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Old 06-09-2011, 02:02 PM   #21
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No, you don't need Switchable for a power which isn't always on, that's just silly.
DR by default is always on.
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Old 06-09-2011, 02:37 PM   #22
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I agree with most of what people mentioned earlier, but I'd like to point out that you can't take a Vow to not do something you can't physically do. For example, I can't take 'Vow: Do Not Turn Invisible', and a man who has DR with 'Can't Wear Armor' can't take Vow: Don't Wear Armor.
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Old 06-09-2011, 02:48 PM   #23
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I agree with most of what people mentioned earlier, but I'd like to point out that you can't take a Vow to not do something you can't physically do. For example, I can't take 'Vow: Do Not Turn Invisible', and a man who has DR with 'Can't Wear Armor' can't take Vow: Don't Wear Armor.
I know it's quibbling, but of course, you CAN take such a vow, you just don't get any points for it. Although I might part with a -1 for a Delusion, were someone silly enough to try that with me. :)
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Old 06-09-2011, 02:51 PM   #24
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I agree with most of what people mentioned earlier, but I'd like to point out that you can't take a Vow to not do something you can't physically do. For example, I can't take 'Vow: Do Not Turn Invisible', and a man who has DR with 'Can't Wear Armor' can't take Vow: Don't Wear Armor.
DR is not the same as armor.
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Old 06-09-2011, 02:59 PM   #25
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DR is not the same as armor.
...I fail to see what that has anything to do with what I just said. DR with the Cannot Wear Armor limitation means that you physically can not wear armor. Thus, you can't get any points for Vow: Cannot Wear Armor, because you can't do so already, just like someone without Innate Attack (Eye Lasers) can't get points for Vow: Never Use Eye Lasers.
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Old 06-09-2011, 03:10 PM   #26
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...I fail to see what that has anything to do with what I just said. DR with the Cannot Wear Armor limitation means that you physically can not wear armor. Thus, you can't get any points for Vow: Cannot Wear Armor, because you can't do so already, just like someone without Innate Attack (Eye Lasers) can't get points for Vow: Never Use Eye Lasers.
If you have Switchable DR (which is after all the actual topic of this thread) with CWA then I don't see why you can't have Never Wear Armor as a Vow. You don't always have DR, but you don't wear armor anyway. With pact if you do decide to wear armor (breaking your vow) you lose the ability to switch on the DR.
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Old 06-09-2011, 03:13 PM   #27
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+10% is the Kromm-approved enhancement for 'Oh, and my DR applies to eyes too'.
Oh, thanks, Vicky. That does make it cheaper, then.
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Old 06-09-2011, 03:15 PM   #28
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If you have Switchable DR (which is after all the actual topic of this thread) with CWA then I don't see why you can't have Never Wear Armor as a Vow. You don't always have DR, but you don't wear armor anyway. With pact if you do decide to wear armor (breaking your vow) you lose the ability to switch on the DR.
Right, and I don't have a problem with that.
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Old 06-09-2011, 05:27 PM   #29
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DR by default is always on.
If you have a limitation on DR, or any other always on advantage, which shuts down the power in certain circumstance, then you don't need Switchable, that's the way limitations work with Always On powers.

Like you correctly said in a different thread:
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E.g., DR is normally always on, but if you take DR, Costs FP, it becomes switchable with one minute of use per expenditure of the FP. My understanding from the discussion of this in Basic was that (unless the ability has a special value for Switchable, like Magic Resistance) you didn't even need to take a Switchable enhancement.
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You are correct. Powers is pretty clear on this . . . disadvantageous forms of "switchability" don't necessitate Switchable.
Kromm also commented elsewhere that:
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Finally, you can take limitations that shut down or reduce the availability of your DR. These are most often such things as Accessibility and Uncontrollable. If you have a drawback like that, then you don't need Switchable as well.
We've had these discussions before, gotta love google search. *grin*
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Old 06-09-2011, 06:33 PM   #30
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If you have a limitation on DR, or any other always on advantage, which shuts down the power in certain circumstance, then you don't need Switchable, that's the way limitations work with Always On powers.
In this case that would be Trigger: Nudity?
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