DeBuff

[Thaal Sinestro]

If the Debuff simply allows for you to describe effects in your writing, why do we need it as a power? If with SP and a super move you can't do actual debuffing, what is the point? I already can write a story in which one of my attack causes you too move slower just from having taken damage, that is just writing fodder. =/

For instance, I don't see a problem in spending an sp point in order to debuff someones 1 sp cost transform. Why not? I could just as easily spend an sp on a transformation to even out the playing field, so why not spend the sp to knock them out of theirs? It is effectively the same thing, using sp to balance.

I dunno if this makes sense, but I feel like we are limiting a power so much it isn't even really a power any more.

If you hit somebody in the leg, and they move slower, that's not a Debuff. Debuff is any time something negatively effects OTHER THAN PHYSICAL DAMAGE. If you had an attack that was SPECIFICALLY designed to hurt somebody in a way to slow them down, like caltrops or something, that would be a different story, but just hurting somebody and them moving slower does not require Debuff.