My husband has just Force Field as his power and I'm leaning towards this tweak to make it worthwhile.

However I am struggling with understanding it.

Let's say vs Ice powers.

Without FF defense, it hits on a 14.
With FF it hits on a 0. 

If the Ice powers guys rolls a 15, he misses completely.

If the ice powers guy rolls a 10, does it impact the forcefield and whittle away at the invulnerability? 

If he rolls a 1 does it penetrate the forcefield and bypass the invulnerability? 

Or are the 10 and 1 rolls the same - impact the whittle away the invulnerability?  You either miss the FF or you hit it, with no penetration?

Phrennzy wrote on Feb 17^th, 2015 at 9:38pm:


Here's how it works, Phrenzy (and to keep things simple I'm going to assume no modifiers from things like Level vs. Level, range, Accuracy, etc.).

If the attacker rolled 1-14, the attack hits on the Force Field (and does half damage to the FF wielder's Power score, if you're using the RAW).

A 15-20 misses the FF (and character) entirely.

So if the attacker had a +2 from Accuracy (again assuming no other modifiers, like facing, Levels, etc.), it would be:

1-2 hits past/through the FF (it 'pierces') doing full damage to the FF as well as full damage to the target (which could be the character himself, or a person he's protecting).
3-16 hits on the FF (doing half damage to the Power score of the character)
17-20 misses entirely

Hope that helps!  Let me know if anything isn't clear.

The FF wouldn't have any effect on mental based things like mind control. For energy or impact type attacks (flame, Ice, Sonics, light, bullets, swords, etc.). It works like the normal power, stopping the damage from reaching the person(s)/thing being shielded from harm. Once the amount of damage being done per turn reaches the FF IR, the FF collapses, providing no protection until it could be reformed.

So lets say Aegis spends and action cranks out 10 Power to form a FF with an IR of 20. The first turn it only takes 12 damage from a Power blast, and holds steady. The next turn he spends 2 Power, and is back up to full strength. He then gets hit with another power blast for 13 points damage, and smacked with a light post for 11 points damage. The fist 20 points are stopped by his FF, before collapsing, the remaining 4 points hit him. If he's still up and able to fight, he can spend an action and more power to reform the FF on his next turn.

Hopefully this explanation is clearer than the last.

Phrennzy wrote on Feb 19^th, 2015 at 12:01am:



Glad to be off assistance. Most of the time I know what I want to write, and how I intend it to read, but sometimes there's a disconnect on my part, and it can be confusing to the people who read my stuff.

Nah, you never need to apologize when doing your best to help.  A refresher on how terrible the original forcefield was is welcome if only to reinforce changing it.

I'm going with 1 PR = 3 Invuln, since its the only power he had, really.

Bumping this up as well, as I'll be using it in my current game.