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ErhnamDJ · 08-10-2014, 06:31 PM

Affliction can be extremely overpriced or extremely underpriced. It is the latter that players tend to purchase, which causes problems, as they end up much more powerful than the GM had intended the characters to be, and much more powerful than the other characters in the campaign.

The underpriced abilities are those with Maledictions, those with large areas, and especially, those that grant Advantages to others.

The overpriced are those Afflictions that are purchased in levels, or that have expensive enhancements that make the afflicted condition marginally worse. There's very little difference on the tactical level between being stunned and having a heart attack, but there's a major difference in terms of the price of the Affliction.

Further, offensive Afflictions are often easily replicated by technology. It's not worth a hundred points to replicate a grenade. In modern, sci-fi, or supers settings these are also overpriced.

08-10-2014, 06:31 PM	#4
ErhnamDJ Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: OK	Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Affliction Affliction can be extremely overpriced or extremely underpriced. It is the latter that players tend to purchase, which causes problems, as they end up much more powerful than the GM had intended the characters to be, and much more powerful than the other characters in the campaign. The underpriced abilities are those with Maledictions, those with large areas, and especially, those that grant Advantages to others. The overpriced are those Afflictions that are purchased in levels, or that have expensive enhancements that make the afflicted condition marginally worse. There's very little difference on the tactical level between being stunned and having a heart attack, but there's a major difference in terms of the price of the Affliction. Further, offensive Afflictions are often easily replicated by technology. It's not worth a hundred points to replicate a grenade. In modern, sci-fi, or supers settings these are also overpriced. __________________ "For the rays, to speak properly, are not colored. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color." —Isaac Newton, Optics My blog.