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Revised Gravity Control in Revised Villains & Vigilantess

It is our considered opinion that the Gravity Control power as written in the V&V rulebook needs some tweaking.  The following changes and additions should be made to the official rules:

• Increase Gravity: the maximum increase is equal to the square of the character's Strength score. PR equals the square root of the effective gravity increase, rounded up. (e.g., a 25x increase is PR =5, 30x is PR=6, 36x is PR=6). this provides a high level of gradation and IMHO makes it a reasonably effective attack method. mundanes will be subdued easily (at PR=1 to 3), energy projectors can still blast (even when being crushed by their own weight), and bricks will require a lot of effort to stop but at least they can be stopped.
  Any structure the character is on suffers damage based on the character's new weight (see page 25 of the V&V rules). If the new weight exceeds the target's Carrying Capacity, the target is crushed by his own weight and suffers damage based on the excess weight. (Subtract Carrying Capacity from weight, consult the table on page 25 of the V&V rules. The character suffers half that damage each between turns phase.) Any character being crushed by her own weight cannot move nor employ attack nor defense strategies which require movement.
  For example, PR=2 would pin Jennifer Mulligan to the ground and if maintained for ten minutes or so could incapacitate her. And it take PR=5 to stop Fury.
  In the above example, at PR=2, Jennifer Mulligan would suffer upto 1 point damage per turn (4× warp), at PR=3, she'd take upto 1d3 damage per turn (9× warp). At PR=5, Fury would take upto 1d4 damage per turn (25× warp), at PR=6 he'd take upto 1d6 (36× warp).
• Decrease Gravity:  Gravity can be reduced to exactly nothing at PR=1.
• Reverse Gravity: Gravity can be reversed causing the target to have "negative weight". The maximum "negative weight" the target can have is equal to the attacker's Strength times the target's weight. PR=1 per multiple of weight. (I.e. -1 G is PR=1, -2 G is PR=2, etc.)
• Duration:  The character can spend one action per turn to maintain any gravity warp within range at no additional PR cost for upto a number of turns equal to the character's Strength. The duration may be automatically extended at a PR equal to that spent to initiate the warp. Any warp ends immediately if the warp victim and the warp creator are separated by more than creator's Strength in inches (either because the target moves or the creator moves).
• Inanimate Objects:  at the GM's discretion, warps against inanimate objects may be created as movement only (assume 5" is PR=1).
• Other notes:  The warp creator may voluntarily decrease the strength of any warp, by any amount, as movement only, during the same action used to maintain the warp. This is useful if the warp creator only wants to restrain the target rather than crush him. Alternately, during the maintenance action, the warp creator may voluntarily increase the strength of an existing warp by any amount, paying PR equal to the square root of the warp strength increase, rounded up (e.g. +1 G is PR=1, +2 G to +4 G is PR=2, etc).