FreakyCheeseMan
2014-06-23, 07:46 PM
Building a gestalt Psion/Binder for a PbP game; I want to come up with a custom flaw for the Psion, as (for character reasons) he's severly dyslexic. I have a few ideas, but the DM asked me to check what you guys though.
Idea #1: All powers, by default, have an X% failure rate when he uses them. He can negate 1/2X% each by adding an extra verbal or sommatic component (so if he adds both, he casts perfectly reliably.) - the fluff on this is that it's a mnemonic device, where he's trained himself to associate the structure of powers with words and gestures, and learned those by muscle memory, to help him cast more reliably.
Idea #2: All powers, by default, have a Y% failure rate. He can expend his psionic focus to negate this failure rate entirely for a given power.
Idea #3: All powers, by default, have a Z% failure rate; he can negate this by spending an extra power point, which does not count against his maximum-use-per-power.
So, which of those do you like? What would you say are appropriate X, Y or Z? Should I add any sort of "Backlash" for powers that fail in that way? (I was thinking something like PP/2 d6 nonlethal damage in a 5ft radius blast centered on him, reflex save for everyone else.)
Idea #1: All powers, by default, have an X% failure rate when he uses them. He can negate 1/2X% each by adding an extra verbal or sommatic component (so if he adds both, he casts perfectly reliably.) - the fluff on this is that it's a mnemonic device, where he's trained himself to associate the structure of powers with words and gestures, and learned those by muscle memory, to help him cast more reliably.
Idea #2: All powers, by default, have a Y% failure rate. He can expend his psionic focus to negate this failure rate entirely for a given power.
Idea #3: All powers, by default, have a Z% failure rate; he can negate this by spending an extra power point, which does not count against his maximum-use-per-power.
So, which of those do you like? What would you say are appropriate X, Y or Z? Should I add any sort of "Backlash" for powers that fail in that way? (I was thinking something like PP/2 d6 nonlethal damage in a 5ft radius blast centered on him, reflex save for everyone else.)