[Torg] Jumping in Torg

[Phil Dack]

--- On Fri, 12/12/08, travisjhall at optusnet.com.au <travisjhall at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
From: travisjhall at optusnet.com.au <travisjhall at optusnet.com.au>
> > Any effect that you did not 
> > think of ahead of time you have no access to, no matter how silly that 
> > seems.  For example, if you buy 5 or 6 fire based powers, but overlook 
> > buying "Environmental Change", than the GM is fully within his 
> > rights to say that while shooting fire around damaging your opponents, 
> > you have no ability to light any of the stuff in the room on fire!
> 
> "If I screw up using the system, the system doesn't work!"

Hehehe, well there's that to a degree. But as it happens this a GM failure, not a rules failure. HERO explicitly requires that every power be allocated a "Special Effect", which in this case is Fire. Lighting up stuff in a room should be considered a freebie side effect of the SFX of "Fire", just as someone with SFX of "Electricity" can turn their energy blast into an area of effect simply by making sure they fight in a room filled with water.

In the same way, I'd be prepared to rule that a side effect of the SFX of Superspeed is that the character can jump 5m or so - whatever the maximum result from a jumping push might be. Anything more than that is superleaping though.

Phil



      
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