05-12-2021, 11:13 PM | #11 | |
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Location: Wellington, NZ
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Re: should closed eyes protect against blood agents?
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05-13-2021, 11:49 AM | #12 | ||||
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Re: should closed eyes protect against blood agents?
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Although Burning Attack / Incendiary probably hinges on something different since it can cause secondary effects by igniting stuff. Quote:
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"can hit eyes or skull or nose (any of the 3 which might be armored) and drip down into mouth" might be something like B105's "Drifting" ? basically "goes where gravity pulls it" seems similar to "where the wind blows" or "where the water currents flow" Quote:
The next-closest would be "Projectile" but that seems to imply non-continuous. I figure like the difference between flamethrowers and fireballs, though aside from "have different skills" I don't know what other mechanical effects there are. Both of them require an unrestrained hand (which doesn't need to be empty) to shoot so continus vs. non-continuous seems about the only major difference. |
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05-13-2021, 01:28 PM | #13 | |
Join Date: Jun 2013
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Re: should closed eyes protect against blood agents?
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It's up to the GM how this works - just as a GM can decide that Hydroboy's Innate Attack 4d (Double Knockback +20%; Jet +0%; No Blunt Trauma -20%; No Wounding -50%) [10] can put out fires (despite not having explicitly paid for that), he can also decide if a squirted Blood Agent persists for a bit (requiring at the least that the target keep his/her eyes closed until it's gone, or even saying any hit to an exposed face is sufficient), vanishes into thin air, or simply loses potency rapidly enough that anything but a direct hit to a mucous membrane or open wound has no effect.
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05-13-2021, 04:52 PM | #14 |
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: New Orleans, LA
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Re: should closed eyes protect against blood agents?
Sometimes I get the feeling that some people want to make the GM superfluous and let an "algorithm" or "if then" statements run their game. While in some cases "What ever the GM says" isn't very satisfying or informative I think this is a case where that statement is truer than ever.
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05-13-2021, 05:47 PM | #15 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: should closed eyes protect against blood agents?
The affected area of attacks is not generally defined. Tight beam must be narrow enough to pass through an eye socket, but non tight beam could easily be hitting an area the size of your face without being mechanically distinct.
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blood agent, eyelids, flinching, nictitating membrane, no eyes |
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