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[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by JCurwen3

I rather gathered that, but it still stands that it's an unambiguous way an Unaging character can age to death (and rather quickly at that), and there's no prohibition against using it as an Affliction against an Unaging victim, which I'm not entirely sure was the intent. Things like this need to be clarified. I mean, should an Unaging character be immune to the Aging aspect of Dependency if it hits them in Affliction form, or do they need an Unaging that's enhanced to avoid this, or does the attacker need something like an enhancement (maybe a Cosmic, +50% on their Affliction). I'd rule the attacker needs that Cosmic for his Affliction, but by RAW one could argue very easily that it shouldn't be necessary.

Well, the idea of Afflicting an Aging Dependency is kinda strange to me, and I would probably quash it right away... but, if you're allowing it at all, there doesn't seem to be a reason to assume Unaging characters would be immune by default, since the text of the Disadvantage explicitly allows for the combination. If you weren't comfortable with it, you might want to house rule that Unaging and the enhanced Dependency are either mutually incompatible, or can only be taken at character creation.