Fire Breather

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Fire Breather (Major) by Stone Gargoyle

The superbeing breathes out fire and can attack with it.

1. Energy Expulsion: Fire: The superbeing can release a flamethrower-like blast of fire from his throat which he can control in increments of 1d6. Due to releasing it from the mouth, it cannot be divided.

Range: 100 feet, plus 10 feet per level
Damage: 2d6 +1d6 for each level of experience
Duration: Instant
Attacks per melee: Each blast counts as one melee attack/action
Bonus: +2 to strike

2. Combustible Fuel: The superbeing can also fuel the fire with combustible phlegm which acts as an accellerant. Added to the Energy Expulsion attack, it adds +3d6 damage, plus 2 points of damage per level, and increases the range by 10%. Adding this uses an additional attack/action. When added to the flame, there is a 30% chance targets will catch fire and burn, doing 3d6 damage per melee round for 2d4 melee rounds or until extinguished.

3.Impervious to Fire and Heat: The superbeing takes no damage from fire and heat attacks, and only takes half damage from light and laser attacks.

4.Reinforced Teeth: Holding back the flames has reinforced the superbeing's teeth, giving him a bite doing 2d4 damage.

5. Additional Notes: I thought of the issue of covering objects with the gel first and igniting it but was not sure if the gel would either neutralize if not immediately ignited or would ignite naturally passing through the person's mouth, since the fire is assumed to always be lit and only projected as an attack when the character breathes hard. If the phlegm has to pass through the fire first, then no, coating objects first would not work. But since the phlegm ignites objects, you could easily have the character spit the fire which has been fueled by the phlegm onto objects to ignite them. A shot to the eyes would be a called shot, but I can see the power being applied that way. Maybe the use of the phlegm independently would constitute a stunt whereby the character must hold his breath and spit it. In that case, it would most assuredly very much act like napalm. If spit in the eyes that way, it would probably do at least a point of damage and blind the target so they would suffer -10 to all attack moves and be reduced to half attacks and half movement speed. It would smell like sulfur and evaporate after one full melee round if remaining unlit.