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Growth

This is a self-directed form of Enlargement. The hero can temporarily increase his physical size at will. As he grows, the hero becomes an easier target. The bonuses to be hit, given in the 3rd table below, are not cumulative. There are 3 ways the power can be attained: Atomic Dispersal, Atomic Gain, and Atomic Growth. The player randomly determines the method when he creates the character or when the character first gains this power, using the subtable below.
1d100
Atomic Dispersal: With Atomic Dispersal, the hero increases the distance between his own atoms, thus increasing his overall size. His mass remains the same no matter how large he becomes. The hero also becomes increasingly fragile; his body’s material strength decreases -1CS with each doubling in size. At SX rank, the body becomes less dense than air. At CL1000 rank, the hero becomes intangible and can Phase through normal matter.

Atomic Gain: Atomic Gain enables the hero to somehow create or gain new atoms and incorporate them into his atomic structure. As the hero gains new matter, his size and mass increase as well. As the hero grows, his strength increases +1CS for each +2CS of growth. The hero's Primary and Secondary abilities are unaffected. However, Health seems to increase because physical attacks do less relative damage. Bullets, for example, would be nothing more than grains of high-velocity sand to a giant hero.

Note: when the hero returns to his original size, wounds decrease in size, but imbedded bullets and other objects do not!


Atomic Growth: Atomic Growth enables the hero to increase the size of his own atoms, thus increasing his overall size and mass. The hero's strength increases only enough to enable him to move his own body; lifting strength does not increase. This form of Growth has a dangerous side effect. As the hero's atoms grow, they are unable to interact with normal atoms. The hero is unable to breathe, drink, or eat normal matter. Fortunately, there is a 95% chance (determined at the time the hero is created) that the power envelops the hero's body in a field that temporarily increases the size of consumed matter.

Note: this is the only form of growth that will enable the hero to travel into macroverses or, if the hero is originally from a microverse, enable the hero to reach our own universe.

The nemesis is Diminution; the specific nemeses for each form are, in order: Atomic Collapse, Atomic Reduction, and Atomic Shrinkage (see Shrinking).

The following details to-hit bonuses against Growth-using characters:
RankSizeResultant Bonus to be hit
Fb
Pr
Ty
Gd
Ex
Rm
In
Am
Mn
Un
SX
SY
SZ
CL1000
CL3000
CL5000		1.5X
2X
3X
4X
6X
8X
10X
12X
15X
20X
50X
100X
200X
500X
1,000X
10,000X		+1CS
-
-
-
-
+2CS
-
-
+3CS
-
-
-
-
-
+5CS
+6CS
Range: None.