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Credits

Writing and Design: Steve Kenson

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Art: Dan Houser

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Sidekick

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ..................IX

ABOUT POWERS ............... 10Power Types ........................................... 11

Power Groups....................................... 12

Power Sources...................................... 12

Using Powers ........................................ 14

Extras.......................................................19

Stunts...................................................... 22

Limits ......................................................24

Benchmarks.......................................... 27

ACQUIRING POWERS .......29

Starting Determination ....................34

POWER DESCRIPTIONS ...36

Ability Boost ........................................38

Ability Increase ...................................39

Absorption........................................... 40

Acid ........................................................ 40

Adaptation.............................................41

Aiction................................................42

Air Control ............................................43

Alteration Ray......................................44

Alter Ego ...............................................45

Alternate Form....................................46Anatomic Separation........................48

Android Body ......................................48

Animal Companion............................48

Animal Control....................................48

Animal Form ........................................48

Animal Mimicry ...................................49

Animation..............................................49

Aquatic...................................................50

Armor .....................................................50

Articial Body....................................... 51

Astral Projection .................................. 51

Aura ......................................................... 52

Binding ................................................... 52

Blast.........................................................53

Body o... ................................................ 53

Bouncing ...............................................53

Burrowing..............................................54

Chi Power..............................................54

Claws.......................................................54

Cold Control......................................... 55

Computer Control.............................. 55

Constructs.............................................55

Continuum Control............................56

Corrosion...............................................56

Cosmic Awareness............................. 57

Cosmic Power...................................... 57

Cyberkinesis......................................... 57

Damage Resistance........................... 58

Danger Sense ......................................58

Darkness Control................................ 58

Dazzle.....................................................59

Death Touch.........................................59

Density ...................................................59

Detection...............................................60

Dimension Control.............................. 61

Dimensional Travel............................. 62

Disease...................................................62Disintegration ......................................62

Dream Control.....................................63

Duplication ...........................................63

Earth Control .......................................65

Elasticity ................................................65

Electrical Control................................66

Element Control..................................66

Emotion Control................................. 67

Empathy ................................................68

Empowerment.....................................68

Energy Control ....................................69
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Energy Conversion ............................69

Energy Drain ........................................70

Environmental Awareness ..............70

Evolution ................................................71

Extra Body Parts ................................ 72

Extrasensory Perception ................ 73

Fast Attack ........................................... 73

Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Travel..... 74

Fire Control........................................... 74

Flight....................................................... 75

Force Control....................................... 75

Force Field............................................ 76

Friction Control...................................76

Gadgets .................................................77

Gateway................................................. 78

Gestalt .................................................... 78

Ghost Form...........................................79

Gravity Control....................................79

Growth....................................................80

Healing .................................................... 81

Hyperspace Travel ............................. 82

Illusion ....................................................82

Images.................................................... 82

Immortality...........................................83

Immunity ...............................................83

Incorporeal............................................83

Interace.................................................84

Invisibility ..............................................85Invulnerability ......................................85

Leaping ..................................................86

Lie Support .........................................86

Light Control........................................ 87

Luck Control.........................................87

Machine Control..................................88

Magic.......................................................89

Magnetic Control................................90

Material Mimicry .................................90

Matter Control ......................................91

Mental Blast ...........................................91

Mimicry................................................... 92

Mind Control ........................................92

Mind Shield...........................................94

Mind Switch..........................................94

Nemesis .................................................94

Paralysis.................................................95

Petrication..........................................95

Phasing...................................................95

Plant Control........................................96

Plant Mimicry....................................... 97

Poison..................................................... 97

Possession.............................................97

Postcognition.......................................98

Power Boost.........................................98

Power Control......................................99

Power Mimicry.....................................99

Power Nullication............................ 101

Power Thet........................................ 102

Precognition....................................... 102

Prehensile Hair .................................. 103Probability Control .......................... 103

Radiation Control............................. 105

Reection............................................ 105

Regeneration ..................................... 106

Resistance........................................... 106

Robot Body........................................ 106

Servant................................................. 107

Shadow Form .................................... 108Shapeshit ........................................... 108

Shield .................................................... 108

Shrinking.............................................. 109

Microscopic Size............................... 109

Sonic Control...................................... 110

Spatial Control ................................... 110

Spinning..................................................111

Spirit Control........................................112

Stretching ............................................. 114

Strike .......................................................115

Stunning ................................................115
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Summoning ..........................................115

Super-Senses .......................................116

Super-Skill.............................................117

Super-Speed........................................118

Super-Strength ...................................118

Suspended Animation......................118

Swimming .............................................118

Swinging................................................119

Telekinesis.............................................119

Telepathy...............................................119

Teleport................................................ 120

Time Control .......................................122

Time Travel...........................................122

Transormation...................................123

Transmit ................................................124

Transmutation.....................................125

Vehicle...................................................125

Vibration Control...............................126

Wall-Crawling .....................................127

Water-Breathing................................127

Water Control.....................................127

Weapon.................................................128

Weather Control................................128

Wings.....................................................128

Wizardry...............................................129

DEVICES ............................ 130

Alteration Devices..............................131

Control Devices...................................131

Deensive Devices.............................133

Mental Devices ...................................135

Movement Devices ...........................136

Oensive Devices .............................139

Sensory Devices .................................141

APPENDIX:

USING GREAT POWER WITH

FATE CORE....................... 142

LICENSE............................ 144

With great power comes

great responsibility.

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INTRODUCTIONIn many ways, comic book superheroes are all about powerwith powers

and abilities ar beyond mortal men making them capable o amazing eats.

However, as the amousSpider-Man quote shows, in other ways superheroes

are all about what you choose to do with power: Do you have an obligation

to use your amazing abilities or the benet o all, or do you choose to use

them selshly? That is oten the sole dividing line between heroes and villains:

not the powers, but how they are used.

Great Powerlooks at powers in IconsSuperpowered Roleplayingin greater depth.

While more is not always better, Great Powertries to expand, rene, and

reorganize the games treatment o powers, giving Icons players and Game

Masters a better experience in creating and playing their characters and

adventures. It oers more options, more examples, and more ideas.

Superhero roleplaying games, perhaps more than most, are high-trust

environments, where agreement between the players and the Game Master

as to exactly what is possible in the context o the game is important to

a un and successul experience. As with all RPGs, the real power in thegame lies in your hands, and with your group o riends. Take the tools and

options in this book or what they are and apply them to your game as you

see t, ollowing the superhero maxim that great power is best used or the

benet o all. Have un!


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This chapter looks at powers in Icons in general: what they are, and how

they are acquired, organized, modied, and used. It expands the hero creationmaterial rom the IconsSuperpowered Roleplayingrulebook with additional power

selections and options rom this book.

Changes from IConsIn cases where the rules or descriptions in Great Powerdier or conict

with those in IconsSuperpowered Roleplaying, assume the text in this book is

the most correct and current. For example, the mechanics o the Fast

Attack power have been updated in this book and should replace those

in the Icons rules. All eorts have been made to minimize such conicts

while at the same time providing the maximum utility rom this book

and its content.

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POWER TYPES

Powers all into one o seven types, based on what the power does:

Alteration Powers change or transorm the character in some

ashion, rom improving abilities to altering the characters size,

density, or composition, or allowing the character to stretch,

become invisible, or walk through walls.

Control Powers exert inuence over something:

element, energy, or matter. They allow characters to

control orces like re, lightning, or darkness, transmute

elements, or transorm others with alteration-type eects.

Deensive Powers protect against harm, provide resistance

to certain eects, and allow characters to recover quickly rom

injury or even death itsel.

Mental Powers expand the capabilities o the mind, allowing

their user to read or inuence other mindsrom projecting

realistic illusions to outright mind control or possession.

Movement Powers help characters get around in various ways,

rom leaping great distances to ying through the air under their

own power. They include exotic orms o movement like super-

speed, teleportation, wall-crawling, and even dimensional travel.

Oensive Powers provide dierent types o attacks,

rom damaging blasts to bindings to trap opponents, or

more unusual eects like lie drains, stunning, or blinding.

Sensory Powers extend the scope o a characters senses,

rom enhancing the ve senses to adding entirely new sensory

abilities like radar, inravision, or extrasensory perception.


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POWER GROUPS

Some powers are actually groups o powers with similar eects. You dont

have the Alternate Form or Element Control power, or example; you

choose one o the powers rom within that power group, such as Energy

Form, Gaseous Form, Fire Control, or Magnetic Control. Even Energy Form

is a group-within-a-group, with the actual powers being things like Fire Form

or Light Form.

Each power within a group is considered separate and distinct, although

some eects include all powers in a group or ease o reerence.

For some especially powerul villains and Game Master characters, the GM

may nd it simpler to assign the character a level in an entire power group.

For example, an energy-controlling character with vast inuence over theentire energy spectrum might simply have an overall level in Energy Control

rather than listing all the separate control powers. This is useul shorthand

or Game Master characters and generally unsuitable or player-run heroes.

POWER SOURCES

A characters powers can come rom a diverse range o sources. In the

comics, demon sorcerers rub shoulders with uturistic cyborgs, alien scientists,

martial arts masters, and psychic mutants, to name a ew. Power source is

oten tied to a characters origin (Icons, p. 10).


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The ollowing are some o the most common power sources; eel ree to

come up with your own that suit your particular concept o the characters

powers. You are also by no means limited to one power source; a character

may have several, such as a mutant trained in esoteric martial arts, or an

alien shape-shiter who is a disciple o magic, or example.

Articial: The characters powers were designed, typical or heroes and

villains who are articial lie-orms or constructs like robots or androids, or

magical creations o alchemy or conjuring.

Biological: The characters powers come rom biology, either the unusual

biology o a non-human species (rom aliens to godlike beings rom other

dimensions) to the genetic quirks o mutations, which can take place any

time rom conception to later exposure to mutagens like radiation.

Device: Many characters gain some or all o their powers rom variousdevices. See the Devices section or details and additional ideas. Devices

can have dierent power sources themselves, rom technology to magic or

cosmic energy.

Magic: Heroes and villains may be imbued with powers rom a magical

source (an ancient sorcerer, spell, or artiact) or a magical creature, or may

simply have the power to wield magic themselves.

Mental: The characters powers are ueled by mental or psionic energies,

the unleashed potential o the mind.


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Skill: Some gain their powers not by accident, but through hard work and

practice. This can include the knowledge and skill to create dierent devices,

mastery o arcane secrets like magic or various psychic powers, or exotic

martial arts disciplines controlling ones own chi or lie-orce, to name a ew.

Note that the skill power source is related to the training origin, but is not

the same thing: a character might gain mental or magical powers through

training, or example.

Transer: Some are born to power, others have it thrust upon them; many

beings and devices can imbue people with powers. O course, sometimes

those same beings can also take away the powers theyve granted, and such

power oten comes with a price attached.

USING POWERSUsing some powers requires an action, and possibly a test o some sort,

detailed in the powers description. This is usually the case or powers that

aect others, such as oensive and control powers. Other powers require

only a supplemental action (Icons, p. 54), a reaction, or no action at all.


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PREPARATIONSome powers requirepreparation, meaning one or more panels where you

do nothing except ocus on activating the power. This is typically just one

panel, allowing you to use the power in your next panel on the ollowing page.

You can usually take supplemental actions and reactions while preparing a

power. Extras and limits may adjust a powers preparation time.

CONCENTRATION

Some powers require concentration to use or maintain. To concentrate,

you must be able to take action: not stunned, unconscious, or maintaining

an exclusive power (ollowing). Concentration is not an action, however, and

you can do other things while maintaining it.I your concentration is disrupted, you can make a Willpower test to keep

a power going so long as youre still conscious: your eort on the test is


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the power level you can maintain. So, or example, i you have Force Field 7

and are stunned (disrupting your concentration), you roll a Willpower test,

generating an eort o 5. This allows you maintain Force Field 5 while you

recover rom the stun.

EXCLUSIVE

Some powers are dened as exclusive, meaning you cannot use other

powers while using or maintaining the exclusive power, including preparing

or concentrating on other powers. Extras or limits may modiy a powersexclusivity.

RANGEPowers work at one o the ve distances dened in Icons (p. 55): personal,

close, extended, visual, or beyond. Personal range powers only aect the


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user. Close range powers generally require the user to touch the target o

the power, making a successul Prowess vs. Coordination or Prowess test to

touch an unwilling target. Extended range powers require a Coordination

vs. Coordination test to aect an unwilling target.

DURATION

Powers last or one o ve durations: instant, concentration, level,

continuous, or permanent.

Instant powers have their eect immediately and, while the results o thepower (like Stamina loss) may linger, the powers eect is over in an instant.

Concentration powers last as long as the user concentrates to maintain

them (see Concentration, previously).

Level duration powers last or one page per level the power has, without

any eort rom the power user, then expire.

Continuous powers last until the power user chooses to turn them o.

Permanent powers are always on, requiring no maintenance or attention

rom the user and cannot be turned o, although they might still be negated

or worked around in other ways.


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TEST

Many powers require a test to use (see Tests, Icons, p. 6). Some require

more than one, such as an ability test to target the power and another test

or its eect. Tests in this book are written as either a difculty N test o

(trait) where N is the difculty number and (trait) the trait level used, or

(acting trait) vs. (opposing trait) in the case o an opposed test, such as

power level vs. Willpower.

The active ability in an opposed test depends on who is acting, since

players make all o the die rolls. In the previous example, i a hero is acting,

apply the roll to power level and compare to the targets Willpower as the

difculty. I a hero is resisting, apply the roll to Willpower and compare against

the attackers power level as the difculty.

RETRIES

Unless the description species otherwise, you can retry a ailed test with

a power so long as you are capable o using it. For example, i you miss with

an oensive power like Blast, you can try again on your next panel, making

a new attack. A ailed attempt can also qualiy you to use determined eort

on the retry (Icons, p 79).

Some powers require determined eort in order to try again ater a ailed

attempt. This is specied in the powers description. The determined eortworks normally, but i you are unable or unwilling to make a determined

eort, you cannot attempt to use that power again or that test or situation

within the same chapter.


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Both sIdesrollThe only players roll approach in Icons trips some game groups up.

I this is the case, an alternative die-rolling method is or the player to

roll one die and add the result to the heros trait level and the GM to roll

the other die and add the result to the base difculty o the test (which

may be an opposing characters trait level). This still results in the same

mathematical probabilities as the standard Icons die-roll, but balances

both sides o the equation so two parties are always rolling and minimizes

the issue o who rolls what against what when it is a player-controlled

hero versus a GM-controlled character.

EXTRAS

In addition to base powers, you can have one or more extras or a power.

These are extra things you can do with that power, rom extending the base

eect to entirely new eects. Each power is listed with the main extras

associated with it. You can also create your own with the Game Masters

permission.

Some extras allow you to duplicate the eects o other powers, such as

a hero using Fire Control to gain Flight by projecting a stream o re like a

rocket. You use the extra as i you had the power at the same level as the

power its based on unless the extras description says otherwise. Thus, you

would gain the Flight extra at the same level as your Fire Control. The extra

normally only duplicates the base power, not any o its other extras. I it does,

or can do so, it will also be listed in the description.

Other extras improve the existing eects o your power: greater range, more

targets aected, and so orth. These are specied in the extra description.

SUBSTITUTING EXTRAS

During hero creation, the player has the option o substituting extras or

rolled powers on a one-or-one basis: one extra takes the place o one rolled

power o the players choice.

Example: A player has rolled the ollowing powers: Aquatic, Fire Control,

Precognition, and Duplicationan odd mix, to be sure. Looking things

over, the player decides to replace Aquatic and Precognition with two

Fire Control extrasForce Field and Flight. The player could also replace

Duplication with a power extra as well, but decides a duplicating re-

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STANDARD EXTRAS

Standard extras and their eects are listed here. These apply to a broad

range o powers. Powers also have unique extras, listed with the powers

description.

Aects Others: You can aect other people with the power, not just yoursel.

Aects X: Your power works on a type o target normally immune to it,

such as a Blast which Aects Insubstantial targets normally Immune to Physical

Damage or Mind Control that Aects Undead, which are oten mindless, and

so orth. (Note that this extra includesand replacesthe Aects Incorporeal

stunt rom Villainomicon, which is just one example o this extra).

Broadcast: Your power can aect anyone who sees or hears you (in

person or on a television or radio broadcast), giving you a much wider range.

Burst: Your power can aect everyone within close distance simultaneously.

Roll one test or the power; the dierent opposing abilities o the targets

provide dierent diculties (and outcomes).

Contagious: The eect o your power is contagious and may aect

someone else who comes into contact with a target while the power is still

in eect. Examples include contagious Afictions, sticky Bindings, or

spreading acid or re Blasts. The new victim resists the powers eect

normally and also becomes contagious while aected.

Passengers: Your movement power can carry a number o people along

with you equal to its level.

Power: Your power can duplicate the eects o another power at its level.

This extra is normally listed with the name o the duplicated power, such as

Flight i the extra duplicates the Flight power, or example. I it can also

duplicate extras o that power, they will be listed in parenthesis ater the

power name. Doing so requires an additional extra; essentially, listed extras

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Prolonged: The eects o your power last or a level duration (see

Duration, p. 17).

Ranged: You can use a normally close range power out to extended range.

Rangeless: You can use your power out to any distance, provided you

know the location o the target.

Reversible: You can reverse the eects o your power, ending them at

will, at the same range or using it.

Secondary Eect: Your power has an additional eect when used,

equivalent to that o another power. For example, your Strike power might

also be a carrier or a secondary Afiction eect, representing a toxin

delivered by the Strike. You can only use the Secondary Eect in conjunction

with the rst power.

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Binding Stunt

burst Stunt

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STUNTS

A stunt allow heroes to temporarily use extras they do not normally possess,

such as a Fire Control hero perorming a stunt to temporarily gain the Flight

extravery useul i the hero is suddenly thrown out o a high building or

aircrat!

To perorm a stunt, speciy an extra or describe what you want the stunt to

accomplish, with the GM deciding whether or not it suits your heros quality

and traits, and what extra would best serve. Tag one o your heros qualities

related to what you want to accomplish and spend a point o Determination

(see Qualities, Icons, p. 74). This is usually something like a catchphrase or

epithet, although other qualities (particularly motivation) can serve in some

instances. You can then use extra specied by your stunt. It lasts or theduration o the conict or chapter (whichever comes rst).

At the Game Masters discretion, a player can spend starting Determination

to turn a successul stunt into a permanent extra or a power (see Hero

Improvement, Icons, p. 93).

Note that these stunt guidelines replace the rules or perorming stunts

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Movement Stunt

OVERCOMING IMMUNITY STUNT

RANGELESS STUNT

23About Powers

stunttestsGame Masters wanting to encourage the use o stunts even when

Determination is scarce may wish to apply the ollowing option:

A player can take an action and make a test using a heros appropriate

trait (typically power level, but possibly a related ability or specialty) with

a difculty equal to the desired level o an extra. I the test succeeds, the

success substitutes or the Determination normally spent on the stunt

and the hero can use the stunt on the ollowing page. I the test ails,

either the stunt doesnt work, or the GM can charge or the missingDetermination by applying an appropriate challenge as a side-eect o

the attempt.

Example: Volcanos player wants to use his heat Aura or a stunt to Dazzle

Count Malochio and his Evil Eye, but Volcano is out o Determination. So

his player oers to make a stunt test: Volcano concentrates and the player

rolls an Aura test against a chosen stunt level o 6. He gets a success,

so on his next page, Volcano can use the Dazzle power. I the test ailed,

the GM might have let Volcano use the power anyway, but added the

challenge that the sudden are o heat set the Counts chateau ablaze,

endangering his other prisoners!


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ANIMAL ONLY LIMIT

Burnout Limit

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Alternately, rather than allowing all heroes to perorm stunt tests,

the GM may make the ability to do so a standard extra, applicable to

any appropriate power, giving that power additional exibility in terms

o perorming stunts.

aBIlItystuntsI you want to expand stunt options, allow heroes to perorm stunts

using their abilities as well as powers: this should be limited to abilities

over level 6 (counted as powers) and master level specialties that raise an

abilitys eective level above 6 (such as Coordination 4 and Martial Arts

Master). The stunt eectively allows a one-time application o an extra

to the ability or use o the abilitys level as a power o the same level.

LIMITS

Limits provide a means o narrowing the base eect o a power in exchange

or greater level, more Determination, or more extras. When you apply a limit

to a power, you gain one o the ollowing:

Subtract one rom the powers value or reducing starting Determination

(see Acquiring Powers, p. 29). This can reduce the powers starting

Determination value to 0 (but not less than 0).

Add an extra to the power without increasing its starting

Determination value.

Increase the powers level by 2, to a maximum o 10.


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Constant Limit

Max Only Limit

Unstable Limit

25About Powers

thegolden rule oflImItsA limit that is not limiting is notworth anything! Game Masters should

careully consider proposed limits and ensure they truly limita powers

scope or eect. Limits that are highly situational or only occur rarely are

better handled as challenges (Icons, p. 76), awarding players Determination

when they occur. Also note that regular limits are notconsidered challenges

and do not award Determination when they come up in play; the player

is already rewarded with the benets o the limit.

Multiple limits may have multiple benets, including the same benet

applied more than once. Limits generally halve the circumstances in which

the power can be used, or halve its eectiveness. New limits should be at

least as restrictive as the ones described here and in the power descriptions.

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Preparation: You have to preparetaking no other actionsor at least

one page to activate the power (see Preparation, p. 15).

Situational: Your power works only in certain situations, such as only at

night, or only when youre angry.

Source: You cannot generate the energy or material or your power, but

must rely on an outside source. The GM may limit your power level to the

eective level o the available source.

Temporary: Your powers eects only last or pages equal to its level.

Tiring: Using the power causes you to lose 2 Stamina.

Uncontrolled: Your power activates sometimes whether you want it to

or not, under the control o the GM.

Unpredictable: When you try using your power, roll a die: on a 1 or 2, the

power doesnt work.

Unstable: I you use your power in a ght or other tense situation, roll a

die: on a 1 or 2, your power goes o at random.

BENCHMARKS

How ast do I go? How much can I lit? How long does it last? While Icons

quanties traits in distinct levels along a scale, there is a lot o abstraction

that goes into it, and it can be useul or both players and Game Masters to

have a sense o a powers capabilities in real-world terms. Thats where the

Benchmarks Table comes it. When dealing with the eect o a power that

involves mass, distance, speed, or strength, you can index the powers level

on this table to get a general idea. Note that the values given on the table are

still in broad general terms and not precise measurements; instances o barely

succeeding or ailing by inches (seconds, etc.) are more o a matter o a

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BENCHMARKS TABLE

Level Weight Material Distance Speed

1 Brick Leather A couple o yards Running

2 Child Plastic Across a street Horse

3 Heavy sack Brick A city blockcar, dolphin,

alcon

4 Person Aluminum Extended Range Fast race car

5 Motorcycle Concrete Visual Range Fast helicopter

6 Car Stone A ew miles Passenger jet

7 Tank or bus Iron Tens o miles Speed o sound

8 Jet or train Steel Hundreds o mies Supersonic

9 Building DiamondThousands o

milesEscape velocity

10 Mountain UnobtainiumVirtually

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Assigning powers to characters is covered in the Hero Creation section o

Icons Superpowered Roleplaying (pp. 917) and on pages 2023 o The

Villainomicon. This chapter supplements those rules to account or the

additional powers and options ound in Great Power.

As in the Icons rules, roll to determine the base number o powers the

hero has (adjusted or origin) and then roll on the ollowing tables or each

power to determine the specic power. Roll on the Level Determination table

(Icons, p. 11) to set the powers level. The ollowing guidelines apply while

determining a heros powers:

I you roll more than one power o the same type you can choose to

re-roll the second power until you get a dierent type.

I you roll the same power more than once (getting the oensive

power Blast twice, or example), you may either select to increase

the rst instances rolled level by 2 (to a maximum o 10) or roll again

until you get a dierent power.

You may choose to discard a rolled power and replace it with an

extra or one o the heros other powers. So, or example, i you have

rolled Air Control 6, Swimming 5, and Telepathy 5, you could choose

to discard Swimming or Telepathy, replacing either power with oneo the extras listed or Air Control in that powers description at Air

Controls level o 6.

You may choose to limit a power, applying one or more o the limits

listed in its description. See Limits in the previous chapter or details.

ACQUIRING

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POWER TYPE

2d6 Roll Power Type Next Step23 Alteration Roll on the Alteration Powers table

45 Control Roll on the Control Powers table

6 Deensive Roll on the Deensive Powers table

7 Mental Roll on the Mental Powers table

8 Movement Roll on the Movement Powers table

910 Oensive Roll on the Oensive Powers table

1112 Sensory Roll on the Sensory Powers table

ALTERATION POWERS

First d6 Second d6 Power

12 1 Ability Boost (group)

2 Ability Increase (group)

3 Alter Ego4 Alternate Form (group)

5 Aquatic

6 Density

34 1 Dimension Control

2 Duplication

3 Evolution

4 Extra Body Parts (group)

5 Gestalt6 Growth

56 1 Invisibility

2 Mimicry (group)

3 Phasing

4 Shrinking

5 Stretching

6 Transormation


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MOVEMENT POWERS

First d6 Second d6 Power

13 1 Burrowing

2 Dimensional Travel

34 Flight

56 Leaping

46 1 Spinning

23 Super-Speed

4 Swinging

5 Teleportation

6 Wall-Crawling

OFFENSIVE POWERSFirst d6 Second d6 Oensive Power

13 1 Aiction

2 Aura

3 Binding

45 Blast

6 Corrosion

46 1 Dazzle

2 Energy Drain

3 Fast Attack

45 Strike

6 Stunning

SENSORY POWERS

First d6 Second d6 Sensory Power

13 12 Danger Sense

34 Detection (group)

5 Environmental Awareness

6 ESP

46 1 Interace

2 Postcognition

3 Precognition

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33Acquiring Powers

CreatIng yourown PowertaBlesThe power acquisition tables given in this chapter provide a air

distribution o powers, given the die rolls and probabilities involved,

weighted slightly towards some o the more commonly ound powersin the superhero comics (or example, theres a better chance or a

hero to get Damage Resistance than Immortality, or Blast rather than

Energy Drain).

I you want to retain the creative kickstarter o randomly rolled powers,

but better suited to a particular type or style o Icons game, eel ree to

modiy the tables ound here (and elsewhere in this book) to suit your

intentions. The simplest modication is to ban certain powers, telling

players who get that result to roll again until they get an available power.

You can even ban certain power types, such as no Alteration powers, or

only Mental and Sensory powers, or example.

Redesigning the power assignment tables is let as an exercise or

the Game Master who wishes to do so. Weight the available options

according to how you want them to come up in your game, assigning

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STARTING DETERMINATION

Once you have generated your heros powers (and modied the rolled

powers as desired) you can gure the heros starting Determination, as

described on p. 14 o Icons: subtract the heros number o powers rom 6.

The result is the heros starting Determination, with a minimum o 1. Each

ability above level 6 also counts as a power, as does each extra o a power.

Some power limits may reduce a powers starting Determination value but

cannot reduced it below 0.

Examples: The Mighty Saguaro has three powers: Aura, Leaping, and Lie

Support. He also has Strength 9, but all his other abilities are level 6 or

less. That gives him a total o our powers, which his player subtracts rom

a starting value o 6 to give Saguaro a starting Determination value o 2.

Hangman has only one power (his Binding Device, the Noose o

Judgment) and no abilities above 6 (although he has plenty o specialties,

they dont count). However, his Device does have one extra: it also gives

him the Swinging power. Thats a total o two, subtracted rom 6 or

starting Determination 4.

Miss Tikal has Magic and Willpower 7 but her Magic power has

three extras: Mastery o Blast, Force Field, and Teleport. That makes or

a total o ve, subtracted rom 6 or starting Determination 1. I this really

concerned Miss Tikals player, she could potentially add a limit or two to

her Magic in order to counterbalance the eect o those extras, but she

decides Miss Tikal will use her Determination wisely and come up with

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STARTING DETERMINATION BY POWER LEVEL

Alternately, rather than calculating starting Determination solely by number

o powers and extras, you can use the ollowing ormula to take overall

power level into account: add up the levels o all o the heros powers, plus

the level o each ability above 6. Each extra on a power adds that powers

level again. Divide the total by 6 and round to the nearest whole number,using the result as the amount you subtract rom the base value o 6 to gure

starting Determination.

To use the prior examples, Saguaros powers and Strength sum to 20, which

is 3.33, rounded down to 3, or 3 starting Determination. Hangman doubles

the level o his Device (since it has one extra) or a sum o 14, which is 2.33,

rounded down to 2, or 4 starting Determination. Miss Tikal has a signicant

sum on 7 (her Willpower) + 21 (her Magic 7 with three extras) or 28, which

is 4.66, rounded up to 5. Saguaro gets a slight bump due to some o his low

power levels, while the other heroes remain the same.

SPENDING STARTING DETERMINATION

At the Game Masters option, a player can choose to spend some starting

Determination (permanently reducing its value) in order to add extras to a

heros existing powers, essentially pre-buying one or more mastered stunts

(see Stunts, p. 22). For example, i Hangman (as a Trained hero) only rolled

one power (the Binding Device) but his player wanted to spend a pointo Hangmans starting Determination, the GM might allow him to add the

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This chapter contains descriptions o various powers, listed in alphabetical

order by power name.

Each description starts with the powers name, type, and whether it is a

power group. The main text discusses what the power does in game terms,

and any additional choices or die rolls made or the power during selection.

The description concludes with extras and limits associated with the power,

including standard extras, the ability to duplicate the eects o other powers,

standard limits, and unique extras or limits o the power.

Note that the listing o standard extras and limits does not necessarily

exclude others rom the About Powers chapter, just that those not listed

are either uncommon or not applicable, and may require some special

consideration rom the Game Master.

In addition to all the powers listed on the Acquiring Powers tables, this

chapter contains separate listings or common power names and where that

type o power eect may be ound or players and Game Masters ipping

through the listings looking or a specic power eect. For example, while

there is no specic Animal Control power, there is an Animal Control listing

with a reerence to the Animal Control limit o the Mind Control power, whichhas the same eect. This increases the number o available power concepts

without needlessly repeating their descriptions or game mechanics.

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37Power Descriptions

Speaking o power names, while the powers in this book have specic

names, players and Game Masters are ree to call their characters powers

whatever they like, so long as everyone understands what they mean in game

terms. I its more un and atmospheric to call your heros Close Range Mind

Blast a Psi-Blade, by all means, do so!

Likewise, players are ree to come up with whatever special eects they

want or their powers: whether their Blast is a particular color, or example,

or a smooth beam or jagged bolt, whether it emits rom the heros hands,

eyes, or orehead, what their Force Field looks like, or the sound associated

with their Teleportation, to name a ew.

With powers and abilities far

beyond those of mortal men!

The Adventures

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Power Boost: You can boost powers o a particular type or source, such

as mutant or magical powers, rather than abilities. This works the same way

as boosting abilities.

LIMITS

Standard: Degrades, Exclusive, Extra Only, Others Only, Preparation,

Situational, Source, Tiring

Situational (Emotion-Linked): You have to eel a particular emotion

(love, hate, ear, etc.), oten connected to one o your aspects, in order to

use your Ability Boost.

ABILITY INCREASE

AlterAtion. This power permanently increases one

o the characters abilities to the rolled level or by

+2 (to a maximum o 10), whichever is greater.

Select an ability or roll on the ollowing table:

d6 Roll Ability

1 Prowess

2 Coordination

3 Strength

4 Intellect

5 Awareness

6 Willpower

Ability Increase only counts as a power or guring starting Determination

i the nal level o the ability is 7 or greater.

LIMITS

Specialty Increase: Your power only increases a specialty o the ability

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ABSORPTION

Defensive. You can absorb a particular type o

attack, such as kinetic impact or a type o energy

(see Energy Control or examples). So you mighthave Impact Absorption (blunt damage), Fire

Absorption, Radiation Absorption, and so orth.

Subtract your Absorption power level rom the

attacks level. I this reduces the attacks level to 0 or less, it has no eect

on you. Any remaining levels o the attack aect you normally; apply any

Resistance (p. 106) to the remaining level.

Choose one o the ollowing extras you can power with your absorbed

energy. You can acquire the others as regular extras.

EXTRAS

Ability Boost: On your next panel ater absorbing damage, you can use

the absorbed energy as an Ability Boost reaction with a level equal to the

level absorbed. The aected ability is chosen when you take this option, and

each ability counts as a separate extra.

Blast: On your next panel ater absorbing damage, you can unleash the

absorbed energy as a Blast with a level equal to the level absorbed.

Healing: As a reaction you recover Stamina equal to the level absorbed,

up to your maximum Stamina level. For an additional extra, you can gain

Stamina over your normal maximum, up twice your normal maximum Stamina.

You can also broaden your Absorption as an extra:

Broad: Your Absorption protects against all physical or all energy damage.

ACIDYou can exude or project a corrosive substance

that inicts damage. See the Corrosion power

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ADAPTATION

Defensive. Adaptation allows you to transorm to

adapt to hostile environments. Ater a page o

preparation, physical aspects such as appearance,

skin, lung capacity, and resistance to natural

damage sources change. You can adapt higher

Strength to handle an alien planets gravity or Lie

Support to breathe methane, or example. The power adapts to environments,

not situations; you cant grow wings i youre pushed o a cli, but you can

grow gills and become Aquatic when plunged into water. Similarly, you gain

no resistance to attacks, but can gain Heat Resistance amongst the Lava

Men. Maximum benets are at the powers level and last as long as you are

exposed to the environment.

EXTRAS

Powers: Regeneration

Standard: Aects Others

Deensive: An Adaptation test against a threats level allows you to adapt

to a danger (such as an attack), rather than just an environment. It still takes a

ull page to adapt (unless you have the Instant extra). Such willed adaptations

last or the chapter, until you adapt to a dierent danger, or until you are

unable to concentrate on them.

Instant: Your body adapts to new conditions as a reaction, without any

preparation.

LIMITS

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AFFLICTION

offensive. You cause a ast-acting aictionlike

a disease or toxinby touching a target. I your

Prowess test to hit the target succeeds, make

an Aiction vs. Strength test: success results in

power level Stamina damage, ignoring Damage

Resistance (but not Resistance to Aictions).

Failure means no damage, but the Aiction continues and another test is

required on the ollowing page. Failure by 3 or more ends the Aiction and

prevents any urther damage. Anyone with Regeneration can substitute its

level or Strength when resisting Aictions.

A victim reduced to 0 Stamina begins losing Strength levels, although

medical attention can arrest this loss, substituting an Intellect test (with

Medicine specialty bonus) or Strength in the Aiction test.

EXTRAS

Powers: Energy Drain

Standard: Burst, Contagious, Ranged, Reversible, Secondary Eect, Slow

Recovery

Aging: You accelerate the aging process. This disease advances the victim

orward a number o years equal to the powers level per degree o success.

You cannot kill the subject with this power, but can make them old and eeble.

Aging Reversal: You reverse a targets aging process. This subtracts a

number o years equal to the powers level per degree o success. You cannot

kill the subject with this power, but you can regress him back to inancy.

Aura: You can afict anyone who touches you as a reaction in addition

to aficting those you touch.

Implant: You implant a type o parasite with a successul Afiction test.

On the page ater implantation, it can inict the powers level in damage or

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ALTERATION RAY

Control. This power group is made up o Alteration

Powers you can use on others at extended range

rather than on yoursel. Choose an option rom

the ollowing list or roll 1d6:

d6 Roll Type Eect

1 Density Ray You increase the targets density.

2 Growth Ray You enlarge the target.

3 Invisibility Ray You make the target invisible.

4 Phasing Ray You make the target intangible.

5 Shrinking Ray You shrink the target.

6 Transorming RayYou transorm the target into a

dierent shape or substance.

Make a Coordination vs. Coordination test to hit the target. A successul

hit subjects the target to the eect o the Alteration Power. See the individual

power descriptions or details.

EXTRAS

Oensive: Your Alteration Ray can have an eect that is more detrimental

than benecial. For Density Ray and Growth Ray, the target does not gain

Strength, but still loses Coordination. For Shrinking Ray, the target losesStrength, rather than retaining normal Strength. For a Transorming Ray, the

target may lose mental abilities, or only turn into a detrimental orm.

LIMITS

Standard: Close Range

Oensive Only: Your Alteration Ray is only a detrimental eect (previously)

and cannot provide a benecial one. You must have the Oensive extra, but

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ALTERNATE FORM

AlterAtion. You can transorm into a orm other

than esh and blood. Choose rom the ollowing

list or roll:

d6 Roll Alternate Form

1 Energy Form

2 Explosive Form

3 Fluid Form

4 Gaseous Form

5 Shadow Form

6 Solid Form

It takes a page o preparation or you to change into your Alternate Form,

but you can change back to normal instantly. Depending on the orm and Game

Master approval, you can use the level o this power to determine damage

when attacking in close combat (punching with sts o steel, igniting things

while made o re, suocating with gas or water, burning with acid, etc.).

Each kind o Alternate Form is itsel a power group, so you have Electrical

Form, Fire Form, Gaseous Form, Metal Form, Water Form, and so orth, as

the individual powers.

ENERGY FORM

You become a coherent eld o energy (see Energy Control or some

possibilities). You gain Flight at your power level and Immunity to Physical

Attacks but you have no Strength and automatically ail Strength tests to

touch or aect physical objects. Attacks aecting your type o energy still

aect you. You can acquire Energy Control o the same type as your orm

as an extra.

EXPLOSIVE FORM

You can make your body explode! Make a power level test against the

Coordination o everyone within close distance, reading the results as a

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reorm at the start o the next page. Until then you are Immune to Damage

but unable to aect the physical world. You can delay reorming or up to

your power level in pages and reorm anywhere within extended range o

where you exploded. As an extra, you can Teleport ater exploding, reorming

much urther away (see Teleport, p. 120).

FLUID FORM

You transorm into a uid orm, able to ow like water through cracks

and other small spaces. You might be a liquid like water or a mass o ne

particles like dust or sand. You gain Damage Resistance and Stretching equal

to your power level.

GASEOUS FORM

You transorm into a cloud o gas or ne airborne particles, possibly even

a swarm o ying insects or nanites. You gain Flight 1 and can ow through

any opening thats not airtight. You gain Immunity to Physical Attacks except

or those that would disrupt or aect a cloud.

SHADOW FORM

You transorm into a at silhouette o your normal appearance. You have

no Strength and automatically ail Strength tests to touch or aect physical

objects. You gain Immunity to Physical Attacks, except or light-based attacks,

which have a Stunning eect on you in addition to their normal eect. You

have Wall-Crawling, the 2D capability o Dimension Control and the Invisibility

power, limited to while you are surrounded by shadows or dim lighting, all

at your Shadow Form level.

SOLID FORM

You transorm into a dense solid material like metal or stone. You gain

Strength equal to the greater o your power level or your normal Strength +1while in solid orm along with Damage Resistance equal to your power level.

EXTRAS

Broad: You can transorm into any orm within your Alternate Form group,

rather than a specic ormany Energy Form or Gaseous Form rather than

just one, or example.

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ANATOMIC SEPARATION

You can split o parts o your body harmlessly and control them while

separated. See the Anatomic Separation limit o the Duplication power (p. 63).

ANDROID BODY

The Articial origin (Icons, p. 10) means you are a construct rather than

regular living being. You can discard a rolled power and replace it with Lie

Support (p. 86).

ANIMAL COMPANIONSee the Servant power (p. 107). An animal

companion may also be handled as a quality:

tagged to provide the character with bonuses

under the right circumstances, compelled when

the companion is threatened or otherwise causes

problems or the character, but having no other

game traits o its own.

ANIMAL CONTROL

See the Animal Control limit o the Mind Control

power (p. 92).

ANIMAL FORM

See Animals under the Transormation power (p.

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ANIMAL MIMICRY

AlterAtion. You can mimic the traits o animals,

gaining the Strength o an elephant, the Super-

Speed o a cheetah, the Coordination o a monkey,

or the Extended Vision and Flight o an eagle, to

name a ew.

Each page, you can choose an animal to mimic,

gaining its trait levels up to a maximum o your Animal Mimicry power level.

An animal must be within visual range in order or you to mimic it. The

Game Master determines what animals are nearby (possibly modied by

Retconning; see Icons, p. 80).

You can only mimic one animal at a time and lose any other animal abilities

when you switch rom one animal to another. You either retain your normal

appearance or gain some o the physical appearance o the animal you mimic

(your choice when you acquire this power).

EXTRAS

Extra Animal: You can mimic two animals at once, mixing and matching

their traits, and duplicating the best o each. I you take this extra more than

once, you can mimic an extra animal or each one.

Rangeless: You can mimic any animal you can think o rather than just

those nearby.

LIMITS

Standard: Close Range, Exclusive, Preparation

One Type: You can only mimic one type o animals, such as jungle creatures,

avians, sea creatures, or insects, or example.

ANIMATION

You can bring non-living objects or images to

lie. See the Servant power description (p. 107),

possibly with the Source limit, i you are limited

by what is available around you to animate.


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AQUATIC

AlterAtion. You are equally suited to unctioning

underwater and on land. You can breathe water

and your Coordination and Awareness while

submerged equal the higher o their normal levels

or this powers level. You can swim at a speed

based on your hal your power level (rounded up).

See the Benchmarks Table (p. 27) to get an idea o your speed: 3 is a swit

swimmer like a dolphin, 5 is as ast as a submersible, 7 like a torpedo, while

higher levels are aster than any known sea creature or vessel.

EXTRASPowers: Leaping (only out o water), Resistance (Gases, Pressure, Water)

LIMITS

One Type: You either have aquatic adaptation (the ability to breathe

underwater and use your Aquatic level in place o Coordination and Awareness

while submerged) or swimming speed, but not both.

Water-bound: You cannot breathe air, and begin to suocate when you

are out o water.

ARMOR

See the Resistance power, specically Damage

Resistance (p. 106). For worn armor, including

battlesuits, see Deensive Devices in the Devices

chapter.


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ARTIFICIAL BODY

The Articial origin (Icons, p. 10) means you are

a construct rather than regular living being. You

can discard a rolled power and replace it with Lie

Support (p. 86).

ASTRAL PROJECTION

MentAl. You can project your astral orm (the

vessel o the mind and spirit) out rom your physical

body, allowing it to travel elsewhere. Your body

remains in a coma-like state, although you are

aware o any harm bealling it. Should your body

perish while your astral orm is away, you remain

trapped in astral orm.

Your astral orm has Flight and Phasing at your power level. It can observe,

but not aect, the physical world and cannot be detected by physical means,

although Astral Detection and Telepathy reveal it. You can use mental powers

against non-astral beings, but with a +2 difculty modier. Your powers work

normally against other astral beings.

EXTRAS

Powers: Astral Detection, Dimensional Travel (while in astral orm), Dream

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BLAST

offensive. You can project a damaging blast at

extended range. Choose the eect o your Blast

rom pure orce to an element or energyand

whether it is a blasting or shooting attack (see

Coordination under Taking Action, Icons, p. 58)

when you get this power. Your Blast inicts damage

equal to its level.

EXTRAS

Standard: Aects X, Burst, Contagious, Secondary Eect

Disintegration: I your Blast destroys a target, it is completely vaporized(transormed into energy, etc.), leaving no trace behind.

Extra Type: Your Blast can be either a blasting or shooting attack, chosen

when you make the attack.

LIMITS

Standard: Blocked

BODY OF...For powers where you turn into another material

or energy, see the Alternate Form power (p. 46).

BOUNCING

You can ricochet o the ground or other suraces. See the Leaping power

(p. 86) or the Infation limit o the Stretching power (p. 114), depending on

how your ability to bounce works.


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BURROWING

MoveMent. You have the ability to tunnel beneath

the ground at your normal speed, moving through

any substance with a Material Strength equal to or

less than your Burrowing level. Tougher materials

roughly halve your speed per level o dierence. You

can choose to leave a tunnel behind you as your

burrow, allowing others to ollow, or to have it ll in behind you, preventing

others rom ollowing.

LIMITS

One Type: You can only burrow through a particular type o material,like sand or ice.

CHI POWER

You can ocus your chi or lie orce (also known

as ki or prana) to improve one or more o your

abilities. See the Ability Boost power (p. 38),

possibly with the Preparation and Tiring limits.

CLAWS

See the Extra Body Parts power (p. 72) and the

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COLD CONTROL

Control. You can reduce temperatures to create

cold. Choose one o the ollowing extras you can

perorm, adding others as regular extras.

Powers: Absorption (cold, heat), Afiction

(reezing), Aura (cold), Binding (ice), Blast (ice),

Damage Resistance (ice armor), Fire Control (cold

re), Resistance (Cold, Heat)

Ice Constructs: You can create columns, walls, and other large geometric

Constructs o ice with power level Material Strength.

Ice Patch: You create slick patches o ice. Walking over the area requires

a Coordination vs. Cold Control test to avoid alling and losing an action.

Ice Ramps: You can skate on ramps o ice that give you Flight 1 while

within extended range o the ground.

Ice Shield: You can create a shield or barrier with Material Strength equal

to your power level and use it to block attacks.

LIMITS

Standard: Source

COMPUTER CONTROL

For the ability to control computers and machines,

see the Interace power (p. 84) and the Machine

Control power (p. 88).

CONSTRUCTS

You can orm solid objectsconstructsout o

a type o energy (or matter). See the Force

Constructs extra o Force Control (p. 75), along

with similar Energy Control and Element Control

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CONTINUUM CONTROL

Control. You control one o the undamental

orces o reality. See the descriptions o the Friction

Control, Gravity Control, Probability Control,

Spatial Control, and Time Control powers. Choose

one or roll on the ollowing table:

d6 Roll Power

1 Friction Control

2 Gravity Control

3 Probability Control

4 Spatial Control

5 Time Control

6 Choose or re-roll, ignoring this result

CORROSION

offensive. You have a corrosive, acidic, burning,

or rotting attack that causes damage equal to your

power level by touch with a successul attack. The

target takes hal the Corrosion level in damage on

each o the ollowing two pages at the start o

the attackers panel unless some action is taken

to neutralize the attacks eects.

Corrosion damages objects by eating away at their Material Strength.

Subtract the powers level rom the objects Material Strength. Objects reducedto Strength 0 are destroyed. So i level 7 acid strikes steel (Material Strength

8), it reduces the steels Material Strength to 1 (about that o paper) and a

second such attack will destroy the metal completely.

EXTRAS

Standard: Burst, Contagious, Ranged

Powers: Resistance (Corrosion)

Consumption: Your Corrosion resides in your mouth and digestive tract,allowing you to consume virtually anything, limited only by the size o your

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rope or cable, and so orth. As a side benet, youre Immune to anything you

swallowmainly toxins, but also things like grenades!

Extended: Your Corrosion damages lasts or an additional two pages,

unless neutralized.

LIMITS

Blocked (Material-Sensitive): Damage is delivered only to a particular

type o material, such as wood or esh.

Situational (Emotion-Sensitive): Damage is delivered only to creatures

harboring a particular emotion, such as ear or greed.

COSMIC AWARENESS

See Cosmic Detection under the Detection power (p. 60).

COSMIC POWER

Control. You wield a cosmic or primal power,

tapping into the undamental abric o the universe

itsel.

Choose one power eect you can duplicate.

Additional powers are available as extras; essentially,

anypower is a potential Cosmic Power stunt, with

the Game Masters permission. At its most basic, Cosmic Power is oten like

an Energy Control power; see the various Energy Control power descriptions

or examples.

EXTRAS

Powers: Any

LIMITS

Standard: Blocked, Exclusive, Preparation

Ability-Linked: Your Cosmic Power level is linked to one o your ability

levels and cannot exceed that level. Reduce any rolled level or the power

to your ability level. Level modications due to limits (including this one)

cannot raise the power above the linked ability level.

CYBERKINESIS

See the Interace power (p. 84) and the Machine Control power (p. 88).


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DAMAGE RESISTANCE

For this and other types o Resistance, see the Resistance power (p. 106).

DANGER SENSEsensory. You have a special sense or danger,

moments beore it strikes. You can substitute your

Danger Sense level or your Awareness to avoid

surprise attacks, or your Prowess to evade, and

or your Coordination to dodge, essentially making

your Danger Sense level the difculty to hit you.

I you generate a Danger Sense level equal to or lower than your Awareness

level, re-roll until you generate a higher level.

DARKNESS CONTROL

Control. You can generate darkness, blacking

out the area within extended range (see Limited

Visibility, Icons, p. 68). The eects last with

concentration, with lighting returning to normal

the page ater your concentration lapses.

EXTRAS

Powers: Absorption (Light), Blast, Dazzle, Energy Drain (Lie Drain), Flight,

Force Field, Resistance (Darkness, Light), Servant (animated shadows), Super-

Senses (Inravision), Teleport (Transmit, darkness and shadows)

Shadow Constructs: You can project a black orce, essentially solid

darkness, orming dierent Constructs with Material Strength equal to your

power level.

Shadow Shaping: You can change the shape and size o shadows and

generate three-dimensional objects and creatures. These shadow images

are immaterial (0 Strength and Immune to all orms o attack except Light

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However, your Coordination equals the lowero your normal level or 10

minus your Density level and, at Density 10, you are unable to move without

making a difculty 10 Willpower test, which allows you to move a ew steps.

EXTRAS

Phasing: You can also lower your density, giving you Phasing at your

Density power level.

DETECTION

sensory. You have the ability to detect a specic

orm o energy, power, or presence with Awareness

equal to your Detection level. Select one type oDetection rom the ollowing list or roll 2d6:

2d6 Roll Type Eect

2 Cosmic You can detect cosmic-level beings, cosmic

energy, and universe-aecting events.

34 Emotion You can detect emotional states or particular

emotions like ear or love.

5 Energy You can detect dierent types o energy and

ollow energy trails. You can identiy dierent

energy types with a power test.

6 Magic You can detect magical energy spells, artiacts,

those with the ability to use magic, etc.

7 Magnetic You can detect magnetic elds, including uses o

Magnetic Control.

89 Power You can detect the use o certain powers when

a power is used or someone possesses a power,

such as mutant or mental powers.

1011 Radiation You can detect radioactive energy and sources o

radiation, including uses o Radiation Control.

12 Spirit You can detect spiritual activity such as ghosts or

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The above is by no means a denitive listing o available detection powers.

Players wanting a orm o detection not listed here are encouraged to discuss

the idea with their Game Masters.

In some cases, the GM may use an opposing ability, like Coordination or

Willpower, as the difculty or a power test to detect a subject deliberately

trying to hide rom you.

DIMENSION CONTROL

AlterAtion. You can change the number o physical

dimensions you occupy, altering your abilities

accordingly. You can shit rom 3D to two other

dimensional states and back. Shiting to other

dimensions is an extra or each two additional

dimensions. Your abilities are based on the number

o dimensions you occupy:

0D: You exist as nothing more than a mathematical point in space. You

cant move or take any actions, but the good news is youre Invisible and

Immune to everything except powers that act directly on your mind or spirit.

1D: Youre a nearly invisible line (Invisibility equal to your level). You have

no Strength, but you can t through any opening, no matter how small.

2D: Youre a at image o yoursel. You can slip through any crack or

opening that accommodates your width, and you have Invisibility when

viewed rom the side. As an extra you can develop a slashing Strike equal to

your level, letting you slice through things.

3D: You have your normal physical abilities.

4D: Your Strength increases to your power level and you can sidestep

physical objects as i you had Phasing. You gain the Super-Sense o PenetrationVision by being able to see around physical barriers (viewing them rom

higher dimensional space).

5D: You gain Time Control at your power level.

6D: You gain Dimensional Travel at your power level by rotating into

dierent dimensions.

LIMITS:

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DIMENSIONAL TRAVEL

MoveMent. You can move at will between dimensions.

You may reely travel to any dimension you have

previously visited but visiting a new dimension

requires a difculty 3 Dimensional Travel test. A

ailure means you dont go anywhere, and trying

to reach that dimension requires determined

eort. A moderate success means you arrive at

the destination dimension stunned and must spend the next panel recovering

(taking no actions that page). A major or better success means you reach

the dimension with no problems. Dimension Travel 8 or greater does not

require a test (you automatically succeed). You generally return to a previous

dimension at the place where you let it, unless you have the Teleport extra

(allowing you to shit location in the previous dimension) or the GM says

otherwise as a story element.

EXTRAS

Powers: Teleport

Dimensional Pocket: You can access a pocket dimension where you

can stash items and retrieve them later. You can store a total mass in your

Dimensional Pocket based your power level on the Liting table on p. 62 o

Icons.

LIMITS:

One Dimension: You can only travel between your home dimension and

one other, chosen when you acquire the power.

DISEASEFor the power to infict illnessesor various disease-like eectson targets,

see the Aiction power (p. 42).

DISINTEGRATION

For powers that disintegrate or destroy matter, see the Disintegration extra

o the Blast power (p. 53) as well as the Corrosion power (p. 56).


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MentAl. You have the ability to manipulate drea

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