Here's the first stab at specific Thermokinetic powers. Discuss!

* Thermokinesis – the mental manipulation of heat, one subset of this group is Pyrokinesis (manipulating fire). It also includes the ability to make something colder by removing the heat from it.

Subsets - create, enhance, and move fire; create areas of cold; use fire/heat and ice for attack or defense

Specific powers:

** Ignite - cause the target to burst into flame (low DOT (damage over time)|low cost)
** Burn - cause the target to burst into flame (medium DOT|medium cost)
** Immolate - cause the target to burst into flame (high DOT|high cost)
** Flame Wall - causes a wall of flame to appear at the specified location. The intensity, depth and width are variable, the maximum for each increasing based on the character's skill. A variable amount of damage will be taken by passing through the wall, based on it's size and intensity.
** Ring of Fire - causes a rign of flame to appear around the specified location. The intensity, circumference and width of the ring are variable, the maximum for each increasing based on the character's skill. A variable amount of damage will be taken by passing through the wall, based on it's size and intensity.
** Chill - as Ignite but with cold (low cost)
** Frost - as Burn but with cold (medium cost)
** Freeze - as Immolate but with cold (high cost)
** Ice Wall - as Flame Wall, but cannot be passed through Could be climbed over however. (medium cost)
** Ice Ring - as Ring of Fire, but cannot be passed through. Could be climbed over however. (medium cost)

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Are these polwers hoinh to "level up?" If so, you could something like this -

Many uses of ignite gives it a larger AOE, making it a good clean-up ability or late game a way to make those easy enemies dissapear -

Burn could slowly reduce in cost, so that late game it could be an older ability you could always use in a pinch -

Immolate could slowly increase in DOT, so that it could continue to be a good option -

Etc. etc. etc.

good idea Sadistic.

Don't call it freeze, just call it Glacier Spike and have a spike shoot out of the ground. Or you can you can use the term Glacier Spike for a ranged attack.

Oh yah and for an Epic Type Ability (One taking a large amount of cost) Fire And Ice - A ring of Fire and Ice Spikes The lauch from the player. Good for keeping back tons of small low level "zerg" units.

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IMO, as your skill with a power gets better, variables for the power should adjust either up or down - less cost, greater range, etc. They need to max out at some point though. You don't want an attack to take out an entire city.

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Great names, Immolate sounds wicked (^,^). What about an ability to cauterize wounds, though, for some kind of healing?

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Good idea.

How about one to warm up your coffee?

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Reminds me of the RPG spell name creator, I posted an URL here once, in the off-topic forum. You might want to check it out

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Make the ranged attack also be available, but the ranged attack uses more psi energy for less damage. That's how Oblivion/Morrowind did it.

* ? - melt the hinges on doors together, a permanant lock.
* Fireball - duh
* ? - heat up the weapon the target is holding, causing him to drop it
* ? - greatly lower the temperature of a gun, causing it to jam.
* Fire Shield - a ring of fire that follows you around, harms others. Pretty much takes care of a a mass group of melee attackers
* Ice Crush - freeze the water out of the air directly above a person's head. Smash.
* ? - freeze water to the bottom of enemy's shoes, causing them to lose the ability to easily control movement and also completely screw with aiming.
* ? - explode the all the ammunition someone is carrying prematurely.
* ? - melt the end of a gun barrel shut

EDIT: oh yes, I forgot to mention, how about an ability that removes pain by cooling the affected area?

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Perhaps such an ability would allow you to trade movement speed for health?

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Did you mean to post this in the Biokinetics thread?

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I was referring to this:

Sorry that I was so inspecific.

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How is pain going to affect gameplay? I can see freezing an open wound or some such.

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It's "healing", essentially.

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I guess it would depend on the type of wound. Cooling a broken arm isn't really going to heal it. Cooling a sword cut would stop the flow of blood, essentially healing the DOT component of the wound. That's fine.

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heh healing through the use of frostbite I like it

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It would help reduce pain though, and if we have broken arms reducing things other than health, it may allow you to act sort of more like you don't have a broken arm.

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That's fine, we'd have to really define what wounds do to the character and what powers fix what injuries or side effects.

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I think Healing should just stay in the biokinesis. You channel life-force energy to accelerate the functioning of the cells of your body to heal you quickly.

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climbed? how about just make it require it being destroyed?

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Why? Why shouldn't someone be able to climb over it?