During the character generation process, sometimes a player rolls a "wild card' power like Mutant Power or Body Power or Psionics but can't decide what to choose. One way to handle the situation is to let the player wait and decide on the power at some other time. The player-character starts out less powerful than they might have, but will have more perspective when fine-tuning their latent power that manifests later.

I have done that a few times. It makes for a good story.

Majestic wrote on Jan 27^th, 2016 at 2:03pm:



To use some old-school examples ...

Marvel Girl begins with Telekinesis and Psionics. She later specifies that Psionics = Telepathy.

Invisible Girl begins with Invisibility and Mutant Power. She later specifies that Mutant Power = Force Field.

Sprite begins with Non-Corporealness, Heightened Intelligence, a Body Power that disrupts computers and Pet. She later specifies that Pet is Lockheed the Dragon.

This is a brilliant idea, Polarboy. I have changed player powers before, as a result of something catastrophic they had done but never thought of delaying the power slate until a session or five had been played to get a feel for things.

Sometimes I have altered or added powers because of a catastrophic event (usually something stupid done by a player) and once because a player had to quit the group in mid-adventure due to circumstances outside his control and then came back about a year later. I killed the character off to explain the absence and brought him back with an expanded power slate.  Made for good roleplaying and excitement as he didn't know about the new powers until they manifested.

Kudos on a great idea.