Youth and Beauty

Question: Doesn't Extended Youth seem a little too powerful for something that can be bought at character creation?

Not at all. Actually, we're kind of confused, because Extended Youth is one of the least powerful Stamina knacks in the game, so much so that people grouse about getting it unless they specifically picked it up for aesthetics.

Extended Youth just stops you from aging. And... that's it. It doesn't give you immunity to diseases, it doesn't save you from damage - in fact, it doesn't do anything. Once you buy it, you never age again, and that's literally all the knack gets you. Sure, that would be hella powerful if we were talking about humans, but unless you have a problem with PCs in your games living so long that they die of old age, Scions aren't getting any mechanical benefit out of it. It's there purely for the flair; in fact, once Scions become gods, they stop aging permanently anyway, making the knack even less helpful.

Not that we think it's not worth being in the game, because it totally is and it can be used for some really neat stuff. Kettila, who used it to ensure that she would remain seven years old forever, or Woody, who entered the game as a Scion who was three hundred years old and still trucking, are both good examples of creative and fun uses of the Eternal Youth knack. Neither of those things got them any mechanical bonus - they were just there for background and character-building - but what awesome choices anyway, right? We love Eternal Youth, but we'd be lying if we said it was powerful. It's awesome, but from a pure game mechanics standpoint it's almost totally useless.

If you're out there, question-asker, what was it about Eternal Youth that made you think it was too powerful for Heroes? Did we miss something?