New use for Biomannipulation?

[Killer Cyborg]

That would be Bio-manipulation: Pain.

[Killer Cyborg]

Then yeah, my idea totally works. I mean, pain is one thing, but a MIGRAINE is enough to put a 300 lbs man on the floor for hours.

Well, the Bio-manipulation: Pain power shows the extend of the power; it can hurt you, but not to the point that you described.

On the other hand, a GM might rule that if you have both powers (pain and paralysis) that you might be able to combine them into a Migraine power or something.

[Killer Cyborg]

"Both powers"? I thought Bio-Manipulation came with the ability to inflict ALL of those listed.

Sorry.
TMNT flashbacks.

[Talavar]

Besides, Bio-manipulation isn't just about pain and paralyzation. The way I read it, its about manipulation of the body systems. As in, I can constrict or push the flow of blood to and from one part of the body, which if I do it to the frontal lobes or just behind the eyes, it will cause a migraine. And at that point, you could let go and the migraine would continue, cause that's what migraines do. Ask anyone that's had one. In turn I'm sure you could cure a migraine with it as well. Cause one of the main things my GM taught me about magic and psionics, is that its all in how you use it and how creative you can get. Sure you could do mean and bad things with a lot of these powers, but you can also use them in positive manners. Just like I could break your leg and hold it in a messed up position and then use my psychic healing abilities heal it with the bones all set wrong. Now you're walking around like a gimp with his leg in his ****. Also, Bio manipulation clearly states that you can only paralyze one part of the body per use. True that one part can be a whole leg, but still, only one part at a time.

Bio-manipulation isn't about causing actual pain in a location in the body, but mentally controlling the victim's sensory receptors in the brain. For blindness, you shut down visual reception, for paralysis you shut down motor control, and for pain, you turn those pain receptors up to 11. The way you describe it is more like a low-level internal telekinesis, but that's not how it's described in-game.

Also, your description of paralysis is the spell version, Paralysis: Lesser. The bio-manipulation ability shuts down use of the arms and legs, and "victims are completely incapacitated for the duration."

[Talavar]

Then by what you're saying, and what you're describing makes more sense anyway, the migraine idea would not only be possible but practical.

In my opinion, it would be totally do-able. Bio-manipulation is more like psychically hacking the opponent's nervous responses; I'd be willing to let players get a little creative with it in my games.

[runebeo]

I haven't read the description in a while, so I don't remember EXACTLY how Biomannipulation works, but I thought, rather than paralyzing just one limb at a time, why not cut to the chase and give them a migraine headache. I don't care what anybody says, migraines will debilitate a person to the point of putting them to the floor in a whimpering, screaming, writhing ball of pain and suffering. Your vision is blurred, you can't concentrate, you're in more pain than you've ever been in your life, light, sound and motion only make it WORSE, and its all centralized in the cranium, right behind your eyes. If you've never had a migraine, or you get regular headaches and THINK that you're having a migraine, let me describe it for you... Imagine a tiny demon in your head that's blowing up a balloon made of spikes and steel wool, and the bastard won't stop, no matter how much you beg and plead. The only thing you can do is find a dark, quiet place to curl up and hope it passes soon. Now I remember the description for Bio-Mannip saying that you can affect any system in the body, and migraines are supposedly caused by blood flow, and believe me if you've had one, you can feel the blood pressure in your head. You can almost TASTE it. So logically this works for me. How about you folks?

By this thinking why not just paralyze the heart. That might be a future power, but bet it would have a high I.S.P. cost

[kamikazzijoe]

I have villain i haven't had a chance to use yet, but he has bio manipulation pleasure. Same penalties as pain except its from blissful euphoria. Since its a villain it also is carries drug like addiction putting people into his thrall.