Additional Limbs
| Type: Alteration | Action: None (passive) |
| Range: Personal | Duration: Permanent |
| Saving Throw: None | Cost: 1 point per rank |
You have one or more additional limbs, such as arms, legs, tentacles, or a prehensile tail (among others). You have one extra limb at rank 1. Each additional rank moves your number of extra limbs one step up the Progression Table: two at rank 2, five at rank 3, and so forth. In-between numbers of additional limbs should be consid- ered the nearest higher rank. So four extra limbs, for example, is considered rank 3.
Additional Limbs do not allow you to take extra actions in a round, although they do provide the benefits of the Improved Grapple feat--grappling with some of your limbs and leaving others free--and may make you more resistant to trip attacks (granting you a +4 bonus on the resistance check if they make your stance more stable). All additional limbs except your dominant limb are considered your "off-hand." If you have the Ambidexterity feat, you have no off-hand penalties with any of your limbs.
If you apply all of your Additional Limbs to a grapple attempt (rather than using the benefits of Improved Grapple to leave some of them free), you gain a +1 grapple bonus per rank in Additional Limbs.
Power Feats
- Extended Reach: Since Additional Limbs is a personal range effect this power feat does not affect it. To extend the reach of your limbs (additional or otherwise), use the Elongation effect.
- Innate: Additional Limbs are often innate qualities of a character or creature|s physiology, making this power feat appropriate.
- Split Attack: While Additional Limbs do not grant any additional attacks, applying this power feat to the character|s unarmed attacks can reflect the ability of multiple limbs to strike at different targets.
- Subtle: The "effect" of Additional Limbs--namely having additional limbs--is not Subtle, an exception to the normal guidelines on passive effects. At the GM|s discretion, this power feat can give a character "invisible" Additional Limbs, detectable only by certain unusual senses (rank 1) or not at all (rank 2). This works well in conjunction with the Projection extra (see the following) and may make the Additional Limbs capable of surprise attacks.
Extras
In general, power modifiers affecting attacks (e.g. Affects Corporeal, Area, Penetrating, etc.) should apply to the Strength of a character with Additional Limbs rather than to the Additional Limbs effect itself. Such modifiers applied to Strength affect all of the character|s limbs.
- Duration: Additional Limbs can be made sustained in duration for a net +0 modifier. This reflects the type of power a character can turn on or off (growing or forming the additional limbs and then making them disappear just as easily). This is also the case for Additional Limbs made continuous (a +1 modifier) except the extra limbs remain until you choose to eliminate them, even if you are stunned or unconscious.
- Projection (+1): Your Additional Limbs are merely a projection of your power rather than an extension of you. Therefore, they are not vulnerable to attack on their own; any attacks specifically against your Additional Limb(s) have no effect. So, for example, one of your additional limbs could reach into a container of acid to pull out an object without any risk of harm. The GM may require Additional Limbs with this extra to modify their duration to continuous or sustained, but this is not essential. It|s likely that Additional Limbs with this extra are not eligible for the Innate power feat.
- Range: Like the Extended Reach feat, this modifier does not improve the "reach" of the Additional Limbs themselves. For that, use the Elongation effect.
Flaws
- Distracting (-1): Coordinating the actions of multiple limbs may be distracting indeed, applying this flaw to the Additional Limbs effect results in the character losing any dodge bonus while applying any extra limbs to an action. This flaw should generally not apply to any creature that has Innate Additional Limbs, especially if they are part of its natural physiology.
Drawbacks
- Noticeable: As noted under Subtle, Additional Limbs are noticeable by default and probably shouldn|t have this drawback unless they|re a Projection or something truly unusual.
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