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Originally Posted by RGTraynor
Because it's much better to say "The odds are prohibitive against you being able to do that" than to say "Meh, you just can't do that, because, well, you just can't, is all."
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I think I was asking more why the penalty was set that high. If you don't want a Power to do a certain thing set the price higher for a version that does.
It's also not as if "diseases" (going back to the origin of this thread) had an objective scale of what was harder to cure than what. Some bacterial diseases that are probably harder for an average immune system to resist are relatively easy to cure with common antibiotics. Other things don't even have known scientific treatments.
So we've got this subjective list of "This _should_ be harder to cure than that" in somebody's opinion and before Gurps Powers and its' expansion of the Reliable Enhancement (or perhaps PU:Talents with the possibility of more than 4 levels of talent) there wasn't even a way to make the Healing Advantage powerful enough to deal with certain things reliably.