[D20 to GURPS] Burnt Offerings Conversions

[Dragondog]

Originally Posted by Landwalker

* Why is that? Shouldn't the fact that it is a follow-up to a melee attack make it a Melee Attack? Shouldn't it still need Blood Agent, since it only works if it penetrates the target's DR (I don't see anything in the Follow-Up enhancement description that says a successful "carrier attack" that hits, but which does no damage due to DR, still delivers the Follow-up effect)?

Perhaps I should have said, cannot have, rather than doesn't need, to make this clearer.

"A Follow-Up attack need only list its damage amount and type. All other details depend on the carrier attack." B105

Thus, if the carrier is a melee attack, the follow-up is also a melee attack and cannot have that limitation.

As both Follow-up and Blood Agent are "penetration modifiers" you can only have one of them.

* That's the intention. The mechanical goal is to allow the Wrathspawn to make two attacks per round: A DWA with both claws, followed by a Bite (which would use Brawling and be the Extra Attack in this case).

I'm not sure what kind of limitation that would be, not that it matters when constructing a NPC.

Affliction 1 [10 base] — Mild Wrath (-2 to DX, IQ, and Self-Control; halved for characters with Pacifism; automatically forces a Bad Temper roll for characters with that disadvantage) [+20%]; Follow-Up (Bite) [+0%]; Resisted by Will [+20%]; Symptom: Severe Wrath (As above, but -4 to rolls, and non-Pacifist characters cannot take All-Out Defense; 1/3 basic HP, x3) [+120%]; Symptom: Terrible Wrath (As Severe Wrath, but -6 to rolls, and non-Pacifists cannot make Defensive Attacks; 1/2 basic HP, x2) [+80%]; Symptom: Fury (As Terrible Wrath, but non-Pacifists also immediately suffer Berserk (with a base SC of 6, which causes automatic failure due to Terrible Wrath); 2/3 basic HP, x1) [+20%]

This way you will have Mild Wrath as soon as you are afflicted and only as long as the affliction lasts. When you've lost 1/3HP you will also have Severe Wrath which will last until you have more than 2/3HP even if the affliction and the Mild Wrath effect has ended by then. Severe Wrath will be replaced by more severe Wrath effects as you lose more HP.

Originally Posted by Kuroshima

Personally, I would create a new irritant condition, on the same scale than Pain (and with a single advantage or disadvantage that makes halves the penalties, in this case, I think that it would be Pacifism).

We'd also need a trait to double the effect. Bad Temper seems to be the best fit. Unless the limited choices balances that.