Can dual natured creatures protect themselves from background count, Brainstorming ideas |
Can dual natured creatures protect themselves from background count, Brainstorming ideas |
Sep 4 2017, 11:19 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 234 Joined: 13-December 10 Member No.: 19,226 |
It came up in a game today, where a dual natured character ran into a rather high background count. Now the rules as written in Street Grimoire says that he would take the rating as a penalty to all skill checks. This -5 made the character virtually useless in the encounter. I'm wondering if there is any way to mitigate this next time.
This is what we're presently playtesting, but I'd like some feedback. Background Warding Foci Developed by the dragons for use by favored dual natured servants. Force is the amount of background count they can ignore. Cost (Force x $10,000) Karma to Bond (Force x3) |
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Sep 5 2017, 12:13 AM
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Moving Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 586 Joined: 27-January 07 From: United States Member No.: 10,812 |
The cleansing metamagic? Is that still in sr5?
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Sep 5 2017, 01:06 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 200 Joined: 24-June 17 From: Bible Belt, USA Member No.: 210,183 |
The cleansing metamagic? Is that still in sr5? Yes, Street Grimiore pg. 155. Not the healthiest thing to try (base Drain Value is equal to the Background Count), bit it is doable - if you Initiate. There is also the Circle of Cleansing Ritual (requires Cleansing; Street Grimiore pg. 127) this takes Force (Minimum of Background Count) hours to complete and reduces a positive Background Count by Net Hits rating for Net Hits + 1 hours. |
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Sep 5 2017, 01:24 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 234 Joined: 13-December 10 Member No.: 19,226 |
But if you are playing an adept neither option is open to you.
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Sep 5 2017, 02:46 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 200 Joined: 24-June 17 From: Bible Belt, USA Member No.: 210,183 |
True, but then a dual natured Adept has got to have things going for it that need a little balancing, no?
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Sep 5 2017, 06:11 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 614 Joined: 27-September 12 Member No.: 56,316 |
Dual Natured Adepts can use Heightened Concern or Adept Centering to be able to ignore the penalties from Background.
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Sep 5 2017, 02:13 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 180 Joined: 16-February 12 From: Minnesota Member No.: 50,147 |
QUOTE DUAL-NATURED DEFENDER 5 KARMA Minimum Requirements: Dual Natured quality and Astral Combat 3 Characters with this quality have learned that the Sixth World is not the kindest place to dual-natured creatures, and it’s forced them to learn how to de-fend themselves against a variety of astral threats. A character with this quality may stop astrally per-ceiving with a Free Action to avoid astral barriers or threats. The amount of concentration required to disconnect from the astral causes a –2 dice pool penalty to all actions the critter makes when they are not astrally perceiving. A dual-natured critter cannot use any of its critter powers (except Sapi-ence) while in this state, and shapeshifters are stuck in whatever physical form they are currently in. A dual-natured critter cannot stop astrally perceiving for more minutes than its Magic attribute in a twen-ty-four-hour period before it must reconnect with the astral. For every minute past the allotted time that a critter does not perceive the astral, it perma-nently loses one point of Magic. If a character with this quality is knocked unconscious, they automati-cally reconnect with the astral. This quality does not hide the fact that a critter is Awakened when the critter is assensed, but it inflicts a –2 penalty on any attempts to astrally perceive the critter. As a GM I would allow this to work. |
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Sep 5 2017, 03:18 PM
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Prime Runner Ascendant Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 |
Our Adept uses Adept Centering and a High Initiation (he is grade 6 currently) to abrogate Background count when necessary.
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Sep 6 2017, 05:18 AM
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Moving Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 573 Joined: 23-July 03 From: outside America Member No.: 5,015 |
This is what we're presently playtesting, but I'd like some feedback. Just as long as nobody refers to "a foci" this seems a useful tool. Perhaps too useful... it might appeal to collectors of dwarf cyberzombie backpacks.Background Warding Foci QUOTE DUAL-NATURED DEFENDER As a GM I would allow this to work. Major penalties like Dual Nature typically accompany major boons to keep things balanced. Ultrasound Vision is fantastic in many ways, but hey - you can't read with it (unless you know Braille) and you can't see through windows, spectacles, etc. at all. If a character encounters a situational challenge caused by the penalty side of the balance coin, and you go and slap a quick fix on it, it smells to me like a cop-out. If a character with Ultrasonic Vision was disappointed an optical magnification scope on their sniper rifle is useless to them, I wouldn't say, "pay an inconvenience tax and you can do anything you want" - I'd simply point out that there are advantages and drawbacks to every choice in character generation, play, and life itself. Maybe this session the Dual Natured character encounters a background count. Maybe next week, the team has to swim upstream through water ducts and a different character (with no athletics, strength, body dump stats, etc.) is challenged. If a player gets to flaunt their powers most of the time, it's reasonable for the story to impose their weakness some of the time. The characters surviving dystopia is what makes it rewarding. |
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Sep 6 2017, 07:29 AM
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Runner Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,039 Joined: 23-March 05 From: The heart of Rywfol Emwolb Industries Member No.: 7,216 |
Dual Natured Defender is found on pg 36 of the new Forbidden Arcana magic book.
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Sep 6 2017, 09:40 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 180 Joined: 16-February 12 From: Minnesota Member No.: 50,147 |
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Sep 7 2017, 08:05 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 993 Joined: 5-December 05 From: Crying in the wilderness Member No.: 8,047 |
There were suggestions that Queens jelly were bug spirits attempt/method of adapting to the background count in Chicago. Slightly off topic but another thread to pull.
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