04-20-2013, 05:32 PM | #1 |
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House Rules for Affliction
The advantage is one of the most flexible in Gurps, but it has one grand weakness: Its levels are tied to this think called a HT roll. This means that if I want someone to roll at HT-2 instead of HT I have to pay three times the cost. This really doesn't make sense to me. A lot of times its cheaper to buy malediction and raise my will, and that just gets worse at the higher levels, not the lower ones.
I'm sure others have noticed this: does any one have house rules they use to get reasonable costs for affliction (meaning I actually consider if I want to improve the duration, the range, or the HT roll)? Alternatively, could someone explain why such a thing would be a bad idea? I think the two routes that can be tried are
what numbers would you use, and what are the pitfalls of each method?
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04-20-2013, 05:36 PM | #2 |
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Re: House Rules for Affliction
Cost 10/2, and level of affliction does not affect recover rolls from stunning (otherwise it's far too easy to permanently stun someone). Also, affliction replaces the attack roll, not the effect roll, so winning the quick contests means you hit, but they still get a separate resistance roll against the effect.
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04-22-2013, 07:01 PM | #3 |
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Re: House Rules for Affliction
Re: Anthony
I think turning malediction into an 'attack roll not effect' roll would make it radically overpriced. RE: ericthered I agree with your assessment, the default affliction I almost never see applied beyond 2 levles, because the cost/reset curve on it is poor. (IE- at level 1 your affliction affects most people ~50% of the time, pay twice as much to have it affect people ~60% of the time; double the cost for 10% greater effectiveness seems a poor buy) Perhaps 'hard to resist' could be a +50-100%/level enhancement- this would stop 'I take stun with resist -20' builds from being inexpensive ways to completely debilitate multiple foes, and allow more potent abilities to get some additional levels without being insanely expensive. |
04-22-2013, 07:31 PM | #4 | |
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Chart: HT -0, +0% HT -1, +5% HT -2, +10% HT -3, +15% HT -4, +20% HT -5, +25% | natural ceiling HT -6, +80% | (and better) includes cosmic exemption at the +50% value HT -7, +95% ... HT -11, +155% | (and better) includes cosmic exemption at the +100% value instead of the +50% value HT -12, +160% ... HT -21, +405% | (and better) includes cosmic exemption at the +300% value instead of the +100% value HT -22, +410% ... Last edited by Sunrunners_Fire; 04-22-2013 at 07:36 PM. |
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04-22-2013, 07:52 PM | #5 |
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Re: House Rules for Affliction
Malediction on damaging powers is worthwhile, and on damage powers it's exactly that (attack roll not effect). It's still bypass DR and a high hit probability.
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04-22-2013, 11:03 PM | #6 |
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04-22-2013, 11:30 PM | #7 |
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Re: House Rules for Affliction
IMO the cost modifier for actual effect of the Affliction should be factored as a multiplier on its own separate from other modifiers. So a heart attack affliction is a 40 points advantage and then you add enhancements and limitations on that value. Otherwise you end up in a situation where for afflictions with impressive effects (like f.ex. the +1000% stasis effect from Powers) you might as well add any and all enhancements you can think of because the cost wont be significantly affected.
I also agree that levels of affliction after the first should be reduced in price similar to how the Terror advantage works. Yeah. For Innate Attack, Malediction lets you replace the regular attack roll/dodge attack resolution with a resistance roll + ignore Damage Resistance. I see absolutely no reason it should do more than that for Afflictions, that already leaves Malediction 3 (+200%) as often times superior to Cosmic: Ignores DR (+300%). |
04-24-2013, 03:27 AM | #8 |
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04-24-2013, 01:39 PM | #9 |
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04-24-2013, 01:49 PM | #10 |
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