Effect: Array (Alternate Forms)
Action: Free (active)
Range: Personal
Duration: Special
Saving Throw: None
Cost: 2 points per rank
You can change the physical dimensions of your body, “contracting” to fewer than three dimensions or “expanding” to more than three. Choose one of the following effects to apply your Array points to when you acquire this power; you can acquire the others as Alternate Powers within your Dimensional Control Array:
• 1-D Form: Becoming a mathematical line you become virtually invisible (Total Visual Concealment, 8 points) and can pass through any opening or space (Insubstantial 4, Limited to openings and spaces, affected by Dimensional effects, 16 points).
• 2-D Form: You become perfectly flat, with no depth. You can slip through any crack or opening wide enough to accommodate your width (Insubstantial 1, Limited by width, 4 points), become invisible when seen on-edge (Total Visual Concealment, Limited to one side, 4 points), plus you can apply the Penetrating extra to your Strength, using your hands as infinitely thin edged weapons able to inflict lethal damage (apply points from your Array to the Penetrating extra, up to your Strength bonus).
• 3-D Form: This is your default form, wherein you have your normal traits. You can return to 3-D form automatically as a free action from any of your other dimensional forms.
• 4-D Form: You can “sidestep” three-dimensional barriers (Insubstantial 3, 15 points) and perceive as if they weren’t there (sight and hearing Penetrate Concealment, 8 points). You also have a greater ability to move 3-D objects; apply points from your Array to Enhanced Strength and Super-Strength.
• 5-D Form: You transcend normal time as 3-D beings understand it, acquiring the Time Control power. Apply your Array points to that power and any desired
effects.
• 6-D Form: You transcend ordinary dimensional barriers, able to cross them at will, giving you Super-Movement (Dimensional 3).
COUNTERING
Dimensional Control may allow you to counter certain dimensional or spatial effects used directly against you. For example, it might be a suitable defense against Dimensional Movement, Temporal Movement, and Teleport Attacks, protecting you automatically against them. Since Dimensional Control is a personal power, it can’t generally be used to counter other effects not directly used against you.
POWER FEATS
• Affects Insubstantial: Other effects with this power feat work normally on subjects in 1-D, 2-D, or 4-D form.
• Dimensional: A degree of this power feat is inherent in Dimensional Control, particularly the 6-D effect, although the GM may permit options like applying Dimensional to the character’s Strength for the ability to “reach” into other dimensions and affect things there.
• Dynamic: The Alternate Powers of Dimensional Control are generally mutually exclusive but, if you choose, you can apply the Dynamic power feat to the power and one or more of its Alternate Powers to allow you to mix-and-match different dimensional qualities, such as making one part of your body exist in one dimensional state and another part in another.
EXTRAS
• Affects Corporeal: Characters in 1-D form need this extra in order to affect the physical world with a non-sensory effect, including normal Strength.
• Affects Others: This extra allows you to take another subject with you into the same dimensional state or (for the +0 version) allows you to grant different
dimensional states to others while retaining your own three-dimensional state.
• Attack: A Dimensional Control Attack can force a target into a different dimensional state, which can impose serious restrictions on the target’s ability to interact with normal (three-dimensional) things.
FLAWS
• Action: Reducing the action required to change form is a power drawback rather than a flaw (see the Array structure and the Action power drawback for details).
• Duration: The duration of Dimensional Control is based on the duration of its various effects. You can change their durations—and the points allocated
to them fromthe Dimensional Control Array—individually.