Move Approval V

[Reece]

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Fine China Sharp Shards: 
300 - Using a shattered limb as a sharp melee weapon.
300 - Breaking off parts of sharp your body to hit people with.

Doesn't breaking off parts just count as using Disassemble, though?
I wouldn't have thought I'd need to pay an extra 300 to do something I can already do using a Power I paid 800 for...

The first off these options you can remove from this move if you want to save OM - and just keep it like an incidental-ish weapon. Unless you'd prefer to be effective with it (where it'd be strong because it hurts you in the process - which is a pretty good drawback).

Nah. I'd rather not pay extra for no reason, but if I have to then so be it. I'd rather pay more than get a weak Move.

Anyway, I know you're a fan of using direct stat comparisons in your moves, but that's really not how it works. It's a gradient and the numbers are guidelines for the roleplay. So "they will be unable to harm anyone whose DEF is equal to or greater than China’s ATK" is just gimping your character. Even someone with 1 ATK can get a lucky shot on someone with 4 DEF. So, while there's no problem with the line if you really want to keep it, you can cut it out.

Okay, thanks. I've chosen to keep in the bit about them usually breaking if he hits someone with high DEF, since it makes sense IC for them to work that way, because armour is harder than china... but I removed the bit about being unable to deal damage, as you suggested.

As for the second part, add that the shards can't go further than 12ft from his centre of mass (or the eye), since you have physical prof listed but not ranged.

Oops. Forgot about that. I've added Ranged Proficiency as a requirement.
I figure I don't really need to point out that half of his body needs to stay near the eye, since the Central Eye Move already mentions that. The other half can attack at range, though.

Also, while sorta implied, add something about controlling more shards requiring more concentration, making it harder to coordinate them all.

I'm not sure how much concentration you're expecting this to require... he's literally just using Disassemble. The Disassemble Power doesn't state that moving your body requires any more Focus than normal whilst Disassembled... though presumably doing multiple different things at the same time would still be really difficult, just as it would with a normal body (like, have you ever tried that thing where you rub your stomach and pat your head at the same time...? That shit is difficult).
So I've just added a note to say that it uses the same amount of Focus as moving while Disassembled. That should cover it.





So here's the updated version (changes in bold):

Fine China Sharp Shards (600)
(Physical Strength, Ranged Proficiency, Survival, Hive Mind, Disassemble, Flight)
As China’s entire body is composed of hollow porcelain, any broken parts will generally have sharp edges, and as such can be used as weapons in battle (e.g. stabbing someone with the stump of his arm after having a hand shattered). That said, they’re not particularly effective weapons, as they still have his DEF, so in clashes with swords or other weapons, they will just end up breaking more. Further, they will also usually end up breaking if he strikes a target with comparatively high DEF (equal to or greater than his ATK) with too much force. To anyone with DEF lower than his, they will cut just as easily as would any other bladed weapon wielded by someone with his ATK.

These shards can also be made to fly through use of the Flight and Hive Mind Powers, no different from how those would function with any other broken off body parts. Further, one way that China can choose to Disassemble his body is to voluntarily shatter it into a multitude of these shards, with only his Central Eye being left intact (see ‘Resilient China Central Eye’). That said, unlike in a fully Disassembled form, these shards are still able to be damaged in the exact same ways his normal body could, aside from the fact that it’s usually much easier for them to dodge, due to being so much smaller (like trying to shoot a shoal of fish, as opposed to a single shark). Note that using his body in the form of these shards requires the exact same amount of Focus as it would to control an equal portion of his body mass if it was Disassembled in a normal way through the use of the Power without a Move.

For the time being I've increased the price to 600... feel free to reconsider that cost and knock it back down to 300 if you want, though. =P
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