Questions about Innate Attack (Wall)

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by Nedorus

For me walls have "no thickness" so why would they not have the same area as an equivalent area effect? Just my thinking here.

I treat Walls as having a full hex of thickness (unless modified as described in this thread), but I think I understand your rationale here. I feel keeping the Walls as 4 yards tall and then using radius squared for the number of hexes works out fine, however.

Originally Posted by Nedorus

With all the restrictions on Power Defenses (like being only able to do one per turn) I think this is really not a very unbalanced feature and have included it in my "house ruling" for both *permeable* and *rigid* walls.

The "one per turn" rule I think is about the character actively using their powers; the idea for Walls doing it seems more passive. But keeping in mind that normally you only get one attempt per round, I may have Walls Parry at -3 (basically, they get no +3, it's just Skill/2).

Originally Posted by Nedorus

I have preliminarily decided to go for -2 per damage die. I'm not so much a fan of many die rolls

I'll note the dice rolls are simply an option if you want them - just going with average damage should work fine. But if you want to do it as -2 per die (I'd suggest -3 for 1d+2, -5 for 2d+2, and so forth), that also works. Also, it occurs to me that 1/5th cost for the Obscure Enhancements is too low - rather, they should probably be full price. With my suggestion of -1 per point of damage, enough damage on your Wall to give -10 has a base cost of [15], while with your suggestion of -2 per die of damage, the base cost jumps to [25]. Both are close to the base cost of [20] for Obscure 10, so it may be more appropriate to simply have such Enhancements be at full cost (if you want soundproofed walls or similar, buy the appropriate Obscure at 1/5th price and Link it to the Wall). A better - but decidedly non-RAW - way to do it is treat the character as though they have the appropriate Obscure without actually paying for it, then apply the Enhancement to that - so any Obscure modifier tossed onto your Wall actually uses a base cost of [2] multiplied by the Vision penalty.