03-12-2017, 06:49 PM | #21 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#35): Detect
I'm looking at Powers 109 and it is saying "If this normally requires a success roll, activation requires a roll at -4...". Is a sense roll not a success roll?
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#35): Detect
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03-13-2017, 05:56 AM | #23 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#35): Detect
Do you have a thread link? This may as well be uFAQ'd.
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03-13-2017, 06:50 AM | #24 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#35): Detect
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03-13-2017, 07:47 AM | #25 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#35): Detect
If anything, some NPC ordinary people often end up more expensive point wise than PCs
For instance, a DF Knight is 250pts base A random NPC Knight isn't going to be quite as crazy as a PC, both because it seems dubious for Sir Bob the Normal to be that crazy and keep his job, and because no way I want to remember 50pts of disads for some random knight Sir Bob wont be quite as good a fighter as his crazy dungeon dwelling counterpart, so he won't spend quite as much there, but he does need all the status and social and administrative stuff, and general everyman skills of being a functioning member of society And since he doesn't plan to start barely equipped and work his way in play toward godly gear, and is a Settled fellow, he needs to have a steed and knightly harness, so he's Filthy Rich to Multimillionaire So a representative garden knight might weigh in at 300 odd points The PCs in games I run won't necessarily be any higher point than Sir Bob the Garden Variety Knight, but they will be crazier (thus getting points that way) and focused on there own stuff to do, so they can be good at what they do, and an intelligent HR person will hire them to do stuff they are good at |
03-13-2017, 08:16 AM | #26 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#35): Detect
Oops . . . That wasn't for this thread, could it be moved?
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03-14-2017, 06:00 PM | #27 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#35): Detect
So, "Activation" is to "switch" an advantage on, but "use" is to "do" something with an advantage, is that right? If so, then I get Reflexive now.
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03-14-2017, 06:52 PM | #28 |
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03-14-2017, 08:09 PM | #29 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#35): Detect
A player in one of my Supers games had Detect(Criminal) with an enhancement for 99.9% accurate analysis and a limitation of sight. Not as game breaking as it sounds; he could look at someone and determine "criminal:murderer" or "criminal:jaywalker", but even in a case of a mystery (which never happened), he would have had to do parallel construction to have a legal case since "my magic alien eyes from another planet tell me she did it" doesn't count as evidence. But a million times better than intuition; it was the final straw in deciding whether they should kill Adolf Hitler in an alternate timeline (he was already guilty of conspiracy to commit genocide).
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07-20-2017, 07:11 AM | #30 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#35): Detect
That might be a little bit offtopic but:
Do you really need to know about something that you want to exclude? What I mean: I'm standing at the north gate of a town. I want to detect (and dig out) gold that doesn't belong to anybody yet. So I would like to use my Detect Gold ability on all gold that is north of me (180 degree semicircle). If I only can exclude gold that I know about, I would detect the first purse of a citizen, use my ability again (excluding the first purse) and detect the second purse, and so on. It would take me hundreds or thousands of trials until I've excluded all this gold... and now think that somebody bought something, so the money changed hands / purses... do I still know about this gold, or do I have to begin excluding the new constellations? |
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