Confused by the FAQ on Afflictions

[Kelly Pedersen]

Originally Posted by naloth

Obviously there is a total miscommunication.

You implied that when you Afflict an advantage, you gain the ability to use it on the target, turning it on or off, for the duration of the affliction if you possessed the advantage.

Yes, there was a miscommunication, because that's not what I was saying at all. I agree that if an affliction is under the control of the afflictor, not the target, then the afflictor only gets to choose the inital "setting" of the advantage, and doesn't get ongoing control of it.

All of my arguments in this thread have been about how activating the afflicted advantage in the first place work - when the afflictor first puts Alternate Form/Shrinking/Flight/whatever on the target, what do they have to do. My point is simply that any activation restrictions on the advantage being afflicted must be paid by the afflictor, not the target.