Not so! 6d in an ADU cosmic power is exactly the same as 6d in separate A, D, and U powers (except for power permissions).
The 6d can be used for an AD power and a U power, or 3d in an ADU and three dice left for random A, D, and U powers (probably with Spray +wd or +hd to make it reliable, balanced by Flaws or WP expenditure).By my reading, anyway.
For example, one of the PCs in my off-and-on comedic Wild Talents game is Matrix, a gadgeteer. He has 10d for gadgeteering with ADU, which generally involves jury-rigging his Toyota Matrix (with a patent-violating Stark power generator) into a gadget for the session. Its "default" setup is flying DU and GI-Joe-esque zap guns for the Attacks. Sometimes he just makes a Matrix-Mecha with a lot of Hyperbody. "It's much less agile when it's a snake detector," as he once noted, being forced to actually *drive* a car with 10d in Useful (Detecting Snakes).
-- Daniel
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Matt <moeheid@gmail.com> wrote:
As I understand it:You could turn your cosmic power dice into just Attacks/defends etc, the merit is reduced WP costThe number of dice in the power is limited by your cosmic power dice. But any given cosmic power dice can only do one thing at a time.So if I have 6d as you say I could assign all six to an attacks power, or divide them 3 and 3 into attack and defend Or 2/2/2 or 4/1/1 etc. the secret to cosmic power is gobs of WP.The other advantage is you don't need HD or WD in the power itself, you pay the cost of the dice they're emulating when you use the power. So if you have 10d you can make a 5d attack you roll, a 2hd defense, and a 3hd utility or movement power w/ a huge WP cost.
-Matt ConlonSo, you've got your Cosmic Power or Gadgeteering, or whatever...--How does it work with powers with multiple qualities? Like, if I use my Cosmic Power for Flight, I should be able to make it ADU, right, because Cosmic Power has all three?But, since I've got all three qualities in Cosmic Power, and it costs the same to buy three qualities for one power as for three one quality powers, can I break it up? Can I take my 6d in Cosmic Power and put it into a 6d Harm, a 6d Armor, and a 6d Useful only for Movement power all at the same time?This seems more relevant for gadgeteering - it seems most likely that folks would build gadgets that *only* attack, or *only* defend or whatever, which seems a very inefficient use of Gadgeteering dice compared to buying three separate powers (Attacking Gadgets, Defending Gadgets, and Useful Gadgets)...
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