Active points

[zosodojo777]

My friend and I both have Sidekick, and we disagree on the purpose of active points. I interpreted the Numbers on the character ability guidelines table on page 14 to mean that the GM should set restrictions on the # of active points a character can have going at one time, but my friend thinks it indicates the average points in a single power. Any clarification would be greatly appreciated.

[Steve Long]

Those numbers indicate a typical range for the amount of Active Points in powers and abilities. For example, in a typical Superheroic game, as indicated in the table characters tend to have individual powers ranging from 40 Active Points to 80 Active Points. That's not a restriction or a rule; it's just a guideline. It has no effect on the number of powers, or points' worth of powers, a character can use at one time; it's just an indicator of how many points each one is likely to be built on.