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Kelly Pedersen · 01-05-2017, 11:53 AM

Cyclic doesn't specify, but personally, I'd use the rules for Varying the Dosage (p. B439), with the poisons rules. That would mean that each doubling of dosage gives -2 to HT to resist, and halves the delay and the interval. One second of exposure to the cloud would be one dose, in this case. So if you stay in the cloud for just one second, you're affected normally. If you stay in for two seconds, you roll at HT-2 (if you already failed the roll on the first second, I'd apply -2 to your margin of failure, if that matters), and the time between cycles is halved. If you stay in for four seconds, you're at HT-4, and the cycle interval is now quartered. And so forth. If the cycles are already only one second, I'd double damage instead at those intervals.

01-05-2017, 11:53 AM	#2
Kelly Pedersen Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Saskatoon, SK, Canada	Re: [Basic] Cyclic and AOE innate attacks Cyclic doesn't specify, but personally, I'd use the rules for Varying the Dosage (p. B439), with the poisons rules. That would mean that each doubling of dosage gives -2 to HT to resist, and halves the delay and the interval. One second of exposure to the cloud would be one dose, in this case. So if you stay in the cloud for just one second, you're affected normally. If you stay in for two seconds, you roll at HT-2 (if you already failed the roll on the first second, I'd apply -2 to your margin of failure, if that matters), and the time between cycles is halved. If you stay in for four seconds, you're at HT-4, and the cycle interval is now quartered. And so forth. If the cycles are already only one second, I'd double damage instead at those intervals.