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Morphing Descriptors
The following descriptors are associated with morphing
powers and their effects.
Offensive Powers
Offensive morphing powers involve either imposing
changes on a target or changing your own body to gain
offensive capabilities.
Baneful Transformation
You transform a target of your choice into some harmless or helpless form, such as turning them to stone or a
tiny animal. Certain transformations may call for different lower degree conditions, while others have Limited
Degree (Third Only), having no effect unless or until the
subject is fully transformed. If you can choose a range
of baneful transformations, apply the Variable Descriptor modifier; +1 point for any related group of forms like
animals or inanimate materials, +2 points for any baneful
form suiting your powers other descriptors.
Baneful Transformation: Ranged Cumulative Affliction
(Resisted and Overcome by Will; Hindered, Stunned,
Transformed) 3 points per rank.
Natural Weapons
You morph your limbs or head to acquire natural weapons
like claws, talons, fangs, pincers, or even hammer- or bladelike hands. Especially sharp or hard natural weapons may
also have the Penetrating modifier.
Natural Weapons: Strength-based Damage 1 point per rank.
Pseudopods
You alter your form to produce additional limbs, either
jointed or like pseudopods or tentacles. The effect rank
determines how many pseudopods you can create and
control at once. Apply the Feature Ambidextrous (1 rank)
if you can use any of your limbs equally.
Pseudopods: Extra Limbs, Sustained 1 point per rank.
Morphing Features
Some potential Feature effects associated with Morphing
Powers include the following:
Slingshot
Using your elastic arm or body, you can create a slingshot to propel an object (or even a teammate) at a
Defensive Powers
Morphing allows characters to transform to avoid harm,
resist it, or more quickly recover from it.
Bounceback Attack
With a moments concentration, you can cause a physical
attack to rebound off your malleable form to hit the attacker.
Bounceback Attack: Deflect, Reflect, Close Range 1 point
per rank.
Metamorphic Healing
With a moments concentration, you can shift your body
to repair damage done to it.
Movement Powers
Morphing movement powers are generally provided by
changing into a form suitable for a type of movement,
from flying like a bird to slithering or flowing along the
ground like a snake (the Slithering option of the Movement effect, Heros Handbook, page 120).
Bouncing Ball
You roll or inflate your form into a bouncing, rubbery ball,
or perhaps transform your legs into a spring, allowing you
to bounce over considerable distances.
Bouncing Ball: Leaping 1 point per rank.
Living Glider
You stretch and flatten out to become a living glider or
parachute, allowing you to glide from a height, possibly
carrying your Strength rank in weight slung beneath you.
If youre solely limited to a parachute-like form (falling
almost straight down, with little control over your direction), change Flight to the Movement 1 (Safe Fall) effect.
Living Glider: Flight, Gliding 1 point per rank.
Flat Form
You can flatten your body to become almost two-dimensional (like a thin sheet of paper). You become virtually
invisible when seen on edge, able to slip through narrow
cracks and openings, and lie flat against walls (perhaps
even posing as part of a painting or mural).
Flat Form: Concealment 4 (Visual), Limited to One Edge, Partial;
Insubstantial 1, Limited by Width 6 points.
Malleable Form
You render your body malleable and fluid, able to squeeze
and flow through small gaps and openings.
Malleable Form: Insubstantial 1 5 points.
Transformed Toughness
You can transform your body to toughen it, gaining
harder skin, armor, and less vulnerable organs, or perhaps
an elastic form able to stretch under pressure and resist
damage.
Transformed Toughness: Protection 1 point per rank.
Living Trampoline
You morph and stretch into a living trampoline, able to
break someones fall. Note that Insubstantial 1 includes
a version of this ability, allowing you to subtract your
Toughness from the targets falling damage, with you and
the target resisting the remaining damage rank (if any).
This version eliminates any chance of damage.
Living Trampoline: Movement 1 (Safe Fall), Affects Others
3 points.
Stretching Stride
You elongate your legs like stilts to cover great distances
with each stride. Generally, this is limited to no more than
3 or 4 ranks.
Stretching Stride: Speed 1 point per rank.
Swinging Arms
You can elongate your arms, allowing you to swing from
them as if they were extended swing-lines.
Swinging Arms: Movement 1 (Swinging) 2 points.
Wings
You transform to gain wings (possibly modifying your
arms), allowing you to fly.
Wings: Flight, Wings 1 point per rank.
Utility Powers
The range of potential utility morphing powers is considerable, given the ability to transform into virtually
anything. The following are some common useful morphing powers, along with a look at the broadest morphing
power of all: Shapeshifting.
Extended Eyes
You extend your eyes out to peer around corners or
over obstacles while the rest of you remains hidden.
This power is rarely more than 23 ranks, enough range
to extend well over 100 feet. You may also be able to
extend your ears in a similar fashion (adding 1 point per
rank to the cost).
Extended Eyes: Remote Sensing (Visual) 2 points per rank.
Fingertip Lockpick
You extend a finger into a mechanical lock and morph it
to match the interior of the mechanism, forming a key to
open it.
Fingertip Lockpick: Feature (+10 circumstance bonus to
Technology checks to pick mechanical locks) 1 point per rank.
Metamorphic Minions
You transform bystanders into minions to serve you.
This is almost universally a villainous power, given how
it usurps the targets free will and places them in danger.
Given that, the transformation of bystanders is a descriptor for the Summon effect rather than focusing on the
transformation itself. The key effect of the power is the
summoning of minions, while the need for bystanders
to transform is largely balanced by the potential complications this poses for the heroes. If you wish, apply a
Limit modifier to the power to reflect its need for raw
materials.
Metamorphic Minions: Summon, Controlled, Horde, Multiple
Minions 3 (up to eight minions) 10 points per rank.
Shapeshift
You can transform your physical body in a wide variety of
ways, gaining (or losing) different traits. The power provides a set of points you can allocate to the physical traits
of a new form by taking the action necessary to use your
Shapeshift power. See Morphing Descriptors at the start
of this profile for more information.
Each change in form requires you to reactivate your power,
so if you shapeshift as a standard action, each change in
form requires a standard action to complete.
You can also redistribute power points spent on your physical traits as part of a shapeshift, lowering your Strength to
put those power points elsewhere, for example.
Shapeshift Modifiers
Some of the following modifiers may apply to the basic
Shapeshift power:
Action: The basic Shapeshift takes a standard action,
meaning you can only move during a round in which you
change form. Many shapeshifters have the Action modifier, allowing them to change forms faster: +1 cost per rank
if you can shapeshift as a move action, +2 cost per rank if
you can do so as a free action.
Limited: The basic Shapeshift allows characters to take on
any physical form. Most shapeshifters are more limited,
with a flaw restricting them to animal forms, humanoid
forms, machine forms, or some similar subset. For characters limited to less powerful forms, simply apply low ranks
of Shapeshift, restricting the power points they have to
play with; they can Morph to look like virtually anything,
but cant take on a lot of additional traits.
Quirk: A common Quirk for Shapeshifters is a tell, some
quality about the character that remains consistent from
form to form. For example, the character might retain the
same color scheme, or all forms might show a variation
of the characters face, both limiting the powers disguise
options. This is generally a 1-point Quirk.
Slow: The opposite of the Action extra, this flaw means
the character only changes form outside of action time,
typically between scenes. This might reflect a kind of
form change involving reconfiguring components of a
machine, for example, or a similar refit that has to take
place in a workshop or lab.
Shapeshift: Variable (assumed forms, allocate 5 power points
per rank) 7 points per rank.
Stretching
You can elongate your body and limbs, stretching them
out to greater length. While Stretching may be due to
elasticity, it does not have to be: your limbs might be mechanically telescopic, for example, or you may even be
able to warp your personal spatial dimensions, effectively
changing your topology. As with other powers, descriptors can significantly effect how the power works (while
still having the same effect in game terms).
Note that, since it gives you a +1 bonus per rank to grab
checks, Stretching allows you to perform the classic morphing trick of wrapping an opponent up in your body or
limbs.
This power is often combined with Malleable Form (previously), allowing you to do things like reach an arm through
the space around a door and then stretch up to open the
door or extend out to reach something beyond it.
Stretching: Elongation 1 point per rank.
Morphing Complications
The following are some complications potentially associated with morphing powers and their users.
Addiction
Morphing powers can lead to any number of dependencies or addictions. A character may be addicted to a substance or drug that provides the ability to morph, ranging
from an exotic plant extract to an alien drug or radioactive mud. The addiction could be psychologicaldependence on having powersor there might be physical
withdrawal symptoms as well.
Conversely, morphing characters might depend on drugs
or treatments to stabilize their variable forms, or to deal
with side-effects of their morphology. Constantly shifting
physical form could be painful, for example, leading to an
addiction to pain-killers, or compromise the characters
immune system, creating a need for immunosuppressants or boosters.
Identity
With the power to change into different forms, its no surprise some metamorphs have identity issues. Sense of
identity is often connected to appearance (or perceived
appearance) with a malleable appearance leading to an
equally malleable identity, especially for characters who
impersonate others on a regular basis.
A metamorph might not even know his or her true identity, having amnesia or no early-life memories. After all,
how can a shapeshifter know for certain his or her true
form (or, for that matter, gender or even species)? Take
Power Loss
Effects ranging from technological molecular stabilization fields to magical wards of true form can potentially
rob characters of their morphing powers. Others may
have specific instances where they are unable to change
shape, such as a particular phase of the moon.
Although there may be various counter-measures able to
take away morphing powers, far more common is a loss of
control over those powers. A loss of concentration due to
an emotional upset, illness, or an outside affliction (from a
taser shock to a drug) can cause metamorphs to lose the
ability to maintain a particular shape, or even any shape
at all. An afflicted morph might melt into a pool of liquid
or freeze into a solidified statue. Alternately, they might
change forms randomly, a potential hazard to themselves
as well as others.
Prejudice
Few powers inspire greater paranoia than the ability to
look like virtually anyone (much less anything). Even
heroic metamorphs may be suspect, and villainous ones
can sow fear and suspicion wherever they go.
Weakness
While morphing powers provide immunity to many
mortal frailties, they may also open characters up to particular vulnerabilities or weaknesses.
A malleable physical form could be more sensitive to biological agents like diseases and toxins (including some
drugs), rather than immune to them. Similarly, a pliable
shape can be vulnerable to sheer blunt force rather than
resistant to it.
A common weakness for metamorphs is taking on the
weaknesses associated with their new form(s). Transforming into animals may come with a loss of human
speech and the risk of losing ones self to the animals
instincts. A metallic form is vulnerable to rust and magnetism, while a liquid shape might be flash-frozen. Transforming into a copy of another person may bring their
weaknesses as well.
Morphing powers are also associated with weaknesses
based on their source. Magical metamorphs might be vulnerable to things like cold iron, silver, or other anti-magical talismans. Technological metamorphs have to deal
with electromagnetism and computer viruses. An alien
metamorph could be vulnerable to an otherwise innocuous substance on Earth, such as salt or lead.
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