03-20-2020, 10:07 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Partial Spirit
I would have liked demons, angels, djinn, fairies and some undead to have been more of a partial spirit than what is in DF. The idea is that these monsters are not truly solid matter, instead they are a mixture of material and spirit. This means that they need magical weapons to hit them directly. Mundane items may briefly cause knock back but they don’t really harm them. The partial spirits need to have some sort of enchantment to be harmed. Like maybe a lich is in a cave and the ceiling collapses, maybe it is unharmed ( no hit point loss) but pinned by the rocks until he can free himself. The lich would be hurt by a magical weapon though.
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03-20-2020, 11:25 AM | #2 |
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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Re: Partial Spirit
There a few decent ways of doing this.
My middle-ground approach would be to treat them as if they were Diffuse, then either say magical weapons can bypass Diffuse or that they have a Vulnerability to magical weapons. That'll severely lower most damage, but leave them vulnerable to some mundane attacks that are area affects, cones, and explosions. Supernatural Durability is another decent middle-ground candidate. The partial-spirit would either have to sustain a ton of mundane damage or be slain by the object (magical weapons in this case) of the baked-in Vulnerability. Of course, you could also throw on a lot of Damage Resistance and/or Damage Reduction that can be bypassed by magical weapons. Or you could call them partially Insubstantial! Well, actually... DFRPG doesn't define Insubstantial in mechanical terms, but the rules are easy enough to port over from GURPS (and the Ethereal Body somewhat covers the idea). So, I'd go with some mix of Diffuse (ignored by magical weapons or alongside a Vulnerability to magical weapons), Supernatural Durability (with its Vulnerability to magical weapons), Damage Resistance (ignored by magical weapons), and Damage Reduction (ignored by magical weapons). All of those would allow for them to take knockback as well as be pinned but (mostly) unharmed by rocks.
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03-24-2020, 07:17 PM | #3 | |
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Saint Paul, MN
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