Dear internet strangers:
Could you please run a sanity check for me on how Improved Ability and Reflex Recorder work together? I was trying to combine the two in Hero Lab and it produced an unanticipated result. Now I am not sure if I am missing something.
Omitting some irrelevant specifics:
- Improved Ability (p. 309 of the core book) is an Adept Power that increases the Rating of certain skills by one per level of the power; and
- Reflex Recorder (p. 460 of the core book) is a piece of cultured Bioware that adds 1 to the Rating of a specific skill. The bonus caps at +(Skill Rating / 2).
Now, when I use both on the same skill to max it out, I expect it to work as follows, in no particular order:
- Start with a skill of six;
- Increase the skill by three through Improved Ability. With a skill of six, the bonus caps at three; and
- Increase the skill by one through Reflex Recorder.
That would give me a Skill Rating of ten.
However, when I try to get to that result in Hero Lab, I cap at nine. Improved Ability three does not stack with Reflex Recorder. Improved Ability two and one stacks normally.
Am I missing something? Or is this a bug?