Transform
| Type: Alteration | Action: Standard (active) |
| Range: Ranged | Duration: Sustained (lasting) |
| Saving Throw: Fortitude | Cost: 3-6 points per rank |
You can change a target into something else. Make an attack roll to hit your target, who makes a Fortitude save (DC 10 + Transform rank). If the save fails, the target transforms. Inanimate targets transform automatically, so long as you can affect their mass. Characters can make a Reflex saving throw for any worn or held object. You can transform 1 pound of inanimate mass at rank 1. Each additional rank moves this one step up the Progression Table. The transformation lasts as long as you continue sustaining it. When you stop, the target reverts to normal. What you can transform affects cost per rank:
- 3 points: Transform one thing into one other thing (flesh into stone, people into frogs, metal into wood, broken objects into repaired ones, etc.).
- 4 points: Transform a narrow group of targets into one of a narrow group of results (animals into humanoids, or vice versa, one type of metal into any other, etc.). Transform targets of a broad group into one result or a single target into any of a broad group.
- 5 points: Transform targets of a broad group into one of a broad group of results (inanimate objects or living creatures).
- 6 points: Transform anything into anything else.
You can change around a transformed target|s physical traits, so long as their point total remains the same or less. Adding new traits (such as giving a target wings) can be paid for by adding drawbacks or reducing other traits to compensate (or by Linking an Affects Others Variable structure to Transform, allowing you to add traits to the subject).
Transforming Devices And Equipment
Transforming someone|s devices or equipment requires targeting them first, as given under Attacking Objects (from M&M, page 155): a held object has a Defense of the holder|s Defense + the object|s size modifier + 5, while a worn or carried object has a Defense of the holder|s Defense + the object|s size modifier. So transforming a held weapon like a gun requires an attack roll against the holder|s Defense + 9 (+5 base +4 for a diminutive-sized object), targeting a worn suit of armor is an attack against the holder|s Defense (with no modifier for a medium-sized object).
Equipment is transformed automatically so long as the effect has sufficient rank to encompass its entire mass. The holder or wearer of a Device gets a Reflex saving throw to avoid having it transformed (DC 10 + Transform rank); a successful save means no effect. Transform is merely another way of "removing" a Device or equipment, considered a part of the discount that they offer, although transformed Device should eventually be restored or replaced.
Mental Transform
Transformed targets normally retain their mental traits and personality, although animate targets made inanimate are effectively rendered unconscious. A Transform effect with the Will Save modifier can change targets mentally as well as physically. A mental transformation is considered a separate effect; apply modifiers and power stunts to it separately. To transform a target both mentally and physically at once, link the two Transforms together (see the Linked power modifier). The type of mental transformation determines cost per rank:
- 2 point: Change the target|s memories or recollections, making the target forget something, or remember things differently.
- 3 point: Change around the target|s mental traits.
- 4 points: Completely alter the target|s mind, effectively creating an entirely new personality. You can change around their mental traits as desired, so long as their point value remains the same or less.
Power Feats
- Affects Insubstantial: Transform needs this power feat to affect incorporeal targets, but works normally on subjects with lower ranks of Insubstantial.
- Reversible: Transform effects are generally reversible and do not require this feat.
- Subtle: While a Transform effect is not itself Subtle in that the target is clearly transformed, this power feat can help conceal the source of the effect, making it less noticeable or not noticeable at all.
Extras
- Alternate Save: Transform based on Will is a Mental Transform effect; see the previous section for details.
- Area: An Area Transform effect changes all of the targets in the area in the same way. Each target makes its own saving throw, although the GM may choose to make a single save for a group of minions or other undifferentiated characters.
- Duration: Continuous transformations last until you choose to reverse them (or they are nullified). The GM can require that a Continuous Transform effect have some other reasonable way of undoing it, from a kiss from royalty to soaking in water, depending on the effect|s descriptors.
- Selective Attack: An Area Transform with this extra can transform only those subjects you choose, excluding others.
Flaws
- Duration: Transform with a duration of concentration requires constant attention (and a standard action each round) to maintain. Transform cannot have an instant duration.
- Limited: Transform effects limited to particular subjects or results should have their base cost adjusted as given in the effect|s description rather than applying this flaw. Transform effects limited in other ways may still have the Limited flaw.
- Permanent: This flaw does not apply to Transform, since permanent transformations are generally more of an advantage, and Continuous Transform is as close to permanent as the effect gets.
- Range: Touch range Transform requires a successful melee attack roll to touch the subject. Transform cannot be personal range and does not work on you; to transform yourself in various ways see Morph and the Variable power structure as well as the Shapeshift power in the following chapter.
MMPoderes
