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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 408675" data-attributes="member: 63">Re: Re: About FCTF.If you're asking what I think you're asking . . .The PC/NPC variation in power costs was determined separately for each power.  There was no pre-set formula, since there are too many variables to say that all powers will always be worth x% as much for NPCs.The way we wrangled stuff was to take fantasy D20 as a base, and calculate costs based on how powerful PCs and NPCs/monsters were at various levels.  After all, super powers are basically just magic with different explanations, so the power progression scale works fine for either genre.For a lot of things, we looked at the types of powers different monsters of different CRs had, and tried to come up with costs based on that.  Abilities that are really useful for PCs just might be practically useless for monsters.  I mean, really, how often do PCs try to poison their foes?  Immunity to poison is much cheaper for NPCs than for PCs.But no, there was no set formula.</blockquote>