Recreating "Tough Skin" (resistance on existing PD/ED stats) in Hero Designer 6e

[Thump92]

I am stuck on how to do this in Hero Designer for 6e. I have read and re-read the documentation, done all sorts of searches in these forums and elsewhere. I think I'm close to the solution, but am not sure. I'm very new to Hero Designer and back to using Hero System after a 25 year hiatus.

 

In the Bestiary, you can find lots of examples of critters with Tough Skin powers -- basically, the old Damage Resistance on some of their existing PD/ED.  If the critter has 10 PD and 10 ED and they buy 6 resistant of each, it comes out as 6 points and the critter ends up 10/r6 with both PD and ED.  So now I'm wanting to do something like that for a character in Hero Designer.

 

During Characteristics, I plunked 18 points in both PD and ED so this character has got 20 of each. I want to make 10 of that 20 resistant, so he'll end up 20/r10 PD and 20/r10 ED. I'll call it Tough Skin and I'll expect it to cost 10 points and use the Resistant advantage on the existing PD and ED. I do not want to add more PD and ED, just make some of the normal PD and ED resistant.

 

I've tried Naked Advantage and applying the Resistant advantage to that as a Naked Modifier.

 

   Is this what I needed to do? Is there a way to get the resistant PD/ED to show up on in Characteristics? Am I halfway there and missing a step? Thanks in advance.

Edited September 20, 2020 by Thump92

[Simon]

On the powers tab, buy PD or ED, keep the levels at 0 (so you’re not adding any to the base), check the box to add modifiers to base characteristic, and then purchase whatever mods you want on the character’s PD or ED

[Thump92]

Thank you for your swift reply. I did try that before going to the Naked Advantage, but was having trouble getting the numbers and cost to line up. That's why I thought maybe I'm supposed to be using a Naked Advantage on the PD instead.

 

I went back and followed your steps. If I apply Resistant to the PD, it wants to make all 20 of it resistant, not just 10. What am I missing to say "Hey, just 10 of that PD should be resistant"?

 

If I later add another +3 PD due to Large Size, I don't want the resistant PD to go up, either.  Again, thanks in advance!

 

 

[Simon]

Oh, if you only want a portion of it to be Resistant you can't use that "Add Modifiers to Base Characteristic" -- that'll apply to the entirety of the base PD/ED.

 

Easiest is to leave the PD/ED at 10 on the Characteristics tab and then purchase +10 on the Powers tab with Resistant applied.

[Thump92]

I'll try that now.

 

Bingo, perfect. Now I can add more normal PD/ED without affecting the resistant one. Looking at it now, the solution was pretty obvious, but I was determined (I guess) to make it harder than it was.

 

Thanks for your patient help! I do really like the program; it's well worth the $25. It's trying hard to help me learn it.