Re: [HOE] A Body Control question...

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

> >   If a Syker uses Body Control to bump up his Vigor, WOULD it add to his
> > Strain?
> >
> >   In my own opinion, I wouldn't see why not, since it would go away quite
> > fleetingly, and if he uses it at the wrong time, would end up leaving
> > himself open to brainburn.  He wouldn't really get any benefit, actually,
> > just a temporary boost that would come back to bite him in the ass
> > afterwards.
> 
> Once the power is exhausted he's at negative strain, I don't recall off the
> top of my head if that qualifies or not for brainburn, but if he managed to
> figure out that it would increase his strain go for it.  How much could he
> realisticly get, more than the cost of the power itself?  Maybe but not
> enough to make it seriously overpowered since you can't do it twice.

Actually the rules cover this. I did this wrong in the beginning too:
Body Control doesn't up a stat. It only adds to rolls for that stat. So if
the syker has a 4d8 quickness (like mine did) and gets 2 successes then
her quickness doesn't go up to 4d12, it goes up to 4d8+4.

So vigor would go up to say 3d8+4 with two successes. Since his vigor die
type is still d8's his strain remains the same.

Theo McGuckin - SysAdmin, JLab


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