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Superpowers
Superpowers
1. Powers that are limited by their conception, like it's built into the concept they are.
Example: you can bring back to the real world anything you hold in your hands in a
dream (dreams are unpredictable and uncontrollable, so the caveat is created by
their own nature rather than by an arbitrary one).
2. Powers that are limited by a simple caveat. Example: you can move at superspeed as
long as people aren't seeing you with their eyes directly (the caveat is not too
complex, so the power seems more instinctive to understand if it were in a story).
3. Powers that have great risk but high reward. Example: You gain physical advantage
over people by the severity of the secrets you tell them (here, the secret could
potentially harm you, so they put you at a position of losing something, however the
power gained from them is good for you, you stand to gain from it, and even better,
it's stronger the more at risk you put yourself (gradients like this are usually pretty
good) and it has little ways of breaking as it related directly to the danger you put
yourself in).
4. Powers that are just not that good. Example: You can look away faster than
strangers so you get no more awkward eye contact (this one has little use and
honestly it's not very good in a story but I thought it was a good example and pretty
funny). Also: You can copy and paste (words) in real life (not necessarily weak or
useless to make it bad, just not the most powerful thing).
Shit-tier superpower types:
This will be more of a "post type" than a power type, since the powers have very
little use in a story, but are fun to think of most of the time.
Just wanted to mention this one which I don't know how to categorize, but I really love
it: Every time you forget about this power, a bear enters the room and hands you $150
in cash. You need to forget something, which makes it harder, you get 150 dollars, which
isn't even that much for something you can probably only do once every month at most,
and the bear is a wonderful character that adds a lot without having to even be
described.