Never thought of the act of teleporting as quite that powerful. You still have to think and react. Its not really a free shot. I mean like a cycolps person could be blasting someone really far away and have no chance of being hit back unless the opponent also had a ranged superpower (or a gun). I mean you can't really fight someone on the other side of the planet as you would not know where they were precisely enough to go over land a blow and come back. It would allow for ultimate kiting though so you might have something. I will say I would likely change to something else at that point. Going anywhere anytime instantly is really the main draw of the power. If I had a second choice it might be shape changing into any modern animal. A bit like beast boy but not the weird color thing. My guess is it would not be to OP because animals are not OP in relation to a soldier. I could see it taking a bit of time because the whole change into something massive while leaping around in combat does seem OP. A few minutes should suffice I think. And no dinosaurs that seems to much.
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I have used gurps but prefered the hero system. FYI if its still running champions online uses it somewhat. It does not exactly have a variable power pool but it does have a freeform that can dip into various power sets and you might like to know that power armor is a pretty cool one. My favorite character was power armor. Anyway I think you have it right in the last paragraph. Someone mentioned colossus and I said power man would fit better I think but I think wolverine without the adamantine might work. Be a lot easier to knock him out then. Was trying to avoid multiple powers though like claws and healing or natural camo, prehensile tail, and teleportation. I figure powers based around an animal are still sorta one thing maybe. Much of this post was to hear from folks without the answers like. I can do this one little thing and here is how it would make me invicible. I wanted people to think along the lines of superpowers but not an I win at everything power. I have heard someone talk about a power a bit like one of yours. don't suppose you sold comics somewhere between high school and college?
second point explicitly said you can't move though. so it sounds like time is stopped except for your ability to think. I actually thought with time stopped you did not have to worry about breathing.
Only thing I can think of is maybe horse racing. Because lottery stops selling tickets some minutes from the drawing and you can't be at the drawing. Still not sure if making money at the track is exactly OP. Very nice fringe benefit I would say.
It would make sense to prevent the person from stopping time forever I guess. Maybe its like you say with bullet one but it can be real slow. So perfectly safe if you spend less than an hour but you would have some bad consequence damage if you go like a day. Or to simplify what about you can't do it when asleep or unconcious. That would prevent stopping time forever and give you a bit of a weakness if someone can knock you out. So it would not actually become dangerous to you but you would lose your grip on stopping time eventually just do to exhaustion.
I think this would be hard by the not more powerful than a well equipped soldier metric. I could see having the look and feel but more at a power man level. That would be my genie take.
Well we don't want it useless just not OP. I feel like the first bullet is unnecessary if you have the other two and it would not be OP but would be useful enough. There was a comedy cartoon actually were the main character had a power like that. He could stop time but only to think things through although actually I think the joke was he could do other things but he basically only used it to get his head together. Honestly I think you could even remove the last bullet point. Just having time to think I don't think would be OP. I mean would allow you to do better on tests and game shows but that seems more a perk than OP.
I think there has been a misunderstanding. Everyone gets their own superpower they decided on but the genie will limit it to not be OP.
Is that necessary to prevent it being OP? So instaneously across the planet is OP?
What does the genie say about OP or do you want others to do that part?
I feel like the restrictions are going beyond just keeping it from being OP.
Do you mean with all the original limitations? I just felt they were a bit heavy handed as opposed to making the power useless and could be scaled back..