Mass Effect: Powers: Overload

Name: Overload
Control Difficulty: Difficult
Sense Difficulty: Difficult
Duration: Special
Cool Down: 2 rounds

Effect: The user rolls thier Sense versus a Difficult difficulty. If successful they roll their Control versus the same difficulty. Based on teh success of their Control roll, they gain various effects as defined on the chart below. Any like scaled shielded target affected by this power loses the corresponding shield dice for the duration listed. Any droids/synthetics affected by this power take the ionization damage listed and additionally are stunned and cannot act for the duration listed. Cybernetic beings take half the listed Ionization damage to their cybernetic implants.

Notes: This power requires an Omni-tool.

Beats Difficulty by	Impact Radius	Shield Damage	Droid ionization Damage	Duration
0 - 6	1.2 meters	2D	4D	None
7 - 12	1.2 meters	2D+1	4D+2	1 round
13 - 18	1.2 meters	2D+2	5D+1	1 round
19 -25	1.2 meters	3D	6D	1 round
26 +	3.0 meters	3D+1	6D+2	1 round

Jedi Complications: A Jedi may learn this power. Although any Jedi that uses this power to harm another automatically receives a Dark Side point.

Description: It shuts down an enemy's shields, rendering them vulnerable to attack. Overload is typically used to take down shields or synthetics, doing twice as much damage to shields as it does to synthetics

Source:

• Mass Effect Wiki: Overload
• thedemonapostle