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Is this Advantage OK? Also got a better name idea?

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:32 pm
by BASHMAN
What do we think about this potential new Advantage? Is it broken or prone to abuse? The idea is for characters similar to Banner/Hulk where the hero might not want to use their super form most of the time. Also anybody have a more "advantageous" sounding name for this? The idea is that the person is "being themself" rather than relying on their alternate form.

Reluctant Transformation: This Advantage is mainly intended for characters with the Normal Disadvantage and some sort of super form that they change into. It is also especially appropriate for characters with the Alter Ego characteristic. For whatever reason, you prefer your normal form and try to avoid transforming into your super form (perhaps fearing a lack of control or a lack of trust in the super persona). Your Normal form gets its own pool of Hero Points that can only be used in that form based on Character Point cost as normal, but your super form has no starting Hero Points. In addition, Each Page of combat in which you do not transform into your super form, you receive a Hero Point. Each non-combat scene in which you maintained your Normal form you also receive a Hero Point. You can use the Hero Points earned in this way in your super form as well as your Normal form.

Re: Is this Advantage OK? Also got a better name idea?

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:19 pm
by Solarblast
Crook Book #1 has suppressed persona, it is basically when someone has a malignant personality in them that the person in question wants to suppress.

Suppressed Persona: Deep within you, there is another personality that is essentially being kept
prisoner by the dominant one. This could be the result of some sort of supernatural possession, a
past life, a severe psychological problem, or perhaps the result of some physical transformation that has its own personality. In times of extreme stress (when the Narrator deems it dramatically appropriate), or when the dominant persona is doing something extremely repugnant to the suppressed persona, the Suppressed Persona may fight back to emerge, even if only very briefly to give a warning or a clue. When this struggle is happening, the character either takes no actions at all (other than talking), or reverses their previous course of action. Enemies who know how can utilize the Suppressed Persona to their benefit and try to force this reaction. Effectively this Disadvantage
is similar to the Advantage Alter Ego, but presumes that one of the personalities has complete dominion over the other.