03-13-2019, 10:51 PM | #1 |
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Super Strength Alternative?
So I have given a little thought to an alternate way of handling super strength. Other than Super Effort, would a enhanced Strength advantage suit supers well? Basically modifying the enhanced move advantage and basing it around your st, so 25 CP/level? So double the ST attribute for each level you buy into it. What do you all think? Keep in mind I am relatively new to GURPS.
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03-13-2019, 11:54 PM | #2 | |
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Re: Super Strength Alternative?
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I'd recommend not increasing your HP as part of this. Moving fast boosts your collision damage, but doesn't give you more HP to help survive it.
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03-14-2019, 01:43 AM | #3 |
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Re: Super Strength Alternative?
If you'd like to play with a fully worked-out scheme of the sort you mention, try this:
http://www.gamesdiner.com/rules-nugg...er-cost-for-st In short, it uses a clever pricing scheme (credit as noted; not my invention!) that keeps normal GURPS ST scores and effects unchanged, but reduces costs at higher levels so that every 50 points multiplies BL by about 2. Every 300 points multiplies ST by exactly 10, and BL by exactly 100. Benefits:
Drawbacks:
Anyway. I don't claim it's what you're looking for, but you might find it interesting.
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03-14-2019, 02:51 AM | #4 |
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Re: Super Strength Alternative?
The benefit of using Enhanced ST as an advantage is that you can add modifiers to it.
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03-14-2019, 09:37 AM | #5 |
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Re: Super Strength Alternative?
I'd recommend KYOS though you really need to adjust a few other things if you're dropping in higher ST damage and logarithmic lifting capacity, and there is a working thread here with some example characters.
http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=161407 |
03-14-2019, 10:32 AM | #6 |
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03-14-2019, 11:24 AM | #7 |
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Re: Super Strength Alternative?
I find that a combination of Lifting ST, Striking ST, Energy Reserve, and Optional Rule (Godlike Extra Effort) works out well. For example, if you had Lifting ST+10 (Reliable+10, +50%) [45], Striking ST+10 (Reliable+10, +50%) [75], ER 20 [60], and Optional Rule (Godlike Extra Effort) [1], you could increase Lifting ST or Striking ST by +100 with a 90% chance of success (a character with Will 20 could increase by +200 for the same FP cost). In total, the cost 181 CP, which is less than the comparable Super-ST cost of 300 CP (the ER can also be used for other powers). Of course, Super-ST costs less FP per use, so there is a balance that exists.
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03-14-2019, 12:44 PM | #8 |
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Re: Super Strength Alternative?
I prefer KYOS over Super Effort on ST, I have found it very affordable and reasonable on damage.
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03-14-2019, 11:11 PM | #9 | |
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The way I'd state the problem is that ST beyond the human range stops being an attribute and starts being a power, and there really is a law of diminishing returns. Say you can carry a ton, in your backpack. The backpack can't hold a ton. A backpack that could wouldn't fit through a door. What about a dekaton? It's one thing if you can fly, with the weight dangling beneath you, but if you can't, how do you balance the load? If you try to lift a 10-tone truck, do you raise the whole vehicle or does a piece break off in your hand? The more ST you have beyond the human range, the less opportunity you have to use it. What I initially did in my last supers campaign was clunkier than t-bone's idea. Later I changed back to rules-as-written, which is still clunky but here's how it works: I was more concerned about damage than lift; I wanted the strongest bricks to be able to punch through the front armor of a modern tank, around DR 2k. Heck, the mentalists could mind-control the crew. It was possible with a focused brick build to get about ST 80 - that's 140pt with a max load of limitations. Per Technical Grappling, Wrestling at DX+4 gives Trained ST +30%, or 104, to calculate control points, and Trained by a Master doubles the control points. You can grab both legs and one hand, for effective ST 176 in the grapple, and improve the grapple to maximum control points over a couple of turns. Then use your free and to punch with a triple-strength Power Blow, using the grab-and-smash rule to convert accumulated control points to extra damage. The punch itself would get +2 per die for Karate and +1 per die for Blunt Claws and +1 per die for All-Out Attack. You also need a Breaking Blow to divide damage by 5. The Power Blow takes -10 for triple strength, but you can take your time, and the Breaking Blow takes -10 for being instantaneous, no Concentrate maneuver, which is why you can do it with Power Blow. Obviously, you need ludicrously high Breaking Blow and Power Blow skills, which takes Will (Accessibility: Breaking and Power Blow Only), and the Perk Attribute Substitution: Breaking Blow based on Will. See? Clunky. But it does allow a 500pt brick to punch through a tank's front armor using RAW, and it gets there at lower cost than Super Effort. GEF |
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03-15-2019, 05:09 AM | #10 |
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Re: Super Strength Alternative?
By the definitions of Supers, a 500 CP character should not take out a tank (that is a d-scale or c-scale type hero activity). Spiderman should not try to take out tanks, that is more Thor or Hulk territory.
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