unclevlad Posted November 20, 2018 Report Share Posted November 20, 2018 So I'm playing around with a Desolid notion. 20 STR Desolid 0 END Now, pay for the kicker...as a power, buy Affects Phys World on the 20 STR. 40 points, shows as 4 END on the Powers section, and the STR cost is listed as 6 in the Characteristics tab. Painful but it is 40 active points. Now, tho...add 1/2 END to this. END cost on the Powers tab goes to blank; END cost on the Characteristics tab goes to 1. This is weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted November 20, 2018 Report Share Posted November 20, 2018 It's a quirk of the rules. Naked Advantages (which is what you're buying here) cost END to use unless the Naked Advantage is Reduced Endurance, at which point the NA becomes a 0-END ability. Otherwise, you'd end up paying END in order to reduce the END of the base ability...which is kinda screwy. You're buying multiple Naked Advantages as part of the same writeup, so you're going to see some odd behaviors rules-wise. If you don't want that, you can purchase the Reduced END separately as a Naked Advantage that applies to up to 60 Active Points of STR (which is what you'd be using if you used the full 20 STR with a +2 Advantage). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted November 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2018 Actually, I was building it as a Characteristic, on the Powers tab, using Add Modifiers to Base Characteristic Just playing and checking this out...starting from 10 STR. Now as a power: +15 STR, AP, Penetrating, Modifiers affect Base Characteristics. Net END for STR is now 4, correctly. Add 1/2 END, the net END drops to 2...properly. So it's Affects Physical World that seems to be behaving oddly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted November 20, 2018 Report Share Posted November 20, 2018 Same response, with more intricacies in the rule: APW does not impact the damage, AP does. Again, you’re running into odd intricacies in the system rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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