Dyna Girl wrote on Dec 2
nd, 2009 at 8:31pm:
Doctor Foom wrote on Aug 31
st, 2009 at 10:26am:
Those are Stark's stats IN the armor, obviously.
When a character's stats are raised in armor, a heightend stat is usually listed as an attribute of that armor. That's how V&V does it, beginning with FIST of the Crushers. So if you don't list a heightened stat in the armor (as in the above listing with Iron Man), it means that the stats match whether the person is wearing the armor or not.
I too would have concluded that you intended, for better or worse, that Tony Stark also had an 18 Strength and 21 Agility outside of his armor.
So even if you don't like the tone of the question, the response probably didn't deserve the "IN the armor, obviously" reply.
Some of these snark/troll comebacks might bother more people that the people who you're intentionally targetting.
Yes, in V&V a character with devices (especially Armor) should have
two sets of stats - one showing their basic characteristics without the Armor, and one with. That seems to be how they were shown in the modules and supplements, and it certainly makes it easier to figure things out if that particular "power" goes out due to Armor damage (as we talk about over in the "Armor B" thread). For my NPC characters, I tend to figure out not only the smaller/lesser total (for Strength, or Endurance, or whatever), but then I figure out their revised CC, Hit Points, etc., so that's it's easier to calculate things if the Armor's Heightened Strength (or other enhanced stat) goes out in the middle of a fight!