A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Is that something like sections with HP, AC and DR and called shots?
Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
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To be quite honest, a Battletech RPG system is probably the best modelling tool possible. It was built from the ground up for vehicle combat, with armour values by section, weapon types, internal damage, the works. And it works.
And only three skills, of which only Gunnery was usually relevant.
It's not actually as bad as I implied at that level.
And only three skills, of which only Gunnery was usually relevant.
It's not actually as bad as I implied at that level.
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There's always Fate, though it doesn't mesh at all with this kind of game.
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Battletech is actually a great idea. Sure, it still has decent amounts of bookkeeping, but that's mostly one-time effort to get a sheet. In actual play, it's pretty straightforward.
And since I made that fancy design tool for the Moonchaser, I could adapt it to auto-generate sheets.
Edit: Also, if you think Piloting is a non-essential skill, your matches must be really boring.
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Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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I think you might be confusing me with someone else. I never tried to convince you to set pricing for the visual enhancements at 270 IM. A constant Fire Eyes enchantment would cost 150 IM and a constant Snowsight would cost 200 IM. Stacking them on a single item would cost 425 IM due to the multi-effect tax. Again, it's a minor issue, but it's one that effects pricing for most of our gear now, as we've been stacking effects for a while.
I don't see why a constant Air Bubble enchantment won't work just as well as a Bottle of Air. Not going to argue about it, but I just don't see the issue.
Good to hear the Glamer enchantment will be affordable.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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Ah yes, because if you're not pulling insane stunts with a 200 tonne bipedal warmachine, you aren't truly cool enough to ditch school.
Seriously, who would use a battlemech as a glorified weapons platform? The things are already logistical nightmares! There's artillery and tanks for that!
Seriously, who would use a battlemech as a glorified weapons platform? The things are already logistical nightmares! There's artillery and tanks for that!
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Actually, I was thinking about situations like "roll to not fall flat on your face after getting pummeled by a Ultra AC/20 and three Gauss Rifles in the same turn, oh, and your gyro is busted up too, so roll again!".
Vote closed.
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If it's with burning wings I'm in.
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Okay, I'm in anyway, but I prefer the aesthetics.
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- United States
I'm eager for the chance to rip angels away from the Seven. Given our success with Melisandre we are entirely capable of pulling it off.
The trick is getting the stage right...
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While I'm okay with the burning wings.... there are others who are not so merely subversion would do...assuming they don't have a king killer trait. That trait is literally a kill this bitch card
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I think these angels will be more normal. Baelor was a... special case.
Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
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Battletech is actually a great idea. Sure, it still has decent amounts of bookkeeping, but that's mostly one-time effort to get a sheet. In actual play, it's pretty straightforward.
And since I made that fancy design tool for the Moonchaser, I could adapt it to auto-generate sheets.
Edit: Also, if you think Piloting is a non-essential skill, your matches must be really boring.
Custom Assault Mech with the armour to suit the role, the speed of a Light (lol aiming penalties), and a mostly sniper's loadout built around a Gauss Rifle that was the bane of my GM's command mechs*. And the few times anything got in close, the thing had a Sword and Assault Mech tonnage behind it.
*Me: And...I hit their lance commander. *rolls for hit location* Oh...a 12**.
GM: Oh for fuck's sake!
**For those unaware, a 12 means a cockpit shot. And the max armour/Internal Structure for a cockpit is less than the damage of a Gauss Rifle.
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The whole Winter Knight Powers thing isn't terribly consistent.
This is quintessential Bronn.
Explains why it isn't vampiric flaming frogs.
She didn't fight as much as you think? After she completely aced the fights, from the perceptive of the Formor at least, they might simply not have bothered.
Some points I'd raise:
1) I suspect that anyone with Mythic ranks would at least get a chance to detect this kind of shenanigans, depending on how it's done. Also, the Winter Knighthood itself could likely sense it.
2) If it's very indirect, a Mirai Nikki sort of situation where you essentially receive texts/memories from your future self, that sounds terribly like an indirect means of gathering information on Viserys and Harry (whom Viserus regularly wards). This sort of subtle means might be vulnerable to being disrupted like so.
3) It's simple to ascertain if she has "met" them "before": sense motive on things like "I don't have names to call you by".
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Sounds like Good maneuverability, actually. Didn't we talk about this before?
Good is Hummingbird level.
Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
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Multiple jacketed sniper rifle rounds. Fae powers mean jack shit to iron and Kincaid knew what he was shooting.
Snrk. That would be nice and neat, wouldn't it.
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Good imposes penalties on turning (makes sense, though for entirely different reasons), and on going upwards or backwards (doesn't make sense).
What actually is the issue though is that you would need skill checks to hover in place.
So my response to this remains: Default maneuverability categories are not able to accurately model this and Perfect still is closest.
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That's how it's usually handled.
Unless you have things like those hellfire cannons, or disintegrate lasers, or sonic guns, it'd be easier to just board big vessels, or kill the pilot through the more vulnerable hardened glass/crystal canopy, either though breaking or simply casting something that doesn't require an attack roll on him.
Clearly stepping on Bottle of Air here.
Still the Strenght/resilience inconsistencies. "It's all in your head" vs "jumping dozens of feet high from a standstill", "it just removes pain" vs "having his head literally buried in a brick wall from impact alone and getting away with a concussion".
Hell, "you'd have to blow up the building" vs "steel jacket ammo". Even if this is understandable as the magical community's behind the times, it's a rather glaring weakness in a time where the fastest projectiles are bullets instead of crossbow bolts.
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Perfect implies it's far better than what it actually is, tho. Because it's just as the name say, essentially a Fly spell.
The craft uses wings to assist in turning and has some trouble with some maneuvers due to only having one AG-engine.
Good thus sounds like the closest.
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It can turn on the spot. The wings are mostly there to keep the front the front instead of flying sideways or backwards half the time and obstructing the pilots view.
Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
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Azel. Perfect is too much by your own description of capabilities. Go with Good and have the wings apply a bonus to Fly checks made to Hover and anything else that is relevant. There. Done.
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