04-08-2012, 08:21 PM | #1 |
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GIN Ultra-Lite
As threatened... er, promised? I took a stab at meshing GURPS Ultra-Lite (free at e23) and IN. Now, I'm not the number-cruncher author, so this is seriously quick-and-dirty (I pulled Resource Levels out of my HAT!), but kick this idea around a little for grins...
========== GIN Ultra-Lite. Use 3d6. Sniffle at losing 2d6+6. Use Degree Of Success tables from GIN. Allocate Forces (Corp/Eth/Cel). 9 for angels, 5 for mundanes. Max of 6 Forces in any realm for celestials, 5 in any realm for humans. Minimum of 1 in each realm barring special GM permission for damage/weird backstory/remnants, etc. Corporeal Forces: Str (ST; damage), Dex (DX) Ethereal Forces: Int (IQ), Pre Celestial Forces: Will, Per Each Force gives ONE level in its attendant stats. Level increments are 8/10/12/14/16. Start with *8*, not 10, as default. Buy up with Forces. [Optional: let humans start at 10 and buy up from there. Optional2: let Soldiers (etc.) start at 10 and buy up!] For celestials, Str mostly modifies damage. Cope. ===Resources=== You get 15 levels (aka points) for resources. Choir/Band Attunement is free. Servitor Attunements cost 2 levels each. Distinctions are at the GM's whim. Discord returns 1 level (point) per level of severity. Vessels have 8 hit points + Corporeal Forces; additional HP costs 1 level per increment. HP in other realms = Int, Will; additional HP in that realm costs 1 level per increment. Humans automatically get HP equal to Str; additional HP costs 1 level per increment. Skills cost levels as per GURPS Ultra-Lite. (Four levels max.) Attach to stat (Will, Int, etc.) as per IN, but GM may optionally allow use with a different stat if it seems reasonable. (E.g., combat on the different realms.) Write as Skill/level Stat (+bonus) for maximum complexity! O:D Songs cost levels, max 6. Roll Realm Forces + Song Level (no bonus!), plus performance modifiers as per IN. (Optional: treat as Skills, with a bonus, but disallow performance modifiers.) Use degree-of-success as per GIN. 111 and 666 work as normal. Yes, a 111 on a reaction roll is good for angels, and a 666 bad. Deal with it. Relics and Talismans cost 1 level per increment. Max 6 levels because that's what IN does and that makes it easy to just use IN stuff. Trade 5 Resource Levels for 1 Force (granting its level to the attendant stat). (Optional: Trade 3 Resource Levels for a level in a stat without having a Force. You may do this twice per realm. (So you'd have 16s in both halves.)) ============ Have fun kicking it around!
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04-08-2012, 08:47 PM | #2 |
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Dang! I was expecting something about juniper berry flavored booze when I read the title!
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04-14-2012, 05:57 PM | #3 |
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Oh, what the heck... Melody, from the Lilith PDF, p. 31.
Corp 2: Str 10, Agi 10 Eth 3: Int 10, Pre 12 Cel 4: Will 12, Per 12 {2 Corp Forces = 2 levels to put in the stats, raising each from 8 to 10.} {3 Eth Forces = 3 levels, raising Int from 8 to 10, and Pre from 8 to 12.} {4 Cel Forces = 4 levels, raising both Will and Per from 8 to 12.} {15 levels} Vessel/1 {1 level}, Charismatic (as per GURPS Ultra-Lite) {1 level}, 10 HP Role/1 {1 level} Artistry/1 (guitar): PER+4 (16) Detect Lies/1: PER+4 (16) Dodge/4: AGI/PRE/PER +16 [...!!!!!!!!!!!! I think we're breaking here.] Emote/2: PER+8 (20) [...I'm thinking that skills should give +2 instead...] Fast-Talk/2: WILL+8 (20) [Again, 10 on 2d7 is not 20 on 3d6, methinks!] Fighting/1: STR/INT/WILL +4 (14/14/16) Lying/1: PER+4 (16) Seduction/1: WILL+4 (16) Singing/2: PER+8 (20) Affinity: Celestial/1 CEL+1 (5) Charm: Celestial/3 CEL+3 (7) Healing: Corporeal/1 CORP+1 (3) Motion: Celestial/3 CEL+3 (7) Tongues: Corporeal/1 CORP+1 (3) Discord/9 (geases) = 9 levels. She's spend 27 levels... Should have only 24, but that doesn't negate that her skills are going to be way too scary -- and that her Songs are equal to the IN levels, despite the bell-curve's hump being moved from 7 to 10. Revise: Skills give +2 bonus per level, to both skills and Songs? So Dodge/4 would be +8, or 18/20/20. IN version, that'd be 8/11/12... I think the extremes aren't too bad there, now... Skills give +1 per level? Dodge 4 = +4, or 14/16/16... But then there's Songs going back to ultra-low target numbers. Viable, or better with a +2 for Songs?
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So a starting Celestial who goes for a Jack-of-All-Trades approach will have three of his Attributes at the highest level that a normal human can achieve; and the other three won't be much lower. Ouch. That said, I don't think that you can improve on this as long as you're sticking to the celestials at 9, humans at 5 arrangement. I'll cope. And even with that criticism, I wouldn't have humans (regular or Soldier) start at 10; that's equivalent to granting them six free Forces, which would put them ahead of starting celestials, by two Forces. Quote:
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===== Bottom line: there are a few ideas in here that I really like. But the single biggest change (replacing the d666 with 3d6) is problematic, both aesthetically and in the sense that it introduces a few complications (namely, the need to add 8 to things). |
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But how about this: use In Nomine's usual method for determining characteristics, but start your characteristics at 8 instead of 0. You'll get the same sort of numbers as the method you suggested above. Quote:
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But, working from that... So you get 4 Characteristic-points per Force to spread between the two characteristics, but start at 8 instead of 0... 1 Force = 10, 10 2 Forces = 12, 12 3 Forces = 14, 14 4 Forces = 16, 16 5 Forces = 18, 18 6 Forces = 20, 20 ...I think that starting at 8, but with 4 characteristic-points per Force, is too high. IN celestials can be worse than human-average if they have only 1 Force in a realm, or load their stats weird. If we're throwing out Ultra-Lite's "levels" of 8, 12, etc., we have the option of keeping 1 Force = 4 Characteristic points, but lowering the baseline to 6, which would do 8,10,12,14,16,18. Would probably have to set a minimum of...7? 6? for a characteristic, and max of... 18? 20? Quote:
Add skill level to characteristic... that's looking like a spread of TN 7 (min char. 6 + skill/1) to TN 26 (assuming max char. 20 + skill/6). IN's got enough cinematicness to it that TN 26 isn't thaaaaat bad. (If we force max char of 18, that'd be be TN 24... maybe not worth it?) Now, for humans, if we're assuming 5 Forces, call it a 2-2-1 spread... Corp 2: Str 10, Agi 10 Eth 2: Int 10, Pre 10 Cel 1: Will 8, Per 8. This is arguably not a bad representation of mundane humans in IN. >_> Our mundane J. Average here would have most of his skill target numbers on a spread from 11-16, and his Cel-based ones on a spread from 9-14. His celestial counterpart (9 Forces, in 3/3/3 configuration, so 12s) gets a TN spread of 13-18. That's not bad. I'm not hating that, personally. Celestials are going to generally be better, but a semi-focused mundane can surpass a jack-of-all-trades celestial in his specialty and not be falling on his face all the time. Okay, so, we're divorcing Resource points from Forces. Snicker-snack. How many resource points should we be doing? I pulled 15 out of my hat; celestials will have to buy vessels and extra attunements (if any) from that pool, but they get better characteristics by default so they can just cry me a river. I think you suggested a "green/experienced/expert" selection in the other thread? That would probably be useful, and it fits with the GURPS idea of different point levels. I'd suggest that as a roleplay thing, these guidelines are usually attached to Time Spent On Earth, but a newly-created celestial could be given a lot of skills by direct Superior implantation -- don't let the designations rule out edge-case character design. (Let the GM rule out edge-case character design! Or not...) So... What kind of range should be suggested? 5/10/15/20? 10/15/20? 5/15/25? Next question is Songs... I think Forces+6+skill is going to make them too easy at the average level -- 3+6+[1-6] = 10-16. Forces+skill gives 4-9, though, for Celestial Average. Forcesx2? 7-12 at average? Lemme chart that out... (Can you tell I'm thinking "out loud" all over this thread?) 1 Force = 2+[1-6] = 3-8. Keep rituals as giving a bonus, and I think this is not an impossible range. 2 Forces = 4+[1-6] = 5-10. Getting better; rituals still useful. 3 Forces = 6+[1-6] = 7-12. Not bad. 4 Forces = 8+[1-6] = 9-14. Still not breaking the game. 5 Forces = 10+[1-6] = 11-16. Starting to be scary, but 5 Forces should be? 6 Forces = 12+[1-6] = 13-18. Definitely alarming, but 6 Forces in IN is 7-12 on 2d6, and 12 is a guaranteed success barring Intervention... So a 6-Force whatever-mutant-thing-this-is{1} celestial is a bit better at skill/1, but isn't cracking out the top at skill/6. {Footnote: 'Cause I don't think it's GIN Ultra-Lite anymore. I think it waved bye-bye at the top of this post.}
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Corp 2: Str 11, Agi 11 Eth 2: Int 11, Pre 11 Cel 1: Will 9, Per 9. The average characteristic would be a 10⅓, which is remarkably close to the default of 10 that GURPS uses. If we were allowing fractional Forces (which I wouldn't recommend), we could do something like: Corp 2: Str 11, Agi 11 Eth 1½: Int 10, Pre 10 Cel 1½: Will 10, Per 10. Meanwhile, a starting celestial with an even spread would be: Corp 3: Str 13, Agi 13 Eth 3: Int 13, Pre 13 Cel 3: Will 13, Per 13 That's one point less than the 14 that GIN suggests. Quote:
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04-16-2012, 09:22 AM | #9 |
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Hmmm. I'm not sure we want to make Human Minimum Average into a 9 -- it feels kind of high to me. (And dicing Forces into thirds is a non-starter, yeah.) I think handing humans a few extra characteristic points...
There's an idea, actually. Since we've kind of wandered off from GURPS entirely now, and are more in 3d6 IN land, and the idea of Resource Points are now being based on Desired Power Level of the game and/or in-character justifications, what about handing humans a few extra characteristic points based on their purpose in the game? E.g., J. Random Mook has no extra characteristics, and is a 2/2/1 configuration with Will 8, Per 8 (or Will 6, Per 10/Will 10, Per 6, etc.); easy to possess, tends not to notice the celestial shellgame. Important NPC has 2 to 4 (2-3?) extra characteristic points, which will probably be spent raising Will and Per a bit more. Player Character Human Mundane has 4 extra characteristic points, to be spent as desired, and Player Character Human Soldier gets 4 (3?) extra points plus another Force. (I'm not worried about matching the default celestial stats to 14, though I hadn't thought of that aspect and it's definitely a point. But using IN skills at a +1-for-1 level, rather than GURPS skills where you start at less-than-stat and go up, means working with a 12 as average gives a slightly more pleasant feel for the skill levels, I think? Also, at 14 in 3d6IN, I'm not sure there's as much "resource-management" give-and-take to assigning characteristics.) Resource Points... Regular IN starts with 9x4 (for celestials), or 36... Yeah, 20 per "experience level" sounds like a good place to start kicking things around; humans no longer get freebie skills, I'd think? But they don't have to buy a vessel, either. Soooooo, Skill Defaults! I'm thinking... double the penalty in the IN core rules? Or would that cripple humans too much?
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I'll have to review the default penalties; I don't really recall what they are, but if they're in the -1 to -3 range I could see doubling them. If they're already in the -1 to -6 range, I'd leave them be. More importantly though, I'd put the "burden of proof" on doubling them. |
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