Equipment

[Gary]

If a character has a Variable Power Pool defined as a Gadget Pool with the Focus limitation, can the character purchase double the number of Gadget Pools for +5 pts?

If the character has multiple multipowers bought using the +5 pts doubling rule, can those multipowers be used simultaneously as different powers? For example, one multipower in an attack slot, one in a defensive slot, and one in a movement slot?

Can a character use the +5 pts doubling rule with Unbreakable foci?

[Steve Long]

1. No, that’s not a gadget or piece of equipment — it’s a collection of them. A single gadget defined as a VPP (for example, the Wonder-Widget, which can transform into many different devices) could use the rule.

2. The rules about equipment doubling don’t change the rules about how other game elements work. If a character has two Multipowers, is he allowed to use them both at once? Of course he is. The same thing applies regardless of whether those Multipowers are defined as “equipment” and how they’re bought — subject, as always, to the GM’s discretion.

3. Nothing in the rules restricts the 5-point-doubling rule to any specific type of equipment or Focus. But as always, a character should have a reasonable explanation of where he got the extra gear (Unbreakable Foci being pretty damn rare in the Heroic games where that rule most often applies), and the GM has to accept it as a valid basis for the purchase.