SkyLion Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Yo Phoenix! You think you could whip up a Harvester for BT?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Green Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 So I was just about to post my second npc when Sky pointed out (over AIM) that only one was allowed per player.That sucks.Oops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Thunder Posted January 31, 2007 Author Share Posted January 31, 2007 Here's your reward, Cottus!*hands Cottus a cookie* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamut810 Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Meh...I dont have time to make one with what I have going on right now (I would hate for something to take away from my FFXII and BESM time). You can post one in my stead if you really really want to CC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Thunder Posted January 31, 2007 Author Share Posted January 31, 2007 I also get distracted by FFXII. I actually hate the game's story to death (DIE VANN, DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!) but the gameplay has kept me going so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 ::huh I already made an NPC Harvester. Is it my fault I killed him before I knew there was an XP reward? ::tongue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyLion Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Um....now that Alex decided to go overachiever can the rest of us submit more??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Thunder Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 Alrighty, the new limit is four NPCs per person. But no rewards...Cottus already got his cookie, so you guys will just have to live with it.Also, can latents erupt at age 2? I'm not so sure about the Jim-Bob character(s)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Thunder Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 I'll update Branch 3 tomorrow when I wake up. So...about 3-4 PM Eastern time.BT needs his beauty sleep. You know, people think that being insanely handsome and well-toned just comes naturally to people like me, without any effort. And they'd be right. But just in case, I need to get my 8+ hours of sleep in every night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyLion Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Damn BT! Erik is one twisted SOB. And isn't T2M going to run home to mommy, now that they are clearly outnumbered 2 to 1? And Fong awakening in the first sces...damn. pullin' out the big guns!,, And BTW,, the initative thing IIRC comes from past WW games or at least has been a long roleplaying tradition. Basically the slower peope declare first allowing faster people the tactical advantage to preempt them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Green Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Alrighty, the new limit is four NPCs per person. But no rewards...Cottus already got his cookie, so you guys will just have to live with it.Also, can latents erupt at age 2? I'm not so sure about the Jim-Bob character(s)...Technically there is no min age... but it doesn't normally come up since no one wants to run a PC who is that young. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Thunder Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 It's a coincidence though...in my Trinity campaign, I came up with an NPC Aberrant that was two conjoined fetuses, that levitated to get around and were Mega-Intelligent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Thunder Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 Holy mother of God, its raining cats and dogs outside and there's a tornado warning. I'll be back on later tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyLion Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 OMG!!! That is probably in worse taste than Hiroshima and Nagasaki! Ugh...flying fetuses...just wrong!,,Oh and Cottus..RE: Armadillo...based on your description we are talking a Nova with Mega Dex 4 and Mega-Str 4 at least plus armor, claws, mega Perception and intelligence, plus multiple enhancements...Im sure its fine and he will end up fodder but you *did* read the part about them being roughly 30 NP Novas right? It would take more than that to build armadillo as you have him even with buying up his taint levels... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centimane Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 OMG!!! That is probably in worse taste than Hiroshima and Nagasaki! Ugh...flying fetuses...just wrong!,,Oh and Cottus..RE: Armadillo...based on your description we are talking a Nova with Mega Dex 4 and Mega-Str 4 at least plus armor, claws, mega Perception and intelligence, plus multiple enhancements...Im sure its fine and he will end up fodder but you *did* read the part about them being roughly 30 NP Novas right? It would take more than that to build armadillo as you have him even with buying up his taint levels...I'm just "selling" him, the way that WW writers always seem to do with their NPCs. Look at Shining Mountain in Year One, they make him seem like one of the Heaven Thunder's chief enforcers, and a real powerful nova, even more so when "The Stone Badass" talks about him in the APG. But the guy's straight low-level, starting-pc material, and nothing to worry about for any half-way competent team of players. BT can write up Armadillo any way he sees fit, and can quite handily do so with 30 or so nova points (especially considering that I made it quite clear that the guy's real tainted). It's just that the hard math of his dice pools won't seem quite so impressive as my description makes him seem. But isn't that always the way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueNinja Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Part of me wonders if Caronline's Chrysalis is really due to a failed/botched roll ... or if she went into it with 600+ XP to spend. Because ye gods, she'd be someone to give even Divis pause with that. Just imagine the Teragen with an elder member who had Consciousness Supremacy, let alone Quantum Supremacy. She could make entire countries into her slaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Thunder Posted February 2, 2007 Author Share Posted February 2, 2007 If anyone went into Chrysalis with 600+ experience, they'd have to have been "adventuring" for a full decade (at least), non-stop, without spending anything (or sleeping for that matter). Cause damn. 600. That's a lot. The Chrysalis example from the book has a character going in with under 30 (it was 24 I think). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyLion Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Re: Armadillo,, Cottus...and like I said Im just picking at nits here, cuz hes BTs beeyotch now...but juggling tanks and catching bullets means Mega Dex and Str of 4...so 24 NPs right off the bat or 16 tainted (and hes already at 8 taint with that.) With a quantum minimum of 3 necesary and with everything else you gave into the description I think you are *seriously8 overselling him...Mainly that was my issue...juggling tanks, catching ullets, nigh invulnerable, intelect, genius for nova standards AND perception...good god man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Thunder Posted February 2, 2007 Author Share Posted February 2, 2007 You don't need Mega-Dex 4 to juggle tanks. Just Mega-Str 4, and a decent Athletics dice pool (or Might, since that includes Throwing).BTW, best line so far:Roach, still neither caring nor fully understanding does his best to look and sounds impressed. Though he does disagree with Envy for once. That was most certainly edible!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyLion Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 You didnt read my post corectly...catching bullets requires Mega Dex 4. Throwing tanks is a mega str 4. Armadillo is described as having both plus a whole lot more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Sentinel Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 haha glad you liked BT!! though it isnt as funny unless the entire context is given! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centimane Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 You didnt read my post corectly...catching bullets requires Mega Dex 4. Throwing tanks is a mega str 4. Armadillo is described as having both plus a whole lot more...To be honest SkyLion, I was really hoping I wouldn't come home from work tonight to find that this was still an issue, but since it is.... *sigh*Throwing Tanks: use Lifter. It says in the writeup that, at the ST's discretion, a nova using this enhancement will have their ability to throw heavy objects increased as well (it even uses tanks as the example).Catching bullets: catching them, not plucking them out of the air! M.Dex 4 means you can "pluck bullets out of the air" by making a normal Block roll. This implies reaching out and grabbing a bullet that's already in flight. Casually. But considering that a nova with even a single dot in M.Dex can dodge bullets without seeking cover, I don't think it's much of a stretch to say that a mega-dexterous nova could (if, for some strange reason they wanted to) try and catch a bullet by lining their hand up with a gun that's about to fire. Especially if they had M.Per to boot. As ST I would simply add a modifier to the diff. penalty, and regardless of how many successes they got on the roll I would still roll damage as normal (yeah it might be a stump now, but let me tell you how I lost this hand!).Nigh-Indestructable: this is such an overused term it hardly even means anything anymore, so please don't draw any conclusions from this. I was aiming for "bullet proof" and maybe "kinetic damage" proof. Rather than Armor, try some dots in M.Sta and FF (yes I know it's not obvious, but there's no reason not to take it, and at low levels FF is better). Another option would be Absorption (which increases...oh yeah...Strength!). Throw in the ubiquitious Eufiber and he's got 5 extra soak right there for less than 1 np. His chitin was only supposed to reflect high taint leading to the hardened skin aberration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueNinja Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Erik dismissed her. "I seriously doubt the Holy Bible will help any of you. So, how are we leaving?" Damn. That's a good question. Leiko doesn't have Warp. Anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade90 Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Damn. That's a good question. Leiko doesn't have Warp. Anyone else?Yep, sure do. Just one more reason Kyle was brought along on this particular assignment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Sentinel Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 I'm with you Cottus. I completely support narrative explanations. Makes things a whole lot more interesting. as apposed to saying, he can lift 22-56tons and run at 224.4 MPH. It makes more sense to say he can lift almost anything and can run faster than a speeding bullet. You go with your badself!! ZANG ZADAAM!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyLion Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Sorry Cottus. I didnt think you could do all that with lower Mega Atts. ::blush ,, Again, it wasn't so much of an issue with you or the character as much as i was thinking, "Well in that case I have some higher powered ideas I could throw in." I just wanted to make sure what the guidlines were, since they have been bent already in regards to quantity! ::happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Sentinel Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Its cool skylion. You got stunted, we understand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyLion Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Its cool skylion. You got stunted, we understand! ,, I know man...if only I wasn't so short... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centimane Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 It's all good Sky. I didn't think you had an issue with me, but I was tired and grumpy and didn't want to explain myself. ::closedeyes I have an issue you with you, though. You're short! Shorty!! Hah! ::happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyLion Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Woe is me... ::sad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Green Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 I'm just "selling" him, the way that WW writers always seem to do with their NPCs. Look at Shining Mountain in Year One, they make him seem like one of the Heaven Thunder's chief enforcers, and a real powerful nova, even more so when "The Stone Badass" talks about him in the APG...The problem is one of hipe. Shining Mountain has been sold, by the papers, by N!, by himself, and perhaps by his employers as being that powerful. It's even reasonable for Stone to think he really is that powerful.However Stone plays in a different league. I seem to remember someone claiming he was a Mega-Stamina 4, Mega-Strength 4 type who used soma to make those 5s. If he has a dot of Armor and Res, then his soak would increase by 10/7 for the duration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Thunder Posted February 4, 2007 Author Share Posted February 4, 2007 I'll try updating tonight, but there are relatives over, so I can't be sure. I like where all the games are going ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Thunder Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 Well, off to sleepy. I hope that Divis Mal thing came out alright. I find I write better Divis Mal when I can't think straight, and it's 6AM here, so...I hope I'm right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade90 Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Oh, and in case any of you are wondering why I would spend a willpower point on a Warp roll, I worked out an extra system with BT involving Warp and Teleport that uses any extra successes you get to determine how close to your intended destination you get. And speaking of which BT, seeing as from what I understand KC has the teleport power, have you/did you want to detail the system to him? Or would you like me to? Or perhaps I should just post the system on here so everyones aware of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Green Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 RE: BobHe's done talking or doing anything. I have several arguments prepared that *might* push him deeper into Teras... but with someone this unstable, I'm going to quit while we're ahead.RE: Mal ::jaw Very well done... I didn't see it coming but it seems so natural for him to make that move now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Green Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Is someone going to give Firefly medical assistance? Didn't she take lots of lethal damage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centimane Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Is someone going to give Firefly medical assistance? Didn't she take lots of lethal damage?If someone asks him to, James could (he'd need a decent first aid kit, though). But he's still amped on the fight, and is off asking Geryon if there's more to be done, so unless someone asks him or he sees her showing obvious signs of being medically unstable (and according to the base rules in the book, an Incapacitated character isn't unstable, they're just very unconscious) he's not likely to right at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Green Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Firefly's energy absorption ability was powerful, but not powerful enough to absorb the full force of James's strikes. The T2M-Auxiliary leader was unconscious after only two punches, falling onto the hard cement with a thud.((I'd like to note that Firefly only survived by spending a Willpower on her second Absorption roll. James's Claws + Armor Piercing really did a number on her.))So she's taken LETHAL damage down to Incapacitated, and should be bleeding to death unless someone makes a medical roll for her within... I'm not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centimane Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 So she's taken LETHAL damage down to Incapacitated, and should be bleeding to death unless someone makes a medical roll for her within... I'm not sure.I'm not disagreeing with you, but the rules in the book AFAICT don't say anything about an Incapacitated character getting worse without a stabilizing role. So unless BT rules that she will get worse, there's nothing particularly to worry about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Green Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 I'm not disagreeing with you, but the rules in the book AFAICT don't say anything about an Incapacitated character getting worse without a stabilizing role. So unless BT rules that she will get worse, there's nothing particularly to worry about.Interesting. I specifically remember reading about blood loss... but I don't see anything there in the core book. It's possible I'm remembering another WW system, i.e. that novas simply don't suffer from this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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