Defense Cost

[archermoo]

I want to make sure I understand something correctly. I want to have a character with a total of 20PD and 20ED. I want all of these defenses to be both resistant and hardened. By my calculations that should cost a total of 64 points. 31 for 18 points of PD with both Hardened and Resistant, 31 for 18 points of ED with Hardened and Resistant, and then 1 each for adding Hardened and Resistant to the base 2PD and 2ED. Is that correct?

[Steve Long]

Let's see:

+18 PD = 18 points
+18 ED = 18 points
Hardened (+1/4) for 20 PD/20 ED = 10 points
Resistant (+1/2) for 20 PD/20 ED, Hardened (+1/4) = 25 points

So, 18 + 18 + 10 + 25 = 71 points.

At least, that's how you'll see it on sheets in published HERO System books (such as, say, the 300-odd villains I'm now revising/creating... :) ). If your GM wants you to do the math some other way, no skin off my nose. ;)