Equipment doubler

[ChocolateMousje]

How should you buy the 5 point equipment doubler and when?

 

1. Simultaneous use (a pair of 6-guns) or backup only? (sword and extra sword)?

 

2. Frameworks. Is it bought as part of a slot/framework, or outside it? (Gun multipower plus 5 point second gun, guns multipower with a pair of guns slot... 5 points in slot or outside framework?)

 

3. For active point limits, should it be considered an adder? (60AP, 55AP power +5AP) or not? (60 AP power +5 per double)

 

4. Can you buy it with an EC, and if so, how? (If #2 and #3 don't already answer this)

[Steve Long]

Simultaneous or backup doesn’t matter — if a character wants two distinct pieces of equipment, he should pay for each of them. Sometimes a character buys one power with the special effect of “I have two weapons” (or whatever), but that’s a different matter.

 

If a character defines a piece of equipment as a Power Framework (e.g., a gun with multiple slots representing different types of ammunition), then he can double the number of pieces of equipment he has in the usual manner. The cost for doing so is not part of the Multipower; it’s a separate expense. Since Active Point restrictions are solely up to the GM — there are no official rules for them — so is the question of whether the +5 points affects that, but it’s a separate expense, not an Adder.