Affliction, Explosive, and Heart Attack

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by kirbwarrior

I could enhance it further so that it can affect anything (of small enough size as per Powers). But yeah, it is pretty hard to not get hit yourself without some good range on it.

You could. You'd need something like "Instant Death" (+300%).

Originally Posted by kirbwarrior

I was thinking Burning attack with those or Link to an affliction, but they all still require extra rolls to go right (namely, at some point to roll a critical failure). Tying it to the affliction roll itself seemed like the best route because I can then put a limitation where if the subject doesn't fail by 3 then the affliction doesn't stick around.

Burning Attack with Explosive as a symptom would be your best bet there. Affliction does make it a neater package though.

Originally Posted by kirbwarrior

This initially came about because a player wanted the ability to explode inanimate objects. My first thought was afflicting an Innate Attack that had Backlash: Dies on it (as per PK) and adding +300% so as to make sure it wasn't cheaper than Heart Attack, but that doesn't scale with size (making it so a pebble and a car make the same explosion). Of course, only with that build can you make sure you aren't hit by the explosion (by using the right modifier on IA).

No, that isn't a legal build.

A crushing attack + Explosion 3 + Fragmentation + Based on HT + Malediction is your best bet here. Again, maybe with Symptom for Explosive.