CrosshairCollie
Apr 24th, '03, 10:50 AM
I'm presently trying to convert some Silver Age Sentinels d20 system characters over to Champions 5. The character I'm currently working on has Damage Conversion (incoming damage becomes points to add to powers), which is obviously Hero5's Absorption. Here's the construction I'm presently trying to work with:
6d6 Physical Absorption, +4pts Max (40 total), can feed any one of (power list).
6d6 Energy Absorption, +4pts Max (40 total), can feed any one of (same power list).
I added the +4 simply because it made things a nice round divisible-by-five number. I left out the power lists for brevity. Now, here are my questions to the forum on how this works:
1. Can I/Must I put both powers in the same EC (Energy Absorption) slot? Can I put them in separate slots? I'm not sure if an anology to PD/ED Armor (which I do not permit in separate slots except in rare circumstances).
2. The Physical and Energy Absorptions each have a cap of 40 points. I'm assuming that those are separate 'pools', rather than combining into a single 80 point pool. Am I right? This is something that doesn't link up right with his original character, where 'damage was damage'. I suspect this may just have to be lost in translation ...
3. Related to #2, since two Adjustment powers maximums don't add up on the same stat (two 5d6 STR Aids still top out at 30 max), this means that he can't add more than 40 points to any one stat, regardless of recieving a mix of physical and energy attacks, correct? Fortunately, this *does* work for me, since I ruled he couldn't boost any of his powers in SAS past rank 10 (and in the present workup, his EB is 16d6 ...)
Crud, I had more questions, but it's starting to thunder. If anybody comes up with any more details they think I'll need for Absorption, feel free to throw 'em out!
6d6 Physical Absorption, +4pts Max (40 total), can feed any one of (power list).
6d6 Energy Absorption, +4pts Max (40 total), can feed any one of (same power list).
I added the +4 simply because it made things a nice round divisible-by-five number. I left out the power lists for brevity. Now, here are my questions to the forum on how this works:
1. Can I/Must I put both powers in the same EC (Energy Absorption) slot? Can I put them in separate slots? I'm not sure if an anology to PD/ED Armor (which I do not permit in separate slots except in rare circumstances).
2. The Physical and Energy Absorptions each have a cap of 40 points. I'm assuming that those are separate 'pools', rather than combining into a single 80 point pool. Am I right? This is something that doesn't link up right with his original character, where 'damage was damage'. I suspect this may just have to be lost in translation ...
3. Related to #2, since two Adjustment powers maximums don't add up on the same stat (two 5d6 STR Aids still top out at 30 max), this means that he can't add more than 40 points to any one stat, regardless of recieving a mix of physical and energy attacks, correct? Fortunately, this *does* work for me, since I ruled he couldn't boost any of his powers in SAS past rank 10 (and in the present workup, his EB is 16d6 ...)
Crud, I had more questions, but it's starting to thunder. If anybody comes up with any more details they think I'll need for Absorption, feel free to throw 'em out!