Disruption Field Timing

[Sleboda]

Hi there,

Just checking to see if I understand the timing of Crimson Dynamo's 2 Power superpower, Disruption Field.

An enemy attack meets the criteria, so the Dynamo's player opts to use Disruption Field. That player spends 2 Power.

The other player rolls their Attack dice, triggering all extras such as Criticals and effects from, for example, Wilds (thinking M.O.D.O.K.'s AIM leadership here). This leads to the attacker getting a pile of extra successes.

 

At that point, Dynamo's player can reroll two of the attacker's dice. The best the Dynamo player could hope for is to make two attack dice turn into failures of some sort, right?

Do I have the timing sequence correctl?

[Thoras]

On 12/3/2023 at 9:57 PM, Sleboda said:

An enemy attack meets the criteria, so the Dynamo's player opts to use Disruption Field. That player spends 2 Power.

The other player rolls their Attack dice, triggering all extras such as Criticals and effects from, for example, Wilds (thinking M.O.D.O.K.'s AIM leadership here). This leads to the attacker getting a pile of extra successes.

At that point, Dynamo's player can reroll two of the attacker's dice - after the Wilds etc. have had their effect, and thus making rerolling the crits and wilds largely ineffective. The best the Dynamo player could hope for is to make two attack dice turn into failures of some sort, right?

You would pay the power and use disruption field in step 2d.

You would then perform the rerolls in 9bii

Yes, additional dice for critical results in the initial roll would have already been added.

Any other effects will depend on the timing of the effect. The specific example of the Advanced Idea Mechanics leadership, yes, that would already have occurred. Rules that occur in later steps would depend on the required results still being present though. For example, it could prevent the Incinerate from Doomsday Chair Arsenal or the Disorient from Psionic Assault.