Adjusting pools?

[eepjr24]

On 6e1, 142:

"Any level of Expanded Effect allows a character can use an Adjustment Power to Adjust both the reserve/Pool and one or more slots in a Power Framework at once".

 

This contradicts the text on 6e1, 140 and I think it is a cut and paste left over from Variable Effect in 5er on page 112 when it still was possible to apply such things to Elemental Controls? If so, should it be updated in the errata?

 

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[Derek Hiemforth]

The text from 6E1 p142 does not contradict the text from 6E1 p140.  The text on 140 notes that you can't adjust all of the slots by only adjusting the pool.

 

In other words, if you want to Drain someone's entire Multipower, including all 5 slots it has, then you can't just Drain their Multipower Reserve and thereby clobber all 5 slots at once.  You have to Drain each slot as if it were bought separately like any other power, and if you Drain one of them, the character can just use the others just fine.

 

But 6E2 p142's text on Expanded Effect notes that Expanded Effect (potentially, depending on how you've bought it) lets you affect the pool and the slots together. Why would this matter? Well, if you have enough Expanded Effect (such as the +4 level), it might matter a lot, allowing you to affect a Multipower or VPP with many possible slots of the target effect all at once (which could make positively adjusting a power framework, in particular, much easier).