HOUSE RULES

BASIC RULES

• MUTANTS AND MASTERMINDS SECOND EDITION

ABITILITIES

• Jumping - Characters with Speed, can multiple the their Strength bonus by their ranks in speed for the purposes of running jumps. However they must make an acrobatics check = DC10 + 2 x ranks of speed added, to land correctly. If they fail to land correctly they must make a toughness save equal to 15+ ranks in speed/2, and they are prone.

TRAITS

• Perform Skill grants bonus in all performance types, and twice the rank in a chosen speciality.
• Following Feats need GM Approval
  • Eidetic Memory, Evasion, Improved Grab
• Following Powers need GM Approval
  • Boost, Comprehend (Objects), ESP, Healing, Precognition. Postcognition
• Aura powers + melee attacks are capped at PL (So if you have rank 5 Strike Aura, and a 20 strength you are PL10).
• Linked attacks are also so capped (Dazzle + Blast)
• The Communication Power has a base range of 1 mile rather than the posted 10 ft.
  Mental Communication can be made 2-way for a +1 Extra.
• Shrinking Power effect are amended as follows:
  

  SIZE	ATTACK/ DEFENSE	STRENGTH (Minimum 1)	TOUGH	GRAPPLE	STEALTH	INTIMIDATE	RANGE INCREMENT/ MOVE SPEED/ CARRYING CAPACITY
  Small	+1	-4	-1	-4	+4	-2	3/4
  Tiny	+2	-8	-2	-8	+8	-4	1/2
  Diminutive	+4	-12	-3	-12	+12	-6	1/4
  Fine	+8	-16	-4	-16	+16	-8	1/8
  Miniscule	+12	-20	-5	-20	+20	-10	1/12

  
  Normal Strength Extra +1: Character's Strength, Carrying Capacity, Range Increments, and Movement are not affected by Shrinking. However, bonuses from shrinking are subject to PL Limits.
  Normal Toughness Power Feat: (Ranked) For each rank of this feat, character retains one point of toughness lost from Shrinking. This is not subject to PL Limits.

NEW POWER FEAT:

Power Manipulation: This power feat is identical to the Luck feat, except it can only be used to make an alternate power feat for a power or an array. Like the Luck feat, this can be used for one use (until the power is turned off, or used once in the case of instant powers) and it must be a reasonable use of the alternate power.
This is ideal for spell casters, elementalists, and other character who should have a wide variety of powers at their disposal but not regularly available.
Sample feat typess include: element manipulation, energy manipulation, magical manipulation, techonology manipulation, etc.
This feat does NOT add to the points available in an array.
Cost 1pp per use per day.

CHARACTERISTICS

• Unused Hero Points acquired in the course of an adventure (not the intial one) roll over from session to session. An additional Hero Point is granted at the beginning of each session.

COMBAT

• Use the Damage Roll system from Ars Ludi.
  Rolling for Damage

  When an attacker hits, they roll a d20 and add the damage of their attack (e.g. for a Blast 10 roll a d20 + 10).
  Compare the result to the target's Toughness:

  Toughness +7 = Bruised (+Injured)
  Toughness +11 = Stunned + Bruised (+Injured)
  Toughness +16 = Staggered + Stunned (+Disabled)
  Toughness +21 = Unconscious (+Dying)

  The attacker is rolling, so of course, the attacker can use a Hero Point to re-roll damage.

  The defender isn't rolling, so can't spend a Hero Point to re-roll anything. Instead the defender can spend a Hero Point to reduce the result one category (after the attacker has finished re-rolling, etc). So if the attacker gets a Staggered result, the defender can spend a Hero Point and move that up one bracket to Stunned instead.

  Current Damage Charts for the Team