Report 790

Report #790
Skillset: Paradigmatics Skill: Chaosaura
 Org: Templars Status: Rejected Feb 2012
Furies' Decision:
We disagree that this change is necessary and do not want to set precedent about
being able to pause/resume feats at will without expending power.
Problem: I wouldn't call this a major change to begin with. As it stands, the
psychic damage component of ChaosAura is quite lovely, but if we're going after
any creature that is resistant to psychic damage, we are either losing our 10
power that we spent on activating the skill to turn it off, or not doing optimal
damage. Even more so if the creatures we're after are weak to cutting/blunt
damage instead.
Solution #1: I propose a simple change in syntax rather than anything else.
 CHAOSAURA: activates the defense, expending 10p to do so.
 CHAOSAURA OFF: Makes the defense dormant, i.e. disables the
 psychic damage/chance to proc insanity component of it. CHASAURA
 ON: Re-enables the defense if dormant (i.e. if CHAOSAURA OFF has
 been used, simply switch back on without expending another 10p)
Player Comments:
---[Ushaara on 2/12 @ 00:30 writes]:
While I've no objection to being able to turn the defence off, I think the
precedent set by other relaxable power defences such as surge makes a free re-
def unlikely.
---[Xena on 2/12 @ 18:21 writes]:
Solution 1 Supported.
---[Rika on 2/14 @ 20:38 writes]:
Are there even any other power cost defences you can just switch on and off for
free?
---[Xenthos on 2/14 @ 22:57 writes]:
Closest to it I can think of is something like aethersight ignore, where you
toggle part of it... but actually turning it off and then turning it on again
does take the power.
---[Ixion on 2/16 @ 00:18 writes]:
Opposed, power feats should not become free to toggle.
---[Llandros on 2/18 @ 02:47 writes]:
The skill only converts a small portion to psychic. I can't help but wonder if
the eq to turn it off and on wouldn't outweigh its potential benefit.