I was thininking that this power is just too flat out dull.   I would like to spice it up a bit.

First, when you roll this power, you roll  1D100
1-60  your bonus is with one form of a ttack
61-90 your bonus is with a group of attacks.
91-00 your bonus is with any attack.


Next the player decides their bonus.  Either plus level on damage, or to hit.  No big changes, I just like a bit of randomness to the power.

On one of my PCs (my namesake, Majestic) I essentially had a "Devices Guy" with a pretty wimpy battlesuit (no Armor originally, just a Life Support suit with some other devices).

I decided to go with an alternate form of Heightened Attack, and rationalized that it was due to a synaptic enhancer that augmented the character in battle.

So instead of giving him +1 damage per Level, it instead gives him +1 to Hit (with all attacks).

Helpful even at the lower levels, but once significantly up there - because we do longer campaigns, not short ones  - it means he hardly ever misses!

I've had a couple of modified versions of HGT Attack  (they should be listed in my house rules thread), but one version gives you a +1 to hit, instead of +1 damage, the other version is a modified version of Heightened Senses, called Combat Sense. the base power gives you a +1 to hit, +1 damage, and a -1 to be hit. As you advance in levels, you either get a +1 to hit,  a +1 to damage, or a the -1 to be hit. I'll post more details in a separate thread.

Oh, and he had just hit 16th Level, which is when he more or less settled down and retired (had a kid with and then married another PC).  He's not been active for something like 5 years, though I've considered bringing him back lately.

Doctor Foom wrote on Jul 20^th, 2009 at 10:10pm:


You know, it's a lot, but one thing I've come to realize over the years is that characters SHOULD hit most of the time.  I've found that - by and large - it is best if PCs can tag what they're trying to hit at will, but that it's okay if the villain shrugs off the blow a few times (with Willpower, Armor, Invulnerability, etc.), but eventually they will likely fall.

Perhaps it's a result of playing with such a large group for so long, but I've found that it's extremely frustrating for players to wait 10-20 minutes for their opportunity to take an action, just to have their shot go wild and the villain dodging easily out of the way.

Now there's plenty of villains where that's the way they do things, and that's fine.  But with MANY other game systems, it is almost impossible to miss (for a proficient hero), and I think that makes a lot of sense (champion level heroes should be hitting their targets most of the time).