Area Of Effect: Personal Space

[BobGreenwade]

So I was just pondering the other day on how to represent something, and this combination of Power Modifiers came to me:

Area Of Effect (One Hex Doubled; +3/4), Personal Immunity (+1/4); No Range (-1/2).

This would represent a Power (I think it'd have to be an Attack Power) that affects everyone in the character's "Personal Space" -- his own hex, plus those surrounding. This could be a spin with a polearm, an acrobatic legsweep, a really severe body odor, or a number of other things.

(It's the body odor that made me think of it; the range of human pheromones is about three meters.)

So if this were boiled down to a single Modifier, like Voice Range or Area Of Effect (Trail), do you all think it should it be +1/2 or +3/4?

[Hyper-Man]

Distilling this down to a single advantage only works if it is only applicable to powers that are Ranged by default. If you want to apply it to a HKA, HA* or any other default No Range power then it should stay at (+1).

*Plus HA requires you to take No Range anyway. Reducing the value of the combination of Advantages would be a form of double-dipping on the final active and real cost of the total build.

[BobGreenwade]

Distilling this down to a single advantage only works if it is only applicable to powers that are Ranged by default. If you want to apply it to a HKA, HA* or any other default No Range power then it should stay at (+1).Good point, that. :thumbup:

[Derek Hiemforth]

Distilling this down to a single advantage only works if it is only applicable to powers that are Ranged by default. If you want to apply it to a HKA, HA* or any other default No Range power then it should stay at (+1).
You could still distill it, but just have multiple possible values for it (like Autofire has a varying value depending on the type of attack it's applied to). Something like "Area of Effect: Personal Space Cost: +3/4 when applied to Ranged Powers; +1 when applied to Powers without Range."