Mind Switch

Effect: Mind Control

Action: Standard (active)

Range: Perception

Duration: Sustained (lasting)

Saving Throw: Will

Cost: 2 points per rank

You can switch your mind into the body of another creature, putting its mind into your body. You must be able to accurately perceive the target and it must

have an Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma score. Take a standard action and make a power check, opposed by the target’s Will saving throw. If successful, your minds switch bodies.

You retain your mental ability scores, skills, and powers and gain the target’s physical ability scores, skills, and powers, the same for the target occupying your body. Once the switch has taken place, it continues with no effort on your part. The target of the Mind Switch gets a new Will saving throw for each interval on the Time Table. Re-roll your power check as well. A successful save switches your minds back to their respective bodies.This is also the case if your Mind Switch power is ever countered. You can switch back any time as a free action. You suffer any damage that your new body suffers and, if it is killed, you die as well (unless you switch back or mind switch into a different body before that happens). If your former body dies while you are mind-switched, you are trapped in your new body and it becomes your “real” one.

A permanent body-switch can potentially increase a character’s point value, perhaps by a substantial amount. The GM should be cautious about allowing such permanent switches in the campaign and should, at the least, expect the player of the character with the new body to apply all earned power points to paying off the difference in point value.

EXTRAS

• Attack: A Mind Switch Attack swaps the minds of two targets you can accurately perceive, both of whom must roll less on their Will save than your Mind Switch power check. Mind Switch Attacks are most common for technological devices.

• Area: An Area Mind Switch must have the Attack modifier, allowing it to affect subjects other than yourself. It switches the minds of one chosen group of targets with another group,so long as you can accurately perceive all the subjects.

• Duration: Continuous duration Mind Switch does not allow further saving throws, it is permanent unless your power is countered or another Mind Switch swaps your minds back to their proper bodies. The GM is cautioned against allowing this type of Mind Switch power for player characters.

FLAWS

• Permanent: Mind Switch cannot have this flaw; its maximum duration is continuous.