Check Required Flaw

[Cyrith]

I'm doing a build that pretty much calls for this flaw(unreliable doesn't fit) but I don't have UP. Could one of you guys with the book be kind enough to post the text of it, or explain it to me? thanks.

[Dr Archeville]

Each time you want to use it, you must make a check, DC = 10 + the rank of the power being used. The check is usually a skill check. If the check fails, the power doesn't work, and if you're in a situation where you're unable to use the skill, you cannot even try using the power.

However -- and this is not stated in any book, but is common sense -- if your modifier for the skill in question is so high that you cannot fail the required skill check approximately 50% of the time, then this flaw isn't much of a limitation.

[Barnum]

[Edit] Dr. A. beat me to it.

I'll just add . . .

All normal modifiers to the check apply, and the check occurs as a part of the normal action for the effect.

[Cyrith]

Ok, it is 10+power rank. That's what I thought but I wanted to make sure. Otherwise the character would have had almost no flaw.