Variable Power Pool: Variable
  You have a pool of X character points that can be used to buy any
attributes, advantages or super-powers that you wish. Whether you can
buy psi powers or skills is up to the GM.
  When the pool is first bought, the player should specify what the
points are currently being used to buy. At any point during play, the
player can decide to reconfigure his pool. To do so, he must take the
Step and Concentrate maneuver for one turn, deciding what the new pool
configuration will be. At the beginning of the next turn, he loses the
old abilities and can use the new ones.
  Buy the pool as an advantage costing X points, with the +125%
enhancement Variable Power Pool. For +150%, your Power Pool is
instantaneous and does not require a second of concentration.
  You may take limitations to reduce the point cost. Only the
limitations below, and new ones approved by the GM, may be taken! It
is not permissible to take a normal limitation for the power pool,
though you may take these limitations for the abilities you buy with
the pool.
  Note: No matter what, the cost of the enhancement can never go
below +25%.
  Takes Extra Time. Your pool cannot be reconfigured fast enough to
affect combat. Ten minutes to reconfigure is worth -25%, one full day
is worth -50%, and a week or more (i.e., it can only be reconfigured
between adventures) is worth -75%. While reconfiguring, you do not
have access to the old or the new abilities!
  Requires Special Circumstances. Your pool can only be configured
under certain conditions. The value of this limitation depends on the
circumstances and must be set by the GM. Must Sit In Lotus Position or
Must Roll Against Poetry Skill would only be worth -10%. Must Have
Spellbook would be worth -20%. Must Have Guitar would be worth -30%,
for being much bulkier. Only in Gadget Lab would be -50% if the Lab is
semi-portable, -75% if not. Only at Midnight With a Full Moon in the
Sky in the Middle of Stonehenge would be worth -100%.
  Uncontrolled. You have no control over how your pool reconfigures.
It may be up to the GM, or you may have to draw from a deck or roll on
a table (as long as there at least a dozen or so different possibili
ties). If you decide when the pool changes, this is worth -50%. If you
have no control over when the pool changes, it's worth -75%. If there
are only a few ways the pool can be configured, but you have no
control over when the pool changes, it's worth -25% (and see Power
List, below).
  Power List: Your pool is not truly variable; it can only take on
specific configurations. Two different configurations is worth -125%.
Three is worth -110%. Four is -100%. Five is -90%. Six is -80%. Seven
is -70%. Eight is -60%. Nine is -50%. Ten is -40%. Eleven is -30%.
Twelve or more configurations is worth -25%. Twenty-five or more is
worth -20%. Fifty or more is worth -15%. One hundred or more is worth
-10%. You may not take this with Restricted Abilities, unless the GM
decides your pool is somehow restricted beyond just being a list.
  Restricted Abilities. Your pool may only be used to buy certain
abilities. The value is set by the GM. Some guidelines:
  Only abilities with a certain special effect: -25%
  Only super-powers (no super advantages): -25%
  Only Physical super-powers: -50%
  Only attack super-powers: -75%
  Only Fireball powers: -100%
  Only Fireball powers with the Touch Only and No Knockback
limitations: -125%
  Only super advantages: -25%
  Only protective super advantages (no Growth, Telescopic Vision,
etc.): -50%
  Only DR/Reflection/Absorption: -75%
  Only DR: -100%
  Only DR vs. Everything: -125%
  A subset of this is Gadget Pool. The pool can only be used to
create gadgets (at least one gadget limitation must be taken for each
device), and requires the Gadgeteer advantage to modify. A gadgeteer
other than yourself can modify your gadget by rolling against IQ-4 (IQ
if you are helping). This may be combined with another Restricted
Abilities limitation. -50%