This news file covers how we handle Advantages; our means of universally encompassing all the powers, skills, assets, etc. that a fictional character might have. If there's something in this page or not in this page that you aren't sure about, please ask a staff member or fachead for clarification!

==Advantage Creation and Classification==

All Advantages are first given a classification based on the Advantage's power, scope, and narrative relevance to the character. The core classifications fall into three tiers: Defining, Significant and Minor. A character breaks the totality their powers, skills, assets, etc. into sensible pieces, and then places them into these three tiers. The general idea behind these tiers follows.

Defining Advantages are the skills, powers, and assets so centrally iconic to the character, and so vital to their tackling obstacles or living their lives, that the character would no longer be the same character without them. They don't have to be really powerful or flashy, but they represent the core of the character's abilities, and where they would be sinking their metaphorical XP into. To a certain extent, Defining Advantages will get a little extra respect in play, and in some situations, the Defining classification will allow a greater ceiling of power for certain beefier Advantages, and so consideration should go to how much an Advantage is used and how important it is to the character, rather than what their strongest technique is.

''Examples: Wolverine's Regeneration and Adamantium skeleton, Magneto's Electromagnetic control, Darth Vader's cybernetics and telekinesis / telepathy, Megaman's power copy, Himura Kenshin's swordsmanship, Willy Wonka's candy-making acumen, C3-P0's vast communications library, Link's Master Sword, Ganondorf's Triforce of Power, Batman's investigative skills.''

A Significant Advantage is an important and effective part of a character's arsenal. The character may use them all the time, or only very rarely, but they are go-to tools for the situation that calls for them. These are areas where the character is highly skilled or specialized, and have much greater potency than the average person, but are not their core identity, and are generally greater in number and less vital than Defining Advantages. These are usually where the greatest volume of a character's abilities will be, or sometimes lesser used extensions of Defining ones.

''Examples of Significant Advantages: Wolverine's special ops training and enhanced senses, Darth Vader's piloting and mechanical skills, Magneto's technical skills which allow him to construct an anti-telepathy helmet or machines that boost the magnitude of a mutant's powers. Link's inventory of gadgets like the hookshot and boomerang. Batman's Batmobile.''

''Examples of Minor Advantages: Wolverine's physical traits are generally superhuman but only really on the order of you might expect of a larger animal. Darth Vader showing up with a team of Stormtroopers is certainly something he does, but they rarely accomplish much more than menial tasks and adding scenery to a fight where he does all the heavy lifting. Link accrues a number of items that are important to game progression, but rarely all that important otherwise, or else eclipsed by later acquisitions, such as the ability to hold his breath longer underwater, or fire a slingshot in addition to a bow.''

As MCM is an environment where an enormous variety of characters are possible, and which supports those characters growing from exposure to other themes and plots, the primary thing we look out for in a character's Advantages is the point of “conceptual fullness” where the character has slipped from reasonable into ridiculous. Even in cases where a character picks up new tricks, talents and gear from other worlds over a long period of time, where each upgrade and acquisition was well earned and sensible, there eventually comes a time where a long-running character who was originally well-designed, has become the time-manipulating psychic dragon slayer and pokemon trainer who pilots a super robot and uses three different kinds of magic and a lightsaber, and everyone begins to roll their eyes.

Where our basic policy is geared towards managing the wide vertical scope of Advantages that can be played on MCM, for managing their theoretically infinite breadth, we employ these Defining/Significant/Minor classifications in a “Slot” system.

Put simply, each player character is limited to a grand total of:<br>

A '''''reasonable''''' number of Minor Advantages, subject to request of being condensed. In practice, above 3 full Advantages is where evaluation begins, and above 6 full Advantages is almost never permissible.<br>

Each of these Advantages is meant to be a concise chunk of a character’s overall abilities and toolset, containing a handful of conceptually related “tricks”, “stunts”, “applications”, “roles”, “talents”, or whatever you’d like to call them. These are almost never defined power by power, but are abstract representations of “as many of the character’s abilities as contribute to a single narrative niche”. For brevity’s sake, we call these areas of capability “Points”.

Each Advantage contains a total of '''''one to three Points''''', making for a maximum grand total of:<br>

'''''Six''''' Defining Points.<br>

Again, a '''''reasonable''''' number of Minor Points.<br>

We find that this balance allows the overwhelming majority of characters to begin play with little to no adjustment to their toolbox of powers, talents, and equipment, and creates a generally acceptable ballpark of how far certain characters can expand and accrue new major abilities before they have to slim down again. To be transparent, a conceptually very simple character will have an easy time accumulating new skills and toys on-grid than an already highly developed and powerful character. We’ll cover what constitutes an Advantage Point in just a minute.

It is rare, but technically possible, for an FC to be so broad in their capabilities that they do not completely fit within these parameters from the start. In this case, the player should app something like “the movie version” of that character, which focuses on what the character would actually use in play, rather than various powers that may have been stapled onto them through their published lifetime. It bears mentioning that these changes are RETROACTIVE to the character's source. That is, if Superman as apped on MCM cannot hurl planets out of orbit (likely because it would never come up), he COULD NOT in his own world before it unified. This is basically to prevent “I'd kick your ass if the Multiverse hadn't nerfed me!” attitudes.

===On Specialism and Multiple Slots===

In many cases, a character will have an ability, or conceptually related set of skills or items, that is broad enough that it cannot be encompassed in a single Advantage slot of three Points. These tend to be things like a wizard's ability to cast magic, or a mad scientist's arsenal of inventions. This is perfectly fine, and intentionally accommodated for by the system, being easily worked with by simply filling up multiple Slots to encompass the full range of the Advantage's capabilities. e.g. a wizard might have a Defining Advantage for their blasting spells, buffing spells, and status infliction spells, and a Significant Advantage for summoning spells, defensive spells, and enchantments.

Conversely, characters who are extremely specialized in a particular area, or famous for a particular skill or power, may wish to intentionally not fill an Advantage slot up to capacity. This is also perfectly okay, and though we don’t offer any hard, mechanical benefits for doing so, it is to be understood that a character whose entire Defining Advantage comes down to “sword mastery” has a level of skill with swords that is more narratively effective than when another character with a Defining Advantage that encompasses a much wider variety of weapons uses a sword.

With the nearly infinite variety of characters and their capabilities that can be brought to MCM, it can be difficult and confusing to both break up their narrative toolkits into an easily readable and consistent format, and just as difficult to figure out where to draw the line on when various skills, powers, and items cease to really be related to one another. Rather than leaving this to a selective process where our staff are forced to debate over and approve each individual player character on an inconsistent, subjective, and potentially biased basis, we’ve boiled down the vast majority of Advantages that we see applied for on MCM into a number of categories that any and all players have full access to, within the objective standards of the rules. These categories are intentionally very broad in what can go inside them, and very concise in what their actual function amounts to in roleplay. This is both to make it easier for a player to figure out how their character’s Advantage space works, and easier for a fellow player on the MUSH to read through a character’s Advantage and understand what it is they do, without staff being forced to heavily dictate the writing style of each individual player.

Essentially, each Advantage Slot is comprised of one to three Points, gathered together by a common conceptual thread, and put under a single thematic header. Each of its Points is made up of two parts: a designation selected from the following list, and an associated “trapping” written by the player. The designated Points found on the list are quite literally “the point of having the Advantage”, and are universally accepted. The trappings of an Advantage are the general details of how the Advantage uniquely achieves that point, and contain the descriptive and mechanical details of the Advantage, as well as whatever fluff and minutiae the player would like to include with a certain level of brevity. Trappings should use '''concise language''' and be '''free of theme-specific jargon''', or else '''briefly''' explain the terms where that isn’t possible. '''Under 240 characters per Point is ideal'''. Unless the Point itself is very complicated, frequently or egregiously exceeding this guide might result in an application being sent back to be streamlined. For each Point on the list, we’ve included examples of what kinds of tools and abilities might find themselves within each category, and any details of what a player should or must include in its trapping in addition to its general description, if there are any.  

You’ll see that some Advantages have a category descriptor in (parentheses), in which case the Advantage is broad enough that it is limited to a single categorical descriptor per-Advantage (for instance, the Advantage Point “'''Resistance'''” has to choose a thing to be resistant to each time that it is taken, otherwise the character could technically be resistant to everything). You’ll also see that some Advantages possess a '''Standalone''' or '''Consent''' notation. These are explained afterwards. The '''Required Text''' field outlines the bare minimum of things staff needs to see explained before an Advantage can be approved. An entry of “None” doesn’t mean the Advantage doesn’t need to be explained at all, but that it is relatively self-explanatory or its particulars don’t matter as much, so please still include a trapping. A '''Minor''', '''Significant''' or '''Defining''' note indicate that the Point should always occupy that tier of Advantage Slot. ''Italicised'' designations indicate an Advantage stub: something that exists on the table solely for convenience or explanation.

Please make sure all Advantages are properly formatted as demonstrated in '''[[Advantages#Advantage_Format_on_Applications|this section]]'''. This is not only necessary for readability, but for our character generation code to smoothly process it into a MUSH entry as well. Applications can be sent back for not following the format demonstrated below, so please check for errors such as writing the wrong Point names, or putting brackets and asterisks into them.

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'''Accepted Advantage Designations and Trappings'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Agelessness'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character does not age in the conventional sense, or ages at an arbitrarily extremely slow rate, such as with robots, Tolkien elves, and various immortals.<br>

'''Minor'''<br>

'''Required Text:''' None.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has the ability to intentionally examine a target and gain useful information and details about its nature and capabilities. High-tech scanners, classical psychometry, and magic detection spells are frequent examples, but determining someone’s recent activities by smell or instantly analyzing a machine’s function with raw intellect are equally valid ones.<br>

'''Consent''' when studying PCs and/or their stuff.<br>

'''Required Text:''' What kinds of targets the character is able to analyze (people, machines, landmarks, etc.) and what kinds of information are typically filled in by doing so.<br>

''Note: This Point is for intentional and targeted examination. For abilities that passively pick up on cues or simply look for things in a wide area, see '''Extraordinary Senses'''.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Anti-(Power Genre)'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can dampen, counter, or nullify the use of a certain kind of other power by their interference. By far the most common example of this in fiction is the concept of an anti-magic field, as well as counterspells and disenchantment, but other incarnations might include suppression of psionic powers, or use in wards or technology that block teleportation.<br>

'''Consent''' except against other Consent Advantages.<br>

'''Required Text:''' A well-defined “genre” of power that this Advantage applies to, no more broad than the archetypical D&D Anti-Magic Field. Should also include what means the character takes to counter these powers, and must at least implicitly include how another character could avoid or get around it (for instance, getting out of the field).

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Attack List - (Melee/Ranged)'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has a variety of damage-dealing abilities or weapons that are generally too numerous and relatively similar to deserve separate entries. This is a very common Point, seen everywhere from elemental JRPG spells, to Pokemon moves, to the high-tech arsenals of shooter or mecha protagonists, to the ki techniques of anime martial artists, to all kinds of named and typically shouted special attacks.<br>

For the purposes of Advantage notation, Ranged indicates attacks that happen, deal damage, and stop, even if they can be or are used at point blank range. Melee is reserved for forms of attack that allow for complex close combat, usually being actual weapons, not not always. Basically, if you can stop a sword with the attacks on your list without an extraordinary feat  skill, it’s probably Melee. Otherwise, it’s probably Ranged. Some bleed between the two is fine when a character has both, such as enchanting their weapons with attack magic.<br>

'''Required Text:''' A solid idea of the theme the attacks follow and enough examples of outstanding gimmicks that any remainder can be easily inferred. The variety of attacks that be encompassed within this Point can be very broad, but it should still constrain itself to a coherent, overarching motif or classification.<br>

''Note: This Point is a heavily subsidized space that compresses large and unwieldy lists of weapons and spells down to a single Point. By doing that, this Advantage only covers the attacks’ ability to deal damage, and not any special effects and applications that might come with them. An ice spell will deplete the target’s HP bar, but not freeze an enemy solid without any other Points, and a laser cannon will slag enemy mecha, but it won’t snipe missiles out of the air on its own. If you want to add status effects, see '''Debilitation'''. For crazy weapon stunts, see '''Weapon Mastery'''. Note that the existence of this Point to represent weaponry does already imply a degree of proficiency in using it; an Attack List of weapons is justification in of itself to fight with them to a reasonable level of skill. '''Weapon Mastery''' is geared towards representing a wide variety of offensive, defensive, control, and scenery stunts with a weapon, whereas this Point is heavily geared towards large selections of weapons and/or special gimmicks/abilities/twists to their attacks. The two are considered equally effective at winning fights.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Bane - (Target)'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has immediate access to the typical weaknesses of an archetype of enemy, in as far they help in killing them, or a particular weapon or ability that is especially lethal against a specific class of foe. Typically, this Point is meant to indicate that the character probably has the necessary knowhow and gear on hand to exploit a weakness or Disadvantage that harms or weakens an applicable target (such as a werewolf and silver, a vampire and garlic, a fairy and cold iron, etc.). A World of Darkness Hunter carrying silver bullets and possessing True Faith to hunt modern-mythos supernatural evil is an example, as is Geralt of Riviera from the Witcher and his encyclopedia of tactics and poisons to use against monsters of classical folklore, both of which should be taken as an indicator of the maximum breadth of this Point.<br>

'''Required Text:''' A clearly defined and coherent archetype of applicable enemy. The criteria that define a valid target should be narrative and descriptive where possible; a vampire in one setting may be unholy and undead, but someone infected by nanomachines in the other, and merely share the name.<br>

''Note: There are some examples of acceptable archetypes later in this section.''

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The character can, through means magical, scientific, or otherwise, improve the effectiveness of others applied to a task in a general sense. The character does not grant new abilities wholesale to other characters, but rather enhances their existing abilities and basic performance within a given area, typically being combat, though not always. This always expires at or before the end of a Scene. Most videogame buffs fall under this banner, but other incarnations could be things like a technopath increasing the performance of their allies’ gear, or the trope wherein a character with unusually high magical energy serves as a battery for a proper spellcaster.<br>

'''Required Text:''' The arena of interaction in which the character improves others. Combat buffs are the most common, but this can be reasonably bounded areas like general physical tasks, magic casting, building things, etc.<br>

''Note: For more involved empowerment of other characters, see '''Share Powers'''. Worth noting is that generic buffs to parameters like strength do not result in an increase commensurate to '''Superhumanity'''.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Conveniences'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has access to one or more convenient gadgets or powers, defined as being not significantly greater than “what a middle-class citizen of New York would be able to do with what they have on the street”. For the most part, it is absolutely unnecessary to note that a character has a phone or a laptop, but using telepathic messaging to communicate, or having a memory equivalent to a quick Google search of information, are flavorful alternatives with occasional niche benefits.<br>

'''Minor'''<br>

'''Required Text:''' None, though the general thematic of the conveniences should be clearly established.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''''Crafting'''''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} This Point is a pseudo-stub, mostly for reference to the '''Share Powers''' Point, since PC crafting typically works in the exact same way. Overall, the ability to (re)build the character’s own equipment is a non-Advantage, so crafting only becomes relevant when they produce it for use by others. Just as how its parent Point can be used on the character themself by the inclusion of a second Point, doing the same assumes that the character Just Has any of the stuff they usually build and give to others, and can make use of it themselves.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Cure - (Self/Other)'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can heal or dispel abnormalities and afflictions that negatively impact another character, which fall outside the purview of the natural result of having taken a bunch of damage. Final Fantasy’s Esuna spell and Pokemon’s status clearing items are familiar examples, but this can be more realistically grounded in things like extensive surgical or toxicology skill. The affliction being cured need not be physical, so breaking curses and dispelling debuffs are far game too. This Point is effectively the direct opposite of '''Debilitation'''.<br>

'''Required Text:''' The scope of abnormalities and afflictions that the character can cure.<br>

''Note: Just about any Advantage can be made to target the character’s self or another character, but healing is such a common one on both sides of the fence that we want to make it obvious up front in the designation. This distinction is effectively using the same rules as '''Share Power''', so if the character has that Point as well , pick a default form of Cure and simply write its opposite into either set of trappings. Only take Cure twice if the character doesn't share any other Points (in which case it's just neater and simpler), or if one type of Cure is a higher Advantage tier than Share Power (in which case the extra Point entitles the Healing to a greater degree of respect). Recovery of actual damage, see '''Healing'''.''<br>

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Damage Reduction'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can survive significantly greater amounts of damage than a normal person, due to anything from armor to energy shields to protective wards to supernatural toughness. This is an extremely broad Point, and intentionally encompasses as many sources of “surviving damage” as possible, with the assumption they are relatively effective against almost all types of damage to some degree.<br>

'''Required Text:''' None.  

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can inflict temporary maladies and afflictions on other characters that significantly hinder or harm them. The video game versions of poison, paralysis, freeze, etc. as well as most kinds of debuffs are the usual suspects, but this Point is intentionally extremely inclusive. Naruto martial arts pressure point tomfoolery and powers such as Prof. Xavier’s psychic seizure field from X-Men qualify, as do very realistic ideas of targeted crippling and riot control tools, and weird/exotic ideas such as found in various tabletops, like magically sticky floors.<br>

'''Required Text:''' The overall thematic of the debilitations the character inflicts. Not necessarily exhaustive, but should have clear bounding.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Destruction'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has an ability, tool, or talent for accomplishing targeted and extremely thorough destruction of selective targets. This is assumed to be very different from the usual destructive effects of hitting people with missiles and fireballs, which exist to Deal Damage and Defeat the Target (though this Point will typically wind up being harmful to people anyways). This Point exists to represent the ability to do things like destroy equipment like a D&D Rust Monster, annihilate set pieces with controlled black holes, or turn someone to a pillar of salt like Drakengard’s Legion. In short, if it's possible to salvage the remains for anything remotely useful, it probably doesn't need this Point.<br>

'''Significant''' or higher.<br>

'''Consent''' when used on possessions of consequence belonging to other PCs. Being used on PCs themselves is just subject to normal combat exchange.<br>

''Note: For extremely destructive abilities that reshape the battlefield at large with their power, rather than being highly targeted, see '''Field Shaping'''. Further note that this Point is not mandatory for damaging things that aren't people. Objects have HP bars, and intentionally attacking an object will apply the damage of the attack to it. This Point largely disposes with tracking this interaction, and instead directly applies a discrete destructive effect.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can effectively assume the form of something or someone else, whether via expert makeup and impersonation, magical shape changing, optical camouflage, etc. This Point does not cover gaining any Advantages associated with the new persona or form, but solely passing as them to avoid suspicion, gain access to their things, or what have you. Sometimes this Point comes down to simply adopting an alter ego or identity on a day to day basis, like Batman with Bruce Wayne, sometimes with minor cosmetic changes, in which case this Point qualifies for a '''Minor''' slot.<br>

'''Consent''' to impersonate another PC.<br>

'''Required Text:''' Who or what the character can disguise themselves as.

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{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''''Elemental Bullets'''''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} This is deprecated terminology. This stub exists to direct seekers to '''Attack List'''.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character is exceptionally talented in gaining physical access to places that are difficult or restricted in entry. This is differentiated from various forms of stealth, in that the character is not necessarily sneaky about it, but through skills in break and enter or typical “dungeoneering”, or perhaps shrinking to a tiny size, turning into mobile mist, or some other trick, they are very good at reaching where they’re going without having to force down the front door, as well as potentially opening the way for others.<br>

'''Required Text:''' What entry methods are available to the character.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can act with some significant degree of safety in hostile environments that would otherwise pose a significant or severely dangerous obstacle to a normal person. Hard vacuum, crushing pressure, high radiation, lethal heat or cold, extreme gravity, and other associated background hazards can be cited as things the character is prepared to deal with, as well as highly theme-specific threats, like Toukiden’s Miasma, the Abyss of Dark Souls, or the Wyld from Exalted.<br>

'''Required Text:''' What environments the character can mitigate. This list should actually be more comprehensive than implicit where possible.<br>

''Note: This Point does not confer broad capability in unusual environments, only safety. If the character wants to rocket around in space, see '''Flight'''. If they want to maneuver around under the sea, see '''Water Functionality'''. So on, so forth.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character’s senses are so finely tuned that they can pick up cues that no normal person would be able to, or the character possesses senses beyond the customary five that allow them to pick up cues that similarly would be otherwise undetectable. Feeling vibrations through the earth like Toph Beifong from Avatar, picking out someone’s appearance from listening to rain like Daredevil, the D&D “Detect” spells, or sensors that search an area for specific criteria like sonar or infravision, fit this bill.<br>

'''Required Text:''' What additional sensory acuity the character has, and some examples of what they might pick up. Common, real life technology may not require examples. It’s expected that everyone knows what night vision goggles do. Likewise, generic ghost/spirit sight should just state that the character can see ghosts/spirits. These cues must be actual cues in roleplay, rather than just the desired target, i.e. “sensing invisible things” is not a valid trapping. Said cues should also not make dictatory presumptions of other characters in order to work, such as with the anime trope of “killing intent”, where a successful spot check presumes another character was bubbling with murderous emotions all along.

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''Note: Though this Point is typically something that a character simply has “switched on” at most, if not all times, a character is only going to get full use out of it by actively applying it. Passive info gathering is something other people might opt into, rather than something a character with this Point is entitled to. Extraordinary Senses expand the range of what cues might be obvious to a character that others otherwise wouldn’t normally notice, but unless the character decides to actively make use of them, information and clues that a scenerunner or other player might choose to give the player of a character with this Point, without prompting, are effectively voluntary. Simply put, if Extraordinary Senses aren’t being directed towards something, it is entirely possible for the character to not be told details that they might otherwise have noticed.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has the ability to alter large portions of the scene itself in the physical sense. An Earthbender from Avatar raising structures out of the terrain, a D&D Wizard laying down grease spells and walls of fire all over the battlefield, a giant monster or super robot leveling buildings or creating massive craters, and a skilled demolitionist collapsing caves or creating new passages around an area are all equally valid examples. This can also cover leaving the effects of other Points as traps or remote fixtures.<br>

'''Required Text:''' The general extent to which the character can manipulate the field and a clear idea of the maximum range and spread of its effects.<br>

''Note: For highly targeted and specific removal of major scene obstacles, such as melting a way through a bulkhead to reach a command deck, potentially see '''Destruction'''.''

 

 

Combinations of various other Points can naturally enhance this. '''Intangibility''' allows this Point to target through walls and obstacles. '''Mobility''' allows it to navigate through dense and complicated terrain to a desired point without line of sight. '''Flight''' allows it to travel high into the air, and sustainably through the air, like characters do in Dragon Ball and Bleach as examples. '''Share Power''' allows the character to teleport others along with them. '''Field Shaping''' allows them to leave accessible teleportation around the area which may undermine certain obstacles, usually being “gates”, like Chell from Portal or Yugo from Wakfu. '''Attack List''' could allow the character to “telefrag” into people. '''Remote Viewing''' could allow the character to teleport to faraway places they have previously never seen. This allows players to scale the space their teleportation takes up and down on a gradient of flexibility and power.

 

 

'''Defining''' Flash Movement has few to no limits on its distance and what places the character can end up in. They might instantly travel between entire worlds and almost always penetrate preventative measures, meaning that they can often Just Show Up. Examples of users of Defining Flash Movement are Protoman from Megaman, Kibito from Dragon Ball, and Nightcrawler from X-Men.<br>

'''Significant''' Flash Movement is generally limited to moving around the area of a scene, though its speed and distance are usually sufficient to provide a convenient escape or entry, and an advantage in combat. It usually does not allow a character to appear in an area protected against teleportation and similar, but it may if it happens under highly specific circumstances, such as the character’s name being called. Examples of Significant users of Flash Movement include Star Trek Transporters, Nox from Wakfu, Beetlejuice or Hastur.<br>

'''Minor''' Flash Movement is mostly cosmetic or convenient in nature. It rarely covers enough distance fast enough to allow it to be much more effective than a standard dodge or to establish surprise in combat, or in the cases it does cover long distances, it requires enough preparation that it can’t be used as an escape or entry in danger, or anywhere particularly secure, resembling a Stage Select, video game “fast travel”. Either way, it has no significant narrative strength.. It won't get the character out of a jail cell, intense combat, or anyone you'd assume somebody should use it but never does. Examples include every Megaman robot, common RPG town recall items, and nearly every single shounen character who gains teleportation in-story.<br>

'''Required Text:''' Descriptive terms that encompass the Flash Movement’s range, expedience, and possible destinations, which should be very clear and understandable.<br>

''Note: While it is expected that '''Share Powers''' is necessary for situations where other characters are able to actively take advantage of a Flash Movement ability or ability package, it's worth noting that a character with this Point has a small amount of leeway in transporting other characters on their own terms. In the same way a character could throw someone over their shoulder and carry them somewhere with '''Mobility''' or '''Flight''', a character with this Point can typically grab someone and take them somewhere under the standard qualifier for Flash Movement, i.e. "as far as they could without it".  

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character, put simply, can fly. We really don’t care to differentiate between different arenas of flight (mostly air and space), and so they can be applied for under one Point, but it still should observe canon/implicit limits. Hovering or slow non-combat flight typically occupies the '''Minor''' tier.

'''Required Text:''' None.<br>

''Note: While this Point covers getting around through the air, skipping over ground obstructions and hazards, and general combat flight, it and '''Mobility''' are separate narrative spaces that do stack. Extremely agile Flight fit to zip through an obstacle course or dogfight inside of an office building will likely require the second Point.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can take over digitally controlled machines. It is generally understood that characters with this Point may use it to substitute for a variety of other Advantages where hackable items appears appear in a scene, and so this breadth should be counterbalanced by respecting the bounds of the genre that the hacking applies to. Hacking cyborg/android/AI PCs plays out as combat does, and is not a binary win-lose state. Characters like the Major from Ghost in the Shell, Sombra from Overwatch, and Cortana from Halo, are examples.<br>

'''Consent''' where it concerns dictatorial effects, outlined later in this section.<br>

'''Required Text:''' None.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has a pocket dimension, Bag of Holding, a videogame inventory, impossibly roomy clothing, or something else that allows them to carry an unrealistically large amount of stuff very conveniently.<br>

'''Minor'''<br>

'''Required Text:''' None.<br>

''Note: This Point is allowed to be '''Minor''' only on the presumption that the character can’t use it to solve obstacles of significant scale. Dropping an incoming meteor into a Bag of Holding goes way beyond the these bounds, and thus require '''Significant''' or higher.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Healing - (Self/Other)'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has the capacity to heal others or themselves of damage at a speed that is useful within the timeframe of a single scene. “Damage” in this case is more or less defined as “lost HP”, so this Point is all that is technically sufficient to prevent a character from becoming incapacitated through combat and dying, but it doesn’t extend into purging other harmful or inconvenient effects. Healing used on other characters is most straightforwardly exemplified by video game mechanics such as Final Fantasy’s White Magic or the healing technology of Overwatch’s support characters. Self-healing often takes more niche forms, like Wolverine’s regeneration from X-Men, or a vampire’s ability to restore itself by drinking blood, and self-healing is almost always something they can do on their turn alongside other actions.<br>

'''Required Text:''' None.<br>

''Note: Just about any Advantage can be made to target the character’s self or another character, but healing is such a common one on both sides of the fence that we want to make it obvious up front in the designation. This distinction is effectively using the same rules as '''Share Power''', so if the character has that Point as well , pick a default form of Healing and simply write its opposite into either set of trappings. Only take Healing twice if the character doesn't share any other Points (in which case it's just neater and simpler), or if one type of Healing is a higher Advantage tier than Share Power (in which case the extra Point entitles the Healing to a greater degree of respect). For non-HP purging of secondary effects, see '''Cure'''.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has some sense or ability that they can invoke to gain useful insight regarding a situation or course of action, such as future sight, divine inspiration, or some spark of unusual genius. This Point is essentially requesting that the runner of a scene or plot give your character some form of information that will help move events forward to a desired conclusion, or present an actionable opportunity to gain something. Though this Point is not technically tagged with Consent, in practice it’s pretty much impossible to do it without.<br>

'''Defining''' where the Hint provides useful and actionable information one or more scenes in advance.<br>

'''Required Text:''' Under what circumstances the character gains hints, and the nature of information that they reveal, or nature of task they are applicable to.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} This Point is a stub. “Having a place to live” in of itself is a non-Advantage. In the vast majority of instances, a character’s home village or apartment or the like doesn’t merit a Point at all. In instances where the people who live there or the facilities it incorporates might be significantly useful, see '''NPCs''', '''Field Shaping''', '''Share Powers''', '''Environmental Protection''', etc. Essentially, pick Points that represent what the location can actually do.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can create convincing facsimiles of people, objects, scenes, et. which can pass for the real thing, usually for purposes of deception and misdirection. Holograms, magically conjured phantoms, or direct psychic impressions are common ones, but regardless of the means, the illusions are insubstantial and harmless.<br>

'''Consent''' along the same guidelines as Disguise.<br>

'''Required Text:''' The scope of how much can be faked at once, and what could give them away.<br>

''Note: This Point does not cover using an illusion to render oneself invisible or make oneself look like someone else. See '''Invisibility''' and '''Disguise''' respectively for those.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character does not die, or does not stay dead, when injured it ways that should be instantly or irreversibly fatal. Voldermort from Harry Potter, Alucard from Hellsing, Cell from Dragon Ball Z, and the Chosen Undead from Dark Souls are various examples. This Point, regardless of its tier, absolutely requires a “Catch”; a set of criteria in which the character faces the very real risk of permanent death, or a permanent state wherein the character is no longer playable. Depending on this Point’s tier of Advantage slot, this could be relatively easy to fulfill, or much more specific and difficult, but the Catch must always be something that the overwhelming majority of PCs could feasibly do if they put in the extra time and effort, and preferably something that could feasibly happen more often than very rarely in high-danger GMed scenarios.<br>

'''Required Text:''' The Catch, as well as when and where the character comes back to life, if it is somewhere else.<br>

''Note: There are some examples of acceptable Catches later in this section. Certain other Points may shift the definition of “fatal” for the purposes of this Point. A Defining regenerator may feasibly survive being stabbed in the heart just fine, since loss of heart function actually takes several minutes to cause total death, but regenerating from having their head blown off or being totally incinerated requires this Point.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Improbable Defense'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character is able to apply their defensive options on an extremely implausible scale or basis, or the character possesses exotic defensive options that apply to esoteric or niche threats. Examples include Raiden parrying Metal Gear RAY and hellfire missiles with his sword in Metal Gear Rising, Avalon’s active defense from Fate/Stay Night, or Exalted perfect defense Charms. This Point is for evading active, rather than passive, threats to the character. Punching apart a tornado with their fists, parrying a volcanic explosion, or blocking a magical curse with a shield is a valid use of this Point, but “I dodge the background radiation” is not a valid way to get around the scary bits of the Fallout ‘verse (which would instead work off of '''Environmental Protection'''). This Point will generally not be necessary for characters who perform implausible feats that are justified by other Advantages. Vergil from Devil May Cry is justified in deflecting bullets with his katana by having superhuman swordsmanship and speed in his Advantages.<br>

'''Significant''' or higher, as Minor Advantages are presumed to fail in contest with "bought" abilities.<br>

'''Required Text:''' What kind of situations the character’s defenses apply in, and what drawbacks or holes they may include in the case that they are overwhelmingly broad.<br>

''Note: Exalted is used as an example here, but MCM does not ever permit defenses that automatically succeed and negate all consequences of another PC’s non-consent-based attacks. An improbable defense is not a guaranteed defense. Effectively, you are buying the ability to use your defense in a situation where it normally wouldn’t apply, not invincibility.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character is highly capable of neutralizing or subduing opponents without relying on lethal harm. This Point goes a step beyond simply restraining someone or slapping them with the blunt side of a sword, which anyone can do, and enters the realm of methods that hit a coadjacent “health bar”, where the end result is being decisively incapacitated in some manner different from bleeding out. Examples include specialized non-lethal weapons such as phasers set to stun from Star Trek, or the infamous tranquilizer guns from the Metal Gear Solid series, various magic along the lines of The Sleep from Cardcaptor Sakura, Mid-Childan magic from the Nanoha series, or conditions such as Frog or Stone from the Final Fantasy series, as well as mundane methods like paralyzing poisons. While many of these methods are extraordinarily binary in their source material, it is understood that they will rarely be so effective on PCs. This Point may wind up easily knocking out NPCs en mass, but doing so to a PC will involve repeatedly hitting them with multiple applications, taking gradually further effect until they succumb, like regular damage with a different result.<br>

'''Consent''' in the case of examples that alter some aspect of the character or reduce some part of their effectiveness beyond what combat damage would do.<br>

'''Required Text:''' A precise and fairly detailed account of the end condition the character achieves, and how it can be lifted (or else how long until it wears off naturally).<br>

''Note: Permanent use of this Point on PCs is not something MCM generally allows. Particularly severe examples may fall into the same restrictions as plots that involve capturing PCs. It is a universal assumption that if a character possesses this Point, it has the full functionality and weight of any other Advantage, and thus does not represent the character “holding back” or limiting themselves in some way. This Point represents a propensity for incapacitation as effectual as lethal combat of the same level.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has the ability to pass through solid objects. This could be a typical ghost phasing through walls, a Fate/ series Servant or Exalted spirit dematerializing, Kitty Pryde from X-Men, or as part of a teleportation ability in tandem with '''Flash Movement''', as examples. An extremely important point is that '''MCM does not allow invincibility to be an Advantage''', and so any long-lasting or permanent form of this Point automatically comes with the caveat that any other PC possesses whatever criteria is necessary to physically harm the character while they are intangible. Brief Intangibility may be a reason for an attack to have missed, but only within the confines of what the character could already avoid, otherwise the character needs '''Improbable Defense'''. Because this Point often allows the user to basically go wherever they please, it may be subject to the same preventative measures that keep out '''Flash Movement''' and similar.<br>

'''Required Text:''' None.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has powers of concealment that are potent enough for the default assumption to be that the character simply will not be found unless he does something obvious. This could be actual invisibility, chameleonic camouflage, a psychic compulsion to ignore the character, etc.; all are considered Invisibility. Grades of this Point based on the tier of slot they use are relatively concrete.<br>

'''Defining''' Invisibility is at near enough to flawless that the character flat out won't be found out until they do something overtly noticeable, or are contested by a great deal of effort put towards finding them. It may conceal them in multiple ways beyond purely vision, or naturally resist methods that would normally be expected to reveal the character, and it likely continues to function in combat. Examples are Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, Kusanagi Motoko's opticamo, the Invisible Stalker from D&D, or Toru Hagakure from My Hero Academia.<br>

'''Significant''' Invisibility has notable limitations that are sufficient to cap the character's ability to go where they please. It may fail against reasonably important equipment or spells, have a strict time limit, dispel when the character attacks, or give off subtle clues a wary PC can watch for. Examples are most incarnations of the Predator, the Spy's cloaking watch from Team Fortress, the Dummy Check esper ability from A Certain Scientific Railgun, and your typical tabletop RPG invisibility spells.<br>

'''Minor''' Invisibility is only useful for discretion's sake, and likely only effective against unimportant NPCs. Anyone relevant to the plot will likely see through it unless they have some sort of deficiency, or aren't paying attention at all. If the invisibility can be obviated by a special trait that is common in the cast of the original source, it's assumed that all PCs count as having that trait. Examples are dematerialized Heroic Spirits, a Stand from JoJo's Bizarre Adventures, various ghosts and spirits with true forms, and basically every single ninja in shounen anime.<br>

'''Standalone'''<br>

'''Required Text:''' What traits of the character the Invisibility conceals, and at least implicitly how they could be detected in spite of it.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Knowledge - (Field)'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character is exceptionally knowledgeable about a particular field of something, whether that be science, social interaction, tactics, etc. The Knowledge is broadly useful in enough circumstances that it still deserves to be called an Advantage, but it cannot grant the character the use of another Point implicitly (for instance, choosing “computers” as a category of this Point does not suddenly make the character capable of '''Hacking'''). This Point is effectively a differently flavored mirror of '''Skill'''.<br>

'''Required Text:''' The character’s Advantage-worthy area of knowledge, with at least two example applications.<br>

''Note: There are some examples of acceptable categories later in this section. A character being knowledgeable about their own theme, including the minutiae of its cosmology, local events, or unique mechanics, is not considered an Advantage. Incredibly theme-specific info is better used to run plots or scenes with. Knowledge in STEM fields will generally not be accepted as a Minor. These fields are too practically applicable for a Minor to be anything but useless trivia better left unpurchased.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Low Intake'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has little to no need of one or more typical biological necessities, such as food, water, sleep, and similar. Regular maintenance of their person is not a notable consideration.<br>

'''Minor'''<br>

'''Required Text:''' Which things the character doesn’t need.<br>

''Note: This Point does not negate or reduce actual threats in any significant way. Not needing to sleep doesn't protect you from a sleep spell, and not needing to breathe doesn't save you from a gas attack. Non-casual instances of dealing with threats like these are encompassed by '''Environmental Protection''' or '''Resistance'''.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Mind Manipulation'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can somehow forcibly influence the thoughts, memories, and/or feelings of others to the point that they can heavily dictate their actions. This Point goes beyond the bounds of persuasive speaking or evocative performance, and assumes that the subject will act on the given compulsion as a default outcome, whether that be a command, an urge, an altered memory, a set of emotions, etc. Examples include Lelouch vi Britannia from Code Geass, Xavier from X-Men, the Imperius Curse from Harry Potter, various supernatural entities from the Harry Dresden books, or even very benign or positive users, such as Nilin from Remember Me or Raz from Psychonauts.<br>

'''Consent''' always.<br>

'''Required Text:''' What compulsions or alterations the character is able to affect on others.<br>

''Note: There are certain compulsions that are either so low-grade or incredibly simple and positive that they qualify for either '''Debilitation''' or '''Buffs''', or else similar. Inflicting supernatural terror that causes targets to flee for their lives is certainly this Point. Projecting an aura that induces stress and anxiety, or speaking an abhorrent eldritch word that makes the mind flinch to hear, probably aren’t, since the specifics are in the other character’s court, and they are still wholly in control of their actions (though these might get less respect in play than usual). A Bard’s Inspiring Tune certainly isn’t either.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has the ability to perceive the thoughts, feelings, intentions, or immediate future actions of a subject. Usually this is some form of Telepathy or “Aura” reading such as present in X-Men or Vampire: the Masquerade, but it can encompass things like astrological prediction or computer analysis and simulation that effectively reads into the target’s inner intentions indirectly, or even extraordinarily skilled “mundane” analysis of speech and nonverbal cues to discern hidden meanings.<br>

'''Consent''' always.<br>

'''Required Text:''' What information the character can gather on their subject.<br>

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can adroitly get around complex, dense, and/or hazardous environments by means of superior mobility, such as parkour, jump packs, wall climbing, grapnel hooks, hand gliders, video game double jumps and air dashes, etc. They may also perform such feats as briefly running across water, balancing on clotheslines, or clinging to ceilings. Examples are Spider Man, Batman and Catwoman, Mario and Luigi, Faith from Mirror’s Edge, Genji from Overwatch, and almost any Wuxia theatre fighter.<br>

'''Required Text:''' None, but examples are encouraged.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character is able to split their attention, physically as well as mentally, to the ends of pursuing several different major courses of action at the same time, allowing them to accomplish more in the same amount of time and possibly in different physical locations. This often, though not nearly always, applies to character bits that are made up of multiple entities, though it can also apply to characters that create doubles or projections. For the most part, the typical JRPG party sticks together and tackles the same obstacle as a unit, and is frequently not an example of this Point. Conversely, the typical super AI forking its personality off to be in multiple places and manipulate multiple system almost always is. This more likely to be something possessed by a bit that is The Payday Gang or Master Chief and Cortana rather than a hypothetical team of Power Rangers or the appable cast of a Fire Emblem game.

 

 

MCM ascribes to the principle that each player in a scene should get to focus on getting One Big Thing done on each of their pose rounds. Gunning down a horde of zombies, breaking the magical seal on the tower, hacking into the mainframe to track a target with security cameras, fighting another PC; these are things which the character should obviously be devoting their time and attention to, and other actions they perform at the same time will inevitably be relatively minor. This Point is an explicit exception to this general rule, allowing the character to pursue a second major course of action in each pose round, essentially “doubling up” on their attendance at the scene. The character might fight off the terrorists while also defusing a bomb, distract the guards with a fake report while looting the gold, hijack and remote control the mad science fortress and its traps while also chasing down the boss, etc. This stops at, and is hard limited, to two major actions.<br>

'''Defining'''<br>

'''Required Text:''' None.<br>

''Note: There are two natural exceptions to the general One Big Thing rule. They are: when three or more PCs are engaged in combat in unbalanced sides (in which case, the outnumbered PCs gain exactly as many extra actions as necessary to even it out, solely for the use of fighting those PCs outnumbering them), and when circumstances necessary to progress a scene require criteria that too few PCs at the scene possess (in which case the relevant PC can take the extra action to move things along for everyone’s benefit, e.x. Gandalf decodes the map, translates the Elvish text, finds the secret entrance and casts the correct magic because the rest of the party is combat Dwarves and a Hobbit and can’t do any of those things). This Point can confer one additional action in excess of these if the character is benefiting from them.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can command one or more other entities who will usually try to comply to the best of their ability. The NPCs may be fully realized characters, or simply generic monsters or drones, but overall their relationship to the Player Character is a subordinate one, and were they to leave or die, the character concept would not be overwhelmingly changed, though their loss must still amount to some kind of appreciable setback or non-trivial consequence for them. The Advantages that an NPC can possess are limited to those the PC already possesses (for instance, a knight skilled in swordsmanship and riding might command a unit of cavalry skilled in the same), unless more Points are given over to the NPCs’ use, though it’s very rare that an NPC possesses all the Advantages of the PC and vice versa. Grades of this Point based on the tier of slot they use are relatively concrete.<br>

'''Defining-Grade:''' The NPCs are essentially at the same tier as PCs. They are serious combat entities, may be stronger or more capable than the character themselves in some areas, and can generally expect to viably compete with PCs in relevant situations. Usually, some Advantage space is dedicated to fleshing out their personal abilities. An example is Ash Ketchum's Pokemon team, including Pikachu. The loss of Defining NPCs is prohibitively costly to the PC, and represents a hefty diminishment of the character’s core effectiveness.<br>

'''Significant-Grade:''' The NPCs are essentially at the tier of a miniboss. They are meaningful obstacles in a conflict situation, and may have specialist skills or unique abilities, though they generally cannot expect to outdo a PC within their arena of expertise. Examples include R2-D2 or generic SOLDIERS from FF7. The loss of Significant NPCs is highly inconvenient to the PC, as they represent a great deal of investment and are effort/resource/time intensive to replace.<br>

'''Minor-Grade:''' The NPCs are essentially window dressing or props. Their skills have niche uses at most, and cannot contribute more than a similar Minor Advantage would. Minor NPCs cannot have a PL, and are presumed to lose in any combat engagement against anything more important than them. Examples include C3-P0 or generic Stormtroopers from Star Wars, or generic “redshirts” from Star Trek. The loss of Minor NPCs is a lesser inconvenience to the PC, but one great enough that they have a good incentive not to throw them away without thinking.<br>

'''Required Text:''' What the NPCs are capable of. This does not have to be extensively inclusive of specific Points, however “what the NPCs do” and the generalities of their limits should be obvious. A reader should be able to tell that Storm Troopers don’t use The Force or swing around lightsabers.<br>

''Note: Where it actually matters, a Minor NPC specialized in combat will beat a Minor NPC that has no combat role. C3-P0 still loses to a squad of Stormtroopers, even though they're both Minor-grade.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Oration'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has exceptional social skills, has extraordinary charisma, is trained in diplomacy, persuasion, and deception, uses some kind of magical glamour, or otherwise has some means to make them an unusually effective speaker.<br>

'''Significant''' or lower. This Point cannot be a Defining Advantage solely for the difficulty of portraying and respecting it in play.<br>

'''Required Text:''' None, so long as it is obviously distinct from '''Mind Manipulation'''.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Power Copy - (1/2/3)'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} Because Power Copying is an Advantage that can be almost any other Advantage, and often several at once, the way that Power Copying works is not covered here, but [[Power Copy|in its own article]].<br>

'''Defining'''<br>

'''Standalone'''<br>

'''Consent''' for 2 and 3.<br>

'''Required Text:''' See article.<br>

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Proxies'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has the option of working through an expendable and sometimes remote actor, minimizing risk to themselves while still allowing them to employ the bulk of their Advantages. Examples include Warframes, remote bodies from Ghost in the Shell, as well as swappable/expendable bodies from it and similar Transhuman themes, and the typical depiction of avatars such as in Accel World and other video game-inspired series. Possession, in the sense of ghosts, demons, body snatching, etc. is also considered a Proxy, but will usually require a Point to allow forcible acquisition and control of Proxies, such as '''Mind Manipulation'''.  

 

 

Proxies are a somewhat complicated territory, as '''MCM absolutely requires that the use of proxies not be able to obviate all danger to the user'''. As such, this Point follows almost identical rules to '''Immortality''', where the Catch is assumed to be some form of feedback to the user such that they are harmed when their Proxy is. Examples include psychic nosebleeds, cyber shock, magical soul rending, etc.This means that the user can die if their Proxy presence in a scene is rendered “dead enough”, or they were previously low on metaphorical HP and damage to Proxies “made up the difference”.

 

 

The user of this Point has the option of how to scale their investment in their Proxy. A player can decide to use a lower tier of Proxy than this Point occupies, but cannot freely switch mid-scene.

 

A '''Defining''' Proxy effectively can have all the tools and the full combat power of the character at their disposal, but translates “loss of HP” almost 1:1. If the Proxy jumps on a bomb and is blown to smithereens for their heroic sacrifice, the user is either dead, crippled, or in critical condition.<br>

A '''Significant''' Proxy has limited use of the character’s Defining Advantages and likely possesses only a partial chunk of their Advantages overall, as well as having reduced combat power. Being damaged can seriously harm the user, but life-threatening injury rarely, though not never, occurs. The user is safer, but has less ability to influence events for it.<br>

A '''Minor''' Proxy is of extremely limited help, with no realistic chance of winning meaningful combat, and any Advantages they keep are effectively “Minor-tier”. Their destruction is painful but usually only causes minor injuries to the user.<br>

'''Required Text:''' What the character sends ahead instead of themselves, and generally what abilities the Proxies possess.<br>

''Note: This Point rarely applies to summoners, drone operators, and the like, who wield their minions while already in the scene. If another participant can simply shoot the controller without additional difficulty, it’s not a Proxy. Likewise, sending an important NPC in a character’s place is not a Proxy, for the fact that the NPC is perfectly capable of dying, thus the character can be threatened by meaningful losses.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Quantum Solution'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has a knack for occasionally producing unique, irreplicable, and incredibly situational solutions to various problems they encounter, through MacGyver-esque ingenuity, arbitrary access to mad science gizmos, absurdly flexible but situational magic, miraculous luck, or some other similar bag of tricks. Once per scene, this Point allows the character to produce a solution to a single, discrete obstacle or challenge. As per this Point’s name, said solution essentially doesn’t exist until it suddenly does. The form this solution takes and how effectively it solves the problem are up to the discretion of the scene or plot runner, but in a situation where no agreeable compromise can be reached, this Point is not “used up”.<br>

'''Defining'''<br>

'''Consent'''<br>

'''Required Text:''' A strong idea of what thematics the Point follows.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can physically manipulate objects at long distance, whether through telekinesis, magical puppet strings, manipulation of an element, sticking their hands through tiny portals, etc. Universally, this Point is a utility, covering practical tasks that can be done with physical manipulation, and typically not effectually imitating other Powers. Telekinetic flight and barriers and powerful attacks require other relevant Points. The default assumption is that the character manipulates objects as they could with their hands, or appropriate mundane tools in the case of things like water or sand.<br>

'''Required Text:''' What the character can manipulate and how.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can surveil a place extremely far away, or which they are otherwise unable to view normally, even with enhanced senses. Extremely mundane examples are the classical hidden camera and microphone, with fantasy equivalents being the crystal ball or Scrying spell, though this Point can also represent familiars or drones the character can see through, to name a few. This Point presumes that characters being watched are reasonably capable of realizing they are with mundane attention, unless appropriate concealment Points are taken alongside it.<br>

'''Consent''' when spying on PCs.<br>

'''Required Text:''' The mechanism by which the character views remotely, and the criteria that determines a valid place for them to see into.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character is able to repair various equipment, devices, or structures, to working condition. This is very often a mundane skill assisted by tools, in which case there is typically a more narrow field, but it can also use sci-fi reprocessing or powerful supernatural means, such as in Starbound and Eclipse Phase, or Josuke’s Stand, Crazy Diamond, from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures. How well the object functions when finished typically corresponds to the Point’s slot tier.<br>

'''Required Text:''' What sorts of targets the character is able to repair, and broadly in what general timeframe.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Resistance - (Source)'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has a natural resilience to, or a powerful preventative measure against, a specific category of harmful or unwanted influence. This can be almost anything, from a red dragon having a Resistance to fire, to a psion having a Resistance to mind control, but this Point has variable usefulness when it comes to PCs. As a general rule, a Resistance to a type of damage or harm can scale all the way up to an immunity to a natural or mundane source (such as a forest fire or black plague), provides a degree of utility based on its tier of Advantage slot against major plot obstacles (a melting down reactor or a super virus bioweapon), and only as much effect vs another PC as they are willing. How well this Point is respected by another PC is largely a matter of strongly encouraged etiquette.  

 

 

A Black Mage repeatedly slamming the canonically fire-immune Rubicante with fire spells, which he knows he should be strong against, while a whole list of other elements are at his disposal, is being a dick. An Avatar universe Firebender however, is free to light Rubicante up and assume it will be effective, perhaps with some extra effort, because it would be unreasonable to insist a Firebender couldn’t use their primary ability, and they don’t have much else to use anyways. The sole exception to this point is when a Point has an applicable '''Consent''' caveat, such as Mind '''Manipulation''', in which case it is generally acceptable for a Resistance to provide immunity of a certain level, understanding that the '''Significant''' and '''Defining''' Advantages of other PCs are still entitled to due sell when the target declines. The category of a Resistance that encompasses solely these effects can be fairly broad.<br>

'''Required Text:''' Informative examples of what sources of harm the character has a Resistance against.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has the ability to bring back the dead with the functionality they had in life. For the purposes of this Point, “dead” is when a target is going to stay dead unless someone brings them back to life full stop, not clinically dead or a state a scene runner would be explicitly allowing to “come back to life” anyways, such as with defibrillation or Phoenix Down.<br>

'''Standalone'''<br>

'''Required Text:''' The criteria needed for a target to be eligible for Resurrection. Note that this does mean that there needs to actually be a state of “dead” that a character cannot resurrect. It is typically understood that entities killed offscreen or as part of a plot won’t be subject to the same level of finality as a PC using '''Skeleton Catch''', but it is an obligate condition of Resurrection that there be a reason the character cannot go rubbing resurrection juice on every dusty old femur they find scattered around a crypt, as it quickly becomes laborious for scenerunners to constantly fabricate NPCs out of nothing.<br>

''Note: This Point does not extend to bringing your own character back to life. If your character self-resurrects, see '''Immortality'''. Obviously, resurrected targets are probably in perfect or near-perfect health, and so further healing Points are not strictly necessary. Not taking them does, however, mean that your character can’t heal someone who isn’t dead yet.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''''Riding'''''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} This Point is a stub. See '''Vehicle Mastery'''.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}}'''Skeleton Catch'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character kills people dead, period. They automatically fulfil the Catch associated with another character’s Immortality without having to go to extra lengths, users of Proxies always receive full deadly harm from their attacks equivalent to that suffered by their Proxy, and killing someone will prevent their return through Resurrection. This Point is an explicit exception to the general notion that no Advantage automatically trumps another Advantage when contesting an Advantage of equal or lower tier. Though Skeleton Catch is technically still a threat to characters possessing higher-tier Immortality, the existence of condeath makes this little more than flavor.

 

Because non-player controlled characters do not utilize the Advantage system, a Significant instance of Skeleton Catch should be considered adequate against entities that have any sort of defined Catch to their unkillability, and a Defining instance of Skeleton Catch should be considered always adequate period, including against theme entities that essentially aren’t killable without a plot.<br>

'''Significant''' or higher.<br>

'''Required Text:''' None.<br>

''Note: Obviously, concepts such as condeath still apply. This Point is an allowance for certain characters who are willing to spend the Point to always be able to meaningfully threaten any entity with actual and permanent death. Unless chosen to explicitly note otherwise, for the purposes of this Point, dead is dead is dead, and no form of “technically dead” obviates it.''

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{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Skill - (Skill)'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character is exceptionally skilled or capable in an area of expertise that is not encompassed by another Point, but is broadly useful in enough circumstances that it still deserves to be called an Advantage. The skill in question cannot grant the character the use of another Point implicitly (for instance, defining “programming” as a category of this Point does not suddenly make the character capable of '''Hacking'''). This Point is effectively a differently flavored mirror of '''Knowledge'''.<br>

'''Required Text:''' The character’s Advantage-worthy area of expertise, with at least two example applications.<br>

''Note: There are some examples of acceptable categories later in this section, as well as a word on “skill minimums” required to make use of Advantages.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can grant the use of one or more of his Advantage Points to other characters, such as by handing out equipment, bestowing magical enhancements or blessings, synchronizing minds or abilities in some fashion, etc. Having this Point means that the character is able to provide others in the same scene with the benefits of their other Advantage Points of '''an equal tier or lower'''. In cases where the Point affects the self, such as '''Healing''', the character can now affect other characters, such as by casting healing spells. In cases where the Point is targeted at others, such as '''Attacks List''', the recipient gains the use of a similar ability for the scene, such as by handing them a raygun. In cases where the Point already affects others, such as '''Buffs''', the character is now able to use it on themselves, such as typical RPG moves. In cases where the Advantage is '''Standalone''' or incorporates '''Flash Movement''', others can only benefit from it by coordinating together with the character, such as huddling together under Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak, or setting up fixed teleportation pads.

 

 

Recipients who wish to obtain these effects permanently must file an Upgrade Application as normal. Characters cannot Share Powers with recipients if they are not actually in the same scene. Certain Points are not eligible for sharing due to creating undesirable or redundant interactions. See '''Power Copy for this list''', as Share Powers' should be considered identical.

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'''Required Text:''' In what form the character shares their Advantages with others, defined as singular, broad thematic, such as mad science gadgets, enhancement spells, etc.<br>

''Note: This Point is actually not strictly necessary to use Advantages on, or give them out to, other people. Just about any Advantage can be defined to do so, but in that case, it only works on '''others''' (or on oneself if it normally only works on others). This Point is '''always''' more efficient, and always preferred, when a character has more than one of these Points at a time, and should always be used in these cases.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''''Shapeshifting'''''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} Shape shifting is not actually considered an Advantage Point. The power to change forms is a trapping. It is the fluffy dressing on the actual point of taking a new form. This stub exists to guide people looking for shape shifting into checking out '''Disguise''', '''Superior (Attribute)''', '''Environmental Protection''', '''Entry Methods''', '''Flight''', '''Water Functionality''', and other such things that different bodies might do.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character is skilled in getting around unseen and undetected. This may be a enhanced by, or a result of, things like camouflage technology, magical silence, extremely small size, and the like, but this Point is sharply differentiated from '''Invisibility''' in that the character can always be detected by sufficient mundane effort or attention, no matter the circumstance, and must actively avoid notice, instead of being presumed unnoticed until they engage in a competitive task, or something does something special. Users of this Point include Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid, Altair from Assassin’s Creed, Garrett from the Thief series, and James Bond, though they rarely use only this Point.<br>

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''Note: For approaches where the character is obviously present but undercover or unremarkable, see '''Disguises''', and possibly '''Oration''' if they infiltrate through social subterfuge, such as bluffing, acting, and imitating.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has a “generic” kind of overall above-human physical aptitude, typically encompassing some combination of superhuman strength, speed, resilience, reflexes, stamina, etc. This is an unbelievably common package in anime, comic books, and martial arts films, and incredibly common among non-human races in fantasy and sci-fi books, games, and movies. This can all be represented as a single Point simply because it would be prohibitively unwieldy to do otherwise, however, some small amount of emphasis can go to particular traits if the character is only superhuman in a few areas.<br>

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''Note: For characters with individually outstanding physical traits which cannot be called generic, such as the Flash’s speed or the Hulk’s strength, see '''Superior - Attribute'''.''

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{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Superior - (Attribute)'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has a single physical trait, such as those outlined in '''Superhumanity''', which vastly exceeds the norm to the point of becoming one of the character’s primary tools.The Hulk would take this Point in “strength” instead of Superhumanity, which Superman might take instead, representing that all of his metaphorical “XP” is loaded into being really really strong, and that his strength is more relevant than a generic superhuman’s in solving problems.<br>

'''Required Text:''' Which of the character’s attributes is exceptional, and at least one example of a feat they can perform with some, but not exceptional, effort.<br>

''Note: Anything like “Superior Durability” should be represented with '''Damage Reduction'''. Note that this Point can be taken multiple times to represent multiple areas in which a character is categorically exceptional. If being physically absurd is their main gimmick, they may wind up using an entire slot like this.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character is well-versed in what it takes to provide for themselves and possibly others in situations far away from civilization and dependable infrastructure. This Point typically represents an abstract collection of abilities such as navigation and foraging suited to particular environments, but which rarely have central relevance, given that MCM’s structure makes it difficult to really be stranded anywhere for long.<br>

'''Minor'''<br>

'''Required Text:''' What kinds of places the character is skilled at surviving in.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''''Teleportation'''''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} This is a stub. Teleportation is almost always going to be represented with '''Flash Movement''', which elaborates fully on how teleportation can be represented on MCM.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''Temporal Acceleration'''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can accelerate the passage of time for other things. This could cause plants to grow, weapons to rust, food to rot, creatures to mature, machines to work faster, stone to wear away, etc. so long as it is naturally affected by the progression of time. How much what target can be accelerated almost wholly depends on how useful it is to actually do it. In any tier of Advantage slot, rusting away the blast doors of a sealed starship bridge would be more difficult than ageing a bottle of wine by the same amount of time. It is understood that many problems may simply be beyond the scope of being solvable by any practical amount of time passing.<br>

'''Consent''' when applied to PCs, or possessions/NPCs of consequence.<br>

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{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character can create closed time loops with themselves, wherein an iteration of them from the future briefly returns to present to assist them in some task, and then at the same point in the future, the character undertakes the same action of returning to the same point in the past in order to keep causality happy. This is the only form of personal time travel that MCM accommodates. Future selves are primarily useful for already knowing of dangers ahead of time, having partial or full solutions to puzzles, or items that make a problem easier which lie beyond the problem, and so frequent consultation with a scene runner is usually necessary to be playable.<br>

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'''Note: This Point does not cover having future selves travel back in time to multiply the number of things you can do at one time. See '''Multiple Discrete Actions''' to do so.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has the ability to stop time, or else somehow act outside of time, such that they are able to act literally instantly. This is differentiated from slowing down time, in that their actions take place without significant opportunity for other characters to follow them until they’ve already happened. Grades of this Point based on the tier of slot they use are relatively concrete.<br>

'''Defining''' Time Stop is extremely reliable and easily used, allowing the character to enhance nearly everything they do, often to the point their actions become difficult to follow. Similar to Defining teleportation and invisibility, the character often Just Shows Up out of frozen time. Examples are Sakuya Izayoi from Touhou, Dio Brando from JoJo's Bizarre Adventures, Shadow the Hedgehog's Chaos Control, and Homura Akemi from Puella Magi Madoka Magica.<br>

'''Significant''' Time Stop is incomplete, limited in use, very short lived, or else plausible to “resist” without any special powers, but still lends the character considerable utility in situations to which it is well suited. Other characters often don't have a hard time figuring out what they've done when time resumes, or else may be be able to anticipate or counter it with mundane effort and skill. Examples are Nox from Wakfu, Esdeath from Akame ga Kill, the Time Clow Card, and most usable incarnations in videogames, such as Castlevania or Bayonetta.<br>

'''Minor''' Time Stop is more or less a flashier version of super speed or super reflexes. The character might only be able to see and not move while time is stopped, or else be unable to interact significantly with the environment while time is stopped, or the pause in time has such a short duration that little more than single motions can be accomplished. Examples include Accel World's Brain Burst program, and Hit from Dragon Ball Z Super in his first appearance.<br>

'''Standalone'''<br>

'''Consent''' where actions taken in stopped time would directly affect another PC or undercut them to a goal without allowing for a competing effort.<br>

''Note: For simply slowing down time, see '''Superior - Speed''', or for slowing down the time of a specific entity, see '''Debilitation'''. '''Superior - Speed''' and '''Flash Movement''' can be considered optional ways of representing time stopping characters, especially those who use it largely cosmetically or to simple effect in their source. Using one or both instead of this Point is less taxing on a character’s Advantage space, and adheres to general logic rather than the Consent tag, but the tradeoff is that actions the character takes using their time stopping powers are then eminently obvious and preventable, as well as lacking the same degree of flexibility and narrative punch. The choice is up to the player most of the time.''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''''Transfiguration'''''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} Just like '''Shape Shifting''', turning people into things is not an Advantage Point in of itself, but the trappings on one. This stub serves a similar purpose, except also to note that any power which transfigures someone into something else, whether transforming them into a squirrel, ageing them 50 years, or turning them to stone, is automatically '''Consent''' noted.

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} '''''Transportation'''''

{{!}} class="LogCell" {{!}} The character has some means of getting from point A to point B in a highly day-to-day fashion, with no applicability in combat or with significant obstacles in play. This is effectively a non-Advantage, because we always assume that players should have access to what they need to Get To The RP, which is why Warpgates exist in the first place. This stub exists to affirm this. If the transport method has some basic utility, it may instead qualify for a '''Minor''' level of a Point like '''Flight'''.