Tom Carman

Re: Re: newbie questions on power construction I think that the hex's DCV drops to zero when you are aiming an area attack at an adjacent hex. If the "hearing Flash" only lasts as long as the Stun Song, then Darkness to Hearing Group might be used instead.

New attack roll: Add 10 to DCV, and convert the attack roll to 3d6 + OCV = DCV hit. Of course, you could leave DCV alone and put "- 10" into the equation, but boosting DCV simplifies things.

I'm running a Space:1889 game, and body armor is in use by players and NPCs. Leather is Def3, chain is Def5, and plate (helmets and breastplates) is Def7. Against firearms the defense is halved, rounded up (more protection) against pistols and rounded down against high velocity rounds from rifles and machine guns. All guns use black powder, although smokeless powder is available as a special invention.

Yes, she turned out to be a bit of a shapeshifter with a subconscious habit of "mirroring" the expectations of people around her.

I think the .50cal Gatling gun in Western Hero was 2d6+1K. Of course, that was black powder and not a modern gun propellant.

I'm suddenly flashing on memories of Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos. There was the Army intelligence officer with his Polaroid "WereFlash" (for when there wasn't a convenient full moon), the witch with the switchblade broomstick (used as a flying lance), and her familar cat skating backward as it pulled the trigger on a "grease gun" loaded with silver slugs. Quoting from memory: "And then there's the Petrological Warfare boys... I wonder about the whole utility of that corps: you have to get a basilisk pretty close to an enemy and looking straight at him to get a effect. And the aluminum foil suit you have to wear to deflect your pets' influence makes you a dandy target for snipers. And then, when a body's carbon is turned to silicon, you get an unstable isotope, and you can get such a dose of radiation that the medics will have to give you a St. John's Wort plucked from a graveyard in the dark of the moon."

Re: Re: Farscape HERO Get the DVDs and watch them, it's a great show! You know you're not watching a typical "bunch of heroes" when half of the cast conspires to chop off the arm of a crew-mate ("He regenerates, no problem") as payment for a map to home. - "DNA Mad Scientist" in first season

Re: Fractionary SPD chart What a scary mess. Total bonkers is right. I would say that the round-down of SPD is a feature, not a bug. The odd values of DEX are already sufficiently useful for their effect on the initiative sequence.