Question about Characteristics

[Scottthomlinson]

How is the math supposed to work on a characteristic bought as a power when the apply modifer to base characteristic is checked? I was assuming it would add the additional cost of the modifiers on the base value to the cost of the power. When I did this with STR, using 1 level of armor piercing (+1/2), in a multipower the real cost was 0 and the active cost was 27. I was adding 0 STR at that point, but even when I added +5 STR the real cost only increased to 1.

I might be building wrong, but the real cost of 0, as Arlo would say, "Caught my eye..."

[Simon]

The cost difference of applying the Modifier (or, in this case, Modifiers) to the base Characteristic is added into the Power.

You should note that because you put the +0 STR in a Multipower, "No Figured Characteristics" was automatically applied....including to your base Characteristic (since you told HD to apply the Modifiers to the base Characteristic).

This is (a) likely not what you wanted, and (b) the reason the Real Cost would work out to be 0 (or, at the very least, less than the Active Cost).

[Scottthomlinson]

D'oh. Ok, so it was obvious.:o