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Fire Descriptors
The fire or flame descriptor has a number of implications.
Smothering: Combustion requires particular conditions, notably the presence of oxygen or other fuel.
Fire powers are ineffective in the absence of air or
Countering: Lastly, fire powers are useful for countering various other descriptors, including air, cold,
ice, water, and other fire-based powers (by creating
backfires or using up all of their available fuel). So a
fire controller might be able to extinguish a forest fire,
vaporize a wave or water blast, melt away ice, and so
forth, using the guidelines for countering effects on
page 95 of the Heros Handbook.
Fire Features
Some potential Feature effects associated with Fire
Powers include the following:
Getting Burned
In the real world, fire is a potentially lethal and difficult to
control weapon. Hitting someone with a blast of fire
such as from a flamethrowershould ignite their clothes
and hair and possibly leave them with severe burns.
In the comic books, flame-controlling super-villains regularly blast foes with searing temperatures with no effect
beyond leaving them unconscious and steaming from
the excess heat. The default Mutants & Masterminds rules
assume fire damage, like all other Damage, is non-lethal
unless the attacker specifically chooses to go for the kill
(Heros Handbook, page 206). So flame-wielding heroes
can use their powers freely in combat without too much
concern unless the GM invokes some fire-related complication (see Descriptors).
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Offensive Powers
Many fire powers are offensive in nature, using the searing
heat and the other effects of flames (choking smoke,
blinding light, etc.) against a foe.
Fireball
You hurl a fist-sized ball or a streamer of fire that explodes
on contact with a target, blossoming out into a broad fireball engulfing multiple targets.
Fireball: Ranged Burst Area Fire Damage 30-foot radius, Dodge
resistance check (DC 10 + rank) for half effect 3 points per rank
(+ 1 point per rank per +1 distance rank to area).
Fireflash
Searingly bright fire flashes between your hands, like an arcwelder, potentially blinding foes looking in your direction.
Fireflash: Perception Area Cumulative Affliction (Visually
Impaired, Visually Disabled, Visually Unaware), Limited to
One Sense Resisted by Dodge (DC 10 + rank), Overcome
by Fortitude (DC 10 + rank) 3 points per rank.
Fiery Breath
You breathe (or simply project from your hands or elsewhere) a cone-shaped gout of fire, like a dragons breath.
Firey Breath: Cone Area Fire Damage 60-foot length and
width, Dodge resistance check (DC 10 + rank) for half effect
2 points per rank + 1 point per rank per +1 distance rank to
length and width (60 feet, 120 feet, etc.).
Fiery Cloud
You engulf targets a cloud of flames, which burns for a few
moments before going out in a flash.
Firey Cloud: Ranged Cloud Area Fire Damage 15-foot radius,
Dodge resistance check (DC 10 + rank) for half effect 3
points per rank (+ 1 point per rank per +1 distance rank to area).
Fire Blast
You strike a target with a blast, stream, or small ball of fire,
causing damage.
Fire Blast: Ranged Fire Damage 2 points per rank.
Flame Aura
You surround your body in an aura of flames, damaging
anything touching you. Since the damage is a reaction to
being touched, no attack check is required.
Smoke Cloud
Thick smoke fills the air, making it difficult for anyone in
the area to see.
Flamethrower
Suffocation
Heatstroke
Rather than attacking with fire, you elevate the targets
body temperature, causing eventual heatstroke.
Heatstroke: Perception Ranged Cumulative Affliction
(Fatigued, Exhausted, Incapacitated) Resisted by Fortitude
(DC 10 + rank), Overcome by Fortitude (DC + 10 rank)
4 points per rank.
Immolate
You wreathe a target in flames, which continue burning as
long as you concentrate on maintaining them.
Immolate: Perception Ranged Fire Damage, Concentration
Duration 4 points per rank.
Melt
You generate heat intense enough to soften and melt
materials from ice to plastic, stone, or even metal. See
the Material Toughness table on page 105 of the Heros
Handbook for guidelines on the ranks needed to completely melt various materials.
Melt: Ranged Weaken Toughness, Affects Only Objects
Toughness ranks lost due to the effect are not recovered
and must be repaired 2 points per rank.
Nova Burst
You emit a massive fiery explosion in all directions around
you, covering a wide area, but tiring you from the effort.
Nova Burst: Burst Area Fire Damage, Area 3, Feature 1
(Extraordinary Effort for +2 effect rank), Tiring 120-foot
radius, Dodge resistance check (DC 10 + rank) for half
effect 1 point + 3 points per rank (+ 1 point per rank per +1
distance rank to area).
Defensive Powers
Fire powers can provide various defenses, from resistance
to heat and flames to protection from physical attacks.
Fire Form
You transform into a being of living flame. Your fire form
is largely immune to physical harm but still affected by
energy. Although it looks like ordinary fire, it is harmless
to touch unless you also add the flame aura power (previously). Your fire form may grant other powers as well,
such as immunity to cold or heat, or rocket flight (following).
Fire Form: Insubstantial 3 (Energy Form) 15 points.
Fire Shield
Your body emits heat and flames powerful enough to
deflect or burn up some attacks before they can reach
you. If you do not also have a flame aura (previously)
assume unarmed attackers tend to flinch or pull their
attacks because of the terrific heat, but are not themselves damaged by it. If you do have flame aura, then
unarmed attackers actually flinch because they are
being damaged! Your fire shield also protects against
things like cold or other fire attacks but not energy like
electricity or pure kinetic force (without some flammable
weapon inflicting it).
Fire Shield: Protection, Impervious, Limited to Flammable
Weapons, Sustained 1 point per rank.
Heat Absorption
You absorb the energy of heat and fire attacks to fuel your
own powers. You can enhance a chosen trait up to the
number of points you have invested in Enhanced Trait,
or the attacks rank, whichever is less, with a maximum of
your Enhanced Trait points. The enhancement occurs au-
Immunity to Cold
Your internal heat renders you immune to cold.
Immunity to Cold: Immunity 1 (Environmental Cold),
Immunity 5 (Cold Damage), or Immunity 10 (Cold Effects)
1, 5, or 10 points.
Immunity to Heat
Your control over fire protects you from external heat or
flames.
Immunity to Heat: Immunity 1 (Environmental Heat),
Immunity 5 (Heat Damage), or Immunity 10 (Heat Effects)
1, 5, or 10 points.
Movement Powers
Fire powers can provide propulsion or clear the way for
various forms of movement.
Fireport
You have the power to leap from one flame to another
without having to cross the space between them. You
vanish into one fire and emerge from another some distance away.
Fireport: Teleport, Extended, Medium: Flames 2 points per rank.
Rocket Flight
By projecting a stream of fire out behind you, you can fly
as if propelled by a rocket blast.
Rocket Flight: Flight 2 points per rank.
Tunneling
You melt and burn your way through obstacles, boring a
tunnel even through solid rock. Such tunnels are usually
fused glassy-smooth and relatively permanent, but you
still have the option of moderating your flames to create
an unstable tunnel that will collapse behind you.
Tunneling: Burrowing 1 point per rank.
Utility Powers
Control over fire can provide a range for other useful
effects, from creating shapes or objects out of flame to
summoning creatures of living fire.
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Fire Creatures
You can summon or create semi-independent creatures
formed out of living fire that obey your commands. The
creatures you summon are not truly alive, merely animated mass of fiery energy. They can look like virtually anything, from humanoids (often with a demonic cast) to a
fiery phoenix or dragon. You can apply the various modifiers for the Summon effect to get additional fire creatures
or to make them more active or capable (removing the
minion type from the template).
Fire Creatures: Summon Fire Creature 8 120-point minion
(see following template) 16 points.
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Fire Creatures
Firelight
You can create a point of incandescence bright enough to
shed light over a wide area.
Firelight: Environment (Light) 1 point per rank.
Fire Shaping
You shape masses of fire into different distinct forms,
from walls and rings to flaming cages. Since the Damage
effect is Selective, you can choose whether a target is affected by the shapes fire or not (left in an open space
inside a ring or cage of fire, for example). The shape
lasts for as long as you concentrate. When you stop, it
dissipates. If you are limited to shaping existing flames
rather than generating them as you shape them, apply
the Limited modifier.
Fire Shaping: Ranged Shapeable Area Fire Damage,
Concentration Duration, Selective 30 cubic feet
(volume rank 5), Dodge resistance check (DC 10 + rank)
for half effect 5 points per rank (+1 point per rank per +1
volume rank).
Infravision
You can literally see patterns of heat and gradations in
temperature around you.
Infravision: Senses 1 (Infravision) 1 point.
Pyrokinesis
You can mentally control and direct flames, moving them
or containing them as you wish. You can affect fire with
a Damage rank up to your effect rank in an area equal
to your effects maximum area. Flames move at a speed
rank of your effect rank minus their damage rank, with a
minimum of 0 (30 feet per round). Flames with no available
surface to burn on the end of the round they are moved
go out, so you can move the flames off of an objects into
the air and have them dissipate.
Pyrokinesis: Perception Range Shapeable Area Fire Damage,
Limited to Existing Fire 30 cubic feet (volume rank 5) 3
points per rank (+1 point per rank for +1 volume rank).
Warm
You warm the air around you without flames, creating a
comforting heat that drives away cold or makes an already
temperate or warm area intensely hot.
Warm: Environment (Heat) 1 point per rank, 2 points per rank
for extreme heat
Fire Complications
Fire can be a fickle ally, and flame-wielding characters may
have various complications stemming from or related to
their powers.
Accident
An accident-prone flame-wielder is a disaster waiting to
happen. If you have this complication, then you are more
likely to accidentally set fires that get out of control or do
things like touch off fuel tanks or other dangerous, flammable materials by accident. You spend a fair amount of
time containing and cleaning up the consequences of
your powers.
Addiction
The most common addiction for fire controllers is pyromania: you love setting fires, and have a difficult time resisting the urge to do so, even when it wouldnt be a good
idea. The GM awards you a hero point whenever you give
in to temptation and have to deal with the consequences, or when you roleplay struggling with your addiction,
rather than focusing on other matters.
A fire-controller might also be addicted to some substance that grants or helps to control the characters
powers in some way; without it, your powers go out of
control or your behavior becomes erratic.
Phobia
A fire-user may have certain fears revolving around fire and
things that oppose it. For example, you might fear water,
Power Loss
Assuming the fire you wield is at least somewhat like ordinary flame (see The Fires of... for discussion of this) a
number of things can potentially douse or snuff it out.
Most often this is handled using the guidelines for countering effects (M&M Heros Handbook, page 95) but some
fire-using characters suffer power loss when, for example,
doused with water or wrapped in flame-retardant material.
Until the condition causing the power loss is removed, you
cannot use any affected powers, but you gain a hero point
from the complication.
Reputation
Given the other complications described here, its not difficult for a fire-user to develop a bad reputation. People are
naturally cautious about getting burned, and may tend to
shy away from you, especially if youre known to have powers
that are dangerous or uncontrollable. When your reputation
makes things difficult for you, you gain a hero point.
Temper
A fiery temper often accompanies fire powers, making
you a true hot head! Youre liable to go off without thinking things through and just using your powers to blast
through anything that tries to get in your way. When you
lose control of your temper or a friend or teammate has to
cool you down to avoid ittaking time away from other
thingsyou gain a hero point for the complication.
Weakness
As mentioned under Power Loss, fiery types may be
vulnerable to or weakened by effects which smother or
douse flames. This weakness typically takes one of two
forms: more severe effects from certain descriptors or
conditions imposed by certain situations.
In the first case, you suffer at least an additional degree
from effects with an appropriate descriptor, such as cold
or water, for example. The more common the descriptors,
the more often your complication comes into play (and
the more hero points you potentially earn). This means
even if you succeed on a resistance check against your
weakness, you still suffer at least one degree of failure.
In other cases, you acquire a problematic condition in
certain situations. For example, a cold environment might
hinder or impair you, or a dousing with water might daze
or fatigue you. When you are removed from the situation,
you recover from the condition it imposes. See the conditions listed on pages 1719 of the M&M Heros Handbook
for some inspiration. In either case, when you run afoul of
your weakness in a scene, you gain a hero point.
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