Proper Limitation to make Affliction a touch attack

nerdvana · 03-30-2011, 04:03 PM

Is it Contact Agent or Melee Attack (C range)? Both are -30% so I figure it doesn't "really" matter what the official answer is, but I'm curious which is "right" for this.

mlangsdorf · 03-30-2011, 04:06 PM

Melee reduces it to a touch attack.

Contact Agent can be applied to ranged or melee attacks, and requires that the attack hit bare skin. It is stopped by any DR that isn't Tough skin. You definitely don't want to use Contact Agent to represent a melee attack.

PK · 03-30-2011, 04:16 PM

Use Melee Attack to make it a touch-only attack. Then you also add Contact Agent (for a total of -60% or -65%) if you have to touch bare skin.

nerdvana · 03-30-2011, 04:27 PM

This is to emulate haveing to touch an object you are enchanting magically, so this sounds like Melee Attack (-30%), Contact Agent (-30%) and some sort of Accessiblity. I currently have the accessiblity set to -30% for "Properly crafted object. Does this sound right?

David Johnston2 · 03-30-2011, 04:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nerdvana

This is to emulate haveing to touch an object you are enchanting magically, so this sounds like Melee Attack (-30%), Contact Agent (-30%) and some sort of Accessiblity. I currently have the accessiblity set to -30% for "Properly crafted object. Does this sound right?

Contact Agent functionally limits acceptable targets to living things. Anything that has DR but not the skin armor limitation can't be contacted.

03-30-2011, 04:03 PM	#1
nerdvana Join Date: Nov 2006	Proper Limitation to make Affliction a touch attack Is it Contact Agent or Melee Attack (C range)? Both are -30% so I figure it doesn't "really" matter what the official answer is, but I'm curious which is "right" for this.

03-30-2011, 04:06 PM	#2
mlangsdorf Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Austin, TX	Re: Proper Limitation to make Affliction a touch attack Melee reduces it to a touch attack. Contact Agent can be applied to ranged or melee attacks, and requires that the attack hit bare skin. It is stopped by any DR that isn't Tough skin. You definitely don't want to use Contact Agent to represent a melee attack.

03-30-2011, 04:16 PM	#3
PK Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Dobbstown Sane Asylum	Re: Proper Limitation to make Affliction a touch attack Use Melee Attack to make it a touch-only attack. Then you also add Contact Agent (for a total of -60% or -65%) if you have to touch bare skin. __________________ Reverend Pee Kitty of the Order Malkavian-Dobbsian (Twitter) (LJ) MyGURPS: My house rules and *GURPS* resources. #SJGamesLive: I answered questions about *GURPS After the End* and more! {Watch Video} - {Read Transcript}

03-30-2011, 04:27 PM	#4
nerdvana Join Date: Nov 2006	Re: Proper Limitation to make Affliction a touch attack This is to emulate haveing to touch an object you are enchanting magically, so this sounds like Melee Attack (-30%), Contact Agent (-30%) and some sort of Accessiblity. I currently have the accessiblity set to -30% for "Properly crafted object. Does this sound right?