POWER DESCRIPTIONS

Ability Boost allows immediate self-improvement in one ability score (chosen in advance). This poer adds its intensity in points to that ability score, up to a maximum total of 20. This effect lasts for an aura duration. After the exchange, the score drops back to its original level, regardless of the effects that causes.

When part of a suit of powered armor or other piece of equipment, Ability Boost usually just raises the hero's ability score to the intensity level while the equipment is active.

Stunt - Dual Ability Boost:

Your hero can boost two abilities at once, each limited by the power's intensity total.

Absorption

Your hero can absorb a certain type of damage (examples include fire damage, cold damage, or kinetic damage). Absorptions of different damage types must be chosen separately. any attacks made in the specified mode inflict no damage on the hero, up to the intensity of the Absorption. Damage totals greater than the power's intensity are suffered as normal, as if the Absorption were additional defense.

Stunt-Absorption Boost:

This is a specialized form of Absorption that allows heroes to convert energy into strength. Your hero still absorbs up to the power's intensity in energy of whatever form, but now temporarily enhances his or her own body with it. The hero's Strength score increases by a number of points equal to the power's intensity up to a total score of 20. The heightened Strength lasts for an aura duration, and then drops to normal.

Stunt-Absorption Conversion:

your hero transformes the absorbed energy onr force into another kind of damage-causing effect. This new damage cannot be redirected without a power or stunt that does so (e.g., Fire Control)

Stunt-Absorption Healing:

Damage is not only absorbed, but it can be used to restore your hero's health. This requires one exchange fully devoted to healing after the damage-causing effect is absorbed. For every 10 wounds absorbed, the player redraws one lost card, up to no more than the hero's base Hand Size. (Characters gain one-half the absorbed damage in Health, up to their maximums.)

ADAPTION

Adaptatin physically changes your hero's body to suit hostile environments. After anexchange during which the hero must concentrate, he or she can affect a change in physical aspects such as looks, skin, lung capacty, and resistance to natural damage sources. Your hero can adapt to the strength of an alien planet's natives or to breathing nethane atmospheres. The power adapts to environments, not situations; a hero can't grow wings if pushed off a cliff, but can grow gills when plunged into waer. Similarly, your hero will gain no resistance to being struck, but may gain Resistance to Fire if among the