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In my continuing quiet quest to create a superpower for every letter of the alphabet....

Xerox Body(Minor)
“...and just how long, again, did it take you to realize you were, in fact, talking to the equivalent of a cardboard cutout of Doctor Duplex?”

Range: Self
Duration: 30 minutes per level of experience
The superbeing can produce a 3D dummy of themselves. The duplicate is static, possesses no animation, no life signs, but is otherwise a photo-perfect image of the creator. Taking 15 SDC or more of damage reveals it to be a hollow shell of paper-like material, and a good strong breeze can blow it over unless somehow anchored in place. Takes 1 APM to produce a copy+1 per level of experience(so a level 2 character can 'print off' two images of himself with just one action, and at level 3 , 3 copies). Note however, that copies made with one action will all be identical(have the same pose), whereas copies made with separate actions can be posed differently. The maximum number of copies that the superbeing can create in this manner per hour is equivalent to the character's P.E..

Yeah my nephew just set a colorado record on the big 3, but his spotter is his 5'10 amazon girlfriend. He's doing record level benches but its a girl handin him the bar. She's a knockout.

This is a bit confusing. Does it use an attack to create one? I don't get it.

Fixed the original post for (hopefully) greater clarity. Thanks for the concrit.

Think of the business you could generate (if you were a villain) making and selling what are basically life sized pinata versions of yourself!

So is the maximum number the same as how many he can create per action, or is it unlimited on how many the character can make? What is the maximum number of copies that can coexist at one time?

Ah-Hah! Another thing I overlooked! Okay, and I've added this to the OP.
The maximum number of copies that the superbeing can create in this manner per hour is equivalent to the character's P.E..

Sure, with a 30-minute+ lifespan per copy, you can clutter up the landscape pretty messily with 3d standups of yourself, but this is BULK Xerox....and anybody using more than Mark 1 Eyeball's going to see the dummies(unless, of course, you got some other power, like thermal stealth, in which case their job just got a LOT harder )

Thanks for the clarification. Wouldn't want the power being misused after all. No time to post the changes to the Vault today, have to do it tomorrow.

S'right. Gotta change the toner cartridge on my Clon-a-matic anyways.

An elemental ash lifestyle.

The person would be able to have melee attacks pass through their/them while they honed themselves to be intangible, colonic blasts and concussive waves could fight them, or if they were to busy against an opponent they could be harmed when not aware of how to guard themselves.

A blaster rifle would be handy. Maybe a flamethrower to deter the effect of losing their guard.

This needs some work to define.

Decide if it's a Minor or Major power. Build from there.

Define what 'Elemental Ash' is....Lifestyle? Sounds like you're trying to describe an Alter Physical Structure power? What would be the 'ash' form of Elemental Water? Of Elemental Air?
Intangible...There's an existing Intangibility power. If you wanted to combine it with an Elemental power, the best way to do that would be to take both Intangibility and the appropriate APS, and consider the appearance of attacks passing through the Element would be a special effect associated with that(attack going through a wall of flames or a cloud of mist).


Many Elemental powers have some form of damage resistance built in and vulnerabilities. Likewise for Intangibility.

Your other option, if you're dead set on creating a power, is to choose an Element, and give it a form of intangibility, but pare away all the other powers associated with the Element...like making yourself a cloud of smoke....with penalties like 'vulnerable to wind/air currents' in addition to sonics or energy blasts...that's one way of creating a higher--end Minor power or a weak Major power.

Also try to use terms familiar to the Palladium game system...I was a bit puzzled by 'losing their guard'. You mean dropping the power?

What is a colonic blast? Do you mean cyclonic? I agree with Taalismn that you need to define this power more concisely. There is a thread in this stickied section of the forum on how to format powers.

Ah yes, the 'colonic blast'...sounds like something the Spleen or Beanman does...

When was the black vault last updated?

I have not posted anything there in a while. Why do you ask?

I couldnt see a page for updates so I was just wondering if there was anything new.

Nothing new there in about a year. There are some things that could be posted over that are not powers, but I have been busy with other priorities.

The trick right now for me is trying to come up with powers that have not already been covered by existing powers. I'll come up with an idea only to research and find out it's already been written up.

Boxing glove:a variation of adhesion-you can form boxing gloves out of loose stones or other loose & hard materials. It has 1d12 sdc or mdc in campaigns have such a System in place. It’s a minor power of course.

I'd just go with an existing power like one of the Elemental Control variants or Body Weapons.
You also don't define duration or any bonus damage it does, or any other properties it may possess('loose & hard materials'? Does this include plastic? Metal shavings? Stale fruitcake crumbs?).
Abe....while a dodecahedron is one of the Platonic Solids, it's not one of the dice traditionally used in Palladium games(maybe in the game systems you usually play, but not Palladium). Palladium traditionally uses d4, d6, d8, d10, and d20.

My advice on this is to think longer on it and revise it before posting.

1d12 equates to 2d6,,, I don't think a boxing glove, which is padded, would do that much damage. What you are really trying to create is a matter control power where you are making the character able to create a gauntlet. There are already powers written which do this.

..And a range of 1-12 SDC/MDC that covers only one part of the body? That's not worth wasting a Minor Power slot for, especially since Extraordinary P.E. gives you 4d4x10 SDC/MDC for the WHOLE body, plus other bonuses.

Good point.

It gets worse...the Minor Power Body Weapons, which allows you to create blunt hand weapons in addition to bladed ones, DOES single-part armor the limb with that much SDC. So, 'armoring with loose material' is just something the player can use to describe how the power works without having to create a separate power.
That's basic HU.
Always read the basic book.