Area Vs. Volume

[gilbertocarlos]

GURPS has the Area modifier, so you can affect a large area, however, there is no modifier for affecting a volume, a ball shape instead of a circle shape.

The biggest known combo is the M.U.NC.H.K.I.N. who attacks the entire universe, but it has a slight problem, it uses the area modifier, and, as such, has big problem against an universe, since it only affect it's cross-section, not the entire universe.

So, is there a way to affect a volume?

[Purple Haze]

Well a hex is assumed to be 2 yards high so it is a volume. One could calculate from that.

[Anthony]

I'd probably bump it to 75% per level for 3 dimensions, but I don't recall a canonical way of doing it.

[NineDaysDead]

Originally Posted by gilbertocarlos

GURPS has the Area modifier, so you can affect a large area, however, there is no modifier for affecting a volume, a ball shape instead of a circle shape.

The biggest known combo is the M.U.NC.H.K.I.N. who attacks the entire universe, but it has a slight problem, it uses the area modifier, and, as such, has big problem against an universe, since it only affect it's cross-section, not the entire universe.

So, is there a way to affect a volume?

I'd just take the same volume you get from you Area modifier and use that same volume for a sphere, then calculate the radius from that.

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by Anthony

I'd probably bump it to 75% per level for 3 dimensions, but I don't recall a canonical way of doing it.

Here's a thread where this ground was covered before. I still kinda like the simplicity of my multiplier suggestion (well, simple on paper *g*), but my own experience in play suggests that, if you make it a flat add-on enhancement, it should be kept small.