TIL Nullify doesn't offer ongoing resistance checks

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FuzzyBoots
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TIL Nullify doesn't offer ongoing resistance checks

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Rereading Nullify, for Concentration and Sustained Nullify, the target only gets to resist the effect in later rounds with Extra Effort.
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Re: TIL Nullify doesn't offer ongoing resistance checks

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Honestly nothing about Nullify seems like it was well thought out. I'm not sure if I ever brought it up on this site but hardly seems like they playtested the effect at all. At it's most basic it does almost nothing since you have to get all kinds of lucky to actually find a situation where it's useful. You have to first hope you're running into someone who uses the same uncommon descriptor you use for nullification, you have to hope they have a sustained or otherwise persistent effect it can be used against because by default the target can just reactivate it normally immediately afterwards on their turn. Then you have to hope that sustained effect is low leveled AND they have a low will score since otherwise it's a coin flip if the actual nullification occurs or you just wasted your turn. And if the effect you're targetting has high ranks, such as a movement or immunity effect you're screwed since they will get to resist with their 20+ranks of that effect instead so you can't possibly nullify it.

It requires a lot of investment just to get it to a passable level of play similar to how you NEED cumulative on Affliction for most of them to be worth it but worse since you need like 3 +1 modifiers to make Nullify usable as anything other than a power stunt (which ironically is also more useful than base Nullify since you can generally treat that as being somewhat broad in it's nullification.)

And once you reach a level of points where you can just throw everything into the nullify it becomes a coin flip on essentially afflicting a 3rd degree transformation affliction.
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