07-07-2011, 05:55 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Denmark
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What combat benefits does Enhanced Time Sense give?
It costs 40 pts but apart from giving the same as Combat Reflexes and allowing you to consider your action (which is not important in a forum-based game), then what combat-benefits do you actually get from having ETS?
I seem to recall some cinematic abilities requiring it. Such as "Parry bullet". but apart from that, does it actually do anything? Are there other rules that require it that I cant' find? |
07-07-2011, 06:07 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Jun 2011
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Re: What combat benefits does Enhanced Time Sense give?
You automatically go first if no one else has it, that’s a reasonable benefit.
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07-07-2011, 06:17 PM | #3 |
Join Date: Sep 2007
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Re: What combat benefits does Enhanced Time Sense give?
You also get the perception benefits of being able to notice very quick things (like bullets in flight, individual frames of a film per the description). You should get the same chance to notice something in combat that a normal person would given time to study the same scene. No more "you didn't notice X because you were distracted by the fighting".
There aren't a lot of hard mechanical benefits listed in the skill. For combat specifically, the benefits are limited because the advantage specifically does not change your physical reaction time or alter your drilled reflexes, reactions, kata, combo moves, etc. |
07-07-2011, 06:23 PM | #4 |
Join Date: May 2008
Location: CA
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Re: What combat benefits does Enhanced Time Sense give?
There could be significantly more benefits if you have Tactical Shooting. Specifically, I'd allow you to completely ignore the Situational Awareness rules. I also think it would be appropriate if you could never suffer from Surprise, even partial surprise, if you have ETS, but unfortunately that's not part of the RAW rules.
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07-07-2011, 10:29 PM | #5 | |
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Re: What combat benefits does Enhanced Time Sense give?
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It just doesn't help you in combat or enhance the speed of your physical actions as much as many players would like or expect it to given the description, mainly because it doesn't cost enough for that to be balanced. For that, you need to add things like Altered Time Rate, improved Basic Speed, improved DX (possibly with odd limitations on what it affects), and so on. |
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07-07-2011, 10:56 PM | #6 | |
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07-07-2011, 11:21 PM | #7 |
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Re: What combat benefits does Enhanced Time Sense give?
As an aside, where is the text about ETS letting you parry bullets? Precognitive Parry notes that the skill lets you parry bullets without having ETS (which indirectly implies that having ETS lets you do so), but the description of ETS itself doesn't note that ability. It has to be off somewhere else in the rules -- but where?
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07-07-2011, 11:27 PM | #8 | |
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07-08-2011, 12:23 AM | #9 | |
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A +1 to active defenses (although this is no better than Combat Reflexes) and the ability to reliably go first in combat vs. those without the advantage also argue for some improvement in physical as well as mental reaction time. Last edited by vitruvian; 07-08-2011 at 12:30 AM. |
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