Natural Leader

Natural Leader

◊Descriptors – auditory, talent

◊Effect – Enhanced Advantages 8 • 32 points

Natural Leader (selective, perception area Enhanced Traits which affect others)

◊Modifiers – affects others: +1/rank, area: +1/rank, selective: +1/rank

◊Action – free (self) or standard (others)

◊Area/Range – personal (self) or auditory perception (others)

◊Duration – sustained

◊Results – Optimus gains the benefit of several advantages and can transfer those benefits from himself to another

◊Resist – Dodge (harmless)

Description

Optimus Prime cares a lot about his fellow robots. He’d make a neat president.

        —From Spike Witwicky’s journal

Optimus Prime’s natural gift to command, encourage, and inspire makes him a talented leader; perhaps the greatest Cybertron has produced. He gains the benefits of the following advantages: Inspire (+4 ranks), Interpose, Leadership, Seize Initiative, and Teamwork.

In addition, Optimus can grant these benefits of these advantages to another character. As a standard action, Optimus can choose a target able to perceive him with an auditory sense. The subject loses these benefits if Optimus cannot maintain this effect or if he chooses to withdraw them (as a free action).

Note: Optimus and his chosen subject can use all of the Enhanced Advantages granted by this power simultaneously as long as Optimus continues to maintain the effect. Since Natural Leader is part of an array, using any other power in the array automatically ends the effect for both Optimus and his chosen subject.

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