Side Effect Enhancement

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Originally Posted by Diomedes

I'm building a Toxic attack, and I wanted it to inflict Severe Pain as a Side Effect; but I notice now that Side Effect doesn't allow for Irritants. Does anybody in the hivemind know why?

If you want to be really picky about the wording, Side Effect explicitly allows certain effects from Affliction, but does not explicitly disallow any others. That is, there is nothing that says a side effect cannot be an irritant, just that stunning etc are allowed.

Of course, most people would read it as disallowing irritants, and that was probably the intent, but still ...

Luke