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Old 01-09-2018, 04:13 PM   #11
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Default Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#47): Elastic Skin

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Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
Eh, I'd probably reverse that and change Elastic Skin to be a special case of Morph -- it's basically Morph (Cosmetic -50%, Retains Shape -20%, Same Race Only -10%), it just has the problem that if written up that way it runs into the -80% cap on limitations.
True, but the base size of the advantage is very important. Compare the two builds with reduced time 4 on each of them (so it takes a mere one second to change). One costs 36 points, the other costs 100 points.

I wonder if there is a way to extrapolate this for other traits: to say that a specific combination of limitations is considered an alternate "Base" form for an ability. Without letting the munchkins have a field day.

Of course, there is multiplicative multipliers, which gives you the same cost for both builds.
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