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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krolik" data-source="post: 3219633" data-attributes="member: 17219">APs are really very simple. The only thing you really need to know when creating one is the cost of the Base Power - Example: Blast 10 [20 points] - because no Alternate Power can cost more than the Base Power. Now I want my Descriptor to be Ice - I am making an Iceman clone. So I think about what I have seen Iceman do:He can hit people with Ice Blasts. He can engulf them in ice to capture them. He can create walls of ice. He can make sharp Ice Daggers. There are other things but we will start with this. In the game this would look as follows:Blast 10 (Ice) 20 pointsAP: Snare 10 (2 x 10 = 20)AP: Create Object 10 (2 x 10 = 20)AP: Blast 6 (Penetrating: +1) (6 x 3 = 18)Total: 23 (20 base + 3 APs)Because you can only use one Power at a time in an Alternate Power Array you get a major cost-break on the price of Alternate Powers slots. They only cost 1 point each. So the above Array costs 23 points. When Iceman gets to attack he has a choice of any one of those four things he can attack with. He can shoot you with his big ice/snow Blast, he can encase you in Ice trapping you, he can make a wall of ice around friends to protect them, and he can make Ice Daggers to pierce very tough defenders. Of course Iceman has many other Powers. That is just a simple example.</blockquote>