is to buy a high level of Area Effect and add Sense-Based.
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09-19-2019, 10:29 PM | #6 |
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Re: I'm building a Psi power... ish - Vocal Stun Effect, Affects everyone who can hea
Add in Emanation too, since the Area of Effect emanates from the person speaking.
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09-20-2019, 03:00 AM | #7 |
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Re: I'm building a Psi power... ish - Vocal Stun Effect, Affects everyone who can hea
You might want to check Sound Spells. I haven't got it, but I noticed Fatal Frequency in the contents, which might be a similar build.
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09-20-2019, 11:56 AM | #8 | |
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Re: I'm building a Psi power... ish - Vocal Stun Effect, Affects everyone who can hea
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09-20-2019, 12:34 PM | #9 |
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Re: I'm building a Psi power... ish - Vocal Stun Effect, Affects everyone who can hea
I dont see a fair way way to do this without adding Area Effect.
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09-20-2019, 01:35 PM | #10 | |
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Re: I'm building a Psi power... ish - Vocal Stun Effect, Affects everyone who can hea
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I think I'll also dig into Afflictions again despite my dislike for them. |
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