Rules Feedback

[Little Ghost]

In a March update to the rules on Super Moves, there's a slight math-error in regards to the areas given.

"Rules note for area attacks and effects: consider an diameter of around thirty metres to be the maximum for a Tier 1 Super Attack, increasing to 60 and 90 respectively at Tiers 2 and 3 (this works out to a square metre range of around 24, 47 and 70). It's possible for weaker non-damaging utility effects to have a larger radius."

If the area mentioned in brackets (24, 47, and 70 meters squared) was intended to reflect the area of 30, 60, and 90 diameter circles it wasn't that accurate.

The area of a 30 diameter circle is 707 m2, 60 meters diameter gives a 2827 m2 area, and 90 meters diameter gives a 6362 m2 area.


Further research puts this even further at odds with what the rules section actually says, if you want to argue semantics.

Take note that Super Attacks don't let you create a destructive attack of any size for any number of SP. As a guideline, a Tier 1 Super Attack should be no wider than 30 metres at its widest point, increasing to 60 and 90 respectively at Tiers 2 and 3. This is in regards to beams, destructive spheres etc - if your character is 100 metres tall and does a belly flop, that's different. This limit also does not necessarily apply to more "non-destructive" effects such as gale-force winds, utility effects etcetera. We just don't want level 1 characters levelling city blocks.

I'm well aware that the widest point of something can easily also be the longest, but since width, given something that stretches out, usually refers to the the horizontal axis perpendicular to the direction an object travels...

Let's just say that as it stands you could have a T1 super attack that is 30 meters wide and 60 meters long.

But yeah, this is probably just me being anal about word choice and definitions...