Multipower advantages

[Gunrunner]

If a player wants to buy a new power as a slot for a multipower, but there is one advantage on the multipower reserve that cannot be applied to the new power, can he still buy the power as a slot in the multipower?

 

For example, if he wanted to buy Energy Blast for a multipower slot, but the Uncontrolled advantage is on the multipower reserve, can he still buy it as a slot even if the Uncontrolled advantage cannot be legally applied to it?

[Steve Long]

Re: Multipower advantages

 

If a character has a Multipower that has an Advantage, he’s not restricted to buying powers that could only have that Advantage. For example, a character whose Multipower has the Advantage Reduced Endurance or Armor Piercing could buy Life Support in that Multipower, even though Life Support already costs no END and applying AP to it is meaningless. In that case, the Advantage simply has no effect and the points spent on it are (temporarily) wasted. (The illogicality of buying, say, Life Support in a Multipower that has Armor Piercing is a good argument against applying Advantages to Multipowers; the preferred method is, as always, to apply the Advantage to the individual powers, not to the Multipower.)

 

However, if the rules specifically make it illegal to apply that Advantage to a power, or the power can legally take that Advantage under certain conditions but does not meet the qualifications for applying that Advantage to it, a character cannot buy it as a Framework slot.