SHRINKING

Effect: Alteration

Action: Free

Range: Personal

Duration: Sustained

Cost: 1 point per rank

Optional: Fatigue

You can reduce your size. Every rank of Shrinking reduces your Strength by 1 (with a minimum of Str 1). Additionally, every four ranks reduce your size category by one. So a Medium-sized creature is Small at rank 4, Tiny at rank 8, Diminutive at rank 12, Fine at rank 16, and Miniscule at rank 20. You gain all the benefits and drawbacks of your new size. For the effects of reduced size refer to the Size table (see page 34). You lose 5 feet of movement speed per size category you shrink, down to a minimum speed of 5 feet at Miniscule size.

POWER FEATS

• Alternate Power: If you have Shrinking, you can acquire Growth as an Alternate Power feat.

• Atomic Size: If you have Shrinking 20, you can shrink down past Miniscule size to the atomic scale, allowing you to pass through solid objects by slipping between their atoms. You’re effectively immune to attacks at a higher scale, although the GM decides the effect of any given attack or hazard while you are at atomic size.

• Growth Strike: You can add the momentum of increasing size to your melee attacks, literally enlarging under an opponent’s jaw, for example. This gives you a +1 damage bonus per size category you enlarge until you reach your opponent’s size and only works on opponents larger than you are. So growing from Miniscule to Medium size as part of an attack does +5 damage.

• Microverse: If you have Shrinking 20, you can shrink down past Miniscule size, to the point where you cross dimensional barriers and enter a “microverse” (which may or may not really exist at the sub- atomic level). Entering or leaving a microverse is a move action. In the microverse, you lose your Shrinking power, but gain Growth equal to your Shrinking rank (and when you grow larger than Awesome size, you leave the microverse and return to the normal universe where your powers return to normal).

EXTRAS

• Normal Strength (+1): You suffer no reduction in Strength, carrying capacity, or movement speed when you shrink.