ghost-angel

After the WoTC trauma suffered in my circle of friends with 3.5 (come on, what is it? a computer program? At least with those you get a discount to upgrade) .. I'd be a little unhappy with a 5thRevised/Updated/Whatever book. You know what'd I'd like to see? An Adder book (heh, even fits the game mechanic). Not yet another full rule book. Just take all the Errata, the FAQ, the Genre by Genre section, a few sample characters and put it in a book, call it Fifth Edition Adder and sell it moderately priced. Or even exorbatantly priced. The last thing I want is one more outdated complete/full rulebook sitting on my shelf catching dust. And so you can satisfy those who don't want to buy two rule books just to start playing put out a full printing of the revised if need be .. but please, just don't make me pay for a complete set of rules again so you can fix some typos and add a bit of errata. Really. Make the Adder Book a soft cover, or better yet offer up a PDF version I can buy online .. anything but a complete edition of the rules again. that's my opinion at least.

Only the base character has the limitation on the focus, since only the base character pays for the multiform. With that in mind I'd say if Taurus had the amulet taken away from him he'd immediately revert to Zodiak, or possibly not be able to change shapes at all and be stuck as Taurus until the amulet was recovered. If I were the GM I'd go with both options and choose whichever would be more dramatic at the time. Of course, our games are "Loose and Fast" favoring story over rules - you wouldn't believe the number of rules we break in a session to make the story interesting. So I might be off on this.

I don't think this has been asked yet, and I need a little clarification regarding the costs of Multiform. When you purchase Multiform you pay for the power, including disadvantages. a 250pt Multiform costs 50 Character Points, as is defined as 200 base points an 50 points of disadvantages. Through the course of adventuring the character gains experience and now wants to buy off one of the Multiforms disadvantages, say a 5 pointer. So one character point is added to the Multiform to buy it off., making the multiform a 200base/45disad/5exp. Except now you've paid 51 points for what is still a 250pt form. My question is that this seems like a form of "double taxation" in that you paid for the points of the disadvantage when you bought the power, and now you're paying again to remove the disadvantage. So you've essentially paid 2 points for the same five points in the Multiform: once to put the disad on, once to remove it. On the true form you would get five points at creation for the disad to place into another area. In the multiform you actually pay a point to have a five point disadavantage (as well as the points to spend). While disadvantages are great RPing tools and add to the flavor of a character it seems unfair to force a character to pay twice for the same thing - once to add the disad and once to remove it. Is this just an unfortunate side affect of having to account for "every point spent" or did I miss something somewhere?