Against The Grain

Against The Grain (minor) by Stone Gargoyle

"Somehow wood just rubs me the wrong way."

The hero gives off a bio-feedback energy that has unusual effects on wood and plant fibers.

1. Going Against the Grain: When striking wooden armor and surfaces or Natural AR of a plant variety, the hero does 1d4, plus 1 point per level, additional damage, and reduces the armor's effective AR by 1 per odd level (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15 (So at level 1 this reduces an AR of 18 to 17, but by level 15 it leaves the AR of 18 with an effective AR of only 10 against the character).
The drawback of this is that damage is inflicted to all wooden surfaces the hero touches, as when he is walking. Every time the hero takes a step on a wooden floor or on grass, the ground takes 1d4 damage, plus 1 point per level. This includes surfaces like lacquered or varnished wood and petrified logs. A table or weapon touched by the character also takes such damage.
Wooden weapons hitting him have their damage reduced by this 1da4, plus 1 point per level, damage, and have an equal amount inflicted upon the weapon.

2. Limitations: This power is always on and cannot be turned off. This prevents him from sneaking on wooden floors, which creak from damage (-20% to Prowl) or maintain a dwelling with wooden structures. Cannot wield wooden weapons (see above).

3. Other Bonuses: +2 to save fs. plant based poisons and toxins.