Re: [HOE] Slow Burn question...

["Kai Tave" <kaitave@harborside.com>]

Know what a shaped-charge warhead does?

Slow Burn is a pyrokinetic shaped charge.  It's like a Brain Blast times
ten.

Slow Burn doesn't really "explode" things like, say, Arson.  It's actually
very precise.  If you take a look at the adventure in the back of the
Brainburners book, it mentions that a Slow Burn used against a Combine
Raptor basically burned a clean hole through the brain housing.  The power
itself actually gives a pretty good description of it; first the syker
"probes" the target with a visible current of sykic energy, then once the
complete toughness of the target has been determined, *VWOOSH*...big bolt of
superheated energy.  I guess you could rule that only weak blasts (3d10 and
down) do the "clean" burns while the bigger ones actually cause explosions
when they hit.

--Kai Tave



>  Okay, so...
>
>  Slow Burn is listed as a Pyrokinesis power.  The description of the power
>doesn't really go into what the effects of the power are, just that it does
>damage.
>  What would you say causes the damage?
>
>  I've got one player saying that it's just an explosion, a co-GM saying he
>likes the idea of "bands of energy reaching out, wrapping around, and
>slicing it to bits," all sorts of stuff.
>
>  The reason I need to know before next Saturday is because in our last
>session, our Templar was fighting a harrowed anti-templar inside the
central
>concrete shaft of a water tower (I finally got to make my changes to
>Something About A Sword, to my delight and my players horror), the
>anti-templar succeded in lopping off the Templar's sword arm, the Templar
>threw a flying tackle into the Harrowed, throwing them down the pit, just
as
>the Syker's Slow Burn finally exploded the shaft (and in my opinion,
blowing
>the Templar's arm and sword to bits in the explosion).
>
>  We left things on a cliffhanger, with the Templar and the Anti-Templar
>plummeting downwards...
>
>
>  - Rebis
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