Confusion

Re: Looking for a Symbol

Why not have him NOT wear a traditional costume. Instead, have him wear really loud and tacky tourist clothing like Hawaiian shirts and such!

 

hmm... I had a Cyberpunk character named Whisper that did that. He actually had a special safety orange 'Party Jumpsuit' He was of course insane..

Ok, so this does not help at all. But the name and the suggestion brought up some fond memories..

Re: Firefly HERO Website Up

Well' date=' she does have Conversation on an 8- as an Everyman Skill, and the +6 Overall levels. The GM can choose to give her the bonus for a roll of 14-, which is pretty good. That sounds like the effect you are describing.[/quote']

 

hehe.. I really should shut up now.

But, I was also thinking along the lines of maybe an SS: Human Psychology combined with Deduction. I think that would work well to.

Re: Firefly HERO Website Up

Psych Lim: Coward is something I've used in my Hero games for over a decade. I will eventually get a description of the lim up there, but essentially PsychLim: Coward means that the character is never "in combat", they are always at 1/2 OCV and 1/2 DCV, and cannot purchase combat skill levels, or martial arts. The character is unable to "keep their cool" in combat.

Ah, Ok it makes more sense that way then. I'm waffling a bit, but I'll buy it.

You think River is a good conversationalist' date=' able to subtley work people for information? Because I gotta say, I'm not seeing it.[/quote']

 

From a receiving point of view yes, she is able to pick up quite a bit of information by listening to people talk. Much in the way the existing psionics are already written for her. It should complement her psionics. Although perhaps conversation may not be accurate. hrmm.. In Cyberpunk it was 'Human Perception' but basically the ability to read people without the use of her mental powers. This would actually work pretty good along those lines, since she is able to say things to people that scare the pants of them.

Re: Firefly HERO Website Up

hmm.. ok regarding River (since she is my fave)

I would lose the Psyche Lim: Coward and replace it with Delusions, Failure to Recognize Surroundings. Or possibly a Fear of Leaving Home (Serenity).

Drop the INT down to 28, and pick up Conversation as a full skill. If I had the patience (and wasn't at work) I'd try and figure out a way to turn 'morbid and creepafying' into some bonus presence for a presence attack.

Re: Little help with Healing Advantages / Disadvantages

20 points divided by whatever limitations you have on the spell +

(20 points divided by whatever limitations you have on the spell and another (-1/2) "only works on targets of same religion" +

(20 points divided by whatever limitations you have on the spell and another (-1/2) "only works on targets of same religion" and another (-2) "only works on targets you are in love with"

This won't work too well, as written. It should be:

20 points divided by whatever limitations you have on the spell +

(20 points divided by whatever limitations you have on the spell and another (-1/2) "only works on targets of same religion" +

(20 points divided by whatever limitations you have on the spell and another (-2) "only works on targets you are in love with"

Since love and religion are separate entitys.

I'll have to stat this up when I get home, because I need to squeek out every point that I possibly can for this character, magic is expensive.

The trick will be getting HeroDesigner to do it this way.

Re: Firefly HERO Website Up

hmmm... I don't think River is crazy enough. But she might be pregnant.

Re: Little help with Healing Advantages / Disadvantages

AlHazred:

There are multiple type's of healing available within the campaign. However this particular player only has the one spell.

Frenchman:

We are playing essentially Pendragon. Valorous Knights, Damsels in Distress the whole bit.. so there are actually some advantages to being in love. As well as all the lovely things that can go wrong.

Our GM stated a modifier (advantage) for our game in terms of healing. Basically all healing spells are 2d6, you get an additional 2d6 if the target is of the same religious faith, and an additional 2d6 if you happen to be in love with the target. There is also a stated disadvantage that a healing spell can only work one time on each wound.

This was fine while our hardy knights were out adventuring and stopping by the local temple for healing. Now we have a healer and I have no idea how to stat this up. There is an additional campaign limitation, that spell active points cannot exceed 2x INT, in this case that would be 40 points. I can probably safely ignore that rule though, to implement these ones.

Re: Reccomended Reading: Fantasy Novels

On George R R Martins website he has a letter to the fanbase where he dicusses these "release dates". He doesn't even know when the book will be done because he hasn't finished writing it yet, and doesn't know when he will finish it, so there is no way that anyone else can produce a valid release date.

Actually,.. I knew that already. I got over excited, I was at amazon.com getting the names of something, and went ahead and looked at their release date, and not checking with the man himself.

edit: Ok, that made no sense. I should have said, I know about Martins site, as well as his practice regarding release dates (It'll be done when it's done) However, I failed to check his website, merely the amazon website, since I was already there.

Re: Reccomended Reading: Fantasy Novels

What about "Another Day, Another Dungeon" by Greg Costikyan. The Sequal "One Quest, Hold the Dragons" was only ok though.

Also, the first four stories of Tiger and Del (Sword Dancer, Sword Singer, Sword Maker and Sword Breaker) by Jennifer Roberson. I did not like "Sword Born" all that much, felt like a cop-out. "Sword Sworn" was good though, nicely wrapped things up. But the first four stand on their own.

Robin Hobb, "The Farseer Trilogy," "The Liveship Traders," (for high seas fun) and finally "The Tawny Man." Great fun, though I will admit I have not read "The Tawny Man" trilogy yet, I'm waiting for all three to come out in paperback, thankfully though, that should be the end of this month.

I'll also speak up about George RR Martins "Song of Fire and Ice" series. That bloody rules, but the publication date for book four moved again, it looks like December 30th now, instead of the end of October.

Re: Chemical Weapons ala Steve Perry's Matador series..

hmm.. I hadn't actually thought of making a Spetsdod. My particular situation calls for something a bit meatier.

But, it should be fairly easy (and fun)

Emile's Spetsdod I believe only fired Spasm.. so

1D6 RKA, AP, 2x Penetrating. AF/5 This should penetrate most 'soft' armor. Linked to say, 8D6 Transform (Normal to Comatose)

or even.

8D6 Transform NND, Defense being hard armor. AF/5

hmm.. other options.. more for game balance, since well Spasm is pretty hefty.

Removable Barrel: Make the weapon like -1 or -2 OCV, since it is fairly innaccurate. The barrel will add the +1 or +2 back into it, making it a 0, but less concealable. Maybe only allow the autofire when the barrel is off.

(I should really have book when doing this.. damn posting from work)

I really intended to do a little more work on this lastnight, but well both episodes of Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars were on back to back.

Well fans of the series should have no trouble at all with what I'm talking about..

For the rest, Well, Our Hero has decided that he does not like killing anymore, that the universe has seen to much death. However he is still a freedom fighter so what to do? The answer several miracles of modern biochemistry.

There are three drugs/chemicals that I want to reproduce, but I'm having some issues ruleswise (I'm also at work and don't have a book handy)

First, Vomit. I have two trains of thought, either a largeish say 6 or 8d6 Drain to CON or a smaller 2 or 3d6 drain to CON, but continuous for say 3 to 5 minutes. The second option pretty much ensures that everyone will get affected.

Second, Diarrhea, can be done the same as Vomit, but with maybe a slightly longer recovery time for the victim?

Thought, use the continuous on the vomit. And the larger attack on the diarrhea? I don't want to ruin the plumbing as well.. heh.

Finally, Spasm. From the novels, the victim is put in a comatose state for 6 months. I'm not entirely sure how to stat this up.. (and having a book handy would help) If I do it as a Drain, with recovery as say a week per point or something how do I represent the sudden wake up? I thought there was an option for it, but I don't remember.. ugh...

So, thoughts, opinions, suggestions?