[Pyramid #3/83 Alt GURPS IV] Redoing Strength

[Anders]

Originally Posted by Kromm

What's missing here is probably a cumulative prep-time rule for winding up for high-damage hits.

I thought that was Power Blow?

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by Anders

I thought that was Power Blow?

Power Blow is about turning chi into damage, not exploiting long lever arms and gradual energy investments to do bigger damage. It would be a candidate if it went above triple damage, 1 FP, and 32 seconds, and didn't require a cinematic advantage.

[Michael Thayne]

Originally Posted by Kromm

The idea that feats of lifting and damage ought to be comparable is iffy. Most seriously lifting-optimized machines and beings are not impressive at striking on a one-second time scale, which is what ST-based thrust and swing damage rate. They're usually good at dropping, toppling, and throwing things into which they've invested energy over time. If you can shift planets, you can make them collide with your enemies, and that's a lot of collision damage. Other fun tricks include crushing enemies between planets and sending their planet into a star.

This seems wrong given how GURPS handles lifting. BL isn't how much you can lift over an unspecified timescale, it's how much you can lift one-handed in one second. I guess if you buy +1 Lifting ST, we can assume maybe you're a bit slower than someone with both equivalent Lifting ST and Striking ST to match. But I don't see how a creature with BL 200 in GURPS terms isn't going to have approximately x10 the power (in the physics sense of energy per second) of a BL 20 human.