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Old 02-06-2020, 11:04 AM   #7
Varyon
 
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Default Re: Is there a reason why Reputation modifiers round costs down?

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Originally Posted by awesomenessofme1 View Post
A cursory Ctrl-F suggests it's the only case in the entire Basic Set where you round costs. Seems a bit strange, and I don't see any reason why it would be unique.
It also shows up for Resistant - x1 for Immunity, x1/2 for +8, x1/3 for +3, drop all fractions. I think Reputation and Resistant may be the only Advantages where it's typical to modify price by a divisor rather than by a percentage, so there's that link I suppose. My guess would be that for Reputation, they wanted negative and positive Reputations to cancel out evenly; no clue for why Resistant uses the same trend (particularly as it doesn't line up very well with Susceptible, and you're not allowed to have overlapping Resistant and Susceptible).
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