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What to do when Stress Boxes Change, Help....
Biff Dyskolos:
--- Quote from: iago on April 17, 2010, 04:08:39 PM ---This is the official ruling, which has been worked into the marginalia in what will be the final text:
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If there an official ruling on how you order your stress boxes?
For example, with Good Endurance (4 stress), Inhuman Toughness (2 stress), Hulking Size (2 stress)
* You could have your Hulking boxes at 5 and 6, and Toughness at 7 and 8
* or you could have your Toughness at 5 and 6, and Hulking at 7 and 8
If you take a big (7 or 8 stress) hit that satisfies your Catch it will make a huge difference if those 7th and 8th boxes belong to Toughness (can't use them) of Hulking.
luminos:
I'd say that the powers that are most frequently available occupy the lowest boxes. So if you had inhuman toughness no matter what form you were in, but only had hulking size when you shape changed, then put inhuman toughness boxes at 5 and 6, but if you have only have inhuman toughness at the same times when you have hulking size, then put hulking size boxes at 5 and 6, since they are there even when you get hit by the catch.
Biff Dyskolos:
--- Quote from: luminos on April 17, 2010, 07:01:11 PM ---I'd say that the powers that are most frequently available occupy the lowest boxes. So if you had inhuman toughness no matter what form you were in, but only had hulking size when you shape changed, then put inhuman toughness boxes at 5 and 6, but if you have only have inhuman toughness at the same times when you have hulking size, then put hulking size boxes at 5 and 6, since they are there even when you get hit by the catch.
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In the above example, the character need not be a shifter. Both powers may be always there. The issue of ordering remains. Also, with Modular Abilities powers could be added and subtracted as needed. Does that mean then order in which you shift determines the order of the boxes?
luminos:
Just go with whatever makes sense. My suggestion is to order the stress boxes so that the least likely circumstance to occur is that you lose access to some of you middle stress boxes, but still have your higher stress boxes.
Biff Dyskolos:
--- Quote from: luminos on April 17, 2010, 07:17:22 PM ---Just go with whatever makes sense. My suggestion is to order the stress boxes so that the least likely circumstance to occur is that you lose access to some of you middle stress boxes, but still have your higher stress boxes.
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Doing what makes sense makes sense in most circumstances; but I am not sure that would help with modular abilities. You could put Hulking at 5 & 6 and Toughness at 7 & 8 because it makes sense that your opponent will be satisfying your Catch. But then you realize, in this scene Hulking size is just making me easier to hit so you change so you make a shift and replace Hulking with Inhuman strength. Now Toughness slides from 7&8 to 5&6? If 7&8 were checked does that mean that 5&6 are now checked?
The whole issue of shifting and stress affecting powers seems to be a tangled web!
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