Superpower: Density Control Issue

[Ars Mysteriorum]

OK, there's a part of Density Control I'm not understanding.

The text states:

[...]Increased density temporarily increases your character’s damage bonus and hit points, though it lowers his or her movement rate by 2 meters per round.[...]

No increment is listed, though. 2 meters per level? 2 meters flat?

Then the example shows a character who increases his SIZ by 20 using level 20 density control.

[...]As such, White Dwarf is only able to walk 5 meters per combat round, or 20 meters running.[...]

So, is it 2 meters every 4 levels? Or is movement halved? Or is it something else?

Edited August 11, 2008 by Ars Mysteriorum

[Ars Mysteriorum]

I'll even take theories...?

[Harvey Walters]

OK, there's a part of Density Control I'm not understanding.

The text states:

No increment is listed, though. 2 meters per level? 2 meters flat?

Then the example shows a character who increases his SIZ by 20 using level 20 density control.

So, is it 2 meters every 4 levels? Or is movement halved? Or is it something else?

The original BRP rules from Worlds of Wonder gave humans a base movement rate of 24 meters per round. Superworld 1E does define Density as decreasing movement rate by 2 meters per level. At Density 12+ you really are a brick.

Michael Hoxie

[Ars Mysteriorum]

The original BRP rules from Worlds of Wonder gave humans a base movement rate of 24 meters per round. Superworld 1E does define Density as decreasing movement rate by 2 meters per level. At Density 12+ you really are a brick.

Michael Hoxie

So. How does this translate to the new BRP? The example doesn't illustrate this concept from WoW.

[King of Old School]

The math doesn't add up.

Suggestion:

Since the armor bonus is applied every 10 levels, apply the movement penalty for every 10 levels as well; so, a character using Density Control 20 would have her combat movement reduced from 10 units/round to 6 units/round.

KoOS

[Nightshade]

I personally prefered the Superworld 2e solution, which was just to link together Super-Strength, Super-Size (only as mass) and Protection and call it good (there was a table if your Size exceeded your strength, but if they kept up it didn't slow you down at all).