Hero System ability design

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by whswhs

I will grant that that could be done. But I'm not sure what you see as problematic about basing it on Flash.

Flash is only resisted by flash defense, and is a significantly less impairing effect than paralysis. What defense are people supposed to even use against this? The reality is, this is an attack that you would expect to be ineffective against exactly the same class of targets as would be resistant to energy damage, so treating it as damage really is the most accurate, and if you want to capture people for interrogation, 3 segments of paralysis isn't very useful anyway.