Different Regeneration Rates

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by JCurwen3

Thanks! And yeah, that would seem to indicate Reduced Time's acceptability on Regeneration, as the most RAW way to extend it.

No, it's RA house ruled by Kromm. Reduced time affects the time required to turn a power on/off. In any case, it's obviously unbalanced if you allow large numbers of levels -- you could get regeneration 1/sec for 42 points (Slow Regen, Reduced Time 16). Cap it at 5 levels and don't allow it on Slow and it works but has the oddity that 1/2 minutes (Regular Regen, RT 5) costs the same as 1/minute (Fast Regen), and the same for 1/2 sec vs 1/sec.

[JCurwen3]

Originally Posted by Anthony

No, it's RA house ruled by Kromm. Reduced time affects the time required to turn a power on/off. In any case, it's obviously unbalanced if you allow large numbers of levels -- you could get regeneration 1/sec for 42 points (Slow Regen, Reduced Time 16). Cap it at 5 levels and don't allow it on Slow and it works but has the oddity that 1/2 minutes (Regular Regen, RT 5) costs the same as 1/minute (Fast Regen), and the same for 1/2 sec vs 1/sec.

You're right, allowing large numbers of levels of Reduced Time arbitrarily would, indeed, be unbalanced or lead to nonsensical results. But as long as you rule that you can only take Reduced Time levels on the named Regen levels as long as the results don't result in cheaper or more expensive "conflicts" with the other levels, I think it works really well.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by JCurwen3

But as long as you rule that you can only take Reduced Time levels on the named Regen levels as long as the results don't result in cheaper or more expensive "conflicts" with the other levels, I think it works really well.

It works moderately well -- as I noted, 1/2 minutes winds up costing 50 (same as 1/minute), and 1/2 seconds winds up costing 100 (same as 1/second). However, I'm failing to see the benefit over just creating a new table, 'by misusing an advantage I can achieve results that are almost as good as using a house rule' hardly seems worth doing.