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Aldric · 02-25-2021, 09:36 AM

Affects Others + Force Field + Area Effect is apparently a special case given under Affects Others (Powers p 107-108) which creates a single bubble that affects everyone in it and protects from attacks from outside, having no effect on everyone's attacks against other people inside the bubble and not hindering attacks that go out of it.
So reading it as placing a personal bubble on anyone within your Area Effect would not be correct.

Sure, it's expensive +50%, +20% and +50% (at least) respectively, you pay more than double for that DR, but it can now protect more than 2 people at the same time, and if you and a couple of friends had it, the effects could also stack (or whatever the rules in your setting are for overlapping force fields)

02-25-2021, 09:36 AM	#9
Aldric Join Date: Nov 2015	Re: Q about applying Ranged +40% to DR Affects Others + Force Field + Area Effect is apparently a special case given under Affects Others (Powers p 107-108) which creates a single bubble that affects everyone in it and protects from attacks from outside, having no effect on everyone's attacks against other people inside the bubble and not hindering attacks that go out of it. So reading it as placing a personal bubble on anyone within your Area Effect would not be correct. Sure, it's expensive +50%, +20% and +50% (at least) respectively, you pay more than double for that DR, but it can now protect more than 2 people at the same time, and if you and a couple of friends had it, the effects could also stack (or whatever the rules in your setting are for overlapping force fields)