Adjusting Resistant Defenses

[bigdamnhero]

When using Adjustment Powers, does Resistant Protection count as one power, or two-or-more powers? In other words, does a Drain Resistant Protection automatically affect both rPD and rED, or do you have to buy Expanded Effect to affect both?

 

Thanks Steve.

[Steve Long]

Re: Adjusting Resistant Defenses

 

When a character uses an Adjustment Power on Resistant Protection, the Character Points added/removed are applied to the power as a whole. The value of the defenses provided by the Resistant Protection are then recalculated, maintaining their standard ratio as closely as possible.

 

Example: Ultratech has a force-field defined as Resistant Protection (8 PD/8 ED) (24 Active Points). If he’s attacked with a Drain Resistant Protection 3d6 that rolls 9 points of effect (reducing the power to 15 Active Points), his force-field is temporarily reduced to 5 PD/5 ED.

 

Later Ultratech earns some Experience Points and increases his force-field to Resistant Protection (10 PD/12 ED/6 Power Defense) (42 Active Points). Another character uses Aid Resistant Protection 4d6 on him, adding 9 points of effect (to “51 Active Points”). The GM rules that this increases the Resistant Protection to 12 PD/14 ED/8 Power Defense.

 

 

In some cases an Adjustment Power may be more precisely defined — such as Drain Resistant Protection ED 3d6, or Aid PD 5d6, Variable Effect (any sort of PD). In that case only the relevant part of the Resistant Protection is affected; the rest is not.