Ways for non-combat advantages to benefit from Cosmic - Page 3

Michael Thayne · 03-24-2014, 02:09 AM

Discussions of Cosmic give a lot of attention to modifiers for attacks and defenses. But if you're using Cosmic as a power modifier, you'll have it on everything, not just your combat abilities. So what else does Cosmic (particularly the lowly +50% version) do? Here's my attempt to aggregate answers from across Powers, Power-Ups 4, and other sources:

Create: Create "essential" elements (Powers p. 94).
Destiny, Luck, Serendipity, and Super Luck: Can counter attacks with Cosmic, Privileged Attack. Can also be used to evade the "coincidences must be plausible" restriction on Serendipity (both of these are from PU4, p. 7).
Detect: Implied by Kromm to penetrate non-Cosmic Obscure here.
Enhanced Move: Many uses, see Supers pp. 26-27 and 53, and PU4 p. 9.
Healing: Counters the "lingering effect" and "unhealing damage" versions of Cosmic (PU4, p. 8).
Insubstantiality: Can only be blocked by Cosmic barrier (Powers p. 21). And only harmed by Cosmic attacks?
Invisibility: Can only be seen by cosmic vision (Powers p. 21).
Modular Abilities: Arguably should give freebie Cosmic, +50% to advantages bought with Modular Abilities points ("Apply the power modifier to the Modular Abilities themselves but not the traits they’re rearranged into (doing both is double-counting" - Powers p. 64).
Morph: With Improvised Forms, you can get traits that don't even exist in your game world! (Powers p. 75)
Payload: Hammerspace! (Powers p. 76)
Regeneration: Regeneration (Cosmic) is part of the resurrection build introduced in Powers (p. 151), and also used in Divine Favor. Cosmic Regeneration also works against Cosmic unhealing damage (PU4, p. 8).
See Invisible: Defeats all power-based invisibility (Powers p. 73).
Snatcher: Items don't have to obey local laws of physics (PU4, p. 7).
Unkillable: Unkillable 1 (Cosmic) is part of the resurrection build introduced in Powers (p. 151), and also used in Divine Favor.

This is a pretty decent list, but it's still only a fraction of what's out there. It's enough to extrapolate, though. Cosmic senses penetrate things that would block them. Cosmic Warp can be inferred to block barriers to normal Warp, just like Insubstantiality. Any other healing ability out there (Regrowth? Leech?) can help you heal from things you wouldn't otherwise be able to heal from. Would be fun to think up answers to the less obvious cases, but I'm tired, so I'll leave that to the forum, or to myself tomorrow...

03-24-2014, 02:09 AM	#1
Michael Thayne Join Date: May 2010	Ways for non-combat advantages to benefit from Cosmic Discussions of Cosmic give a lot of attention to modifiers for attacks and defenses. But if you're using Cosmic as a power modifier, you'll have it on everything, not just your combat abilities. So what else does Cosmic (particularly the lowly +50% version) do? Here's my attempt to aggregate answers from across Powers, Power-Ups 4, and other sources: Create: Create "essential" elements (Powers p. 94). Destiny, Luck, Serendipity, and Super Luck: Can counter attacks with Cosmic, Privileged Attack. Can also be used to evade the "coincidences must be plausible" restriction on Serendipity (both of these are from PU4, p. 7). Detect: Implied by Kromm to penetrate non-Cosmic Obscure here. Enhanced Move: Many uses, see Supers pp. 26-27 and 53, and PU4 p. 9. Healing: Counters the "lingering effect" and "unhealing damage" versions of Cosmic (PU4, p. 8). Insubstantiality: Can only be blocked by Cosmic barrier (Powers p. 21). And only harmed by Cosmic attacks? Invisibility: Can only be seen by cosmic vision (Powers p. 21). Modular Abilities: Arguably should give freebie Cosmic, +50% to advantages bought with Modular Abilities points ("Apply the power modifier to the Modular Abilities themselves but not the traits they’re rearranged into (doing both is double-counting" - Powers p. 64). Morph: With Improvised Forms, you can get traits that don't even exist in your game world! (Powers p. 75) Payload: Hammerspace! (Powers p. 76) Regeneration: Regeneration (Cosmic) is part of the resurrection build introduced in Powers (p. 151), and also used in Divine Favor. Cosmic Regeneration also works against Cosmic unhealing damage (PU4, p. 8). See Invisible: Defeats all power-based invisibility (Powers p. 73). Snatcher: Items don't have to obey local laws of physics (PU4, p. 7). Unkillable: Unkillable 1 (Cosmic) is part of the resurrection build introduced in Powers (p. 151), and also used in Divine Favor. This is a pretty decent list, but it's still only a fraction of what's out there. It's enough to extrapolate, though. Cosmic senses penetrate things that would block them. Cosmic Warp can be inferred to block barriers to normal Warp, just like Insubstantiality. Any other healing ability out there (Regrowth? Leech?) can help you heal from things you wouldn't otherwise be able to heal from. Would be fun to think up answers to the less obvious cases, but I'm tired, so I'll leave that to the forum, or to myself tomorrow...