Saturday, December 2, 2023

Pushing the Bounds of Normal; Enhanced Toughness

 Adapted From Enhanced Durability- Superpower Wiki

Lately, I have been exploring various realms of genre fiction and wondering if there was a way to crash them together in a tabletop experience. This means figuring out a way to balance unrelated effects against each other. I love Mutants and Masterminds for its ability do describe almost any character ability you can think of, so I am experimenting with M&M’s tools to work on ways to fold multiple genres together.


Enhanced Toughness

The power to possess superhuman toughness Sub-power of Enhanced Body

Also Called

Superhuman Durability/Resilience

Super Durability/Resilience

Capabilities

Users' physical durability, the ability to withstand damage, is extremely high, allowing them to take numerous blows of internal or external assaults before succumbing to the effects. The user can withstand bullets, grenades and low to medium explosives (equivalent to ten tons of TNT), survive falling from the top of tall buildings and building collapse, withstand beatings from superhumans, take getting beaten with steel rods and bars, and survive massive amounts of blood loss.

Limitations

Since the user isn't invulnerable, the user can only take so much damage before it finally takes effect. At best, the user will only be stunned by damage that would usually kill ordinary people.

If the power is due to mimicking an element, the user might become even more vulnerable than normal to certain attacks. Ex: Someone with Metal Mimicry might be fragile towards someone with Magnetism Manipulation, or a person with Water Mimicry will be frail to those with Electricity Manipulation.

Some powers that are capable of bypassing durability like Telepathy, Absolute Strength, Durability Negation, etc., can be counteractive against this ability.

May have a set duration.

Devices

Armory Alloy Plating +1 Device


Tech


A proprietary alloy of rare metals manufactured by Black Industries; this plating forms the structure of the Armory Suit. (Impervious Protection 11)



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