ioticus Posted January 13, 2005 Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 The 5ER rules state you can buy resistant defense for power defense, mental defense and flash defense. I see no provision in the rules to make the attacks they defend against only apply to resistant defenses. What am I missing? The closest modifier I can find for this is AVLD, but it never states explicitly that you use it for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackjack Posted January 13, 2005 Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 Re: Question about resistant defenses with power defense and others The rule you mention allows a character to buy defenses against Limited Defense attacks bought with the Does Body (+1) Advantage. EX: Mindkiller has Ego Attack, Does Body (+1). Most characters with Mental Defense will still take the BODY of the attack even though their Defense protects them from the STUN. If Mindshield buys his Mental Defense Resistant, then that much BODY doesn't get through. The bottom line is: everything that can be done to another character has to have some defense or opposite in order for the game to be balanced. As for how - you simply buy Damage Resistance for the Defense. If your character has 15 points of Flash Defense, and you want 10 of it to be Resistant, it'll cost you 5 points. (1 CP makes 2 points of nonresistant defense resistant) Hope that helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Constantine Posted January 13, 2005 Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 Re: Question about resistant defenses with power defense and others If you bought an RKA or HKA AVLD, I believe it would apply itself to the resistant limited defenses.... Ouch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioticus Posted January 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 Re: Question about resistant defenses with power defense and others The rules state the Does Body advantage for an Ego attack is treated like a normal attack and is not a killing attack. The rules also state that Does Body cannot be applied to a Flash attack. Therefore, what is the utility of buying Damage Resistance for limited defenses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Champsguy Posted January 13, 2005 Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 Re: Question about resistant defenses with power defense and others You buy Power Defense resistant in case some joker buys an RKA AVLD. That's the only reason. I say "no way", and just say that Power Defense is automatically resistant. It's lame otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightray Posted January 13, 2005 Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 RKA, BOECV - applied to rMD RKA, AVLD (power defense) - applied to rPowD RKA, AVLD (flash defense) - applied to rFD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelcyron Posted January 13, 2005 Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 Re: Question about resistant defenses with power defense and others Resistant flash/mental/power defense is needed for RKA BOECV/AVLD. Because it's killing, you only defend agaisnt the body with resistant defense (if it has DOES BODY), and you only get defense against the stun if you have at least some resistant defense. These don't show up often, but they can be built. Kelcyron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioticus Posted January 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 Re: Question about resistant defenses with power defense and others I suppose someone could buy, say, HKA, AVLD: Flash Defense, Does Body, so you would only be protected if you bought Resistant Flash Defense, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beauxdeigh Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 Re: Question about resistant defenses with power defense and others I suppose someone could buy' date=' say, HKA, AVLD: Flash Defense, Does Body, so you would only be protected if you bought Resistant Flash Defense, right?[/quote'] Right, that's the way the Powers That Be see it. In my games, I've always played it the same way Champsguy has. Special defenses are automatically resistant. That's a house rule though. YMMV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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