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Old 10-17-2012, 10:16 AM   #5
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Default Re: Special Recharge: Take a Penalty

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Originally Posted by munin View Post
If the disadvantage is under your control, you only get a small reduction. In general, a disadvantage that you can choose to switch on and off is a perk, and a trait which is only active while another trait is active has Accessibility, -10% (like Only in altered body form, p. B110). So this would be Energy Reserve (Accessibility, Switchable disadvantage active, -10%) + Perk (Switchable disadvantage).
I like this, except that it doesn't matter how bad the disadvantage is. You could have a switchable -5 point disadvantage, or -5 to each of ST, DX, and HT, and it would end up costing the same.
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