Silver Sable's "Want My Help? Pay Up." and Beam/Area attacks

[Shadow Marvel]

Does Silver Sable's "Want My Help? Pay Up" add dice to all the attacks for a beam or area attack or rapid fire since it happens during the pay cost part of the timing chart?

[Ludo Chose]

Since Silver Sable's "Want My Help? Pay Up." Superpower is paid during the Pay Power Cost step of the attack, and in since Beam and Area attacks, the Pay Power Cost step happens after the range tool is placed, but before a target is chosen, how does it interact with such attacks?

A Crimson Dynamo does his Electric Blast attack. He places the range tool overlapping three enemy characters. Silver Sable uses Want My Help? Pay Up." and Crimson Dynamo looses two powers. Does Crimson Dynamo get to add a dice to his attack roll on each of the three targets in the Beam?

[Pastrami]

So, Beams and area attacks work differently in that you pay for them before you declare any targets or do anything else.  Would "Want my help? Pay up!" give a bonus die to every attack in the beam/area attack given that the character, can in fact, Pay Up.

[Pwnstarr53]

Just checking to see how Silver Sable's superpower, Want My Help? Pay Up, works with Beam Attacks. I'm assuming the bonus die is only added to the first attack since it is worded "add one die to it's attack roll".

[Thoras]

On 5/23/2024 at 2:27 PM, Shadow Marvel said:

Does Silver Sable's "Want My Help? Pay Up" add dice to all the attacks for a beam or area attack or rapid fire since it happens during the pay cost part of the timing chart?

On 5/28/2024 at 10:46 PM, Ludo Chose said:

Since Silver Sable's "Want My Help? Pay Up." Superpower is paid during the Pay Power Cost step of the attack, and in since Beam and Area attacks, the Pay Power Cost step happens after the range tool is placed, but before a target is chosen, how does it interact with such attacks?

On 7/21/2024 at 6:02 PM, Pastrami said:

So, Beams and area attacks work differently in that you pay for them before you declare any targets or do anything else.  Would "Want my help? Pay up!" give a bonus die to every attack in the beam/area attack given that the character, can in fact, Pay Up.

On 8/3/2024 at 3:06 PM, Pwnstarr53 said:

Just checking to see how Silver Sable's superpower, Want My Help? Pay Up, works with Beam Attacks. I'm assuming the bonus die is only added to the first attack since it is worded "add one die to it's attack roll".

It will only add the die to a single attack during the beam or area attack and the attacking player may choose which attack gets the extra die. This answer applies specifically to this rule only and will be made clearer in the future.

[Pastrami]

Does that mean you can hold it and save the buff until making the attack or do you have to declare which attack get buffed right away?

[GhostDeer]

What part of the sequence would the Sable player need to decide which attack is getting the boost? At the start of the beam? During the Create Attack Dice Pool step of the attack they want to boost?

[Thoras]

8 hours ago, Pastrami said:

Does that mean you can hold it and save the buff until making the attack or do you have to declare which attack get buffed right away?

7 hours ago, GhostDeer said:

What part of the sequence would the Sable player need to decide which attack is getting the boost? At the start of the beam? During the Create Attack Dice Pool step of the attack they want to boost?

The create dice pool step, yes.