Mutants & Masterminds - [Review] Power Profiles #14: Air Powers

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Power Profiles #14: Air Powers

Vitals: Published By Green Ronin • 6 pages • $0.99 • full color PDF

Descriptors, Countering & Features

Two primary descriptors, one for air and what that means, specifically makeup, effects on gasses, and places without air, and the other for wind and the limits of that effect. Four features and a discussion round out the section.

Offensive Powers

Eight powers ranging and nine effects from damaging blasts to wind based Afflictions. Of these the Tornado power is the stand out, being a more complex build than a simple area effect damage. Tornado has been modeled, within a reasonable points per rank, to be able to do all that one would expect of such a phenomenon including picking up objects and hurling them away, holding them within the funnel, and doing damage from extreme wind and debris.

Defensive Powers

Six powers covering 3/4 of a page. The Air Bubble power is an interesting interpretation on a classic effect. The Wind Wall power provides a clever means of blocking a path, and with a little reinterpretation could make an effective cage like power.

Movement Powers

Five effects ranging from obvious powers like Flight and Gliding, to a flight denial power (which strikes me as being more of an Offensive or Utility power for classification purposes), and a power based on boosting the ability of other air or wind powered forms of transit.

Utility Powers, Other Powers, and Complications

Seven powers including well known effects like summoning quasi-elemental creatures and moving objects to impeding movement. A brief paragraph discussed using the effects from the Weather Powers profiles as potential add ons to those presented in this profile. Five complications wrap up the Profile.

Closing Thoughts

Air Powers is a solid profile, but not a stand out profile. New players and players of air controlling characters will probably find this profile useful, but veterans may wish there was a little more crunch or a few more powers beyond Tornado that hint at the inner workings of the system in new ways.

Rating: 85%, A solid profile with few flaws but also few standout items. Recommended but not required.