03-30-2021, 06:41 PM | #191 |
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Re: You enter a portal and gain 25 Character points.
Of course not. The GM gets to declare when a character may falter, all the way from "never" to "confronted by a housecat" and beyond. If the GM wants to declare that may a character crumbles when threatened by a thug, they can. They can also declare that a character faces literally no penalty when facing a thug. They also get to declare a fantasy adventurer needs to make a fright check after a ride down the interstate, and doesn't when seeing a grisly corpse.
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03-30-2021, 06:43 PM | #192 | |
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Re: You enter a portal and gain 25 Character points.
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03-30-2021, 06:46 PM | #193 | |
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The more reasonable character build for life and death challenges, with Will 12+, Combat Reflexes and Soldier at IQ+2 is significantly more likely to make all necessary checks to be able to act despite being shot at, caught in a burning building or other frightening situations.
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03-30-2021, 07:16 PM | #194 | |
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Re: You enter a portal and gain 25 Character points.
Except as written, they are:
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03-30-2021, 07:56 PM | #195 | |
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Zero point features don't have mechanical benefits.
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03-30-2021, 08:38 PM | #196 | |
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Re: You enter a portal and gain 25 Character points.
There's also the big thing to remember; Given a large enough sampling of (say) characters with attributes of 9 across the board, you will hear success stories about them. It's no different than hearing about people winning a lottery, sometimes the dice are just with you.
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03-31-2021, 05:03 AM | #197 | |
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That being said this mostly only applies to more universally perturbing things like corpses and seeing a Dragon (assuming it does not have DnD Style fear aura) I mean if say your used to doing business with Dragons, or even hailing from a valley that had a Dragon protector, you aren't going to have to make a Fright Check, but if you don't even think they exist and have only ever heard horrible tales of the giant fire breathing reptiles, yeah, Fright Check. |
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