Move Object
| Type: General | Action: Standard (active) |
| Range: Ranged | Duration: Sustained |
| Saving Throw: None | Cost: 2 points per rank |
You can move objects at a distance without touching them. Move Object has no action/reaction; a moving object cannot drag the character "holding on" to it, for example. This effect is also not considered "physical contact" or "touch" for effects requiring it.
Your effective Strength for lifting and moving objects with this effect is 5 times your power rank (see Carrying Capacity, M&M, page 35). By taking a full action and concentrating you can increase this by +5 Str for as long as you concentrate, taking a standard action each round to do so. This is in addition to using extra effort to further double your carrying capacity.
This effect can move objects, but cannot perform tasks of fine manipulation (like untying knots, typing, or manipulating controls) without the Precise power feat (see the Power Feats for this power). Objects equaling a heavy load or more move at a rate of 5 feet per round. Lighter objects move a distance each round like they were thrown with your effective Strength. Objects thrown as attacks base their damage off your power rank as if it were your Strength bonus.
Move Object cannot inflict damage directly; you can|t "punch" or "crush" objects with it. You can use it to make disarm and trip attacks. Using Move Object to "grab" a creature is an attack similar to a grapple with a Strength bonus equal to your power rank (see Grapple, M&M, page 156). The target cannot grapple you and you cannot inflict damage, only pin and hold the target immobile. You can move a pinned target like you would any other object, so long as the target remains pinned. Using Move Object to grapple requires a standard action. You can throw a pinned target as a move action (M&M, page 157).
Power Feats
- Subtle: Note that Move Object is not Subtle by default (as some forms of telekinesis or psychokinesis are). The standard version of this effect involves some noticeable manifestation like a "tractor beam," a glow around your head or hands (along with a corresponding glow around the affected object), big glowing hands, blazing "energy talons," or the like. Apply the Subtle feat for a less noticeable Move Object effect.
Extras
- Damaging (+1): Your Move Object effect can inflict damage, like an application of normal Strength with a Strength bonus equal to its rank (not its lifting Strength of rank x 5). This includes damaging targets in grapples and making ranged "strike" attacks.
- Duration: Move Object generally cannot have a continuous duration, since it is an active effect and requires at least a modicum of attention to maintain. The GM may allow Continuous Move Object as a variation that is not disrupted when you are stunned, but that still requires your conscious attention (still an active effect). There|s no change in the cost of the Duration extra, this is just a limitation of the Move Object effect.
- Range: Perception range Move Object can affect any object you can accurately perceive, with no need for an attack roll.
Flaws
- Distracting: Move Object may require sufficient focus that you are distracted from other things, imposing this modifier. This makes the effect less useful in combat situations.
- Duration: Concentration duration Move Object requires more of your attention to maintain. You cannot concentrate to double your lifting capacity with Move Object that requires concentration. Move Object with an instant duration is only useful for throwing objects with a single burst of force, not holding or moving them.
- Limited Direction (-1): You can only move objects in a particular direction or path, such as only up and down (towards and away from the ground), only directly towards or away from you (attraction and repulsion), and so forth.
- Limited Material (-1): You can only move a particular type of object or material, such as only metals, water, rock, plants, and so forth. The GM may allow a -2 flaw for a particularly limited type of material (such as only precious metals, leaves, or sand).
- Range: Since the Move Object effect works on things at a distance by definition, it cannot generally be reduced to touch range. At the GM|s discretion, a touch range Move Object effect may represent "tactile telekinesis" or a supernatural influence over objects you are able to touch, but such things are usually better represented by the Enhanced Strength and Super-Strength effects.
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