Re: [ORE] WT - A couple of questions from an ST new to Wild Talents

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>Don't dice in excess of 10 offset the penalties?  So if you had 14d, you could activate 4 powers, rolling your 10 dice and hoping for 4 sets?

I think you are confused by Allan's example, which doesn't quite follow the rule he gives (which I believe is correct).

 

Imagine you have two powers - "See Invisible Creatures 6d" and "Firebolt 8d".  You want to use them both in the same round to enable you to blast the evil Dr Invisble.  You take the smallest set (6d) take a 1d penalty (giving 5d) and need to roll 2 sets to activate both powers. So far, so good.  You have another power "Telepathic Communication 7d"  At the same time as blasting Dr Invisible, you also want to send a telepathic message to your partner to let him know you are in a fight.  So now you need to take the smallest pool (6d). take a 2d penalty (for 2 additional powers)  leaving 4d, requiring 3 sets - Now you have a problem!

 

So in order to activate 5 different powers you must end up with a pool of 10d after taking the 4d penalty, so your  *smallest* pool must contain (at least) 14d.  Dice in excess of 10 automatically offset penalties, because regardless of whether your final pool is 10d or 14d you still only get to roll 10d.