[quote=@TheWizardLizard]
Although, on the subject of actively exploitable power weaknesses, perhaps someone could help me come up with one for my other character, as I've hit something of a block. The power, in essence, allows her to turn off friction and slide around at high speeds - it does this by projecting a field close around her body (so it also works on skintight clothes), which doubles as a minor shock absorber so that she doesn't immediately die when she crashes into something (still hurts, though).

The obvious weakness is that it's difficult to control and not really as good as just flat-out super speed, but I'm not sure if that's enough, so. If anyone has any input, that would be appreciated.
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This drawback might be a stretch, but what if her power also daps into the other side of the friction spectrum to a limited (and uncontrolled) extent and she unintentionally [i]enhances[/i] friction sometimes. Like, she could put on some socks, and burn herself, or she could accidentally set something ablaze because she enhanced the friction of it. Get the gist?

Otherwise, you can say that she has piss poor mobility or has trouble adjusting herself once she gets started - so no sudden turns or stops.



[quote=@Nevis]
Before I go and fully develop a character around it, I want to make certain this power works.


The ability is essentially complete control over all himself in the body and power sense. He can control the speed at which his cells replicate, heal by hastened regeneration and alter and rewrite his DNA at will. This enables him essentially change what he is genetically-grow new appendages or completely change his species-and, theoretically, enables him to write in other abilities into himself. This latter technique, though, can only be used once his body has learned the genetic code for an ability, which generally requires ingesting genetic material (assuming the ability is carried in their genetics, rather than something else) granting the ability. This generally means devouring some or all of the original carrier and comes with the inherent limitations both of the original use on top of his own. Beyond this, most ability genes tend to conflict or require the same point in the genetic sequence in him, making using multiple simultaneously difficult to impossible.

The major weakness is that he has to obtain sufficient energy and nutrients to do this; increasing the rate of cell growth means increasing metabolism and growing entirely new body parts or such means ingesting quite a great deal, pounds on pounds while also taking into account waste, energy efficiency and so on. While he can, obviously, improve his ability to digest food and such above usual human levels, he has to actually get said food and take the time to digest it-meaning that if he were to grow another appendage, for example, he will have to devour the necessary nutrients to do so-and then again to grow back to his default. This means that doing much with his abilities other than healing generally takes time and a lot of eating-and it often adds up toxins faster than he can remove them, and the ratio is worse the faster he runs it, increasingly pushing him closer to Ashing. For other 'abilities' taken on, he generally has to expend more physical exertion than the original on top of the process necessary to rewrite his genetics to use it, given the base physical nature of his ability.


In addition to/besides that, for a character with the ability above or another, I am wondering if I may play a character who is/was a Eugenics experiment by the Hands of Science, the Founding Family or some other nefarious group as an attempt to make said 'perfect being'?~<3
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Hmmm... The power could be fine. Those weaknesses aren't really all that exploitable, or debilitating, to be honest.

You could say something like he's weak to energy/heat based attacks, altering his genetic structure weakens him for awhile, it's painful, and the sudden and extreme biological changes wreaks hell on his internal structure (Maybe shit like immense pain, organ failure, sudden penis explosion, etc).