03-09-2020, 12:35 PM | #31 |
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Re: Error in Fantasy werewolf
Well and Alternate Abilities are supposed to be *similar*, so having more than one isn't much of an improvement over the first. It's conceptually akin to switchable enhancements; you don't buy the base power over and over. Yes that has been extensively ignored even in published materials, which is why I don't allow some of them myself, but that's the concept.
You can have Alternate Forms with an even bigger price break that that. If you pay full cost for the most expensive one, all the others can be *free* (you just pay the base 15 points for the ability to change). Honestly if that's fair (it's questionable it is but...) it really should've been the standard rule, since it's so much simpler than the computational mess we are supposed to use.
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03-09-2020, 01:41 PM | #32 | |
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Re: Error in Fantasy werewolf
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The old Mission Impossible TV series had the agents using Alternate Identities effectively all the time but they certainly didn't have Alternate Forms. Jadeite's Youma of the Sailor Moon 1990's anime are a prime example of how Shapeshift and Alternate Identity advantages interact. They would take on Human form (Morph) but had to create an Alternate Identity to do their mission. Yes most of the time it was shallow as all get out but it was separate from Morph. Alternate Form is always [15] with modifiers plus 90% the difference between the base race and the form . Enchantments and limitations regarding the form only effect the [15] nothing else. Examples: Say you are a 100 human point with an alternate form that costs 200 points. The racial cost for a Human is 0 Points so the calculation is '15 points plus 90% of the difference in cost' or 90% of (200-0) aka 180, then add 15 for a total of 195 points. By contrast an Elf, with a racial cost of 70 points, would only have to pay 117 (90% of (200-70)+15) points. Similarly a Young/Very Small Western Dragon, with a racial of 219 points, would only have to pay 15 points for the 200 point form. A -10% accessibility limitation would only effect the [15] and net [14] (13.5 round up)
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03-10-2020, 11:58 AM | #33 | |
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Re: Error in Fantasy werewolf
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I guess why it's easy to ignore is that there aren't any concrete guidelines on what's related and what isn't. It probably comes down to a negotiation between player and GM about how you're positing they're related. "Using Abilities at Default" suffers the same problem. In theory you could have any advantage if you explained the connection well enough but it comes down to GM to rule out implausible explanations, and all the subjective interpretation which comes with it. |
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