Originally Posted by jspade

I'm trying to convert an existing Mayfair DC Heroes campaign to DC Adventures. This is my first exposure to the Mutants & Masterminds system, though I've been gaming for over 20 years and contributed to GURPS and the Hero System. I'm very impressed with the mechanics, but I've got a couple of problems I'm stuck on.

The player characters are all Star Sapphires, and the focus is on the wars of light, so power rings are obviously a big concern. I'm having some trouble understanding the limits of the Create power. I need the Lanterns to be able to do fairly complex constructs (functional guns, spacecraft, medical equipment, etc.) as is fairly common in Green Lantern Corps these days. Unless I'm reading it incorrectly, Create doesn't allow for that. In fact, about all you seem to be able to do is drop things on people.

So, I need some help on (at least) two points:

• How do I have a power ring create a construct that is more than an amorphous mass?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Originally Posted by midnight

That is covered as the Extra called Precise for the Create Effect it adds a Flat +1 point cost to the Effect

page 93; First Collum, Fifth Entry Down

Midnight

Originally Posted by DCA Heroes Handbook Page 223

Power Ring: 132 points, Removable (–26 points) • 106 points
AI and Database: Features 2 • 2 points
Communication: Senses 1 (Communication Link to Central Power Battery) • 1 point
Flight: Flight 14 (32,000 MPH), Movement 4 (Environmental Adaptation — Zero-G, Space Travel 3) • 36 points
Force Field: Protection 12, Impervious; Immunity 10 (Life Support) • 34 points
Force Manipulation: Array (36 points)
• Force Blast: Ranged Damage 18, Dynamic • 37 points
• Force Constructs: Create 18 , Dynamic• 2 points
• Lifting: Move Object 18, Dynamic • 2 points
• Force Bubble: Affects Others, Burst Area, and Ranged on Immunity 10 (Life Support) • 2 points
• Mobile Constructs: Create 12, Movable, Dynamic • 2 points Scanning Beam: Senses 6 (Analytical Auditory, Chemical, and
Visual) • 6 points Universal Translator: Comprehend Languages 4 • 8 points

Originally Posted by jspade

Midnight, as I read Precise, it allows you to create "objects with moving parts, and considerable detail." Soranik Natu's impromptu surgical theater in the "Sins of the Star Sapphire" arc seems to go well beyond that. Am I misinterpreting this? Would you allow Create with Precise to create a blaster rifle, suit of articulated armor, or ultrasound machine? If so, what kind of ranks would you assign to the effects of these devices?

Originally Posted by midnight

in Short Yes.

Now not every Lantern will have the Imagination to Build a Surgical theater or other complex devices on a constant basis so they wouldn't necessarily have the precise extra but could access it as necessary with the use of a power stunt. Hal doesn't have it (Precise) but John Stewart who is an architect by trade most likely would.

Soranik Natu is already a skilled surgeon so the surgical theater she created is really only a manifestation of the Ring Scanning functions as well as the AI's Link to central power battery data banks, as well as a combination of Simple & Precise constructs / tools. The Surgical Theater Force Construct's Purpose was to place her in a familiar environment that would allow her to exploit the ring's functions to exercise her already considerable surgical skill.

A Blaster Rife is a Manifestation of the rings force blast Power.
Power Armour Likewise a Manifestation of the Force Field and Lifting
and Ultrasound machine certainly ( it just scanning after all )

Manifestation are just way in which the users mind puts a familiar and understandable shape to the Ring's own powers.

- Midnight

Originally Posted by Monolith

That's never been how it worked in 2e. What you're describing is a very liberal GM's interpretation of how functional precise allows items to be.