That reminds me of One Piece, where there are animals that can turn into weapons, like an elephant that is also a sword, or a dog that turns into a canon (or was it a pistol?). Would be interesting to create an IoP/familiar like that.

This reminds me of way back in the day playing Command & Conquer: Red Alert (yeah, the first one). I got my hands on a file that I was able to edit to change the behaviours of the game. So I gave the guard dogs the secondary weapon of canon. As in the 8" gun used by the cruiser. So I had my Soviet guard dogs who could not only kill infantry in one hit, but also morphed into giant canon balls and killed most vehicles in one hit.

Yeah, I had fun with hacking!

Quote from: Haru on June 20, 2011, 04:02:09 AM

@EldritchFire
Of course I knew what you meant, my mind has just been a little crazy today, so I made that connection. Didn't mean to belittle your idea.

No belittling done! After I read your comment, I went back and reread what I wrote, and I lol'd, too!

-EF

City Generation
Real men: Built the city with their bare hands.
Real Roleplayers: Design intricate webs between all the faces.
Real Loonies: Build the city on Rock & Roll
Real Munchkins: Nuke the city...with their pure mortal throwing fireballs while shapeshifted into a Tarrasq.

-EF

I disagree completely with everyone saying that nukes should be a plot device.

What does that even mean? Do you tell your players that they die, no defence possible?

If you want to use nukes in your game, you need to assign numbers of some kind.

I am reminded of a quote: "If it has stats, we can kill it!"

If you want your players to have a chance at survival, give it numbers. If not, don't. Neither is right, neither is wrong. One may be more right for your group than the other.

-EF

I can't help but think that making a player sit out scenes for this sort of info thing more then a little stupid. I mean yeah I can see doing it that way if you have the "This is what I am doing while I go pick up the take out" scenario, but otherwise whats the point other then detract from the fun of the player in question.

How else would you factor in time, then? Every action has a cost. Talking to your information network, or pouring through your library, takes time.

With being on a time crunch, you have to give and take. If they had all the time in the world, sure, I wouldn't have them sit out. But their friend had been kidnapped, so they wanted to get as much done as possible in as little time as possible.

-EF

Blast and Hazards don't only affect creatures. They affect the area itself.

Just like a 10-shift fireball can add the aspect "House On Fire" to the scene in addition to causing damage to its occupants, so a nuke would affect the area. The blast would replace existing aspcets by the overall scene aspect of "Apocalyptic Wasteland". The firestorm would leave behind the aspect "Scorched Earth" and the radiation hazard would leave behind the aspect "Highly Radioactive".

Then the GM could occasionally compel the "Highly Radioactive" aspect to cause radiation-related stress or consequences just like he could compel a "House On Fire" aspect to burn the occupants.

Dang, I love the simplicity of FATE.

-EF

As a note, could the people here cut back on the insults? I'm neither an idiot nor a munchkin. So, thanks in advance, would be nice.

Note, however, that I'm not asking here whether or not you can beat someone with PI. I'm focusing on whether it's an appropriate ability.

Would you allow for total immunities to other things? How about Social and Mental tracks? How about an immunity to Physical Blocks or Maneuvers(call it "Unstoppable Force" or whatever)? How about an immunity to assessments("Null Presence")? Or Declarations(Reality Warper)?

If any of those would be considered inappropriate, why do Attacks get a pass? What makes them special?

I'm no expert, but I think Physical Immunity is there for very specific cases. The loup-garu who is immune to most physical harm except for inherited silver, or a flame archon who's immune to fire.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of Physical Immunity. I'd much rather have a collection of Recovery & Toughness. This is both from a player and GM standpoint. If a character has Physical Immunity and the one thing they aren't immune to shows up, it seems to be a cheap shot at that character. I know it's not, it's there to challenge them...but still, it's the feeling rather than the fact.

With Toughness & Recovery powers, it's not that big a deal until the fight has been going on for a while. Those extra stress boxes and consequences look mighty good when you only have 2 stress boxes left...and you can't use them. At that point, the rest of the party is beaten up as much as you are, so the feeling that you were singled out is less.

Just my [-2].

-EF

Google is your friend.

I'm not familiar with the sheet you're asking about, but this seems to fit the bill.

-EF

This is why no one is willing to tackle a new Star Wars RPG...too many fans have their own vision on how the setting works. And not a single one of them is wrong!

Star Wars is best done as a home-brew, IMO.

-EF