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So I was going through character concepts. I tend to overfocus some characters just to push their limit (don't we all?). I ended up making a dwarf adept whose sole purpose in life was to open holes. I'm posting this to find out if I made a mistake somewhere, or if this is legit and thus overly powerful. Any insight will be helpful.
Race: Dwarf Attributes: Body 6 (8) Agility 4 Reaction 3 Strength 6 Charisma 2 Intuition 3 Logic 4 Willpower 4 Edge 3 Essence 5.4 Magic 5 (Point not lost due to Gaes, see below) Skills: Unarmed Combat 4 Clubs 2 Pistols (Semi-Auto) 1/3 Dodge (Ranged) 3/5 Gynastics (Tumbling) 2/4 Perception 2 First Aid (Combat Wounds) 2/4 Pilot Ground Craft 2 Trowing Weapons 1 Athletics 1 Leadership 2 Qualities: Adept Toughness Quick Healer SINer (legal, non-criminal SIN) Cyberware: Bone Density 2 Adept Powers (Here's where it gets interesting): Killing Hands Attribute Boost (Strength) - 4 Smashing Blow - Gaes: Must move at least 2 meters before striking the object. Walking is not sufficient to meet this requirement. Penetrating Strike Inertia Strike Elemental Strike (Blast) Critical Strike - 4 Okay. So overall a decently rounded character stat/skill wise. It's when we get to unarmed damage that we have a problem. Base damage on the character is at (Str/2+1)P from Bone Density. Now let's max this out here because of the abilities. * 4 bonus points of strength from Attribute boost * +4 damage from Critical Strike * +5 Damage from Elemental strike (our game has assumed Magic as the force, as an adept can't have a Force rating on Elemental strike, and the book was nonspecific as far as we could find) So that brings base damage to (Str/2+12)P, or 17P base, WITHOUT successes. Smashing blow takes that to 34P without adding successes against any barrier. Assuming 3 successes, that's 40P regularly against a wall, door... basically anything that gets in the dwarf's way. So far, it seems that nothing short of Reinforced concrete (16 armor, thus 32 dice of soak) will stand even a chance of resisting the damage done by this character. Did I go wrong somewhere? |
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