Perky
 

Before I forget . . .

And yeah, I'm sure this is the first of many like it.

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Yay, first reply! (Must hurry!)

Perkfect...

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Merchandising, thy name is Kromm!!

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Must... HAVE!

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just got.....printing now, then retiring to the "office" for a quick read >)

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I'm not even at home and I'm rushing out to buy it.

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this begs the question to where are you rushing? or are you being metaphorical?

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Nowadays you can rush while seated in front of a computer... rushing to the website, etc...

The wonders of flacid modernity...

Or maybe Bruno has a Perk about it.

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Buying it now. I love perks and can't wait to see twenty pages of them . . .

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Got it, printing it out. Looks like a nice 22 page read if I'm among those waiting for the last arrivals at Saturday's table top game...

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Actually, it's my Absent Mindedness kicking in, I ended up rushing around the house looking for my purse, because I had no idea where I'd left it.

But I've found the purse, bought the PDF, and read it. And it is awesome. Now to put together a shopping list of Stuff I'd Love My DF Character To Get Eventually, and see how many of them my GM likes, and how many makes him want to burn my character sheet.

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Ah, I see that there is Reach Mastery. This pleases me.

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And just finished it. Lots of very useful stuff in there. Everything from Supers and DF (two sources of some great perks), plus all the obvious stuff from Basic and MA, and a significant amount of new ones. Not quite as "gee whiz" as Powerups 1 was, but definitely more generally useful.

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I bet... nº1 I'm not even very curious about, this one I must have!
(Perk's are just so damned fun!)

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Yes. This first one is mostly "all the published perks in one place" plus "all the perks Kromm ever made up in the forums" (seriously, you can go check -- I was keeping a list and checking it twice). The next one will no doubt have more off-the-wall and contributed perks. I just wanted to lay a foundation.

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I like this direction -- especially using e23 as the vehicle.

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If this is supposed to have all published perks, wouldn't it also be updated to include all the perks in its own sequels?

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Nice try. :) It's specifically everything up to a given quarter ("spring 2008").

Re: Perky - Possible Errata
 

While working on making a GDF file for this I noticed a possible minor omission, the perk is quite specific for the Transhuman Space campaign. Anyway, here is the perk (from page 23 on Shell-Tech):

Physically attractive in a stylized, abstract way (+1 reactions from people with a taste for stylish design who haven’t seen the model much before).

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Beautiful. I hereby vote with my money and my post to the effect that this is exactly the sort of thing I want.

--K

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Should really have said something like this in my post above. I fully agree!

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I used my dad's credit card to buy it. Of course, it's only 5 weak US dollars and I'm going to give them back in some hours (it's 3 AM here in Italy). Oh, wait, and outside the window I can see the full moon!
Kromm's awesomeness officially turned me into a werethief.

This could actually become a psycho punch line... "Kromm made me do it!" Ya ya, Kromm Niggurath!

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Another minor errata
 

Page 21 has "Special Exercises (HP can exceed FP by 100%)" which should be "Special Exercises (HP can exceed ST by 100%)" unless Martial Arts p. 51 is wrong.

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It's like Christmas came early. I spend 3 weeks away from my computer, and come back to Thaumaturgy (or whatever it's called) PDFs. Then, I brows the forums and find Krommity Perkity Goodness is also out as PDF. Call me Google, 'cause I'm feeling lucky.

Re: Another minor errata
 

Submit it as errata, posting on the forum doesn't often resolve errata.

Re: Perky
 

Done, and now I've learned how to...

Re: Perky
 

Another fisherman sails off... ;)

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No, you're right. "HP can exceed ST," not "HP can exceed FP." I have no clue how that error happened!

Re: Perky
 

Controlled Disadvantage specifically excludes Berserk. So, how would you price a controlled berserk who never goes Berserk under normal conditions* except by his own will, still has to roll to snap out of it if he triggers it on purpose?

*Abnormal conditions would be those which require control rolls at penalty or reduce them by a step, in which case I;m fine with treating the "base" control roll as 15.

GEF

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Take DR with Tough Skin and Temporary Disadvantage: Berserk. :)

Some stuff just has to be done the hard way.

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Hmm, do the same with a level of Temperature Tolerance, and of course you'd need Switchable...and it's perk-priced with the bonus that while you're ragin', you don't feel the cold. And unlike DR, TT is not an exotic advantage.

GEF

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Well, sure. But I always thought that barbarianish DR is more appropriate. Remember that between Telegraphic Attacks of the enemy and the lack of Active Defenses, you WILL be hit. And I think that once you're in TD-taking territory, you're allowed X advantages anyway.

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I think that there's no actual rules saying you aren't allowed X advantages. ;)

X advantages are just fine for fantasy and cyberpunk games anyways, depending on the explanations behind them and world assumptions. It's doubtful you'll see many "successful" berserkers in the real world, unless they have a high HP and high ST -- to be able to utterly destroy any enemy they strike and last longer, you see.

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True, the X mark is a note to GMs. It basically means that such traits require more levels of GM Permission than other traits.

Oh, and Berserker should probably cost -15 or even -20, as now we have Telegraphic Attacks which are essentially free bonuses against berserkers.

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I ordered mine yesterday. Now the long wait for e23 to get accept my paypal.

Can't wait to read it

*edit* Got mine. I'm certainly going to bestow some of these to the characters of my current campaign.

I'm thinking No Physical Damage page 11 for our "fighter", Accent page 12 for our "ranger", Patience of Job pg 13 for our "wizard", and finally Clothing Shticks Cloak for our flamboyant "thief"

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Got mine as well.

The best thing is, strangely, that there's a lot of perks not included in this book. This means that ANOTHER ONE is expected, with another 22 pages of great stuff!

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>>Paypal payment confirmed, file downloaded, customer pleased.
>>...
>>Have rinsed, awaiting repeat.
>>...

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No, I'd say that now that we have Telegraphic Attack, Berserk is fairly priced. Before that, it was a way to get something close to Supernatural Durability for negative cost.

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Well, so far I don't see people willing to buy Berserk (12) for [-15], even in low-tech. In high-tech, where a failed Active Defense usually means slow bleeding death, people don't even talk about it because it's no longer even a heroic death.

BTW, did I understand correctly that it is not possible to buy a Perk which grants switchable Berserk. If so, why? It's probably the prime candidate for those 1-pt Advantages bought just to be able to switch it and its Temporary Disadvantages back in the age when there were no switchable disadvantage perks.

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Berserk has a built-in control mechanism: you can turn it on with Will rolls and turn it off with more rolls. More to the point, Berserk is purely beneficial if it has no chance of going off when you don't want it to go off, and the benefits are worth considerably more than 1 point.

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Okay, so how would you price it? Because currently, the RAW method of getting this result is a one-point switchable advantage with a TD:Berserk limitation.

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Currently, you'd build an Affliction that grants you the Berserk disad. Since Afflictions are under the attacker's control, you could turn it off when it became inconvenient. Suitable use of Accessibility to limit it to zero-range use on oneself can make this quite cheap, but not 1 point.

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Hmm. Weird. Makes one consider choosing a Terminating Condition wisely. ;)

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My favorite is Efficient. Applied to Running, It is much cheaper than buying up basic move. It is also fun for many dramatic skills like Explosives, Engineering, and First Aid.

I never really got Power Grappling. Is it very useful?

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I just picked this up this afternoon. I think its great. I think Base is pretty handy, but Masked made me LOL - literally.

Re: Perky
 

Loved the PDF, but it does seem to be missing the Nonprotective Clothing Clothing Shtick from Supers...