Physical endurance, normal to supernatural. Where?

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Physical endurance, normal to supernatural. Where?

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Trying to figure out the scale for endurance, as I can't find it anywhere in the books on the difference between "human" endurance and "supernatural" so I can clarify something for a player, and myself. Because I'm not finding anything in the books unless I'm just glancing over it.
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Re: Physical endurance, normal to supernatural. Where?

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There's no "scale" of Physical Endurance, there's just "Supernatural" and "Not Supernatural"
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Re: Physical endurance, normal to supernatural. Where?

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Hi General_Failure,

you will find something in the character generation chapter in the attribute discription (for example BtS-II, page 134):

    A PE above 30 makes you virtually impervious to disease (only designer bugs or the most virulent viruses, I guess Ebola or some such, "have a chance to affect the character"). Well, and the save vs. coma & death continues to improve beyond 30.

However, I would not per se call that "supernatural". I mean you might, but technically and to my best knowledge the rules only dub P.S. as possibly supernatural. Other attributes go beyond 30 but are not designated supernatural.

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Re: Physical endurance, normal to supernatural. Where?

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Completely slipped my mind I had posted and not checked up on this.

Ok, well that's the thing, I saw that thing on attributes 30 and above, but there was nothing for it under 30, also that's "anyone" for PE of 30+, I'm just looking at how long say a grackle tooth with supernatural endurance and function under stress and heavy activities verses say a dog boy, because one is supernatural, and one isn't, and there is nothing on it. This can be applied to anything, even a dragon and some lesser being.

There needs to be a scale. Granted for borgs, their physical endurance is about useless since they can repeat the same action almost indefinitely.
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A persons PE is supernatural is based on whether the persons race is supernatural or not. A Farie with a 6 PE has a supernatural PE where a big buff hero with a 30 PE still has a normal PE.
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SpiritInterface wrote:A persons PE is supernatural is based on whether the persons race is supernatural or not. A Farie with a 6 PE has a supernatural PE where a big buff hero with a 30 PE still has a normal PE.


I agree ... but does this have any consequence (as supernatural strength does have)?

IIRC the designation "supernatural" for anything but supernatural strength is just a title, not also a consequence. But I may very well be wrong and would much appreciate a reference to the contrary.

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Greetings and Salutations. While not really an answer, I'll direct you to this link from the FAQ section ...

viewtopic.php?f=37&t=79337&p=1574320&hilit=supernatural+pe#p1574320

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