Partially Limited DEX and SPD
From the FAQ:
Your reply to my earlier question on Partially Limited Characteristics makes an exception for SPD as the only figured characteristic that doesn't receive points derived from a primary characteristic, taking away the benefit mentioned in the FAQ quote above. Based on that reply, I can see two ways under 5th Edition to do such an increase for OIHID or through a Focus. This assumes a 10 DEX/2 SPD base character.Q: If a character ends up with a fractional remainder for SPD (for example, he has DEX 24, yielding a SPD of 3.4, and chooses not to buy it up to 4), may he sell back the fractional remainder?
*NEW*(SUPPLEMENTED)A: No, not even if he sells his SPD all the way back to the next lowest number (e.g., to SPD 2 from SPD 3.4). The character you describe doesn’t have a “SPD 3.4” — he has SPD 3, and thus nothing to sell back. A “fractional result” for SPD only comes into play, and only benefits the character, if he chooses to buy his SPD up to the next whole number.
1) Buy +9 points of DEX OIHID (27 Active, 22 Real), and +1 SPD (10 Active, 8 Real). Total cost: 30.
2) Buy +9 points of DEX OIHID and No Figured Characteristics as an added (perhaps mandatory?) limitation (27 Active, 15 Real), and +1 SPD (10 Active, 8 Real). Total cost: 23
If I just bought the DEX and SPD straight up, I would only be paying 28 points, less than I would through a "limited" power construct under method #1. This seems an odd exception to HERO's method for dealing with limited characteristics. Is there a reason why SPD is the exception to the general way of doing things? It's also a bit harsh on the Captain Marvel and Iron Man clones, since SPD is the most expensive figured characteristic to raise a point. If method #2 is allowable, it would soften the blow at least and give a point cost similar to what it would if DEX reduced the cost of that first added point of SPD.
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