The Cost of a Resisted Defence

[CoreGoon]

Hi. I'm totally new to the Hero System and still trying to wrap my head around it. :)

Right now I'm wondering about the cost of the Resistant Advantage.

I know it's listed as +1/2, and that this basically adds 50% of the base cost to a power's cost.

Does it apply the same way when applied to Characteristics?

If I ,for example, have Physical Defence of 10 and want to have that as Resistant as well, will it cost:

8 points to go from the base of 2 to 10, +5 points to add the Advantage (50% of 10, since we also count the 2 "Free" points) = 13 points.

OR

15 points, since I need to "buy" the two free levels as well.

OR

8, +15 (because we, due to some rule I have yet to unearth, need to buy the resistant levels as well as the normal ones) = 23 points.

:confused:

[Steve Long]

You can buy Resistant for however many points of a character's PD and ED you want, but it only applies to what you buy -- you don't get any for "free." For example, if a character has PD 10 (for which he's paid 8 Character Points), making all 10 points Resistant (+1/2) costs ((10 x 1.5) - 10 =) 5 Character Points. If you only want, say, 8 PD to be Resistant, that'll cost ((8 x 1.5) - 8 =) 4 Character Points.