Hardened Form

Hardened Form (Super/Physical in BTS2) by Mephisto

Range: self
Duration: instant; lasts for 15 minutes per level of experience
I.S.P.: 30
Saving Throw: None

This power turns the characters skin hard, making him or her more difficult to harm in hand to hand combat. It provides a natural armor rating of 13, with a total of S.D.C. of 50. The S.D.C. of the hardened form needs to be reduced to zero before the characters own S.D.C. can be affected. The hardened form adds substantial weight to the character, 50 pounds, which reduces running speed 20% and swimming skill is half. However, along with the added S.D.C. the character does an additional 2D6 damage with hand to hand strikes.

Equally significant is that the characters mind is immune to possession, mind control, hypnosis, and similar mind affecting attacks, as well as mental psychic attacks like empathic transfer and bio-manipulation. However, in the Hardened Form the psychic can not use any other psychic powers. It's up to the GM and player to determine if the characters hardened form looks like a light rocky exterior, a translucent glass, a mummified wrapping, etc. The characters Hardened Form will however be quite obvious to anyone watching. Also the character doesn't need to eat, sleep or breathe in the Hardened Form.