Is it just me or does this power kind of Suck?

I understand not all powers are created equally and you can do some cool stuff with it but I would rather beef it up a bit. So you can "destroy an object on a special roll to attack with S %"

Big deal. You can destroy an object with a Power Blast or throwing a truck on it.

Some Ideas.

Increase the damage but that one is a bit obvious.

I was also thinking on any attack that causes damage you roll a percentage to deafen the target if it has hearing capabilities. Deafened character has -4 to hit, sudden balance issue and +4 to be hit. Might be a bit much but something to make it a bit more useful.

I do think it is a good power to use Radius Attack(see Johns House Rules) with so long as no friends are around or if they are they have a proper defense

Deafening is a no brainer, good call. How about messing with equilibrium?   

As for the shattering, I always thought it would destroy objects when they wouldn't normally be able to break.  Like not enough damage to break it, or if it's in the hand and the guy rolls with the damage so it can't break...


Don't overlook the ability to mimic sounds and frequencies.

THE ONI wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2017 at 8:52pm:

Yes but with SA you can do it in one shot.


there's a lot of things you can do with this power, maybe you focus too much on the damage than the roleplay?
You can use is as a ventroloquist, imitate the voice of someone, make some perturbation among animals who have a larger spectrum of hearing sensibility, communicate with someone who have heightened senses whithout anyone else knowing, whispers voices in the ears of someone like somebody's speaking in his head etc..

Also, you get a straight S% roll.  Power blast does 1d20+mods, but has to factor in the Structural Rating (it came to me this morning).  So glass, sure, glass you are shattering all day with power blast.  But adamantium - not so much.  With this, just get the % roll and "Shatter!"

That is true, but what is the Sonic chance to hit?  I forget what the base is.  And yes, special attack = 2 attack rolls.  I agree.

This brings up a concept for power modification.  If someone rolls a heightened stat, but has a power that is based off the stat - if they want to give up the bonus to the stat, I think I will let them roll 2x the dice for the bonus.

So Anthem, the sonic powered patriotic hero.  Character concept is not a really strong guy, but player rolls Ht Str B along with his sonic powers.  If the player wants, I will let them roll 6d10 as the STR Bonus, only as it applies to Sonic powers.  That way, character concept remains a "not-so-strong" character, but with very strong powers.  He is, after all, giving up all of the other bonuses that go with the higher stat.

Thanks for making me think of this.

I like the idea of deafening a character. How about this, on a successful attack the target must save vs. E on 1d20, or is deafened for 1 turn = to the damage inflicted. So if the attack inflicts 6 points damage, the character is deaf for 6 turns. In addition to the obvious drawbacks of being deaf, the character's detect hidden/danger scores are 1/2 normal.

And another boost could be adding +3% per level, to simulate the character growing more skilled with their abilities to the chance to destroy and object.

How do they sound?