[PU4, Powers] What does Cosmic power modifier actually do?

[the_matrix_walker]

Originally Posted by JCurwen3

Question: it seems unclear to me, but do you get a rebate / discount on your Cosmic enhancements if you have a Cosmic tier other the top tier +50% (ie, you deduct 10% from the sum of all Cosmics if you had a Cosmic tier PM of +10%)?

yes! umn, no! er.. not exaclty.... kinda!

If you look again at the section describing this "POWERS, GREAT AND SMALL", Powers Page 32, you'll find that only the very top tier is considered truly Cosmic. All the "lesser" powers are "Not Quite Cosmic" and only considered cosmic against powers on a lower tier than theirs.

Now adding Cosmic enhancements on lower tiered abilities are cheaper than their full Cosmic counterparts, but they don't function as cosmic unless the power they are opposing is of a lower tier, and this gives a point break. It's point cost is cut by the same fraction as the tier value. (EDIT! Lingering Attacks and Irresistible Attacks Prices are reduced, Not All Cosmic Modifiers!)

For example, if there are three tiers, no cosmic, Semi-cosmic and Cosmic, for +0, +25% or +50%, then the +25% tier add's it's cosmic Lingering Attack and Irresistible Attack enhancements at half (percentage) cost.

A "semi-cosmic" ability in this model would pay +150% For "Cosmic, Irresistible Attack" instead of +300% but it would only work on lower tiers (In this case, Tier 0, which would include anything with a power modifier really, just not Wild Advantages)

The Tier Enhancement value is treated the same as Cosmic when it is part of your modifier, in the regard that the first (insert percentage equal to Tier modifier) is subtracted from the sum of your total "Semi-Cosmc" modifiers.

So in the example above, the "semi-cosmic" power modifier of +25% would be subtracted from the +150% Cosmic (Ignores DR) and you'd have 25% + 125% just in the same way you would have 50% + 250% for full on cosmic.

Make sense?

Originally Posted by JCurwen3

Also, is it possible to make a custom PM that contains the Cosmic, +50% PM (or lower tier) but with a small additional limitation, like that it can be shut down in specific circumstances? For instance, if you wanted an Angelic PM that trumped every other kind of power like the Cosmic PM, but with -5% for "doesn't work in unholy places" (or something like that). And in this case do you get the full 50% deduction off of Cosmic enhancements, 45%, or none (this one seems unlikely).

The Tier breakdowns are followed by examples that embed lesser cosmic tiers into the existing power modifiers. So there is no conflict with including limitations into your power modifier. This appears to have no impact on the cost or behavior of whatever tier of Cosmic (except of course when it is trumped my a specific limitation selection).