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Old 02-29-2016, 09:47 AM   #1
brunoalho
 
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Default Allies and Unusual Backgrounds

Hello everyone,

I'm experience a doubt on the allies advantage and I could not find the answer on a direct way, so I am asking here.

I GMing a super campaign and I was thinking on the ally advantage. If a player wants an super ally how should he/she proceed?

Let's say an ally with 100% of the PC player (worth 5 points), who is always with him (x4), total 20 points. But if this ally is also a super ( on the campaign the UB was set on being 100 points) How does the Unusual Background impacts on the ally cost?
The player pays the special ability enhancement (+50%) or the UB cost adds to the ally base cost? This procedure would give 5 + 100 = 105 base cost plus the x4 modifier 420 points for a super ally!

Could you please help me clarify my noob doubt.
Thanks and I'm sorry if I was not clear enough.
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Old 02-29-2016, 10:55 AM   #2
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The Ally will have the same number of points in UB as the PC.
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Old 02-29-2016, 11:03 AM   #3
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This is one of those "entirely up the GM" cases. You can justify it in any way you see as appropriate. That said, I personally wouldn't ever combine UB and the Special Abilities modifier - if you need UB to be a super, then simply build any super Ally with said UB and let that handle the cost of the Ally being special.
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Old 02-29-2016, 11:29 AM   #4
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If the PC is a superhuman, no UB required. If not, a 10 point UB would be reasonable to be allowed to purchase the Ally. I think a constant Ally, however, would require surgical implantation and would be a superpower of its own.
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Old 02-29-2016, 11:32 AM   #5
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If the PC is a superhuman, no UB required. If not, a 10 point UB would be reasonable to be allowed to purchase the Ally. I think a constant Ally, however, would require surgical implantation and would be a superpower of its own.
Or just require Minion and Summonable. Gogo pocket side-kick?
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