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Old 08-05-2022, 07:01 AM   #16
munin
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Vermont, USA
Default Re: GURPS Powers - Subatomic Manipulation Power

I assume you're looking for more ideas than just the Matter Control power from GURPS Powers (pp. P131-132).

Manipulating atoms and subatomic particles is … almost everything. And since "manipulation" implies the application of forces, you're probably getting energy "for free" too. Does "subatomic particles" includes all bosons … because that's all the forces (electromagnetism, gravity, weak/strong interaction).

How much detail control and speed does it have? Is it limited to what a human brain can achieve (probably one particle at a time, maybe a few per second) or does it just "make it happen"?

For example, can it simulate Invisibility by manipulating the rods and cones of people's eyes and the sensor systems of cameras?

Can it simulate 360° Vision, Microscopic/Telescopic Vision, and other perception powers by moving pinhole cameras of atoms around the user? Or just manipulate the user's own eyes/brain in response to atoms moving around somewhere else?

Can the power respond fast enough to create DR against lasers as a Power Block?

Can it manipulate the user's own atoms into a Shapeshifting power?

Does the user need to know how a gun works to Snatch it out of nearby atoms?

Can it simulate Common Sense by running scenarios in other people's brains? Serendipity by scanning the neighborhood and manipulating events towards an outcome? Tenure by manipulating other people's brains?


If Warp and Jumper exist in the setting (as powers or by tech) then this power could do it. Honestly the only "power" advantage I'm having trouble justifying is Precognition.
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