drain vs elemental control with power defense - Follow-up

[SteveZilla]

Example: Elemental Lad has an Elemental Control with three slots' date=' each of which have a total of 60 Active Points’ worth of effect (30 points for the base cost, 30 points for each slot). He also has Power Defense (10 points). He’s hit with a Drain against that EC that rolls 15 points of effect. The Power Defense reduces the 15 to 5, so the base cost and each slot loses 5 Character Points worth of effect.[/quote']

 

And just to be clear on this, I have a follow-up question. In your example, Elemental Lad would lose Ten Active points from each power in the Elemental Control because of the 5 off of the base, and the 5 off of each slot, correct?

 

And if any of those powers were a Defensive Power, that 10 points of effect would be halved to 5, right?

 

For targets with Elemental Controls, Penetrating Negative Adjustment Powers would see to be quite effective!

[Steve Long]

Re: drain vs elemental control with power defense - Follow-up

 

1. Yes.

 

2. The effects of each application of the negative Adjustment Power would be halved. The halving takes place after defenses are applied. Since the halving rounds in the character’s favor, that means 2 points each off the effects, thus for a total of 4 points of effect lost from each power.