Doc Democracy

OMG!  Why would you go and look at the rules!!!  🙂

So dodge benefits etc also lapse at that point?

4 hours ago, Greywind said:

 

Segment 7. After that he's holding his segment 8 action until segment 11.

The first segment you can use the second phase of a speed 3 character is indeed segment 8.  If you know you are going to use the second phase action on segment 11 why can you not hold the first phase action until segment 10? 

My biggest  restriction is that I would not allow more than four action in a 12 second turn, three actions plus a held one from a previous turn.

4 hours ago, Greywind said:

If an action is held until it rolls around their next phase they lose the held action.

I think sometimes folk are a bit too rigid in their definition of a phase.  If a SPD 3 character holds a phase on segment 4, when is the last segment he can use that and still utilise next phase?

To me, he can hold it all the way to segment 11, then act on segment 12 and again segment 1 (though he would sacrifice his post-seg 12 recovery doing this).

To my way of thinking, segment 8 is the first point he could use his second phase, if he holds it into segment 12 then it is lost and he is using his third phase action.

I used SPD 3 because the effects are so extreme at low speeds. There is an argument to be made that as long as there is a segment to carry out the second phase action he could carry it through into the start of the third phase but I think that is too much.

I think the big element of Officer Bigfoot should be his ability to show up unexpectedly using his people's innate ability to exist unseen except for the odd footprint...

Every now and then when the heroes are considering straying from the path of righteousness they may hear the same refrain "Dont you think that would be...unlawful??"

🙂

Doc

Well, we went about three weeks trying to find a way to get hold of eggs.  I tried several different options with the same (zero) result.  Today, all of those methods all worked at the same time and we now have 30 eggs with the potential of at least another dozen arriving in the next couple of days....

Omelette all round I think...

Doc

Personally, I think the player knows they took that action, there is no way to know whether it was successful or not (though at my table the dice are open, so it would remove that bit of tension.

Some heroes will be confident in their DCV or PD to risk it, others wont.

As for opening every encounter with a chat and a pointed crossbow, it would indeed be my optimal encounter strategy in many situations and I like that there is something in the rules to make it so.  Too often players charge into combat and it ruins so many different options you might have as a GM and this would provide those face characters with a chance to shine...

🙂

Doc

1 hour ago, Duke Bushido said:

Forty-one-and-a-half.

 

that's the number of hours worth of pay Jeff Bezos would have to surrender if he wanted to give each and every Amazon employee one million dollars.  Fewer hours than most Americans work in one week.  Less than half the hours I work in one week.

Duke, I am completely with you on the sentiments, so this is just number stuff.

To give all 800,000 employees $1m, he would need $800 billion dollars.

My googling reckons he earns $150k a minute rather than $32m.

However, if you are right, it would still be 17 days rather than 41.5 hours. (800,000 divided by 32). If I am right then it is just over 10 years.

Either way, even using my numbers Jeff could forego his whole salary for three months (I don't think he would miss it) and give each employee $24.5k.  I think that might tide folk over coronavirus time...

Doc

Interesting graph.  Neither UK or US yet showing any levelling off and US seems to have squandered a good start...

Just in case UK folk think conspiracy myths around the virus are a speciality of the US, here in the UK they are harassing telecoms workers and burning down 5G towers because 5G either causes COVID-19 or the disease "theory" is a cover-up for the effects of 5G operation....

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/03/broadband-engineers-threatened-due-to-5g-coronavirus-conspiracies?__twitter_impression=true

CI do not think it IS analogous.  🙂  That's why this is a conversation, right!? 😄

The actual action in cover has been taken last phase.  All that is left is to resolve the damage of that action and the character covering has taken a slight disadvantage to defer the decision on whether or not to actually resolve that damage.

  I think if covering was out of combat, then it exists, it is a surprise round action.  The action has been taken and the damage hovers like a sword of Damocles. If the covered character makes a break for it the damage happens and phase 12 occurs as normal (including an action for the person that was covering).

Doc

5 hours ago, Duke Bushido said:

My daughter has stopped singing.  I can hear the dog snoring (he likes to sleep in her room).

 

I'm going to go cry now.

OMG.  My last post was "shortest Duke post ever" this must be the longest AND the saddest. 😞

Duke, you have lived SUCH a different life from me.  You are probably the epitome of what I think of when I think American. 

So DO cry, that is American, DO look after your family, DO think about and look after your neighbours, DO have hope for the future, DO care about what is right because they too are all American. 

I don't think our leaders have managed this pandemic well but lessons are being learned and nature has given us the benefit of doing that learning on a "relatively" benign disease.  It could have been more deadly and faster moving.  We have seen the amounts of money that actually CAN be spent making things better, it will make scare stories about spending on other things less credible. There are so many stories of people doing good for their friends and family.

You know what made me cry?  It was so many people, all over the UK, coming out of their respective safe spaces every Thursday night to cheer for the NHS.  That simple thing.

So cry now, be strong in everything else you do and remember that your posts here are one of the reasons I keep coming back.

Stephen

40 minutes ago, Brian Stanfield said:

This has become a standard approach for a lot of the so-called “indie” or “rules lite” games out there, and it has a lot of merits. In my mind, I keep coming back to the “powered by HERO” notion. If DOJ wants to remain relevant, I think they are going to have to at least consider dipping their toes into this market with a similar approach to the PbtA games, or Fate, or whatever. And then hit the convention scene with an assortment of game sessions that would truly teach the system. 

This pick up and play notion attracts me.  I so want to do a Golden Age adventure with templates for key heroes and stripped down rules.  It might need to be my coronavirus project that I can share with folks here informally even if, once he has seen it, Jason does not think it Hall of Champions material.

6 hours ago, Amorkca said:

I envision it as a small power mostly for use against agents, hoodlums, etc. to slow them down or take them out of the fight quickly.  Sorta like Spiderman's webs that only last an hour.

It is this that may sell it to a GM.  How do you build it so that it cannot be used against the big guys.  I like powers that clear out the small fry.

You can see that Grailknight's power would hit anyone with 6 SPD and no power defence.

You might limit it such that it does not affect anyone with SPD greater than 4 (or perhaps 3) depending on the campaign. Or the GM lets you know that EVERY villain will have at least 5 power defence. 

🙂

Doc

My additionals were all Lord of the Rings based...

32 minutes ago, Gnome BODY (important!) said:

I had a couple paragraphs typed up, but really now.  If you were going to pose this question about 6e Rules-As-Written to Steve, why bring it to us first?  It comes off as pretty insulting to ask a question only to turn around and ask somebody else the exact same question. 

I dunno.  It is always good to get an official answer alongside some crowd-funded ones.  I can then decide what I want to use in my game...

Personally, I think I might allow certain things that do no interfere with the cover, other things would allow the person to break cover due to distraction with other things and there will be actions that are simply incompatible with maintaining cover. 

GM decisions all over the place....

You know, I never thought about it this way previously but it makes rules sense and it is an additional disincentive for someone to ignore someone covering them - they WILL take damage and may take it twice...

Doc

I think Slug would be a candidate.

Charlie Young (The West Wing): 84%

Nick Young (Crazy Rich Asians): 83%

Glenn Rhee (The Walking Dead): 82%

Sam Seaborn (The West Wing): 81%

Lucius Fox (The Dark Knight): 81%

Dr. Ellie Sattler (Jurassic Park): 81%

Julian Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine): 80%

Ken Cosgrove (Mad Men): 80%

Melinda Warner (Law & Order: SVU): 80%

Joey Lucas (The West Wing): 79%

Miles O'Brien (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine): 79%

On 3/31/2020 at 3:39 AM, bluesguy said:

 

The thing that makes demons so damn scary is how tough they should be.  High Body, Stun, rPD/rED + Damage Resistance except vs. holy items and high recovery.  You can hit them all day long and it should mostly bounce off.  On the other hand they hit the PC then nasty things should happen to them.  This is where a demon should have the ability to use PRE to basically scare the crap out of PCs. 

I think this is very much something that many of us forget.  A really scary demon should be ABLE to rip your head off but it lumbers about missing and tearing up the scenery.  You turn and fight and despite hitting it again and again, you make no difference and every round in combat risks the lucky hit.  You NEED to think out the box, dipping into combat every now and again to give others time to do something clever, take chances.

The demon does not have to be doing damage to be scary, just nigh on unstoppable with the potential of a lucky hit killing you.  🙂

Never seen or heard of the game.  I withdraw my suggestion, the others cover it far better. 🙂

Are you talking about Monster Hunter as in the books by Larry Correia?

This might help...

https://www.herogames.com/store/product/8-the-monster-hunter-international-employee-handbook-and-roleplaying-game-pdf/

I like the idea of the heroes being needed due to some super-normal feature of the virus.    Perhaps it is proving impossible to manufacture a vaccine and one of the NPC heroes has to contract the virus and the heroes have to be miniaturised and venture into his body to help it combat the virus.  When they have finished, the NPC is saved and his blood provides the basis for an effective vaccine....

Doc

PS: can you tell I grew up in the Silver Age?

I am working from home, but I also took a few days leave so that I could do some of the jobs that my wife thinks I should be doing because "I am at home"...

I wanted weed control fabric and gravel to replace a decrepit path in our back garden.  I spent longer sourcing that weed control fabric and gravel than I had in getting eggs and pasta last week...

I swear, I tried to log onto a home improvement store and there was a 45 minute wait just to get onto the site....

Doc

6 minutes ago, dmjalund said:

But you'd have to define the power to be resistible using Knockback Resistance

To be 100% accurate, he would not have to, but if the idea was to build something that looked and felt like knockback, then it would only be right to include KB resistance along with all of the other things that defend against KB.

Doc