FORCE FIELD
Effect: Defense
Action: Free
Range: Personal
Duration: Sustained
Cost: 1 point per rank
You can surround yourself with a protective field of force. A Force Field
gives you a bonus on Toughness saving throws equal to its rank. Since
it is Sustained, you can improve your Force Field using extra effort
(see page 120). The Force Field turns off if you are unable to maintain it,
for example, if you are stunned and fail a Concentration check.
POWER FEATS
• Selective: You can “tune” your Force Field to filter out some things
while allowing others to pass through it.
EXTRAS
• Impervious (+1): Your Force Field stops some damage completely.
If an attack has a damage bonus less than your power rank, it inflicts
no damage on you (you automatically succeed on the Toughness saving
throw). Penetrating damage (see page 112) ignores this modifier;
you save against it normally.
FLAWS
• Ablative (–1): Damage chips away at your Force Field. Each time
it provides its bonus, it loses 1 power point of effectiveness. When
reduced to 0 character points, it turns off. This is the same as the Fades
flaw (see page 114). Your Force Field can’t recover lost effectiveness
while it’s active, it must be turned off first.
• Limited (–1): Your Force Field applies to only one broad type of
damage (physical or energy). If it applies to only one narrow type of
damage (edged weapons, blunt weapons, electricity, fire, magic, etc.)
it has a –3 modifier.
