This means they "get lucky". Chirrut would be an example of a powergamer making a 1337 OP character in such a system
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"you took all these drawbacks and you didn't even give yourself a powerful ability to make up for it" "Yes but I have 9000 Force Points"
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Well it's a demonstration of the limitations of that trick bc Action Points are a finite resource
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He uses all his remaining APs in one scene to slowly walk across the room and make like 15 easy shots Miss
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Then he dies instantly when he runs out
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But yeah all the way back to the very first movie Han mentions luck and Ben says in his belief system there's no such thing
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We joked back in the day how all the characters on Heroes were made with a GURPS point buy system
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The better their powers are the weaker their mundane skills are and vice verse
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Like the two extremes are Mr. Bennett who's a ridiculously trained secret operative and holds a high rank in a conspiracy and has no powers
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Whereas Hiro has a completely game breaking power (time stop, global teleportation, history altering time travel) and is a dumb otaku
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And our protagonist Claire is in the middle (regeneration seems powerful but would be less useful if she weren't highly athletic)
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