I just came across a point that I had totally not thought about previously

In v14, there are 2 Weapons Training Talents, each giving a lower cost to the acquisition of Weapon Proficiencies (which are totally gone now).

What I would like to do is to replace them as follows........

• If you do NOT have Weapons Training, you do NOT get to use the NPB (Non Proficiency Bonus) as an add-on to your Defensive Threshold (DT) at all (i.e. pure magic users would NOT get this bonus)
•  Weapons Training I (2 CP) -- Gains NPB bonus of 1 per 5 ranks in best melee skill. This applies to  both DT and to using weapons where you have no skill (and to brawling attacks).
• Weapons Training II (3 CP) -- as Weapons Training I, but the bonus is 1 per every 4 ranks.

Thoughts? Comments?

We touched upon this in another thread, but I felt it deserved a topic thread of its own.

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Working on updating the Training Paths with the changes to the Combat Skills and there are several Training Paths that actually gain Tiers in a Combat Style.

In the other thread, we talked about adding some sort of knowledge skill for the styles.

but right now, there is no way to prevent the character from taking a single rank and leaving it like that.

One thing we discussed is requiring a number of ranks in reverse to the opposite to the Tier level

I.e. limited to Tier 1 if you have less than 5 ranks, limited to Tier 2 if you have less 9 ranks, etc...

If we implement this, then characters, like the Diwhar (TWC focuses character) would drop from starting with Tier 2 to starting with only Tier 1 in the Style.

If we go with this change, there would be no limit on the Attack Bonuses (other than the max ranks allowed based on total XP that the character has).

Does this sound good?

Thoughts? Comments?

 

Ok, several of the Boons that you can spend Fate Points on will affcet dice rolls, either your own or somebody elses. And I will be adding Boons to the list that also deal specific damage.

 

The question is -- Should these be done BEFORE dice rolls? After? Does it matter? Should there be a different cost if done before with the cost being higher afterwards?

For example, one of the Boons is that you spend 2 Fate Points and roll a d10 and apply the result to a dice roll that does not directly affect you (i.e. to somebody making an attack against a Foe, or casting a healing spell on themselves, etc.). Should that 2 FP cost only be for BEFORE the other player or GM rolls the dice (and thus chance spending the Fate Points for no real effect)?

Should it cost 3 FP for them to do it AFTER they know the result of the the dice roll?

Thoughts? Opinions?

 

 

The topic says it all.

 

Do we really want to keep the Nova Roll? It requires the GM to do extra thing for it, and it can cause other issues as well. It is an extra complication that is not really needed.

 

Thoughts? Comments?

Ok, I had created a topic regarding thison the first forum I had set up the other day, before I found this one and discovered I could import the old SMF forums into it (recovering all those previous posts! Yay!!!!).

Witchking20k posted a file to that thread and if I had been smart, I would have downloaded it so that I could attach it over here.

But the basic idea here is to create 4-6 characters (possibly more), and then have a short, simple adventure for those characters to play through as a way of showing off the system.

There would be a small overview of the basic rules, and then in the text of the Adventure, we would use breakout boxes for any rules specific to a given situation/challenge in the adventure.

For example, the Adventurers come upon a locked door. There would be a breakout box for how to check for traps and one for picking the lock (maybe one for simply busting it open, since abilities will be based on the characters used), as well as for resolving the trap, in case it is set off and not disarmed....)