New Toughness Power: Swarm Body [-3]

[SunlessNick]

It would really bother me if this power were to become the clearly optimal choice in high-powered games.

What its attacks are weaker too?  There might be a lot of mouths, but they're small, and a swarm isn't going to be able to use a weapon.  It might be superior to Toughness at high levels, but that enemy with Toughness will be dishing out a lot more hurt.

[Tedronai]

This power, as written, has no negative effects on the capabilities of the swarm-character.  It would not, for example, preclude the character from wielding a sword using its mythic strength.

[Revlid]

This power, as written, has no negative effects on the capabilities of the swarm-character.  It would not, for example, preclude the character from wielding a sword using its mythic strength.

Well, yeah. I don't see a problem with a Worm That Walks being able to wield swords. If the swarm actually is just a mundane swarm of bugs, then that's an issue which is solved by the GM not giving swords to the swarm of bugs.

[Sanctaphrax]

I don't think that that's a good idea. This power as written cannot not increase in power as weapon ratings go up. So if you give the power enough drawbacks to make it not terribly impressive at 18 refresh, you make it totally worthless at 6 refresh.

Random thought: this power could also work by negating the weapon ratings of non-area attacks.

[Tedronai]

Might want to consider graded fractional armour (armour as a fraction of the incoming stress) as an alternative to the hard 1 stress cap