The "Possession" Power of Kapilasa (from Arcane Adversaries) is built as a 6d6 All-or-Nothing Major Transform, BOECV, that Works Against EGO not BODY. It gives the target Kapilasa's EGO, INT, PRE, Skills based on these stats, and mental and psionic Powers. These would give a target with INT, EGO and PRE of 10, and no mental powers to lose, a 240-point increase in character point total, resulting in a +48 to effective EGO to resist the Transform, and requiring a roll of 116 on Kapilasa's 6d6 All-or-Nothing Transform dice to get to -1 x EGO - a clear impossibility. (The power description mentions nothing about the victim gaining Kapilasa's Psychological Limitations, or his Physical Limitation concerning the need to conduct rituals to maintain his powers, though they would logically apply - perhaps the assumption was that the point totals for these would roughly balance those of Disadvantages lost by the victim.)
My question is, is there some rules exploit, perhaps in the as-yet-unseen-by-me Fifth Edition Revised, that will allow Kapilasa to ignore (or at least reduce) this huge bonus to his target's effective EGO? Or is he, as written, more or less limited to possessing targets with lots of mental powers to lose, to balance the gains and keep from jacking character point value, and thus effective EGO, up to an unpossessable level?
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Scott Destroyer
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The "Possession" Power of Kapilasa (from Arcane Adversaries) is built as a 6d6 All-or-Nothing Major Transform, BOECV, that Works Against EGO not BODY. It gives the target Kapilasa's EGO, INT, PRE, Skills based on these stats, and mental and psionic Powers. These would give a target with INT, EGO and PRE of 10, and no mental powers to lose, a 240-point increase in character point total, resulting in a +48 to effective EGO to resist the Transform, and requiring a roll of 116 on Kapilasa's 6d6 All-or-Nothing Transform dice to get to -1 x EGO - a clear impossibility. (The power description mentions nothing about the victim gaining Kapilasa's Psychological Limitations, or his Physical Limitation concerning the need to conduct rituals to maintain his powers, though they would logically apply - perhaps the assumption was that the point totals for these would roughly balance those of Disadvantages lost by the victim.)
My question is, is there some rules exploit, perhaps in the as-yet-unseen-by-me Fifth Edition Revised, that will allow Kapilasa to ignore (or at least reduce) this huge bonus to his target's effective EGO? Or is he, as written, more or less limited to possessing targets with lots of mental powers to lose, to balance the gains and keep from jacking character point value, and thus effective EGO, up to an unpossessable level?
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