08-21-2019, 03:00 PM | #11 | |
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Re: [Powers] Multiple Reflexive During Combat
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As Power Blocks or Parries yes Reflexive is pretty much required for most abilities as they take a Ready Maneuver to use normally.
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08-21-2019, 03:01 PM | #12 | |
Join Date: Aug 2018
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Re: [Powers] Multiple Reflexive During Combat
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But if you used "Temporary Enhancements" to get Reduced Time (or Reflexive, which includes 1 level of that) then it should be temporarily as easy to use as a non-limited attack, allowing power parries to be done with it. I don't know if Reflexive would do anything in addition to that though. It appears to let DR turn on if you're asleep or something (at a penalty) so I could see it allowing you to make power parries at a penalty towards attacks you're not aware of too. Instead of being +40% and having 1 level of reduced time (+20%) built into it, I think I'd prefer to separate that and have whatever Reflexive does OTHER than lessen activation time (which AFAIk is just the ability to turn on without voluntary input, an unconscious defense) by just 20%. This would make it a little more flexible for stuff which doesn't need its activation time reduced, such as stuff which are already free actions, or stuff using rules which allow 1-attack abilities to be used as an active defense, such as Power Parry. If not allowing that, I guess the closest you could get would be taking TET1:-10% + Reflexive+40% for a net +30% |
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08-21-2019, 03:37 PM | #13 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Re: [Powers] Multiple Reflexive During Combat
Another possibility would use Link. For example, you could link a reflexive Detect (Hostility) with an Affliction that causes Ecstasy, allowing you to disable a hostile attacker before they even attack. Another possibility would be to link a reflexive Detect (Hostility) to an Innate Attack that produces a Wall. For example:
Detect (Hostility; Cosmic, No die roll required, +100%; Link, +10%; Reflexive, +40%; Reliable +10, +50%) [30] plus Small Piercing Attack 15d (Area Effect, 16 yards, +200%; Link, +10%; Persistent, +40%; Selective Effect, +20%; Switchable, +10%; Wall, Rigid, +60%) [198]. The result is an attack that automatically activates whenever its linked ability detects Hostility but is capable of being switched into an active roll. When it is switched on, it forms a 48 square yard shape as determined by its user, with each square yard with a DR 45 and HP 7, that last for 10 seconds. |
08-21-2019, 05:06 PM | #14 | |||
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Re: [Powers] Multiple Reflexive During Combat
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That's kinda strange because usually it just means something along the lines of being able to freely activate them in the higher of their two activation times rather than the sum of them. If a passed hearing means automatic sight, then what other success rolls could be ignored through a link? Quote:
1 Ready + 1 Ready = 1 Ready for linked non-attack advantages and 1 Attack + 1 Attack = 1 Attack for linked attack advantages is the most basic form of link. For attack + non-attack you might also think of that as maneuver+maneuver. "Attack" and "Ready" both have 1 step so they're compatible enough, but if you get into realms like All-Out Attack it begins to get questionable: you can normally not go up to 1/2 your move when taking a Ready, so should you be able to do an AOA and still activate a "Ready" ability? Same concern with Concentrate, which is also limited to 1 step (like Ready) and not higher amounts like attacks. If you've linked things that take different second-length to activate, I would think you would use the greater of the two. Such as if one attack took 2 maneuvers to use and another took 1, using them linked should take 2 rather than 3, but not 1? Or perhaps on the 1st second you launch the quick attack and that counts as 1 second of prep towards the other longer attack which launches the next second? So even if you had sense (free) and attack (1 sec) linked, wouldn't it still cost you an attack to react? Attacks can't be reduced to 0-time free actions. If that's the case, should the link do something else like avoid needing to make an attack roll and have the sense roll count as the attack roll, similar to a hearing success counting as an automatic sight success? [QUOTE=AlexanderHowl;2280556] Another possibility would be to link a reflexive Detect (Hostility) to an Innate Attack that produces a Wall. For example: Quote:
Mechanically though, for it to work you basically have to aim a 'cancellation beam' at the target to halt the effect. I think mages/sorcerers have a version of this with "No Die Roll Required" and infinite skill/range since they don't have to roll to cancel their Afflictions/Spells. |
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08-21-2019, 06:06 PM | #15 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Re: [Powers] Multiple Reflexive During Combat
Sorry, I meant Selectivity.
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08-21-2019, 07:20 PM | #16 |
Join Date: Aug 2018
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Re: [Powers] Multiple Reflexive During Combat
Instead of what, Selective Effect?
If you're using that to turn off the "Link" enhancement, that's pretty much the same as taking Link +20% except you also could turn off other enhancements if you wanted... From that angle, I actually don't know why anyone would take Link+20 if they could take Link+10 Selectivity+10... |
08-22-2019, 05:36 AM | #17 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Re: [Powers] Multiple Reflexive During Combat
No, instead of Switchable (which is inappropriate for an Innate Attack). Selective Area lets you choose who to effect with the wall. Yes, I agree about Link.
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08-23-2019, 10:47 PM | #18 |
Join Date: Aug 2018
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Re: [Powers] Multiple Reflexive During Combat
If Burning Attack (Melee Attack -15%) is "a 4-yard flame whip extends from your body" then "Switchable" sounds like what you'd need to make it go away, sort of like Switchable Body Parts.
For non-melee, maybe there should be a similar indication that you have the ability to shoot fireballs, like a glowing hand/throat, which would also go away with Switchable? |
08-24-2019, 07:40 AM | #19 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Re: [Powers] Multiple Reflexive During Combat
You can always turn off a Melee Attack unless you have Always On. Switchable is for abilities that are automatically always on (Body Parts, Invisibility, etc.).
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08-24-2019, 10:55 AM | #20 |
Join Date: Nov 2015
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Re: [Powers] Multiple Reflexive During Combat
Would Always On work if you actually had that 4y flame whip hanging from your arm all the time ?
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