Suppress + ECs

[sacolcor]

Character A has a "Flame Powers" EC, containing Flight and Energy Blast (among others).

 

Character B has a "Gravity Well" power, bought as Suppress: Flight (Without any advantages).

 

Character C has an "Extinguish Flame" spell, bought as Suppress: Any one fire-based power (+1/4)

 

It makes sense that if A's Flight is hit by C's suppress, his EB is also affected (it's in the same EC, and the suppress targets its SFX).

 

However, it makes less sense for B's suppress to do this; it's targetted at the effect of a particular power (Flight), not the SFX of the EC (Flame). If B had attacked A at an earlier point in A's career (before A learned to use his flame to fly), A's other powers would have been immune to B's suppress.

 

The question:

Shold adjustment powers at the base level affect ECs as a whole, or should this require at least the (+1/4) level advantage so that they are targetting the SFX of the EC?

[Steve Long]

The way the rules work, removing points from any one EC slot affects all slots and the base cost equally. It doesn’t matter whether the Adjustment Power is specifically directed at the special effect involved, or whether it has a Variable Effect Advantage applied to it. As always, the GM can change the rules for specific situations if something doesn’t seem appropriate or make dramatic sense, but that’s the standard rule.