Thread:Midoki24/@comment-3567304-20141213004407/@comment-1387629-20141216174730


 * Water Sense is too specific a power, we should retool that into a broader category. But it's already a part of Enhanced Senses and we think it fits just fine there for now.


 * Explosion might be a good idea but Energy Projection includes not just "beams" but any kind of projection, including omni-directional attacks (attacks in every direction).


 * Animate Objects could be considered Possession. Animate Image would that be making things like pictures or cartoons come to life? Elemental Animation could be considered Summoning.


 * Life Drain fits fine in Energy Absorption because that category covers any kind of energy include water, blood, life and anything that the character can steal. When Parasite, for example, drains someone he drains them entirely.


 * Power Reserve might be a good one. It doesn't necessarily have another category it could fit in. If you could find me some on-panel examples that would be an easy one to define.


 * Sudden Death could be considered Fatal Touch but we could retool that into a more specific power that doesn't require touching (which also has the benefit of removing the bloat from Energy Projection).


 * Chronokinesis covers Time Travel, any character that has more specific rules is unique to that character.


 * Shape-Shifting is broad enough and the description itself could be more fleshed out.

I'm not trying to stifle you or your suggestions so allow me a moment to explain our thought process. Characters are written to contain powers in our books and these powers aren't defined in stone. One could generally say that Superman can lift a building because of his Superhuman Strength but someone else could come along and say that Superman has a field of energy he exerts around an object to keep it from collapsing as he lifts it. Both are true but would that be Superhuman Strength? Energy Projection? Telekinesis? Superboy had a kind of specific telekinesis, should we make a new category for his power? What about characters with Crystal Generation? There are a whole three of them, shouldn't that be worked into somewhere else?

The best solution is to drag all these powers into one pool and then sift through them to find which fits and does not. Doing so will bloat categories like Energy Projection but then we find powers like Hydrokinesis and Pyrokinesis and can move them to a correct category.