DreadStormers (OOC)

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Hello,

I noticed these points you are talking about, GnomesOfZurich helped me noticing some of them. I made changes before you posted this review; I guess the character is better now, but I will elaborate on your comments and post the character again:

Mental ST was duplicated because I missed changing the name of the per based mental st to "PSI-observation".

Since I moved some CP to the skill pool, I overlooked the costs and had the thought my PSI powers added the 100 points, I realized this and changed it already.

After I noticed the missing CP on the PSI powers, I upgraded the PSI attack. I scrapped striking ST and increased the innate attack's damage output. I had to change the type of damage and to remove a "mundane" advantage to do so; but I think it is much better now.

I roughly conceive vibration sense as the ability to scan areas from a safe distance and also to fight in the dark. Something similar would be Halo's promethean vision. On the other hand, precognitive parry is based on the "mundane" trained by a master and danger sense advantages. So, I moved danger sense to PSI abilities and turned it into an alternative ability for vibration sense, it has an enhancement to keep its passive-reflexive nature (details on the character sheet).

Finally, you are right about the points for jobs; I lowered them when I raised IQ and forgot about that fact.

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Please refer to this post.

[Jairden]

Hello. Trying to find a place to play. Is there any available room in this game? If not, sorry to pester!

[ericthered]

Psi: Extra FP 2 [6];
Question: Are we going to spend FP when activating skills?

Only when performing stunts. Which I encourage.

Dual-Weapon Attack (PSI) -3 [2] 15

I'm not really convinced that's a psi skill.

The only psychokinesis you have right now is the psi blade. I'd really like it if she had a few alternate abilities on that power. Not expensive ones, but ones to show its a power set and not a lone ability.

I'm curious if you're set on the innate attack have a divisor of 10 at all times, or could you save some points by only accessing it via a stunt? you won't normally need to be stabbing through armor.

http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.p...6&postcount=11

Thank you for the reference.

Sanitized Metabolism [1];

You know, given how much of this game has been spent on or around toilets, this might actually matter.

I haven't double checked your math yet, and I'm still a little nervous about how she'll handle laser beams, but the character is looking mostly done.

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by Jairden

Hello. Trying to find a place to play. Is there any available room in this game? If not, sorry to pester!

I'd say yes at this point.

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Originally Posted by ericthered

(...) I'm still a little nervous about how she'll handle laser beams, but the character is looking mostly done.

Thank you, how will you handle defences? In other words, if I dodge a burst of 10 laser beams, am I going to dodge them all by succeeding the roll, or am I going to dodge a number of laser beams accordingly to my margin of success?

I plan to defend like this: With a successful precognitive parry roll, I can parry beams as if I were parrying a melee weapon attack (MA:62). I have a parry of 16, and with karate I can parry twice without penalties, besides this I have acrobatic dodge, retreats and feverish defences (if you allow feverish defences). On the tactical side, with vibration sense I can perceive my enemies without facing them directly, I can scan areas while moving around the ship and pick the most convenient locations or routes during a battle. Finally, I have included a new ability to become stealthier and harder to hit (obscure) so in combination with a successful stealth roll, diversions and my ally’s photorefraction and PK shield abilities I can boost my battle proficiency even more.

I am taking note of your comments; I will try to improve the character accordinlgy:

Spoiler:  

Please refer to this post.

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by Hide

Thank you, how will you handle defences? In other words, if I dodge a burst of 10 laser beams, am I going to dodge them all by succeeding the roll, or am I going to dodge a number of laser beams accordingly to my margin of success?

I plan to defend like this: With a successful precognitive parry roll, I can parry beams as if I were parrying a melee weapon attack (MA:62). I have a parry of 16, and with karate I can parry twice without penalties, besides this I have acrobatic dodge, retreats and feverish defences (if you allow feverish defences). On the tactical side, with vibration sense I can perceive my enemies without facing them directly, I can scan areas while moving around the ship and pick the most convenient locations or routes during a battle. Finally, I have included a new ability to become stealthier and harder to hit (obscure) so in combination with a successful stealth roll, diversions and my ally’s photorefraction and PK shield abilities I can boost my battle proficiency even more.

I was planning on using the standard recoil and dodge rules for lasers. Letting players dodge 2 hits per success by 1 might be on the table, as laser recoil is so low.

However, for the third or fourth time: "psychokinesis cannot parry lasers". I saw that you were planning to jedi your way through the enemy early on, which is awesome, but psychokinesis can't parry lasers. I suppose ergokinesis might be able to. Ergokinesis would leave you unable to parry bullets, but those will be rarer. That could possibly focus your abilities more, with the new ergokinesis build.

In order to get precognative parry you need ESP: danger sense as ergokinesis won't work. However, if the hand blade is ergokinesis, that brings everything into two powers.

[Kalzazz]

Do you have a pregen I might be able to use or would Gnome or TGLS be able to help me with one?

[ericthered]

I actually made three pregens back when I thought the game wasn't going to be run. They are made fairly simply, literal action characters with a 100 point psionic package and the 30 points of job and flavor. They are:

• Angelica "Ox" Smith: Talker Template, Telekinetic, Hyperspace engineer, grew up as a street rat
• Markly "Nile" Hysop: Infiltrator, Precog, Laser Mechanic, grew up on a world with native amphibious aliens
• Chen "Tiger" Zirboth Shooter, Traitor maker, Gunner, grew up as a urban parkor kid (or so his flavor skills tell me. I don't remember what the intent was)

You can of course mix and match their pieces, overwrite them, and so on. Daymar is already a Traitor Maker and I think Hua is based on the infiltrator template, but I think the combinations make them unique enough. Also, I posted the premade psi packages in post #20


I hope you find that helpful

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PACIFICA DEL ÇID (380)

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Sex: Female. Height: 5' 2". Weight: 109 lb. Age: 21
Hair: Ginger blonde. Eyes: Green. Skin: Fair-skinned, slightly freckled. Hand: Left.

ATTRIBUTES:
ST 10 [0]; DX 12 [40]; IQ 13 [60]; HT 12 [20]

SECONDARY CHARACTERISTICS:
Dmg 1d-2/1d; BL 20 lb; HP 10 [0]; Will 13 [0]; Per 13 [0]; FP 12 [0]; Basic Speed 6 [0]; Basic Move 6 [0]

ADVANTAGES:

(1) Advantages [118]:
Appearance [4];
Combat Reflexes [15];
Eidetic Memory (Photographic) [10];
Enhanced Parry (Bare hands) 3 [15];
Fit [5];
High Pain Threshold [10];
Language: Zorbani [6];
Luck [15];
Resistant [10]; Ingested poison and drugs, +8 to all rolls to resist (*.5) [5]
Talent (Craftiness) 3 [15]; Skills: Acting, Disguise, Filch, Holdout, Shadowing, Stealth. (Note: Swapped camouflage with filch, since it fits the setting more appropriately).
Trained by a Master [30]; Unarmed only (-40%) [18]

(2) PSI [80]

PSI Perks:
Card Sharp [1];
EVP [1];
Exposition Sense [1];
Know it All [1];

Psi: Innate Attack 2 (Toxic) [4]; ST-BASED (100%); Melee, Karate (-20%); PSI (-10%); Dual (10%); Irresistible attack (300%); Radiation (0%) *; Surge (20%) [40].
This attack employs ergokinesis to produce ionizing radiation, which occurs in waves or particles. It allows the user to attack and inflict toxic + radioactive damage on the target, and can also parry energy attacks (e.g. beams). * Radiation is 0% as established by the GM.

Psi: Obscure 4 [6]; Defensive (50%); Extended (Infravision) (+20%); Anti-Targeting (-20%); PSI (-10%); Requires IQ Roll (-10%); [11];
This ergokinetic ability works with an IQ based Displacement (H) roll; providing a -4 to hit (-1 per level).

Psi: Vibration Sense [10]; PSI (-10%); Sense of Perception [100%]; Requires Per Roll (-5%); [19];
Alternative ability: Psi: Danger Sense [15]; Instantaneous activation (2/5); PSI (-10%); Requires IQ Roll (-5%); [6].
Vibration Sense (sense of perception) and danger sense are ESP abilities that work with a PSI Observation (H) roll. The cost of the alternative ability as of this post.

(3) Perks/Features [3];

Cultural Familiarity (Zorbani) [1];
Deep Sleeper [1];
Sanitized Metabolism [1];
Features: Sterile, Distichiasis, Physiological Anisocoria [0];
 
DISADVANTAGES:

(4) Disadvantages [-57];

Code of Honour (Roman) [-10]; Encompasses three key virtues. Virtus (manliness) means facing hardship, pain, or peril without complaint or hesitation. Pietas (piety) means showing respect for one’s ancestors and elders and one's traditions. Fides (trustworthiness) means keeping one’s promises.

Duty (Dread Stormers) [-20];
Fanaticism (The Order) [-15];
Gluttony [-2]; CR:15.
Obsession [-5]; CR:15. “Seeker of ‘the Truth’, Is this the really ‘the way’?
Sense of Duty (Adventuring companions) [-5];

Quirks [-5];
Broad-Minded [-1];
Decisive [-1];
Likes firearms [-1];
Likes books [-1];
Slightly Unusual Biochemistry [-1];

SKILLS [121]:

(1) Combat [55];
Acrobatic Stand (Acrobatics) +0 [6]-14; Acrobatics DX+2 [12]-14; Fast-Draw (Pistol) DX+1 [1]-13; Guns/TL (Pistol) DX+2 [4]-14; Karate DX+6 [28]-18; DWA (Karate) -3 [2]-15; Wrestling DX+0 [2]-12;

(2) Undercover [7];
Acting IQ+2 [1]-15; Disguise/TL IQ+2 [1]-15; Filch DX+2 [1]-14; Holdout IQ+2 [1]-15; Shadowing IQ+2 [1]-15; Stealth IQ+3 [2]-15; (all these skills have a +3 talent bonus from craftiness).

(3) Flavour [10];
Connoisseur (Literature) IQ+0 [2]-13; Gambling/TL IQ+1 [4]-14; Singing HT+2 [4]-14;

(4) PSI Skills [20]:
Displacement IQ+1 [8]-14; Mental Strength Will+1 [2]-14; PSI Observation Per+1 [8]-14; Precognitive Parry IQ+2 [2]-15 (+3 from enhanced parry);

(5) Complementary [15];
Armory (B-Weapons) IQ-1 [1]-12; Camouflage IQ+0 [1] 13; Climbing DX+0 [2] 12; Computer Operation/TL IQ+0 [1]-13; Fast-Talk IQ+0 [2]-13; First-Aid IQ+0 [1]-13; Forced Entry DX+0 [1]-12; Navigation-Land IQ+0 [2]-13; Scrounging Per+0 [1]-13; Throwing DX+0 [2]-12; Traps IQ-1 [1]-12;

(6) Job [14];
Administration IQ+1 [4]-14; Savoir-Faire (Military) IQ+1 [2]-14; Soldier IQ+1 [4]-14; Writing IQ+1 [4]-14;

Reactions: +1 from others in close confines; +1 from others (attractive).

BACKGROUND

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PACIFICA DEL ÇID

Sex: Female. Height: 5' 2". Weight: 109 lb. Age: 21
Hair: Ginger blonde. Eyes: Green. Skin: Fair-skinned, slightly freckled. Hand: Left.

• PACIFICA was an operative of A2, a decentralized agency of the Fifth Republic established for stealth, espionage and targeted killing operations.
• Specialized on “wet works”, PACIFICA employs her psi to improve the lethality of her strikes.
• As an A2 operative, PACIFICA was required to meet rigid physical and ideological standards. Her awareness, reflexes and resilience are above the human average. She is very resistant to metabolic hazards and certain drugs; cues in her biochemistry and certain physiological features suggest she may have an alien heritage of sorts, albeit this is not conclusive.
• She has a remarkable memory; this factor was decisive in selecting her for deployment, since it allowed A2 to prepare her to join the Dread Stormers.

A2 (THE ORDER)

• A2 stands for AGINDU-AUKERA, the Basque words for “Command” and “Choice”. AGINDU-AUKERA could be interpreted as “Command the choices”, further analysis suggests a deeper meaning: “Rule over Fate”.
• A2’s logo was depicted as the silhouette/outline of two overlapping, slightly-shifted pyramids.
• AUKERA was a transhumanism project funded by a conservative party within the Fifth Republic, it was aimed to create an elite army of PSI soldiers as guardians of the “Old Republic”. AUKERA was conducted by AGINDU, an organization created solely for this purpose; the whole structure was known as A2 (A Squared), insiders called it “The Order”.
• A2 provided security details and bodyguards to significant officers and members of the “Old Republic” initiative, as well as special-assignment commandos in the Fifth Republic. A2 was presumably shut-down prior to the Nightfall. The exact number of ex-A2 operatives is unknown.

TRIVIA (PACIFICA)

• She is conflicted about A2’s proceedings; pondering what she has recollected along her training and missions, she believes things are much larger than what she has been presented with. Hence her obsession with “seeking the truth”. On the other hand, she has demonstrated to be loyal to A2’s cause and her unit.
• She is particularly enthusiastic about books, food and guns; this probably stems from the fact that A2 had strong regulations on knowledge, its operators’ diet and on weapons in base. She has gained about 12 pounds since she joined the Dread Stormers, although this hasn’t been detrimental to her fitness.
• Her hobbies include gambling, reading and singing.
• Known characters that may resemble PACIFICA are Lana Beniko (Star Wars), Priss Asagiri (band looks, Bubblegum Crisis) and Trish Una (blonde, JoJo Vento Aureo).

[ericthered]

I think we're almost done with Pacifica.

please add -10% power modifiers to each of her psi abilities, named either ESP or Ergokinesis.

May I suggest buying alternate abilities with the extra points: they're quite keep and can add a lot of utility.

I'll let the talent add to IQ-based stealth, but it won't work for normal stealth. You'll want to take that separately.