Easy Templates

[Kesendeja]

I've been using the container power to duplicate various templates. It works well enough, given that they have to be created in increments of 5pp. The only problem is that some need to have penalties included.

If Enhanced Trait and Enhanced Ability powers could somehow be made to register negative results instead of positive they would be a good way to allowing templates.

Somehow linking Drawbacks to the container would also be useful for making templates.

If something like this can already be done can someone tell me how to do it?
If not would this be a good place to start?

[Duggan]

The other problem, of course, being that there's no simple way (that I know of) to save or add that container power on characters. If you're willing to mess with the authoring capabilities, I suspect that you could readily enough reverse-engineer Enhanced Trait to provide a power which allows negative modification, but I have not done so myself.

[Kesendeja]

Truth told the authoring escapes me. I've tired using the authoring kit and can't seem to make a standard power let alone something that complicated.

[Duggan]

Ah, I took a quick look at it and all I'm managing so far is crashing it each time. ^_^ Ah well, progress of a sort.

[Colen]

I'll add a rule that allows traits added by Enhanced Trait power go negative. That way it'll work correctly by default, but you can override it if you want to do things like this.

[Kesendeja]

Thank you.

[Duggan]

Now we just have the minor problem of how to save out the alternate form templates, but it's definitely a start.