Sorry for bugging anyone, but I had a few question about those powers. I feel kinda silly asking because I've been playing so long, but recently I started playing with a new group of people and have been finding some of the rules I've always played with seem to differ from my new group.

Does outwit and perplex disappear when taking damage? I always thought that if you moved your dial the perplex and outwit disappeared/reset.

Let's say my dude had a of 16 Toughness and I Perplexed it up to 17. Then my buddy Outwit my Toughness and damaged me for 1 clix leaving me with a 15 Toughness. Would I have Toughness again and a 15 , or would my Toughness still be Outwit but my is still Perplexed up 1 to a 16?


My other question involves Quake with Combat Reflexes and Energy Explosion with Energy Shield/Deflection.

If you shot at someone with EE and an adjacent character had ES/D, would you factor in the +2 (because you still hit them with a range attack) or not (because they're not the target and it's splash damage)? We all realize you would factor in the +2 if the target was the one with ES/D.

And I guess you can just reread that last paragraph replacing ES/D and EE with Combat Reflexes and Quake. We got into a discussion about one and ended up talking about both scenarios.

Thanks a lot guys! I look forward to all responses. This site has always been helpful, and this is the first time I've not found an answer to a question about rules/a scenario already answered when I search for it.

If the target of Perplex moves the dial, the effect of Perplex ends. Perplex explicitly states this in the power.

Outwit has no such text. Thus it remains when the dial moves.

The splashed people are being hit by a ranged combat attack, so they get the ESD (and Super Senses, too).

Quake is a close combat attack, so CR comes into play (as does Super Senses).

Additionally, since all figures are targeted by the Quake, Shape Change even gets triggered.

Wow, thanks for the speedy reply that answered every question (and then some too).

About Outwit... What if all in the same turn your of Toughness is outwit and then your damaged and have Super Senses, then get attacked again and miss the SS roll taking damage yet again ending with Toughness. Is the Toughness still Outwit even though your powers have changed and you just regained the old one again?

Thanks.

Yes, the Toughness is still countered.

Note that the reverse is not true.

cd088 U Ambush Bug
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 0
Points: 50
Keywords:

10 7 15 1

10 7 14 1

9 6 13 1

8 6 12 1

7 5 11 .

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

My Ambush Bug is on click 1 and Outwits your Magog's Exploit Weakness.
Your Moloid hits Ambush Bug for 1 damage. He is on click 2 and no longer has Outwit. Another of your Moloids hits him for another damage. He is now on click 3 and has Outwit back.
The effect of the Outwit ended after he lost it on that first attack, so Magog still has his Exploit Weakness.

Thanks a bunch guys. I cant believe I had been playing wrong this whole time. We will be implementing the corrected rules into our games this coming weekend.

It's all part of the process.