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Plant Descriptors
The following are important descriptors for plant powers.
Plant: Plants are a classification of life, primarily associated with producing their own food via photosynthesis. Most plant powers use the broadest definition
of the term and include things like mosses, algae,
seaweed, and kelp, but not fungi like mushrooms,
which are a separate order of life. In settings with
alien life, the plant descriptor may include species of
alien plants as well; a character limited to power over
earthly plants has a power loss complication when
in an alien environment (see Plant Complications).
Since plant powers often involve manipulating plants
they may have the Indirect modifier, allowing plant
attacks to burst up from the ground beneath targets
for example, or for animated plants to reach out for
them from behind, giving plant controllers the opportunity to make surprise attacks (Heros Handbook,
page 199). Indirect 3 is usually sufficient for this, since
plant attacks must originate from the ground, but
can go in any direction, including towards the user.
Wood: The hard, fibrous tissue of trees, primarily made up of cellulose. Wood is a primary plant
product, and some plant powers rely on the ability to
produce, control, and shape wood, or to grant wood-
Plant Features
Some potential Feature effects associated with Plant
Powers include the following:
Offensive Powers
Offensive plant powers involve plant-like capabilities
such as thorns or poisons or turning actual plants into
weapons, often animating them to attack on their own.
Control Plants
You can exert control over animate plant creatures (rather
than granting animation to normally immobile plants, see
Animate Plants).
Control Plants: Perception Ranged Cumulative Affliction
(Resisted and Overcome by Will; Dazed, Compelled,
Controlled), Limited to Plants (2), Subtle 1 point + 2
points per rank.
Internal Flora
By exerting power over the plant-like flora found in the
digestive tracts of many animals, you can induce nausea,
cramping, and similar unpleasant and potentially incapacitating effects.
Internal Flora: Perception Ranged Cumulative Affliction
(Resisted and Overcome by Fortitude; Dazed, Stunned,
Incapacitated), Subtle 1 point + 4 points per rank.
Phytotoxin
You can produce or mimic the effects of plant-based
poison. Different phytotoxins may cause different conditions; if you have the power to produce a wide range of
toxins, you may have different Alternate Effects, or apply
the Variable Conditions modifier (see the Illusion Powers
profile). For a deadly toxin, substitute Weaken Stamina for
the Affliction effect. If you use the Illusions as Affliction
option (see the Illusion Powers profile) Phytotoxins can
cause hallucinations as one of their conditions.
This power requires touching the target by default, if you
can poison a target at a distance, apply the Ranged modifier.
Phytotoxin: Affliction (Resisted and Overcome by Fortitude;
Impaired, Disabled, Paralyzed), Secondary Effect 2 points
per rank.
Pollen Cloud
You release a cloud of plant-based pollen or spores, creating a biological reaction in your targets. As with Phytotoxin (previously) different combinations of pollens or spores
can cause different conditions. A strong pollen cloud
may have the Cumulative or even Progressive modifiers.
By default, you produce a pollen cloud in all directions
around you. If you can create a cloud at a distance (hurling
a pod that bursts open on target, for example) apply the
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Sap Snare
You hurl a blob of sticky, fast-hardening sap at your
target, binding them up and sticking them to any
surface they are touching. If you create a Sap Snare big
enough to trap multiple targets, apply the Burst Area
modifier to the power, increasing cost by 1 per rank. If
you cause plants near or around the target to emit the
snare, apply the Indirect modifier. A sticky Sap Snare
may also be Contagious, trapping anyone else touching the victim.
Sap Snare: Ranged Cumulative Affliction (Resisted by
Dodge, Overcome by Damage; Hindered and Vulnerable,
Defenseless and Immobilized), Extra Condition, Limited
Degree 3 points per rank.
tanglevines
You cause masses of animated vines and similar vegetation to spring up from the ground, wrap around targets
and hold them in place. A more precise version of this
power applies the Selective modifier, allowing you to
only entangle the targets you wish, excluding allies from
the effect.
Tanglevines: Ranged Burst Area Affliction (Resisted by
Dodge, Overcome by Damage; Hindered and Vulnerable,
Defenseless and Immobilized), Extra Condition, Indirect 3,
Limited Degree 3 points + 3 points per rank.
Thornskin
Sharp, woody thorns sprout from your skin, making it dangerous to touch or strike you and causing your unarmed
strikes and grabs to inflict additional damage.
Thornskin: Damage (piercing), Reaction (to being touched or
struck) 4 points per rank.
Throwing Thorns
You can fling volleys of sharp thorns at targets. Throwing Thorns may be Linked with a power like Phytotoxin (previously) tipping the thorns with a plant-based
poison they introduce into the targets. In this case, the
Phytotoxin Affliction must also have the Ranged and
Multiattack modifiers. If you cause plants near or around
the targets to grow and fling thorns, apply the Indirect
modifier.
Throwing Thorns: Ranged Damage (piercing), Multiattack 3
points per rank.
Defensive Powers
Plants are hardy and tenacious, often growing under
harsh conditions, and able to regenerate from roots and
cuttings.
Photosynthesis
Like a plant, you are able to convert light and water into
nutrients. You have no need to consume nourishment so
long as you are exposed to light. Possessing this power
may turn a characters skin green with chlorophyll.
Photosynthesis: Immunity 1 (starvation) 1 points.
Regrowth
Like a plant, you can regenerate and regrow, except you
do so far faster. Extreme levels of Regrowth may incorporate ranks of Immortality, allowing you to regrow your
entire body from nothing more than a single fragment,
seed, or shoot. The Source modifier may be appropriate,
requiring normal plant growth conditions.
Regrowth: Regeneration 1 point per rank.
Root Digging
Like powerful roots, you can dig deeply through the earth,
allowing you to move underground for a distance and reemerge onto the surface.
Root Digging: Burrowing 1 point per rank.
Root Transport
You step or meld into a plant or area of plant-life, emerging from another plant or area of vegetation some distance away. You can only transport from and to areas with
plant life. Apply other Teleport modifiers (Heros Handbook, page 131) to customize the power.
Root Transport: Teleport, Medium (Plants) 1 point per rank.
Woodskin
Your flesh takes on the hardness and strength of wood
while retaining its normal flexibility. If you can transform
from ordinary flesh to Woodskin, apply the Sustained
modifier. Otherwise, this power is a permanent change.
Woodskin: Protection, Noticeable 1 point for 2 ranks + 1 point
per rank.
Movement Powers
Plant movement powers involve using vegetation to
move (carried by, or swinging on, vines for example) or
moving through vegetation in ways most people cannot.
Brachiation
You can swing through areas of vegetation, grabbing
branches and vines, perhaps even growing them as
needed. If youre dependent on areas of heavy vegetation, apply a Limited flaw to the power, reducing its cost
to 1 point.
Brachiation: Movement 1 (Swinging) 2 points.
Carrier Vine
You can ride a growing, animated vine or branch that
carries or lifts you into the air like a living ladder. A Carrier
Vine is typically fairly slow, not good for more than 23
ranks at the most.
Carrier Vine: Flight 1, Platform 1 point per rank.
Woods Walk
When you move through an environment rich with plant
life, you do not disturb the vegetation or leave any trail
to follow.
Woods Walk: Movement 2 (Trackless), Limited to Plant Life
1 point.
Utility Powers
Plant powers have a wide range of utility, from increasing
the growth of plant life and granting them animation and
the ability to follow commands to communicating with
plant life or perceiving the past or present through plant
senses.
Animate Plants
You can grant plants mobility and limited awareness, allowing them to carry out your commands. Your power
may also grow them to considerable size. Animated
plants can grab and hold targets, flail with limbs, vines,
or branches, or become shambling soldiers, in the case of
animated trees.
Plant controllers often apply the Multiple Minions and Horde
modifiers to this power, allowing them to animate entire
groups of plants at once. While animated plants are typically
minions, this power might have the Heroic modifier, removing the minion template from the animated plants.
Animate Plants: Summon Animated Plant, Controlled, General
Type 4 points per rank.
Animated Tree
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Green Memory
By coming into contact with a plant or area of plants, you
can recall events which happened in their presence. See
the Postcognition effect (Heros Handbook, page 126) for
details.
Green Memory: Senses 4 (Postcognition), Limited to Areas of
Plant-Life 2 points.
Green Network
You can mentally link with plant-life, allowing you to
perceive what is near those plants as if you were actually present, using your own sensory abilities (rather
than being limited to the plants senses). The Feedback
flaw is a common one for this power, applying whenever
the plants you are using as your medium are attacked or
damaged.
Green Network: Remote Sensing (visual, auditory, tactile),
Medium (Plants) 3 points per rank.
Plant Form
You combine humanoid and plant traits: retaining normal
capabilities of movement, speech, and senses while
having a plants resistance to many animal needs and
concerns. Some of Plant Forms benefits are trade-offs:
you become immune to human diseases and toxins, for
example, but vulnerable to plant diseases and toxins (her-
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Plant Growth
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Warp Wood
Your power over plants allows you to reshape even dead
wood, molding it into new forms. For +1 point per rank
you also have the power to enliven dead wood, causing it
to rapidly put forth new roots, branches, leaves, and even
flowers, seeds, or fruit. The newly restored plant only live
for as long as conditions allow.
Warp Wood: Transform (wooden objects into different shapes)
2 points per rank.
Plant Complications
Although plants and plant-like abilities have their advantages, they also have their own particular complications,
which can affect those who rely on plants or who are
plants themselves!
Addiction
Plants are a primary source for many of the worlds most
addictive substances, so a plant-powered character might
get tangled up in those addictions. It can be as simple
as the ability to produce addictive plants (or their active
components) at will to as complicated as needing exotic
plant extracts or formulations. Sometimes these addictions are more Disability or Power Loss complications, but
still involve dependence on something.
Another twist on the Addiction complication is a plant
powersuch as a Phytotoxin or Spore Cloudthat is
itself addictive, allowing the user to create addicts willing
to do whatever it takes to get another hit from it.
Disability
Plant characters may not be entirely human, or even
animals! A plant being may have Disabilities from a
human perspective. The most extreme, of course, would
be limited mobility. Normal plants are sessile and do not
move on their own. Plant characters might need to take
root for some amount of time to maintain their health.
Plant creatures may also lack some human-level sensory abilities or the power of speech. Like most complications, these
Disabilities only count insofar as they limit the character: A
plant creature unable to speak aloud, but able to communicate via telepathy, for example, does not suffer as much of a
complication as a plant creature unable to communicate at
all except with those with the Speak With Plants power.
Hatred
A strong desire to protect the natural world is common for
those with plant powers, and they may have a Hatred for polluters and others who despoil the environment and wantonly destroy plant-life, such as loggers and clear-cutters. Situations where the character is forced to deal with (or succumbs
to) such hatred are complications worth a hero point award.
Power Loss
Generally speaking, a plant-controllers dependence on
plant-life is not a Power Loss complication if it is accounted for in the modifiers on the characters powers. So, for
example, powers with the Medium (Plants) flaw do not
also qualify the character for Power Loss when there are
no plants around for that power to function. The benefit is
already accounted for in the cost reduction from the flaw.
Still, there are other circumstances that can cause Power
Loss for a plant-based character. The characters powers
Prejudice
Plant creatures are almost sure to be seen as alien and
strange by a segment of the population. There are likely
to be issues about a plants legal status (whether it is intelligent or not), its right to move freely amongst humans,
and questions about its motives, especially when dealing
with matters of survival of the species.
Reputation
Outspoken advocates of eco-activism, protection of endanger plants, and other key issues can gain a reputation
as strident opponents of progress and modern society. At
the least, a plant hero known as a champion of the environment is likely to run into trouble with less scrupulous
businesses and governments looking to ensure the character does not become a problem for them.
Responsibility
Power over plants often comes with a sense of responsibility to the natural world. Even if it does not turn into a
Hatred of polluters or a bad Reputation, the characters
strong sense of Responsibility can create complications
when it comes into conflict with other priorities: Are the
lives of a handful of human botanists worth more than
the last surviving example of a rare plant they have found
when both of them are threatened with destruction?
Secret
Perhaps the greatest secret a plant-powered character might conceal is actually being a plant rather than a
human being!
Weakness
Plants may become sluggish or even dormanthindered,
fatigued, or incapacitatedwithout sunlight and wither
in the absence of water, with greater heat accelerating
the process. They tend to suffer more from cold, although
trees have the ability to hibernate through long winters.
Plant- and wood-based characters may be especially
vulnerable to fire and heat damage, suffering additional
degrees of effect from such attacks.
Plants and plant-based characters may also have vulnerabilities to herbicides and other substances harmful to
plants, suffering additional degrees of effect from Afflictions, Damage, and other effects based on them.
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