Naked Power Advantage

[diocletianx]

Can someone explain to me how the cost is calculated for a naked power advantage?

Example:
Autofire 3 shots with all pistols

[Chris Goodwin]

You spend, say, 25 points on the Naked Advantage. That allows you to apply Autofire: 3 Shots to any Power of up to 100 base points.

[Kintara]

Yeah, you buy the amount of Active Points you wish to affect with your power. So look at the Active Point cost of the largest pistol that your character will use, that is the base cost for the Naked Power Advantage. Then take take the fraction of the Autofire, and apply it to that number.

So a +1/2 advantage would cost 30 points if the maximum amount of APs that the power could affect was 60.

[Lord Liaden]

My learned colleagues above are right as far as they go. I just want to make sure you're clear on a couple of points: first, if you want a Naked Advantage that will cover a group like "all pistols" which may have different individual Advantages, then you'd calculate the size of the Naked Advantage based on the Active Points of the largest pistol Power you want it to affect, including any Advantages an individual pistol may have. So, if you have a 1d6 RKA pistol with Armor Piercing, and you want to be able to shoot 3-shot Autofire with it as well as any other pistol of 22 Active Points, the +1/4 Autofire Advantage would be calculated on 22 AP rather than on the 15 Base Points as with a normal Advantage.

However, that structure only applies if you want the Naked Advantage to apply to several different power constructs. If you had only one pistol that you were applying a Naked Advantage to, or any pistol built with the identical Advantages, then the Naked Advantage would be based on the Base Points alone. So in the example above, a NA which would work just for that one pistol would be calculated on 15 points rather than 22.

Was that clear? :)