Negative Adjustment Powers and less than Full SPD

[Christopher]

Asuming a character with SPD 5 chooses to act at SPD 4 for this turn.

Now he is hit by enough Drain SPD to lower his total SPD by 1 (too 4). Wich of the following would happen:

a) The unused SPD acts as a "buffer". He would continue to act at SPD 4 for this turn, but (braing enough fading) could not opt to act at SPD 5 in the following Turns as his maximum acting SPD has been lowered.

His SPD and the SPD at wich he acts drop. His phases are affected af if he had a normally a SPD of 4 that got adjsuted to 3. Next Turn he can choose to use his full (adjusted) SPD of 4.

c) something totally different

[Steve Long]

Re: Negative Adjustment Powers and less than Full SPD

 

To rephrase something I just posted in answer to your other question, a character can’t “choose to act at a lower SPD.” He can skip Phases if he wants, but that’s not the same thing. In the situation you describe, the Drain reduces the character from SPD 5 to SPD 4, so that he’s now forced to use the Phases for SPD 4 regardless of what he’d prefer to do.