Insta-switch Alternative Abilities?

[PK]

Originally Posted by Infornific

You could try buying the alternative abilities as Afflictions granting Advantages. That would allow you to treat it as an attack and thus avoid a Ready maneuver.

True, but then you get all the drawbacks of having an Advantage Affliction instead of the actual Advantage.

Personally, I'd be tempted to say that AA is a "meta-limitation" worth -80%, and thus if you want to make them all instantaneously switchable, that's a +20% "meta-enhancement", which means that you pay 2/5 the cost instead of 1/5. I think that's fair.

[Der Wanderer]

Ok, first of, I like Revs suggestion...

However, a simple solution is:
ATR (Switching AA's only-80%) [20]
that is a flat 20 CP its price wise in the same range as an Extra Attack so that seems fair (of course if you have 3 5CP AAs thats overpaying)

[PK]

DW, I could go for that as well, yeah.

[Gef]

DW, I like your suggestion too, but I think EHS might do the trick - a flat 9. And I wouldn't allow AAs to activate reflexively. -GEF

[AstralRunner]

Alternate Ability is 1/5 multiplier, not a -80% limitation. This is a very important difference, because it is applied to cost after you add enhancements and limitations. If if were a limitation, you would get less than 4/5 off any ability at less than 0% net modifier, and only a very small fraction off on abilities with very large net modifiers.

So if you're changing the Alternate Ability modifier itself, you should do so by changing the Alternate Ability multiplier; not by adding enhancements. Thus, adding +20% should actually be, "Alternate Ability is now a 2/5 modifier," instead. It will give you very different numbers.

[PK]

Originally Posted by Gef

DW, I like your suggestion too, but I think EHS might do the trick - a flat 9. And I wouldn't allow AAs to activate reflexively. -GEF

ATR gives you an extra action, though, while ETS doesn't. So there's no way ETS could give you an "extra ready", which is what you need.

[PK]

Originally Posted by AstralRunner

So if you're changing the Alternate Ability modifier itself, you should do so by changing the Alternate Ability multiplier; not by adding enhancements. Thus, adding +20% should actually be, "Alternate Ability is now a 2/5 modifier," instead. It will give you very different numbers.

Glad to see so much agreement on this. Like I said, my first instinct is to go with the 2/5 cost, but secondarily, I could also see bastardizing ATR into a flat 20-point advantage.