Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!jagardner From: jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner) Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: Re: Superhero RPGs Message-ID: <15590@watmath.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 10:16:17 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.15590 Posted: Fri Jul 5 10:16:17 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jul-85 09:33:54 EDT References: <3140@garfield.UUCP> <2038@genat.UUCP> <6203@ucla-cs.ARPA> <2041@genat.UUCP> Reply-To: jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 28 In article <2041@genat.UUCP> mike@genat.UUCP (Mike Stephenson) writes: > - I almost always use a multi-power for as many of the powers > that will fit together. I have never been able to justify the > use of an Elemental (and would appreciate if someone out there > could show me a good example of using one). The classic place where an Elemental Control is more useful than a multi-power is tied in with Mind Scan. If you want to use Mind Scan to keep a bead on your target while you Ego Attack/Mental Illusion/etc., you can't have both your Mind Scan and attack sucking up the resources of a multi-power. In such a case, it is sometimes more practical to put your Mind Scan and mental attack into an elemental control so you can use both simultaneously. The other argument for Elemental Control comes when you have a set of similar powers that you will always want to use together. As a simple example, take an Ice-shooter character. This character might very well want an ice force field for defense, an ice EB for offense, and flight (via ice ramps, a la Iceman) for movement. In combat, the character will almost always want to have the FF on and will often be flying around as well, not to mention shooting EBs whenever appropriate. It is therefore more practical to put these into an Elemental Control rather than a multi-power. Multi-powers let you have a lot of stuff cheap, but only if you restrict yourself to one or two powers at a time. Jim Gardner, University of Waterloo