advantage for building your own Gadget-limited advantages?

[Plane]

I'm wondering though if Afflicting gadget-limited advantages ought to actually create the item though or if you also ought to have some kind of advantage which either creates matter, or else supply the matter yourself.

You can't for example get a free 10-pound helmet made of Lutetium that you could sell to buy your own country just because you buy some 5-point advantage with a gadget limitation tied to a 10-pound Lutetium helmet... you'd have to also buy the Lutetium helmet too, I would think...

So afflicting a gadget-based advantage seems like perhaps you'd have the ability to empower pre-existing matter with the ability to impart advantages?

[Prince Charon]

Originally Posted by Plane

So afflicting a gadget-based advantage seems like perhaps you'd have the ability to empower pre-existing matter with the ability to impart advantages?

That's about the way I would handle it if the advantage doesn't have a further enhancement, like 'Physical, +50%' (admittedly, that enhancement is for Modular Abilities, not Affliction itself, but I think it should be allowable to port it over if the Affliction isn't already inside MA).

[Plane]

Originally Posted by Prince Charon

That's about the way I would handle it if the advantage doesn't have a further enhancement, like 'Physical, +50%' (admittedly, that enhancement is for Modular Abilities, not Affliction itself, but I think it should be allowable to port it over if the Affliction isn't already inside MA).

If I were using Modular Abilities to be able to re-arrange Affliction points then since B35 defines it as a physical advantage I think you're right you'd need the +50% enhancement on MA.

One possibly way around that might be to take a modifier on Affliction which transforms it into a mental advantage such as "requires will roll" or "requires IQ roll" since Powers talks about how that can change the nature of advantages.

If it was just Affliction but you had Variable Enhancement then this wouldn't really matter though.