Re: Immunity to Radiation?

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:56:54 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:

Tim Little <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 2008-02-18, Peter Knutsen <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In Characters, the leveled Radiation Resistance advantage goes up to
a cost of 45 points which gives a PF of 1000. It seems logical to me
that the next step would be total radiation immunity (infinite PF)

It probably doesn't make a great deal of sense to go higher. If you've
got a PF of 1000, you would thermally cook before you have to worry
about ionizing effects anyway.

You're assuming that Peter wants to apply this advantage to a character
that doesn't also have Temperature Tolerance to prevent that. If the
character *does* have Temperature Tolerance sufficient to avoid cooking,
the question still seems useful.

I thought the idea was in 4e to avoid absolute powers, so that a super
who buys an uber-attack power with 6Dx1,000,000 for a gazillion points
can not be blocked by another character with cheap 300 pt Invulnerability
to Everything.
.

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