Combat Sense/Combat Reflexes - Discrete uses

Strabo · 03-06-2021, 01:41 AM

GURPS Powers on p. 153 categorizes abilities as passive/active and always on/switchable/transient. Combat Sense is an ESP ability based on Combat Reflexes and Danger Sense (GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 37). It has Requires IQ Roll, -10%, and the description states that rolls should be made once per second of combat.

By default, Combat Reflexes is an Always On ability. Adding Requires IQ Roll, -10% turns it into a Transient ability, because now it requires a trigger (the IQ roll) and has discrete uses. Typically, for such ongoing abilities, a single use is considered to be one minute (per Limited Use, p. B112). However, the requirement to make a roll once per second seems to imply that the ability is missing Reduced Duration, 1/60 to make the ability's effect last for 1 second instead of 1 minute per roll.

Does the ability really lack this limitation, or am I missing something?

03-06-2021, 01:41 AM	#1
Strabo Join Date: Jun 2012	Combat Sense/Combat Reflexes - Discrete uses GURPS Powers on p. 153 categorizes abilities as passive/active and always on/switchable/transient. Combat Sense is an ESP ability based on Combat Reflexes and Danger Sense (GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 37). It has Requires IQ Roll, -10%, and the description states that rolls should be made once per second of combat. By default, Combat Reflexes is an Always On ability. Adding Requires IQ Roll, -10% turns it into a Transient ability, because now it requires a trigger (the IQ roll) and has discrete uses. Typically, for such ongoing abilities, a single use is considered to be one minute (per Limited Use, p. B112). However, the requirement to make a roll once per second seems to imply that the ability is missing Reduced Duration, 1/60 to make the ability's effect last for 1 second instead of 1 minute per roll. Does the ability really lack this limitation, or am I missing something?