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Old 05-21-2013, 09:11 PM   #10
Sunrunners_Fire
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
Default Re: [Divine Favor] Is Smite underpriced?

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Originally Posted by Dustin View Post
I'm generally in love with the Divine Favor rules, but something just caught my eye. Smite (Divine Favor p.12) gets an Accessibility limitation of -50% for affecting Malign Supernatural Beings Only. Does the Malign part seem like a bit of a point crock to anyone else? It's a bit like taking Enemies Only as a limitation. This is basically a -50% cost break, to have an Area Effect that you can lob repeatedly in close quarters without worrying about your allies (supernatural or not), and without the need to buy Selective Area +20% (B108).

Affecting supernatural beings only is a legitimate limitation; you can't Smite a dire rhino, I'm cool with that. It's "malign" that I'm concerned about.
Compare to: (No Wounding, (-50%; GM Determined Target List Only, -20%) -40%; No Incendiary Effect, (-10%; GM Determined Target List Only, -20%) -8%), -48% rounded to -50% due to GURPS' assumed pentaphilia. Given that the acceptable target list can and will change ... I'm comfortable with the rounding.
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