01-01-2018, 12:52 PM | #1 |
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Reduced Time on Unaging w Age Control?
I'm helping someone build a character that doesn't age & has pretty much complete & instant control of their age.
Unaging w Age Control allows you to control the direction & rate of your control over your own current age, but only 10 times the normal rate (so, for instance, + or - 10 years / year). Would it be acceptable to use enough levels of Reduced Time to make their control more in the range of seconds rather than potentially years? Also, how would this be done? Do I add the Reduced Time levels to Unaging, or to Age Control (increasing its enhancement %). I'm a little foggy on that & don't have Powers on hand right now.
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01-01-2018, 01:17 PM | #2 | ||
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In fact, even the method of using Reduced Time on Age Control still ends up so expensive that I'd be inclined to just tweak Age Control directly. I'd say that adding +5% to Age Control for each "step" of time down it takes to change your age by 10 years (years to months to weeks to days to hours to minutes to seconds) produces more reasonable values. That would make Age Control (10 years in 1 second) be a +50% enhancement, in turn making Unaging with it cost 23 points. That feels more reasonable for this to me. |
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01-01-2018, 03:05 PM | #3 |
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Re: Reduced Time on Unaging w Age Control?
Could do it as Unaging + Age Control +20% + Cosmic +50% (Instant Age Control) for +70% total [25].
By RAW I would interpret it as +20% per 'level' of Age Control, so 160% for 100,000,000x speed Age Control, so total cost [39] to be able to age 1 year per roughly 0.3 seconds. Which I agree is too expensive. |
01-01-2018, 03:23 PM | #4 |
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Re: Reduced Time on Unaging w Age Control?
At that speed it really becomes a very limited Morph.
No one would think the 20 year old youth they see around the corner was the 55 year old man they chased there. Garner sympathy or intel in a school by becoming a 12 year old or in a senior living complex by becoming 65. Become very young so companions can just carry you if you're injured or otherwise have trouble walking yourself. It shouldn't be a cheap ability in most games.
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01-01-2018, 03:56 PM | #5 |
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Re: Reduced Time on Unaging w Age Control?
Flyn has a solid point about morph. The main utility of such an ability is to rapidly change your appearance. I'd use Elastic Skin rather than morph though: if you're only changing appearance rather than abilities, its sufficient for what you want and much cheaper. I'd price the limitation at 70% or so: you really don't have that many available forms, and someone who knows your trick can identify all of them.
This is in additional to normal unaging, of course.
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01-01-2018, 04:43 PM | #6 | |
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And compare Hermaphromorph, which at 5 points, is far cheaper than any version of Unaging with Age Control, and lets you change to a version of yourself who's the other gender. That's probably at least as confusing as changing to someone 10 or 20 years older. |
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01-01-2018, 04:52 PM | #7 |
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Re: Reduced Time on Unaging w Age Control?
Some people are easily identified throughout their lives. My mom has a picture of when she was 4 and it's creepy, because it looks almost like someone just pasted her adult face on a child's body.
But each of my school pictures look like a different kid. I've had a 'fro, curly, wavy, and straight hair naturally. One neighbor was certain my parents somehow switched kids and lied to him about it for some reason. I have no clue how to price or restrict that idea.
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01-01-2018, 07:57 PM | #8 | |
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01-01-2018, 08:59 PM | #9 | |
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01-02-2018, 06:14 AM | #10 |
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Re: Reduced Time on Unaging w Age Control?
Yeah, although I suspect most characters wouldn't need or want to reverse their age to that degree. I realized the usefulness of shapeshifting to simulate rapid age control some years ago. Unaging + Elastic Skin should be sufficient for most purposes. Cosmetic Morph can be used instead for more extreme aging, and you can reduce the cost of either with an Accessibility (only to simulate age changes).
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