[The Last Gasp] A Cherry Blossom Rain playtest

[Sunrunners_Fire]

Originally Posted by Keiko

What are Action Points?

Pyramid 3/44, pg 4 - pg 13.

[Refplace]

Originally Posted by Keiko

What are Action Points?

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

[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.

[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).

[DangerousThing]

Thanks much, Mailanka.

I will probably start a new thread on this subject shortly.