would Cancellable make sense for all persistant abilites, not just Affliction?

Plane · 08-27-2020, 09:04 PM

For example if you have Burning Attack (Area Effect, Persistent) you create a 10-second firewall, but then an ally needs to get through NOW. You can't actually take it down, just wait it out...

Cancellable seems like a perfect solve to deal with that situation.

Otherwise I'm wondering what kind of options might exist.

I was wondering, if a characteer was in a situation like that and didn't have Cancellation, would the next best bet (assuming it was a power) be to roll "Power Parry" against your own ability to try and reduce the damage, representing temporarily making a hole in the flames for your ally to run through?

That's not a guarantee though. 2d burning minus 2d burning might work out to 0, or you could roll 12 minus 2 and still do 10 damage to your ally.

The only way to truly be safe there would be to use less than max damage for your firewall so that you full-damage power parry could always take it down. So for example you had 12d burning max, you'd only do 2d firewalls so that you'd always be guaranteed to be able to do enough damage on a Power Parry to let your allies through a hole.

08-27-2020, 09:04 PM	#1
Plane Join Date: Aug 2018	would Cancellable make sense for all persistant abilites, not just Affliction? For example if you have Burning Attack (Area Effect, Persistent) you create a 10-second firewall, but then an ally needs to get through NOW. You can't actually take it down, just wait it out... Cancellable seems like a perfect solve to deal with that situation. Otherwise I'm wondering what kind of options might exist. I was wondering, if a characteer was in a situation like that and didn't have Cancellation, would the next best bet (assuming it was a power) be to roll "Power Parry" against your own ability to try and reduce the damage, representing temporarily making a hole in the flames for your ally to run through? That's not a guarantee though. 2d burning minus 2d burning might work out to 0, or you could roll 12 minus 2 and still do 10 damage to your ally. The only way to truly be safe there would be to use less than max damage for your firewall so that you full-damage power parry could always take it down. So for example you had 12d burning max, you'd only do 2d firewalls so that you'd always be guaranteed to be able to do enough damage on a Power Parry to let your allies through a hole.