Generator v2 - Unlimited Power

[Lestat]

Homebrew Exaltation - Generator

Matter can not be created or destroyed, neither can energy. So say the ignorant mortals who lack the knowledge of the Generators. Generators are beings who possess an unparalleled mastery of energy, so much so that it flows from their body as a never ending wellspring. Generators take many shapes and forms, some inconspicuous and bland, others elemental and awe-inspiring. Every Generator is without limit, blessed with a never ending source of energy. That energy can also be their curse as they are the perfect fuel for maddening inventions, mega-spelljammers, and planet spanning facilities. To steal from a Generator though is a monumental task.

Tell: A Generator's tell grows without bound, just like the powers they control. The energy they let off for some appears as arcs of lightning, radiating heat, or glowing light. In prolonged engagements it becomes all but certain to any educated factions within the Crystal Sphere that a Generator has appeared as delicate equipment catches the emanations they let off.

Powers:

Infinite Energy: You have infinite Energy.

Infinite Work: You are immune to Fatigue. You can not become unconscious or stunned and you do not require sleep or food.

Infinite Fuel: You gain the Luminen Charge feat. You may also use Luminen Charge to provide sustenance and remove fatigue.

Finite Potential: You have two fewer Hero Points, in narrative time you can't improve skill or characteristic rolls with Energy except on a stunt.

Power Stat: Impedance
Impedance is the amount of control a Generator has over their Energy. As the Generator becomes more familiar with their powers both the manner in which their Energy may be used, and how much they may use it grows.

Resource Stat: Energy. Generators have an infinite amount of Energy, though they are still limited in how much they may spend in one round as normal.

Impedance	Power Gained
★	Energy Blast - You may spend Energy to add +1k0 to a damage roll and change its damage type to E.
★★	Energy Shield - You may spend Energy to reduce the amount of wounds taken from an E type damage source by 2.
★★★	Energy Field - Your attacks and parries have the Power Field property.
★★★★	Energy Drain - When you deal wounds to a creature you deplete as many resource points.
★★★★★	Overcharged Energy - You may spend 6 resource points per round instead of 5.

Generator Source Assets

Atomic Energy
The mortals who tap into the power of the atom have no idea of its true potential. Increase any Blast rating of an attack of yours by your Impedance. Your Energy Blast power also gives the attack the Volatile property and changes its damage type to X.

Dynamic Energy
Energy is never lost, it only changes form. You may spend Energy to add 1 to your Speed for one round, to reroll a 1, or to add +1k0 to a non-Focus Power characteristic test. Your Energy Blast power can change the damage type to I, R, or X in addition to E.

Electrical Energy
For you, the idea of being a Generator is a bit more literal than figurative. You gain the Luminen Blast feat. Your Luminen Blast gains +0k1 damage, and its range is increased by 90m. Your Energy Blast power also gives the attack the Shocking property.

Kinetic Energy
Energy is most easily controlled via matter, through manifested barriers you efficiently direct it. You gain 5+Impedance AP on all locations that stacks with other armor sources at half rate. You may also take the parry action against both melee and ranged attacks with Willpower+Impedance, and can still improve the roll as if it was a skill roll. Your Energy Blast power also knocks the target prone unless they pass a TN 15 Strength test.

Mystic Energy
The secret to attain infinite energy is easily obtained through abuse of arcane principals, though other sorcerers seem incapable of truly understanding. You may spend Energy to add +1k0 to a Focus Power test. Your Energy Blast power also causes the attack to be considered magical for the purposes of bypassing resistances.

[ScrapyardDragon]

Cool concept in theory I guess, but what do they DO? From where I'm sitting, all it really is is just "some super specific combat focused powers and infinite resource" but who cares if the resource is infinite if there isn't much you can really do with it? I mean I guess there are healing spells but if the best use for these are bottomless healbots, then I wouldn't consider it all that interesting to play.

[a nony mouse]

- spend max resource points on every skill roll forever
- the same "I get to ignore fatigue" tricks that the promethian has
- Neither I nor my friends ever need to worry about food. I can provide sustenance for entire settlements full of people at a time if I choose.
- various combat things.

It's an interesting schtick. It might not be for you, but that's cool too. For someone who just wants to be able to largely ignore the resource management game, this lets them largely ignore the resource management game.

[username]

Infinite resource is obviously ridiculously overpowered.

As pointed out by "a nony mouse", you get full resource spent on every out of combat skill roll forever, up to +6k0 every time. I saw how powerful and out of hand such things can get on things you try to be good at with some original model Sparks but this goes even further because you can get the +6k0 on things you're bad at too, which is more than 5 dots in the skill. You are automatically the best in the party at almost everything, unless they can afford to blow resource to keep up. It becomes a major challenge to balance test difficulty between the V2 and the rest of the party since you can easily breeze past everything unless the TN is set unrealistically high, which then punishes the other party members.

Minor healing is a first level spell. With this class, you have infinite out of combat healing and can share that with your entire party for basically no investment. So now every fight needs to be the one to kill the entire party, or at least you, or the fight was wasted because you can just heal them back up to full. Of course, you're quite hard to kill since you can go all in on resource every time for an extra 5 or 6 dodges.

The closest comparison is Daemonhost (unrevise). A notoriously broken Exaltation, the comparison is not a favorable one. Daemonhost unrevised has nearly infinite out of combat resource as well, but for tests they might run into issues since the free action test does take some time and as a free action test they are much more limited on how often they can do it in combat. The only thing unrevised Daemonhosts really have that these don't is spending 1 resource for +5k0 to a focus power test, but with the Mystic Energy asset you can get +6k0 to a focus power test, although it would be all the resource you could spend a round, it would still be absolutely worth it. Daemonhost's works via raising your Caster level though and does not stack with Pushing, which this is a typeless bonus and would stack with Pushing the spell so a V2 can be even better at casting spells than an unrevised Daemonhost.

Some exalts have large pools that can be somewhat easily refilled but just a limitless pool is beyond any comparison. Dragonblooded get a fast pool outside combat but it tends to destroy the scenery when they use it and they still need 5 minutes of rest, meaning it could take hours to refill the entire party's health and they can't just blow the max on every skill test. Vampires have a large pool but bad things happen if they run out and it can be difficult or uncertain to refill it if the blood supply isn't available, which can happen in many situations. unrevised Daemonhosts have functionally infinite out of combat but even they may not be able to max it every skill test due to the timing of the recovery being something as opposed to nothing and can't nearly max it every turn in combat.

Also, -2 hero points creates an every bigger onus on being a human than normal since it means it is your only access to a hero point, over centralizing choice to an already popular race.

[Lestat]

It lacks the low point many, but not every exalt tends to reach, but Daemonhosts, Vampires, and Dragonblooded have varying degrees of in combat/out of combat resource spam that are functionally infinite already assuming you don't go all the way to round 6 where a Vampire would finally run dry until combat ends. TTRPGs are about high points, and novas. Even out of combat (before it was changed to half rate) they added 12.3 on average, and now they add 5 on average to a 10k5 roll. I'm fine with tweaking and balancing them mechanically so they do not outperform and outshine other players, but fully party healing has been a thing since core, and gaining anti-attrition in exchange for lacking the nova, and encounter powers of other exalts puts them in a fair place.

If attrition is core to your game, then I cannot do anything. If it isn't core, or it is acceptable for a player to have an exalt that removes this focus from your game, then I am interested in having it be balanced for such a game.

[Lestat]

Finite Potential now prevents improving skill and characteristic rolls in narrative time except on a stunt instead of halving all Energy use in narrative time all the time. Spending resource points to improve skill rolls is usually a special event, so this forcibly creates tension based spacing similar to a normal Exalt.

Of all things: Generator buffed. It really was just worse than Vampire, or Daemonhost who typically could get through any combat with 25, or potentially infinite resource points on Daemonhost, but also have many passive effects, or stronger uses for resource points (Celerity). Infinite Fuel now can remove fatigue from your friends (takes about a minute as per Luminen Charge). They now hard counter E damage, 2:1 reduction ratio instead of 1:1. They also counter Exalts now that Energy Drain does not require spending Energy to activate. Also energy field works on attacks and "parries" instead of just attacks and weapons, meaning spell parries, unarmed parries, and Kinetic Energy asset parries all destroy weapons.