Example of Modified Attack in error? Poison Bite. Help!

[Rick_Smith]

Originally Posted by Inky

Possibly, you've got Follow-Up back-to-front...

Cyclic costs slightly more than you had it costing, too.

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Poison: 2 dice toxic damage. [8]
-- Cyclic( Each minute +40%, 3 times (x3), Resistible (x0.5) ) = 60%
-- Resistible (HT - 4) = -10%
-- Limited Use only twice per day = -30%
-- Follow Up (which means poison is injected only if damage penetrates armor) 0%
-- Total: [10]

Hi Inky,
Thank you for the fast reply. I don't think that I've got Cyclic wrong, on page B104 it says:

Multiply the base value but the number of cycles past the first ...

(My italics.)

The first attack is standard cost, so three attacks is two extra, or times two.

This is backed up by the example of a Poison Bite on page B114. Cycling with 5 attacks (4 extra), cost x4.

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Thinking about this, the rule does not make much sense, if we multiplied by the number of attacks, the first attack would cost x1, the second would cost x2, having 3 would cost x3, etc. Very sensible.

But as written, a single extra attack (e.g. cycling 2) costs nothing extra, which seems a logical error.

Warm regards, Rick.