Re: [HOE] I have one twisted player, thoughts?[Fwd: firestorm]

["Nick Zachariasen" <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>]

> > power that is hard to control. It was discovered When he was entered
into
> > the Super soldier program the syrum which activated his Latent syker
powers.

This better be a Mysterious Past result giving him the Greenie Edge (I'm
assuming it's Greenie and not full-blown Syker), or I think the guy's trying
to go munchkin on you.

> > random every one in the radius 1d10 of die six's damage per round. the
radius

Huh?

> > of
> > it is equal to 10 yards per blastin level and uses 4 strain per round.
Now
> > that sounds real powerful but as I said its hard to control. the strange
> > thing about it is that the syker who uses it even though he takes damage
> > doesn't feel it as pain but as a pleasurable feeling so pleasureable in
fact
> > that the syker has to make a spirit roll to turn the power off after the
> > first round the target is 7 this increases by 2 for each round the power
is
> > used consecutively. The power continues untill the syker can muster
enough
> > willpower to turn it of, falls unconsious or when he dies. When he runs
out
> > of strain the power starts burning his mental traits to continue each
round
> > dropping  1 die per round in this order knowledge, smarts, cognition,
mien,
> > spirit. its unlikly that the syker will still be alive after this but if
he
> > is then you start over at knowlegde. the syker rolls on the brain burn
table
> > if he runs out of strain and continues for a round.

Well, I'd say that he should have to roll for Brainburn (probably with a
plus to the roll) if he fails to turn it off when he wants to. Also, burning
the Mental Traits is a kind of cool idea, but I wouldn't have it burn Mien
or Cognition.  Knowledge, Smarts, and Spirit, yes, since they come directly
from and out of the brain, but Mien and Cognition involve other body areas,
so ditch those.  As for the damage (whatever it's supposed to be), I'dsay
that he shouldn't be able to spend Fate Chips on the damage to himself.  I'm
basing this on something somewhere that implied to me that a deliberately
self-inflicted wound couldn't be canceled by Fate Chips.  I'd call this
deliberately self-inflicting a wound (or fifteen).  I'd also call the power
just plain Pyrokinetic- not also Sykokinetic.

On a note not directly related to the function of the power itself, PLEASE
get this guy to learn how to write coherently.  I know that, due to the
scope of the OT list, I'm wanted for pedantry in the US, Canada, Germany,
France, Australia, and New Zealand (and those are just the places I know
of!), but I'm not asking for perfection here.  I'm just asking that he use
normal capitalization and that things make sense when you read them (see the
bit about the damage).  You agree with me, don't you, Brian?

Nick "setting the trap" Zachariasen