WILD GENERIC TEMPLATE: Once during your turn, as a free action you may choose a standard power possessed by another character within 5 squares. Roll a d6. If the number of squares to the character is less then the result, Gideon can use that power and possesses that character's range value until your next turn.

does he always get to use the power he chooses? or only if the number of squares is less than the result, along with the range?

The roll must be successful to use the power.

He only gets to use the power if the roll is greater than the number of squares between them at the time he is given the free action. The characters can move apart after that and he will continue to be able to use the power he has borrowed until your next turn.

I'm not sure what you're asking, so if this didn't answer your question, please try again!

i think questions got it. thanks.

so key is to maybe be adjacent to the character at the time? cos this way you ALWAYS get it, right?

Unless you roll a 1 because 1 isn't less than 1 which is what adjacent is...1 square away.

Adjacency will increase your odds, but you will still fail on a roll of 1.

No, the number of squares must be LESS than the result. If your result is 1, 1 square away is not less than this result.

Edit: Three answer pileup, excellent!

but if ur adjacent u r 0 squares away, so isn't that less than 1?

i dunno why i am having trouble understanding this guy.

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. 1 1 1 . .
. 1 X 1 . .
. 1 1 1 . .
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Gideon occupies X. Every adjacent square must be 1 away. 0 squares away is the X itself.

If that didn't help, think of a ranged combat attack.

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. . 2 . . .
. . 1 . . .
. . X . . .
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The adjacent square is where you always count 1.

Squares away always includes the square the target is standing in. A character with a range of zero can't shoot someone next to him, right?

I always thought that he couldn't shoot them because he was based.

Well, if your guy is on elevated terrain and his target is in the square next to him on the ground, a range of zero is not enough to shoot the guy below. A range of 1 is. Which is fun to pull on people. "I perplex his range to 1." "WHAT?"

@ Suttkus: That's a fun trick, I will try it !

And to bring my 2 cents to the explanation : remember that when one count square for movement, the square next to the charcater is 1, not 0.

I played against Gideon and found him to be extremely annoying. It seems that his special power does not require him to have a clear line of fire and therefore he was copying powers from characters on the other sides of walls. He was tough to take out.

You played it correctly.