OOC: Power Workshop

If you have questions about your characters' powers you can ask here.

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Some disclosure on how I randomize characters powers:

I have four categories represented by the four suits.
Clubs: Elemental powers and Magic
Hearts: Defense, Speed, Luck, and powers that affect ones Abilities such as Strengthening.
Diamonds: Powers that are derived from items like Nel's Magic armor and Anthony's Magic bag.
Spades: Supernatural powers like the ability to fly, teleport, read minds, and even summon.

Thematic powers are not coincidental. I base them on the three cards you got or your back stories.

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CARD SYSTEM

You may receive cards when you finish quest. Cards can be used to gain skills, advantages, or powers

1 Card: Random Power or Advantage
2 Cards: Alter a power
3 Cards: Design a power

Powers and advantages gained still need power points otherwise it is at Rank 0 and unusable.

Question: So the Area Delay spell affects all including objects in the vicinity and I have to re-cast it every turn using a standard action right? Will anyone entering the area be affected by the spell or only those in the area when the spell was cast are affected?

Question: How many hits do we take before we deads lol or how many hits do we need to kill the monstahs? Aside from Nel we're all Zero Toughness?

1. The burst effect affects the immediate area so anyone entering the area are unaffected by your time manipulation.
Daze prevents the use of move action but will allow a subject to use standard action to move.
Stun prevents a subject from doing any action.
Paralysis makes one defenseless, immobile, and physically stunned.
Effect remains until the start of your next turn. It is a low tier time magic but hey you get to hold off a lot of enemies.

2. If a damaging effect hits: (Roll Toughness) vs DMG Rank +15, I won't tell you how many hits but I will update their conditions. Check page 189.

It goes like:
Lady Archer shoots an arrow at Blue goblin A. It hits.
Blue Goblin (Roll Toughness) vs (15+Dex+Rank)
Blue Goblin rolled a 7, Takes two degrees of failure causing it to lose 2 toughness and is dazed until end of next turn.
If it gets to four degrees, then Blue Goblin gets incapacitated.

@Sho

For running all around and lifting Anthony: you gain Athletics skill
For actively listening: you gain Perception skill
For throwing stones at enemies: you gain Ranged Combat: Throw Stone skill

(I should've awarded this earlier, well I plan to award learnable skills every after accomplished mission)

Here you go. Random powers.

Using the cards and 1 power point you can halve the requirement steps rounded down. Until you only need one step to activate it. The feet must tap the ground for you to teleport, that's the limit of that teleportation ability.

As for 1/day limit. You can use two cards and 1 power point to increase the number of times it can be used per day by one.

Anthony Wong

Learned: Treatment for trying to heal himself
Learned: Stealth for sneaking in the forest and ambushing the goblins

Nel Soriano

Learned: Close Combat (Unarmed Combat) for Punching goblins
Learned: Acrobatics for flying through the forest

Dylan Lighthold

Learned: Nothing :)

So i'll always need a move action to prep for the bunny hop even if I get it down to 1 step?

I'll start with one random power

When you get to one step you just need to be able to move your legs and make it hit a surface. So if both your legs are cut off or you're in mid air, you can't bunny hop. No rabbit hole, no teleport. Once you reach this you'll only need your free action to use it. At 2 steps you still need the move action.

Can you reveal your card? Click the eye on the corner of the card.

Interesting, bunny hop with only a single move action would be incredible (even if its a long way off :P)

*Done

No, using the cards can be accessed in the menu in your head. The 1/day menu usage is something like if you want to show your stats to others or show your powers to someone else, the hologram menu can be summoned once a day. You can use the cards and points anytime you want and store them, but you need to use a standard action for it if you are allocating it while in battle. Right now it is a free action cause you have time and the group's not under pressure.

Serving random power.

@Yamasaki Sho

@Dylan Lighthold

Powers for the Shadow Bard.

@Nel Soriano

Powers for the dragon warrior. Well, mostly for your armor.

@kenesperanza

I updated your characters stats on their threads. If you have questions about the powers just ask.

@Sho

Updated. https://gamersplane.com/forums/thread/18025/?p=800300#p800300
That teleportation range and Tony's shoes though :)
I should cap that to something, but yeah, you still can only teleport to areas you can see so yeah, I guess that I don't need to cap it right now.

Yea, i'm thinking of making money as an instant courrier or transporter between town :P

Sho would be most excellent at conducting that business.

What is the power point cost for raising the power level?

Every 15 points (minus gears you picked up, bought, or borrowed) you gain a Power level. You started at level 0 during character creation then gained 15 points during character creation so you're now at Level 1. You gained 7 points after your battle with the goblins so you need 8 more points to get to level 2.

would you allow Ranged Combat: Throw Stone skill to include pebbles (if Sho takes throwing mastery advantage) and bigger stones (as STR increase)?

You wanna be that sniper guy from Yuyu Hakusho? I won't object on this idea. But I'd lower its Damage DC to -5 and it can only damage at 1 degree, so higher degrees won't increase damage plus it should be non lethal unless its a critical like the stone got inside the enemy's mouth or something.

Other stuff could be that if he takes a penalty of -5~-10 he can throw pebbles to snipe certain body parts. Blind an enemy for example.

I'm approximating that the stones you and the goblins have been throwing are the size of a fist (minimum). STR affects how much mass you can throw and how far you can throw them with one hand or with both hands. I should make a chart for that.

Note: Don't steal Tony's gloves.

Tony's glove stores items in a dimensional storage. He can use free-action to 'summon' items.

You can consider power instead. Something like you can 'flick' small objects and make them fly like bullets.

Move Object (1)
Close Range (-1) You can only flick the object
Limited Material (-1) You can only flick tiny objects
Limited Direction (-1), You can only make the object fly at one direction
Damaging (1), You use your DEX and Ranged Combat: Throwing for this skill
Subtle (1) the power has no loud noticeable effects except for an object flying at bullet speed

So you land at 0.5 points per rank.
Increase in rank should affect 'bullet' speed, effective range, damage
Rank 1: 60 ft
Rank 2: 250 ft
Rank 3: 900 ft
Rank 4: 1/2 mile
...

If you reach around 3000 ft you get the speed of a sniper bullet and I'd limit it at that.

To expedite the power randomization process, just tell me if you want to get a random power. That way I just draw a card and don't need to turn it on every time someone draws a card.

@Sho

@Sho

@Sho

Updated: https://gamersplane.com/forums/thread/18025/?p=800300#p800300

Card system summary is on page one
First appearance is here: https://gamersplane.com/forums/thread/18023/?p=805131#p805131

Updated your characters.

Let’s see if I want to power these new ones up

Sorry about that, I've drawn the cards for you already.

Realized before that it would be a hassle to turn the card draw thing on every time someone draws a card so I just draw them instead.