Help Creating this Power

[limelight]

Friend of mine wants to create "low Strength Brick" boxer who has the uncanny ability to predict moves in combat like the "Sherlock Holmes" films. At first I did this with a series of feats and bonuses to defense and attack but I thought I'd put it out to the community to see some other ideas:

Any thoughts??

[Doctor Devious]

Your basic enhanced trait for attack/defense with "combat precognition" as a descriptor should do.
I'd still load up with combat feats regardless, as a low-strength martial artists need help to actually do damage once they hit.

[FuzzyBoots]

Another possibility which has been posited, generally as a manner of breaking PL levels slightly (for taking down foes outside of your weight range) is a Drain effect on your opponent's defenses resisted by Will based on you reading their reactions before they make them.

[peregrine]

Other options include a flawed version of concealment, forcing the enemy to have a miss chance, based on the character knowing where the enemy will be attacking.

[poodle]

second chance: toughness saves, boxing?
any of the protection powers would be just as accurate.
I guess it depends on how many pp you want to spend going from favoured opponent or defensive roll at one end to immunity:physical damage or insubstantial: limited fists or something similar.
You could do absorption: boost drain con. It would reflect your opponents being unable to hurt you as you roll with the punch and getting exhausted as they try to hit you and fail.

[kenseido]

Other options include a flawed version of concealment, forcing the enemy to have a miss chance, based on the character knowing where the enemy will be attacking.

I personally have a problem with allowing this kind of thing in my game. If the character already meets defensive caps, they have an additional 50% chance of being missed on most attacks. That is PL breaking power for only a few points.

[Cinder]

Other options include a flawed version of concealment, forcing the enemy to have a miss chance, based on the character knowing where the enemy will be attacking.

I personally have a problem with allowing this kind of thing in my game. If the character already meets defensive caps, they have an additional 50% chance of being missed on most attacks. That is PL breaking power for only a few points.

Doesn't 2e have 20% miss chances? Could have sworn it does.

[kenseido]

20% for partial, 50% for total.

[Cinder]

20% for partial, 50% for total.

Might be the difference between a GM allowing it and not.

[poodle]

I think it is being overthought...it just seems like defensive roll to me..

[kenseido]

Well I agree, Poodle. People like the Flawed Concelament option because the miss chance doesn't count against PL.

Which is why it is on my "watch list" for powers.

[FuzzyBoots]

Well I agree, Poodle. People like the Flawed Concelament option because the miss chance doesn't count against PL.

Which is why it is on my "watch list" for powers.

I also feel like the Flawed Concealment is useful for Defense-shifted characters. Admittedly, I'm still hesitant to drop my toughness on such a character to go under PL for the same reason I generally avoid defense shifting — there are far too many effects which bypass defense entirely. Much easier to shift toward Toughness which doesn't have a bypass mechanism.

[kenseido]

I agree, Toughness shifted characters do have a bit of an advantage in many regards.