Re: [HOE] City o' Sin: Blessing o' the Atom: Brainiac: Kineticist[Shane]

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

> Maybe it's a mater of Line-of-Sight style thing. You can see the
> surfboard and thus concentrate on lifting it, but you can't see
> yourself.

I think it was just put in as a munchkin-barrier ("Why buy the wings power
when I can just make myself fly without wings and do all this other cool
stuff?")

While I'd love nothing better than to play a kineticist I think their
kinda broken. The main problem is that they don't have to "pay anything"
like strain to do their thing. They can basically lift stuff with their
minds all day and never break a sweat. This seems to go against both
game-balance and historical literature (in most any story the syker has to
strain (not Strain) somehow to do his thing). Then again it's not a syker
power, so strain isn't the right way to handle it (just make them a
greenie then). Maybe the right way would be wind. That way they can still
use their power a lot (which I think is the intention) because it's
something they do "naturally" not something they had to learn through
mental discipline. But by the same token they can't do it forever, or fly
around the world because they need a few minutes between lifts to get
their wind back.

Thoughts? Shane? Are we missing the point?

Theo McGuckin - SysAdmin, JLab, Safety Warden (Bldg. 85)


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