Question Is there an all-purpose power rating chart?

just bear in mind that some of it needs to be updated.

I've got an 'in progress' adaptation of it that I'm working on. I'll put up what used to be on the forums as a placeholder to fill the empty document that was meant to be a short term placeholder until I got around to the new version. Keep in mind that this old version goes back eight or nine years and there have been tons of clarification and reworking to refine what things mean since then.

It's a good, rough guideline, though. If you have questions, ask the authors.

It's up now, which I think Rose knows given the quote... but... ya... the new version is actually pretty high on my list of things to work on. I have a little physics/engineering research to do first... need to run some numbers on energy/power/work conversions to sync things up for tables as well as possible. For things like bullet impact energy, propulsion forces for flying, etc, etc. I'll need some nerd power to check my math if anyone wants to help on that when I get to it.

The odds of a warper touching more than 6 dimensions is thin.

But the number of dimensions their warping effect affects is not necessarily an indication of how powerful.

Anomaly warps gravity. Gravity does 3 dimensional space, and time, because bluntly the math points to time being affected by gravity.

Now the time effect is laughably minuscule, likely only measurable by the most sensitive instruments. But it's there.

My theory on Warpers (and devisors) is they are basically establishing places/things that follow different universal laws than apply in our physical dimension. Mages do this to some degree when they use powerful wards/circles. They define a boundary in which the universal laws allow for greater impact by the manipulation of energy through spellcasting. Some of the 'dimensions' (not the geometric/mathematical dimensions, but the ones) like Carson opens a gateway to to find Donna... are places where the universal laws naturally work the way a Warper might force our world to work... time may flow at a different rate. Gravity might apply as a point emission instead of a point attraction. Entropy might be weaker. Probability might scale linearly instead of exponentially.

It isn't clear whether Warpers might actually be accessing those dimensions or if they are actually locally altering laws as if they were settings with control dials on them... but in either case, the dynamic energy involved in holding them altered for a period of time, is what makes devisor equipment likely to explode. the energy for the explosion is coming from what is released as the universal laws snap back into sync with the world. If that devise were taken into the world where its laws sync up... it would no longer be a risk or be impossible to reproduce, it'd basically be a gadget. Themed devisors effectively be a gadgeteer/engineer... if they are pulling their methods from just that one dimension all the time. more versatile devisors might be drawing from multiple worlds.

The Dominion are jerks. If they didn't have a planet sized shape shifter on their side, they'd never have managed even a tenth of what they accomplished.

Phase is a density warper, able to go both lighter and heavier than normal... while maintaining his integrity/cohesion as an organism... and here's the really tricky part given our universe's rules... he also retains his normal 'volume' of space.

Or, to put it another way, he is able to change how much 'empty space' needed between the atoms of his body... while still keeping all those atoms 'attached' to being
him (or at least in so much as anyone normally does).

One idea for how such a thing could work within our laws of physics would be for him to be displacing some of his mass in and out of our universe/dimension. Possible, especially if like some rare Shifters and Regen, he can generate replacement organics directly from environmental energy, matter or ectoplasm. However, this would be unlikely due to the range of density available to him... displaced matter would have to come from somewhere... and thinning out tissue, organs, bone, etc... would eventually result in some medical failure, even at lower density... thinner tissue walls in some places would be almost instantly breached. And similar problems would occur in the other direction as well.

It's more likely the actual laws of physics... his entire body is 'outside' the boundaries of our laws of physics and the rules where he is allow him to stay the same size in interacting with our world while altering his density through a huge range of effect. And the impact of physically passing through someone with a BIT? Well... actually... he passed a dimensional gateway in the middle of which the laws of physics are different through someone's BIT. Maybe not quite as bad as passing a singularity through a BIT... but probably not something you want to do if you can avoid it.

My take on Phase... to be sure, you'd have to get ScramblerJ and/or Diane to weigh in.