Penetrating

This extra allows an attack FX to overcome a resistance bolstered by the Impervious extra. Roll to overcome the resistance of your Impervious target using your ranks in Penetrating rather than your ranks in your FX modifier. So if your enemy has Impervious Toughness 12, and you have Damage 5 with 4 ranks of Penetrating, roll a +4 for your effect modifier instead of +5.
Penetrating attacks also allow you to Stagger an Impervious enemy, or even render them Helpless, ignoring Impervious' benefit of protecting characters from those types of serious injury.
You cannot have more ranks in Penetrating than you have ranks in the original FX.
Like Impervious, Penetrating is primarily intended for a Damage FX to overcome Impervious Toughness resistance, to handle characters immune to a certain threshold of damage, but it can be applied to other attacks with the GM's permission, to reflect characters able to break through even the hardiest resistances.
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