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Old 07-28-2018, 10:01 PM   #11
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Default Re: Rebuilding Shapeshifting

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How broken would it be to ditch the first rule (the bit about a 20% reduction in the cost of the Meta-Trait's Disadvantages) and just go with the one about its minimum cost being 1/5 of its component Advantages?
Well, it no longer winds up matching the rules for TD. It's actually kinda broken even with the disadvantage effect, AAs in general are rather abusable.
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Old 07-28-2018, 10:06 PM   #12
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Read the next sentence though. Not always. And a case can (I think has actually in Sorcery) be made for treating same type of abilities as attacks even if they are not attacks.
But we're talking about switching out Meta-Traits here. I don't think Meta-Traits count as attacks by any reasonable stretch of the imagination.
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