10-22-2019, 07:28 PM | #11 | |
Join Date: Aug 2018
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Re: Using Controllable Disadvantage [Perks]
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I suppose you could take "requires (attribute) roll" enhancements to float those perks to the other attribute (Will roll to fart, HT roll to Clueless) but you'd round the 1.2 cost up to 2 unless there was some kind of -20% limitation to balance it out... |
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10-22-2019, 10:20 PM | #12 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Re: Using Controllable Disadvantage [Perks]
Interesting, Controllable Disadvantage (Alternate Form) is a possibility, if you use the uncontrollable form rules from Horror. I guess it would serve as an emergency 'berserk' button, with the character turning into a bestial entity when they have no other choice. While it would not be a great idea to turn into a monstrous cannibalistic wolfman under normal circumstances, it would be a nasty surprise when captured by your enemies.
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10-23-2019, 04:24 AM | #14 | |
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Re: Using Controllable Disadvantage [Perks]
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Flashbacks are uncontrollable and yet they're listed as one of the examples for the Controllable Disadvantage Perk. In fact, the one Disadvantage that can be triggered at Will, Berserk, is explicitly off limits. Further, I'd go out on a limb and say that Berserk is the only Disad in Basic that is self-triggerable, all the others are either Always On, or have Self-Control rolls that are out of the Players hands... so I have no idea what you mean by "uncontrollable disadvantage" as they are all ('cepting Berserk) uncontrollable. [EDIT] Shadow Form. Right... so I'd say Advantages that are Disadvantages only because they cannot be turned off or Disadvantages that are self-triggerable already, are ineligible for the Controllable Disadvantage Perk. [/EDIT] Last edited by evileeyore; 10-23-2019 at 04:32 AM. |
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10-23-2019, 05:37 AM | #15 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Re: Using Controllable Disadvantage [Perks]
Yes, Shadow Form would be an exception because the disadvantage is that you are always in Shadow Form. The disadvantage in Alternate Form is that you have no control over the actions of the Alternate Form, and the Alternate Form is your Enemy, meaning that your only options are on and off. It is a bit like the early Hulk.
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10-23-2019, 10:43 AM | #16 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: Using Controllable Disadvantage [Perks]
I mean, when the name of the disadvantage includes uncontrollable...
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10-23-2019, 11:18 AM | #17 |
Join Date: Feb 2011
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Re: Using Controllable Disadvantage [Perks]
I generally feel that it might be more in the spirit of things to get the useful traits of disadvantages with their negative traits as Nuisance Effects. Though I suppose that the ability to bloomp out like a life raft is more simply written as "Controllable Disadvantage: Fat."
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10-23-2019, 01:04 PM | #18 | |
Join Date: Aug 2018
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Re: Using Controllable Disadvantage [Perks]
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Mechanically isn't it something like you make a Will/HT roll hourly with a cumulative -1 to stay in the state? But once you actually turn it on, are you locked-in for the full hour until your next roll comes and you can opt to lose on purpose? If you can opt out at any time then I see the point. |
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10-23-2019, 02:40 PM | #19 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Re: Using Controllable Disadvantage [Perks]
In the case of a disadvantageous Alternate Form, your character becomes an Enemy NPC under the control of the GM, so it is up to the GM when they switch it off and return control to you.
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10-23-2019, 02:45 PM | #20 |
Join Date: Jan 2009
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Re: Using Controllable Disadvantage [Perks]
I would dispute that this one is possible, since a Controllable Disadvantage is controllable by *you*, and once you become an extreme fanatic you don't want to stop being one, because you're an extreme fanatic.
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