01-17-2018, 09:57 AM | #11 |
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Ellicott City, MD
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Re: Granting and Curing Afflictions
Wait, once the Modular Ability is set, the target can't rearrange it without a new contract, right? Add One Use Only (*1/5) to the MA. That'll save you a lot of points.
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01-17-2018, 10:00 AM | #12 |
Join Date: Jan 2018
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Re: Granting and Curing Afflictions
The modular ability is unlocked for the demon, not the target - the demon can't rearrange it, nor can she even USE it repeatedly. So that's why I added -80% for Only one use.
For example, Target A says he wants to be more handsome, and makes a pact with the Demon. The demon slaps him with one level of Enthrall and gains access to a Modular Ability, which she configures into Affliction (Advantage: Attractiveness, Very Handsome; modified to be Permanent). She then slaps that Affliction on him and voila, he's Very Handsome. I'm hopeful the GM will agree that with Link, I can roll once for both accepting Enthrall/applying the Affliction, and also that curing Enthrall will cure the Affliction. |
01-17-2018, 10:01 AM | #13 |
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Ellicott City, MD
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Re: Granting and Curing Afflictions
One Use is *1/5, not -80%. And yes, there is a difference.
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01-17-2018, 10:03 AM | #14 | |
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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Re: Granting and Curing Afflictions
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If you're looking for a way to cheapen the cost of the Afflictions, remember that your Accessibility, Only on willing targets should apply to both Afflictions. |
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01-17-2018, 10:03 AM | #15 |
Join Date: Jan 2018
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Re: Granting and Curing Afflictions
Yes, I know there's a difference, but I don't see One Use anywhere in GCA - what sourcebook is it from?
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01-17-2018, 10:06 AM | #16 |
Join Date: Jan 2018
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Re: Granting and Curing Afflictions
Hmm, I don't know that I like Morph for this. I'm not changing their basic racial template - I'm doing moderate, limited physical shapeshifting on the individual. They might get an extra arm, get more handsome, gain some extra ST/HT, etc., but I won't be turning a human into an elf or anything like this.
Also, to be finicky, it's not that SHE is granting them a power - she's giving herself a power to use on them to grant their wishes. To me, it's a modular ability because it's allowing the demon to create any Affliction (Advantage) she wants that fits within this narrow purview. Sure, it's an ability that's only briefly accessible for a single use per Enthrall, but it fits the bill of a flexible slot filled by a power selected from within a set of powers. |
01-17-2018, 10:54 AM | #17 | |||
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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Re: Granting and Curing Afflictions
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Note that using Affliction with Alternate Form as the advantage is well-established as the build for "transform someone into something else". Quote:
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However, when an Affliction afflicts an advantage, it's already usually one use only - if you Afflict Shrinking, for example, the target shrinks once. You can choose to Afflict the ability to use the advantage as if the target possessed it themselves instead, but I still wouldn't allow a one use only limitation on Modular Abilities. Or, rather, I wouldn't allow it to last: anything that limits an advantage that is normally on indefinitely to have a resource cost or limited uses gives it a default duration of one minute. So, if you gave someone Modular Abilities that they could use themselves, and put one use only on it, they could use it to transform themselves, but that transformation would only last a minute, at which point it would end and couldn't be recovered. |
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01-17-2018, 11:03 AM | #18 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ventura CA
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01-17-2018, 11:07 AM | #19 | |
Wielder of Smart Pants
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ventura CA
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Re: Granting and Curing Afflictions
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Secondly, abilities that cost character points are in Powers. |
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01-17-2018, 11:15 AM | #20 | ||
Join Date: Jan 2018
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Re: Granting and Curing Afflictions
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Without some form of access/duration limitation on the Modular Ability, I believe the mechanical affect of it would be "as soon as X Target makes a contract to be handsome, the Demon sets her Modular Ability to Afflict (Very Handsome); she now can slap Very Handsome on as many people as she wants, but she can't change the nature of the Modular Ability." That's definitely not what I want. Does that make sense? |
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