[K5pbem] The Akira Effect

[Mike Surbrook]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Mathieu Roy wrote:

> --- Mike Surbrook <susano at guisarme.net> wrote:
>> I think the latter. Also, I'd like to play that up a bit more. I
>> mean, in  AKIRA the nursery fight (both anime and manga) wrecked
>> everything, while in DOMU, the esper duel literally brought the
>> building down.
>
> And it's happened in the game, but it seems that a fight in, say, Mandarin
> Towers would be less likely to wreck the entire place than in Generic
> Condominium Building #12. Mind you it would be the same in anime/manga. ;)

Dunno... it might make for an interesting plot development. And to tell 
the truth, not all of the apartment building in Domu collapsed, but heck 
of a lot of it did.

>> I am also thinking of making it a flat -1/4 limitation of
>> "damages the environment" and leave it at that. Thus, it becomes
>> a GM's call thing, as well as more "plot dependent." This also
>> means that if Raven slapped it on her VPP, it would only really
>> kick in when she used a lot of power, not when she used her TK
>> to sculpt a bird.
>
> Raven's TK is refined enough that she can use it in lieu of her hands even for
> delicate work like sculpting a raven, or making a puzzle. (In the first story
> she actually teeked dust off furniture in her room, though in hindsight, that
> was perhaps too delicate.)
>
> That said, if she were to lift something heavy -- a car, say -- there'd
> definitely be Side Effects. So anything above a certain power level would
> manifest appropriate side effects and would get the limitation.

Correct.

> If you're saying she could stick the limitation on her VPP's control cost and
> still do her thing, well then, I'm certainly not averse to reworking her VPP to
> free up more points. ;D However, from a pure gaming standpoint, I need to point
> out that I'm unsure of the validity of a limitation on a VPP that only "kicks
> in" for powers above a certain level. Unless it was represented as a partial
> limitation?

Not sure how to do that with the VPP. I do know that Shion & Ran will be 
getting it placed on their MP and VPP respectivly. But then, I've 
established their power levels early on, and we know both of them tend to 
wreck things quickly when using their powers. Wait... (DUH! *slaps 
forehead*) for Raven, place it on the VPP and make it a -0 Limitation. 
There, problem solved.

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