There is a speedster on the Arc Dream website that has a sense augment power with permanent specifically to increase declaration order.

I'm less sure about the second one.

On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:21:13 PM UTC-5, matt conlon wrote:

Would a Useful power with duration that added to sense solely for initiative declaration be cool?

What about another that added width but only for the purposes of resolution?

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There is a speedster on the Arc Dream website that has a sense augment power with permanent specifically to increase declaration order.

Would a Useful power with duration that added to sense solely for initiative declaration be cool?

What about another that added width but only for the purposes of resolution?

-Matt Conlon

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Shane,

That would ROCK! and be super helpful since I have just over a week until I run the game.

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On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:26:44 AM UTC-7, Shane Ivey wrote:

We should have Greg's adventure "The Good, the Bad, and the Hunky" out soon. The artist is working on illustrations now. I can see about sending a plain text version to you in the meantime if that will be useful.

Shane Ivey

We should have Greg's adventure "The Good, the Bad, and the Hunky" out soon. The artist is working on illustrations now. I can see about sending a plain text version to you in the meantime if that will be useful.

Hey gang,

I'm going to run Bettter Angels in 2 weeks and I'm wondering if there is an intro adventure/mod out there I could use?

If not, have you run it already? What was the basic plot?
How did it work out?
Anything to keep in mind, advice to another B.A. GM?

t.i.a.
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Hi Everyone-

During tonight's class will be reviewing the most basic concepts of the opening phase of a go game.  Many of the concepts that we will discuss have been covered before in the class, but review is always essential to improvement.  Furthermore, if you have not been to a class in a while, this would be a great time to sneak in and pick up a few tips to improve your game!

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Well, a brute HD attack could also be massive harm rather than precise harm -- dropping a car on someone, crushing them to jelly, a force wave that damages organs and breaks bones, etc.  I'm AFB, but it does seem like massive damage, instead of precise damage, might call for a mental stability roll from people who see it (what's that called? Gruesome?).

On Thursday, June 6, 2013, Matt wrote:

I'd accept that as readily workable, what The issue I run into with the use of HD to represent something other than precision on Attacks is that these powers defined as Brute, Clumsy, Wild, reckless etc. never strike glancing blows, they never take off a hand, or a few toes, they always unerringly strike head, heart, carotid artery, aorta, femoral artery (and even that is being generous with hit location narrative license). 

There are other extant ways to better represent a power that does overwhelming offense than a bunch of HD, but that's just me in "I'm thinkin of running a game" mode, 3 sessions in if a new player wanted a character that was practically a pacifist because he always killed people with his hands I might just go with a bunch of HD to save time and get him into the game ASAP. 

-Matt Conlon

On Jun 6, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Daniel Kane <daniel.m.kane@gmail.com> wrote:

Side note: I personally consider the "head" location to include other vital parts like heart and lungs.  A 5x10 can be an unerring thrust to the heart as plausibly as a literal headshot.

-- Daniel

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Matt Conlon <moeheid@gmail.com> wrote:

"Four Color" settings are becoming a thing of the past (or cater explicitly to younger readers) and those "dubious" reasons for low body counts aren't really dubious in context (a reality in which radiation grants super powers rather than cancer or a grisly death) so that sword cuts both ways.  If the campaign is not 4 color, the Black Widow might still survive if she has a metric buttload of Willpower on her (unless the rules are tweaked to make a gritty game full-on grimdark), further she might not even register as a target to something that she literally cannot affect in any significant way, If she didn't trigger the transformation or the Hulk wasn't being compelled to attack her with hoodoo he may just ignore her and everything else that doesn't hit like a freight train.  Rules and narrative lawyering aside that doesn't really have anything to do with the choice of Hard Dice over a Vicious/Deadly extra, additional Attacks qualities, booster Mass, Full Power Only Flaws and so on.

 

In general Hard dice are chosen for a power to reliably produce the same effect at optimum quality (hence the set of 10s and their prevalence in defensive and "mental" effects, 10s trump all other numbers except more 10s, the option is direct comparison so a pair of 10s would fail to dodge a pair of 5s, you got your head out of the way of an attack to your arm).  Numerous recommendations are made to make them more flexible or functional for different kinds of games (like assigning a number other than 10 that they achieve without fail, I'm a fan of 9 so attacks are center mass every time and still hard to dodge) and there's also Expert or Master Dice. 

 

I don't think they don't make sense for the Hulk because he generally doesn't take head shots or attack vitals, he hits things so hard they fall to pieces, in ORE that's best represented by extra attacks qualities and maybe armor piercing, so if he clips an Arm with a pair of 5s it's coming off or being driven into the torso so violently it comes out somewhere else.

 

For a "clumsy TK" that is mostly brute force, a combination of high-capacity Mass and Full power only are a better fit (my opinion) because such a power should not really reliably head shot or demolish critical areas (again my opinion).  Explosive might even be a better fit since the brute force is so great damage is guaranteed but it's scattered because the power lacks accuracy.

 

Not that it's particularly relevant to this exchange but I'm not the OP so I didn't ask for any input.

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Marco Subias <arkhamalum@gmail.com> wrote:

Hulk in the comics is generally in a four-color setting in which he somehow seldom if ever kills anyone with a punch. In a four-color setting authors may come up with dubious reasons for this fact. If a campaign is not four-color and more Avengers movie or Ultimates comic in style, the Hulk is truly terrifying and if the Hulk lands a solid punch on the Black Widow, she'd die. How may people did Hulk kill in The Ultimates?

Wild Talents, unless tweaked, lends itself to a gritty style in which major injuries or death are much more likely. You can see this by looking at the sources that most inspired WT, or reading campaign books like Progenitor. Obviously, one can do anything with the rules that one's fellow players will go along with. You did write to ask for observations about the powers that you constructed though.   

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Flaws aren't worth points if they don't actually penalize the power's use.  I'd never allow One Use on an emulated power (... unless the VE power had One Use for some crazy reason).  Exhausted, probably, but not One Use.  If the quality with variable effect had Permanent, I wouldn't even allow Exhausted or Depleted, since there's no penalty for emulating a new power.

Likewise, If/Then (only while attacking) on an attack buff wouldn't be worth any points, any more than Attacks (set people on fire) having If/Then (only while setting people on fire).  This sort of makes sense if you assume your ADU dice are all tied up with the buff, but we've established that everyone disagrees with that usage of multi-quality variable effect. :-)

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"I'll point out that if you had 6d + 2hd in the combined TK power, because the defense is with Duration, you can activate it with your 2hd + 6d, and then in subsequent rounds still use those 2hd+6d - you don't have to set any dice aside as "in use" or whatever."

Ok, this seems reasonable, then I think Cosmic Power. "Every time I use it I make a cheap, endless, 1 use Invulnerability to X" Fire and forget. Or same permanent, if/then when attacking, one use Vicious type power. If the dice don't have to be "assigned" to continue performing their effect it breaks down fast.

I realize with nullify powers and rules exceptions, etc. it can be tailored to taste but that sort of thing makes it feel like I'm running another game for one person, where grudge monsters are fine and rules work differently. I'm not saying you're wrong, rather I don't like if/how you're right maybe?

-Matt Conlon

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> I'll point out that if you had 6d + 2hd in the combined TK power, because the defense is with Duration, you can activate it with your 2hd + 6d, and then in subsequent rounds still use those 2hd+6d - you don't have to set any dice aside as "in use" or whatever.

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That's why in the earlier comment I noted that the dice splitting to determine range, mass, or speed, was for a Quality that had more than one Capacity. If you only have Mass, speed, or range, then there's nothing to divide the dice among. If you have two or more capacities there is. This is the entire point of Extras like High Capacity.

It happens. I'm not sure how kosher the Permanent then Switch powers idea is. Once you reassign the dice the power doesn't exist anymore. Variable Effect is meant to be impressive but that's a bit much.

On Thursday, June 13, 2013, Matt wrote:

Ok, so I did add a step. I'll have to reread the rules. Don't know why I felt the line was per power rathe than per quality...

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> Capacities are divided for qualities, you've linked things that are not connected. A 6d power that has two qualities has each capacity working at max. The split is when you have the same quality with multiple capacities, like being able to remotely move a lot of weight, via range and mass.
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Ok, so I did add a step. I'll have to reread the rules. Don't know why I felt the line was per power rathe than per quality...

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