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Originally Posted by Anthony
This is a demonstration of why 'cosmic' is a absolutely terrible choice of a name for a modifier, because Cosmic is not intended to be a power source, cosmic is just "this power breaks a rule that normally applies to powers of this type", but because it sounds like a power source, everyone wants to treat it as if it is one.
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It is also a Power Source (G:Powers p26)
Cosmic is, confusely, the keyword for 3 different things :
(1) an
enhancement (from +50% to +300%) that remove an inherent power limitation or break a rule.
(1 bis) an
enhancement (+300%) that remove the need for rolling.
(1 ter) an
enhancement (from +50% to +300%) that bypass defense or disallow active defense
(2) a "godlike/energy of the creation"
power source modifier that ignore all and any counter-measure.
Usually +50%, may be tiered. If tiered, lower tiers can be countered/neutralized by higher tiers
(3) one of the variant of modular ability.
Powers p26 seem to imply that 1 (and 1' and 1'') are version of 2, but p101 make the separation more clear, clarify that you don't automatically get (2) from (1) and imply that the price reduction on (1) you get from (2) is optionnal ("often")
Myself, I ignore that p26 "price reduction". It just confuse things more.
(3) is completely unrelated to (1) and (2) except for sharing the same name.