Steve Jackson Games Forums - View Single Post - Takes Recharge, but allows repeated consecutive uses?

McAllister · 07-25-2016, 06:57 AM

Maximum Duration from Powers technically doesn't apply, since it's for "switchable, beneficial abilities that you could normally leave 'on' indefinitely," but since an IA you can use every turn is similarly available, it might be a nice fit. That says that getting it for up to 30 seconds at a time, and then losing it for five minutes, is a -75% limitation.

So, since the two methods we're using to put this limitation together give us DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT ESTIMATES FOR ITS VALUE... I'm really not sure how to proceed.

For my money, it's close to -5% than -75%. Giving it a limitation any steeper than -10% makes me look at Limited Uses and think it's unfair. But maybe the real problem is that Limited Uses is stingy as hell, and it would be fairer to double its value across the board. PK can attest that you can double the value of Costs FP and nothing breaks, so there's that.

07-25-2016, 06:57 AM	#3
McAllister Join Date: Jun 2013	Re: Takes Recharge, but allows repeated consecutive uses? Maximum Duration from Powers technically doesn't apply, since it's for "switchable, beneficial abilities that you could normally leave 'on' indefinitely," but since an IA you can use every turn is similarly available, it might be a nice fit. That says that getting it for up to 30 seconds at a time, and then losing it for five minutes, is a -75% limitation. So, since the two methods we're using to put this limitation together give us DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT ESTIMATES FOR ITS VALUE... I'm really not sure how to proceed. For my money, it's close to -5% than -75%. Giving it a limitation any steeper than -10% makes me look at Limited Uses and think it's unfair. But maybe the real problem is that Limited Uses is stingy as hell, and it would be fairer to double its value across the board. PK can attest that you can double the value of Costs FP and nothing breaks, so there's that.