Dumber Than A Box Of Rocks

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Dumber Than A Box Of Rocks (minor) by Stone Gargoyle

"Oh No! I've lost me marbles!"

The character has a brain made up of marble spheres which can be expelled and shot at targets. They can appear to be shot out of an eye, the forehead or the mouth (must be decided when character is created).

Size: The marbles are 2 inch diameter spheres.
Number: The spheres are equal in number to the character's IQ, ME and MA attribute numbers combined.
Range: Each marble can be shot for the character's IQ number times ten feet, plus 10 feet per level.
Duration: Instant. Each sphere expended requires an hour to regenerate.
Attacks: Shooting a marble uses one melee attack/action. One shot can shoot 1-3 marbles.
Damage: Marbles explode on impact, doing 1d4X10, plus 1d4 per level, electrical "brainstorm" damage each.
Combat Bonuses: Uses ME attribute bonus as the strike bonus.
Penalties: Each sphere shot will temporarily reduce the character's IQ, ME, or MA attribute and any resulting bonuses until it is regenerated. Loss of each IQ point will also drop skills by a percentage equal to that point's percentage of the whole IQ (so a character with an IQ of 25 as 100% of their IQ would lose 4% of their IQ per point lost). The character will decide what attribute is being reduced per shot.

Other Bonuses: +1d6 IQ, +1d4 ME, +1d6 MA