[The Last Gasp] A Cherry Blossom Rain playtest

[DangerousThing]

One thing that I'd like to ask you: how did you define Flash Step for your initial play test?

It would fit my current campaign.

[Humabout]

Awesome to read this report. I've only gotten to try out Last Gasp once so far in earnest and found that it didn't slow things down at all, either, and that was with players who are relatively new to gurps (they'd read Gurps Lite and played through one adventure prior to this). So while we had a pretty similar experience to Mailanka's (was easily worth the tiny extra bookkeeping), it is also pretty intuitive even for new gurpsites.

[Keiko]

What are Action Points?

[Sunrunners_Fire]

Originally Posted by Keiko

What are Action Points?

Pyramid 3/44, pg 4 - pg 13.

[DouglasCole]

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire

Pyramid 3/44, pg 4 - pg 13.

Action Points are a measure of short-term fatigue, introduced in the aforementioned Pyramid issue. They're a way to regulate longer combats, by giving something that must be expended to take many common actions. Ideally, they're supposed to create lulls and flurries in combat.

[Keiko]

Sounds interesting. Thanks!

[Humabout]

They are a thing of awesomeness. It makes combat feel like a lot less of "I attack again and again and again!" and more like an actual fight where people get tired.

[Refplace]

Originally Posted by Keiko

What are Action Points?

Ity is from ther Pyramid Article "The Last Gasp"
Essentially there short term FP

[vierasmarius]

Originally Posted by DangerousThing

One thing that I'd like to ask you: how did you define Flash Step for your initial play test?

It would fit my current campaign.

This probably wasn't the right thread to ask that question (though I thank you for reviving it; I had somehow missed reading it the first time around). From what I gather, Cherry Blossom Rain, while heroic in nature, doesn't go so over-the-top as to include teleporting ninjas. Flash Step has been addressed elsewhere, though. A quick search turns up these two threads you may want to check out.

[Mailanka]

Originally Posted by DangerousThing

One thing that I'd like to ask you: how did you define Flash Step for your initial play test?

It would fit my current campaign.

Flash Step is really just Heroic Charge redefined as a cinematic skill (I find Heroic Charge too powerful as a default option, but its mobility is excellent for an over-the-top game like Cherry Blossom Rain). For one Fatigue, you can make a move and attack. Your opponent needs to succeed at a Quick Contest of Perception vs your Flash Step roll, or a run-around attack counts as an attack from behind (Importantly, CBR uses the rule that all characters with Trained by a Master or Weapon Master can defend against attacks from behind, making Flash Step a mook-killer, but not a sure-fire way to murder named NPCs). You can apply a -5 to double your move on a flash step, or -10 to triple it. Using Flash Step counts as an Acrobatic Action for your first defense (that is, if you succeed at Flash Step, you gain a +2 to defend against the next attack).