• Please note: In an effort to ensure that all of our users feel welcome on our forums, we’ve updated our forum rules. You can review the updated rules here: http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=5528.

    If a fellow Community member is not following the forum rules, please report the post by clicking the Report button (the red yield sign on the left) located on every post. This will notify the moderators directly. If you have any questions about these new rules, please contact support@wolflair.com.

    - The Lone Wolf Development Team

M&M 3rd ed. buying toughness

L

lowew79

Active member
As per the paper book on page 59 first paragraph...

Toughness...can only be increased above your base stamina rank using advantages and powers, not by direct spending of power points.

I made a automaton construct and much to my surprise, Hero Lab put the arrows next to toughness and indeed let me spend power points to increase my toughness directly. This seems to be in direct contrast with the rules. I even started over and did nothing but select automaton and go directly to the abilities tab, and it still let me spend power points. The other heros I have made (ie. non constructs) can NOT buy increased toughness with power points.

Now I'm really new to M&M, and I bought Hero Lab to help decrease my learning curve. So it is highly possible that HL is right and I am wrong, I just want some clarification please, because it seems like a bug in HL.
 
I am new to HL, and unfamiliar with the bug report process. Is there somewhere else I should report this issue in order to get it fixed?
 
No, this is the place to report them. It's just that there's pretty much one guy, Colen, to handle a large number of systems, so he tends to come in and comment/fix a lot of bugs all at once.
 
Isn't that a special case for constructs - normal heroes can't buy Toughness directly, but Constructs can? Or was that changed in 3rd ediiton?
 
Ok just making sure I was talking to the right people, thanks. My interpratation of the rule on page 59 seems to support that no hero can buy toughness directly. Thanks again.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top