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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
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03-04-2017, 04:23 PM | #12 |
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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
I like these. I've always allowed taking Optional Specialisation and adding a Technique on top of that for extremely narrow fields of specialisation that may be useful from time to time (thus, not Hyper-Specialisation), but which don't really imply a broad ability in all aspects of the skill.
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03-04-2017, 06:07 PM | #13 | |
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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
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Also, looking at these makes me wonder how big a limitation 'Focused Techniques Only' would be on Modular Abilities or Wild Talent (probably a greater limitation for Wild Talent than for MA), because if you're in a game where that would be allowed, it would be pretty useful.
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03-04-2017, 09:02 PM | #14 |
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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
Flush toxin sounds really useful for an assassin that wants to avoid the accidental self-poisoning/envenomation that eventually happens to even the best of them.
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03-05-2017, 12:44 AM | #15 | |
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03-05-2017, 01:05 AM | #16 |
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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
Might also allow it by method of application. In one of the Modesty Blaise books she has been captured and is being injected with a sedative. She tenses the muscles in that arm to slow blood flow and as soon as the guy turns away ripples them to squeeze out some of it. So instead os a 12 hour dose she got a 6-7 hour dose.*Several unwatched hours because they thought she was sedated is plenty to escape.
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03-05-2017, 01:06 AM | #17 |
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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
Well, they'd need Unusual Training [1] instead.
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03-05-2017, 01:51 AM | #18 |
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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
Eh, plenty of more cinematic assassins are likely to have TBaM. Look at any character coded as a 'ninja', e.g.. Or the lot from Assassin's Creed. Or a lot of stories about te Hashishin. Or...
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03-05-2017, 02:26 AM | #19 |
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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
I've concluded that a couple of the techniques I posted are too broad for Focussed, and marked them as such in the original post.
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03-05-2017, 09:14 AM | #20 |
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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
I agree that Survival (specific terrain type) is too broad for a technique, and should be an optional speciality. What I'd suggest making the technique, instead, would be a combination of (specific terrain type, specific season). So you could take a technique in Survival for (Woodlands in autumn), or (plains in winter) or so forth.
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