Hero System ability design

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by whswhs

I've started talking with the players for Science Heroes! about character concepts. One of them wants to play a young woman with bioelectric powers. A plausible application of such powers seems to be a paralyzing effect. But I'm not seeing anything like that in The Hero System Basic Rulebook, sixth edition.

There's options for making entangles that are transparent and so on, but no particularly good affliction equivalent in Hero. Typically the way you stun someone is by doing enough damage to stun them.