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Originally Posted by Bruno

I'd call the above two Accessibilities instead of Nuisance Effects, personally. I distinguish based on Accessibility being about conditions for activation that aren't covered by Trigger (Consumables) or Costs FP (another kind of consumable).

Yeah, there's a strong case to be made there.

Ooo. For DR, I presume?

Yep, for DR. It was for a racial power set involving force fields, telekinetic hammers, and telekinetic blades. They fought each other by hammering each other into the exhaustion on the shields. Old set of images I got when i was 14 or something. One of the first things I tried to model in gurps.

Though there is a version of it where the effect is applied to the parry of the melee attack.

I'd generally call these Triggers - but Trigger comes with a Duration cap baked in that you don't necessarily need with an Accessibility. Depending on what's going on with the first (the cutting one), I might call that a combination of (Immediate) Preparation Required and whichever of Accessibility and Trigger - if there's a ritual, for example.

Yeah, the second one is a textbook trigger. I'd completely forgotten about that.

The one about using your own blood I considered a nuisance effect because he had a limited amount of it, it hurt, and it was creepy. I thought about using costs HP, but that just didn't work the way I wanted it to. the limitation was that he had a limited amount of his own blood and had to expose himself to all sorts of infection and so forth to use his abilities.

Nuisance Effect, Accessibility, Trigger, and Temporary Disadvantage are sort of the Bucket limitations - you can get a lot done with them because they're big buckets of effects. Because they're broad, some peoples interpretations as to which bucket a given limitation goes in will obviously differ.

True enough.