Aberrant RPG - Ultimate damage

[Alex Green]

RE: Imm's damage being balanced

It'd depend on the game the ST were running.

RE: Immolate is arguably more dodgable than a qbolt...

Only if you view surrendering as an option.

With any amount of Immolate, or any lethal immolate, or (worse) Agg Immolate, you're pretty much immune to HTH damage with the exception of medium to high soak novas. Not that this prevents you from using HTH, but any low soak type (including all baselines) simply can't engage without suffering a lot worse than they give out.

It also doubles up your HTH attacks yourself, and allows you to mix damage types. It's a strong but under used power.

[metaphysician]

*cough* Depends on whether the attackers are sufficiently numerous and fanatical enough to be willing to die to kill you. Lord knows that if any of the Ancient Aberrant PCs expected Immolate to be their primary defense, they'd run into a small army of iron discipline warriors totally willing to trade on casualty for one die of ping. . .