Permeation

Cost: Variable

Permeation is an exotic physical Advantage that allows you can move through a particular solid material as if it didn’t exist.

Basic Cost

The cost is figured likely to encounter the material you can permeate in the form of a barrier. So while paper is common as a substance it is rare to encounter it as a wall.

• Very Common: 20 points
• Occasional: 10 points
• Rare: 5 points

Special Enhancements

• Extended (full price + +20% related substance)
• Meld 1 (+150%): "You can become one with the things you permeate, like a dryad merging with her tree"
• Meld 2 (+300%): "As Meld 1, but works even on distributed objects"

Special Limitations

• Finite Thickness (-50% for a thin membrane, -30% for an inch, -15% for a foot, and -5% for the distance you can sprint in a second).

Powers Built From Permeation

• Create Door: Permeation (Everything; Can Carry Objects, Heavy, +100%; Costs Fatigue, 1 FP, -5%; Finite Thickness, 1 foot, -15%; Requires IQ Roll, -10%; Takes Extra Time 1, -10%; Tunnel, +40%) [160]

Alternatives

• Injury Tolerance (Diffuse) modified with Infiltration: porous obstacles
• Insubstantiality
• Tunneling

Classic equivalent

This is used to model Transference from Classic

quotes

Kromm

2005 http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=7206

If I have Permeate (Metal) can I punch/slash (with the can carry equipment enhancement) through metal armour (does metal armour protect from my attacks)?

Metal armor works just fine against your attacks, for the same reason that attacks with metal work just fine against you: you can walk bodily through a material, but you have no immunity at all to sudden, violent ecounters with that material.

If I have Permeate (Metal) can I still hit someone with Body of Metal?

Yes. It's important to understand that Permeation *doesn't* mean "This material and my body can't interact at all." It means nothing more than "I can walk (not reach, not attack) through this material."

2009 re Can Carry Objects see http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php?p=742577&postcount=7

References

• GURPS Powers pg 66-7; 147