07-02-2015, 02:30 PM | #11 | ||
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Re: Mitigating Disadvantages w/o Self Control Number
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So Zombies added the 2.5 x cost mechanic to Disadvantages in order to make resistible mental Disadvantages not resistible. Why not apply the same metric to not resistible mental Disadvantages to give them a Self-Control number? Seriously, I'm asking; if this is not a good idea, let me know why. Disadvantages Without A Self-Control Number
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07-02-2015, 02:45 PM | #12 | |
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Other than that? Interesting. I'd tend to suspect that the 2.5x might be under-valuing due to its context, and thus reversing it would over-value. But I don't have any particular case for that.
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07-02-2015, 04:27 PM | #13 |
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Re: Mitigating Disadvantages w/o Self Control Number
My logic has always been a target number of 15 is equivalent to the maximum allowed limitation -80%, so 20% of the original value, so the base cost (for 12) must be 40% of the original value.
Essentially the same thing. Divide the cost of the always on disadvantage by your favorite number on the interval [2,3] and apply the self control cost modifier to that. I'm at 2.5 rather than 3 in some of the proposals at least in part because a self imposed disadvantage that is on "all the time" is not quite the same thing as a Self Control number of impossible, because you retain the option of resisting if you are willing to suffer sufficiently serious consequences (e.g. you can break the law if you have Honest, but then must turn yourself in and freely confess....) If you had a Self Control number of 0, you couldn't consider that option.
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07-03-2015, 07:07 AM | #14 |
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Re: Mitigating Disadvantages w/o Self Control Number
There's a slight difference between 3 and always and 18 and never. Several situations impose penalties or bonuses to self-control rolls, so having the Disadvantage have actual numbers can be useful for those situations.
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07-03-2015, 08:25 AM | #15 | |
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