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while you can just review every power individually it helps to say "I expect attacks to be around 8 DCs of damage (40pts)" so people have something to go off of. if you just limit it by absolute damage, you might end up with a "Gun Woman" whose gun is like.

Gun (8d6 damage) 40pts Total Advanatages +12/4 (+4/4 Costs no Endurance (Autofire), +4/4 Shoots 20 Shots at Once, +1/4 Armor Piercing, +2/4 Penetrating, +1/4 Indirect (Arcing)) Active Point Cost 160pts

which makes sense game balance wise but it really reduces the coolness factor of a 16m explosion when you account for the fact it does half as much damage in a primarily "Defense as DR" system

it's more the case that if your GM says you can only make powers below "70 active points" (which is one of the ways it advises you to establish limits), it "costs" you towards that budget to give it advantages.

effectively, if you can put a 70 point "14d6 damage" attack on your sheet, putting +4/4 worth of advantages (such as a 32m radius AoE) on that attack makes it deal half as much damage, by doubling the cost cost per 1d6 of damage.

It does feel kind of suck that this is the case, though, for sure. That power is extremely strong even with that reduction, for what it's worth (32m radius is huge and undodgeable), it's just, not great vs single trained combatant ("Defense as flat reduction" is a huge issue here)

which makes sense game balance wise but it really reduces the coolness factor of a 16m explosion when you account for the fact it does half as much damage in a primarily "Defense as DR" system