02-27-2020, 07:13 PM | #1 |
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Enhancements on Weakness
I'm trying to come up with house rules to enhance the Weakness disadvantage with things like Side Effect or other Afflictions.
In my DC Comics thread (see my Sig), I'm pretty dissatisfied with what I was able to do with Weakness. Thinking particularly about Kryptonite--it does more than just caused damage at regular intervals to Kryptonians. It also drained their strength and nearly incapacitates them. If all Kryptonite did was 1D per minute, it wouldn't much matter to Superman. He could just beat up the bad guys and fly out of there in a matter of seconds. So what I want is a version of Weakness that also A: Causes damage to attributes and B: Causes Incapacitation (Agony) (or possibly just Irritant: Terrible Pain). But what would be a fair price? Should I build them as new disadvantages or as an enhancement on Weakness?
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02-27-2020, 08:20 PM | #2 |
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Re: Enhancements on Weakness
Just add whatever Disads you'd like to have, and give them Environmental: Nearby Kryptonite. They'll all activate together, and stop when the Kryptonite goes away. No need to tie them all to one base Disad, nor Link. If you like, wrap the collection up into a "Kryptonite" meta-trait just for ease of notation and documentation.
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02-27-2020, 08:28 PM | #3 |
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Re: Enhancements on Weakness
Consider a Limitation on the abilities the weakness negates to have it do just that. If you want it to cause physical pain, give the character something like an "always on" Chronic Pain, and negate it with an Advantage with the same Limitation.
Not working in the presence of some Rare substance (like Kryptonite) is probably a -5% Limitation. Put that on any ST above 10 (possibly even on some of the ST below 10), Flight, DR, IT:DR, etc. Then give the character Chronic Pain, Severe (Always On x4; 2 hour* intervals x1) [-40] and No Chronic Pain (Bane: Kryptonite -5%) [38]. *With Always On, the Interval doesn't make a lot of sense, and with it being tied to exposure to Kryptonite, it basically just lasts as long as the Kryptonite is around. That in mind, I just set it to 2 hour intervals simply because that's the x1 level.
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02-27-2020, 08:59 PM | #4 |
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Re: Enhancements on Weakness
This is similar to something I've been trying to figure out for a while. In a Sci-Fi setting I've been working on, one of the alien sapient species has a fiber-optic based nervous system. If they are hit by a laser, the bright light temporarily overloads them and they get stunned. This seems like an affliction, but I can't find any rules for applying an affliction as a disadvantage when exposed to a certain environmental condition.
I don't have a solution for you, sorry, but you might want to know that others have also run into similar issues. Luke |
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Re: Enhancements on Weakness
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02-27-2020, 10:38 PM | #6 | |
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I might try to write something up pretty soon.
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02-27-2020, 10:45 PM | #8 |
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Re: Enhancements on Weakness
It's what I use. It's very well thought out.
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Lex even wore a ring with green k in it for a while, until it gave him cancer. Of course, he blamed that on Superman, also.
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02-28-2020, 01:29 AM | #10 | |
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