@Paperclipped @eaglejarl @Velorien
Will of the Pack
Stunt
Prereqs: Dog clan combatant, or summoner with substantial training with them
Members of the Dog clan may not be the strongest of the summon path's clans, but they make up for it in teamwork.
Every round of combat, the Pack member generates a number of tags on the aspect
Pack Fighter equal to half their chakra boost bonus, rounded up. These may not be used for oneself; instead, they are spent in narratively-appropriate ways to defend or assist members of the Pack's team. Those benefiting from this do not require the stunt themselves.
The ways this expenditure may express itself include, but are not limited to:
- Running Interference - Penalizes enemy attack or defence rolls
- Striking together - Provides bonuses to allied attack rolls
- Fighting as one - Utilizes a minimum of three tags apiece to treat the pack members as a single combat entity for the next round with markedly higher stats than any of them individually would have.
Oh, wow, I completely missed this. I was about 36 or 48 hours behind on the thread because of life and working on this update but you anticipated Strength of the Pack very accurately.
I understand that rules interaction, but wasn't Hazou also using two Armor-granting techniques that fight? Jiraiya even comments on it afterwards.
No, during the fight with KitKat Hazō was using Ghost Scales and the Pangolin Conditioning Jutsu which he has active at all time. Both are pangolin armor techniques so I get the confusion, but they aren't Pangolin Earth Armor.
Speaking of which, I didn't account for the -1 on physical skills that PCJ imposes. Not sure it was relevant.
The shadow clone don't even need to have much chakra invested beyond its casting cost. None really. It's purpose is to relay information, not fight.
I think you're thinking of Earth Clone. With those you pay the casting cost and then add extra chakra if you choose. With Shadow Clone you pay the very high casting cost and then your remaining chakra is distributed evenly across every instance of you, meaning Prime, the clone you just made, and any other shadow clones you might already have out.
And yes, when a shadow clone pops the chakra remaining to it gets spread evenly across all existing instances, but you didn't get back the chakra involved in creating it: 125 + 25*number of clones.
This update was much longer than one day.
It covered at least one research cycle (the one where we finished CATEARS and Force Blades
On that note, we voted in a bunch of prep day suggestions, can we get an update on those?
Oops. You're right. Will fix, sorry.
I'm not sure we have [unstagnated], actually.
You have. You were on a battlefield, in actual danger, and you contributed meaningfully to the fight.
I thought stress boxes went [II] [III] and so on, so the third stress box can take up to three stress and the two stress would have resulted in marking off that box. Is that not right?
That's right, and it's how it works in the ancestral Dresden Files RPG. In our system, after you cross off the box you also cross off everything left of it. High lethality option.
How was Cankamu (and the other dogs who did so) able to get the numeric benefit from both SotP and Force Claw without a combination stunt? Is it the same kind of possibly-temporary ruling as was made for
Roki?
My mistake. I'm not going to go to the effort of fixing it so let's all pretend not to have noticed.
- Check if damage exceeds stress track.
- If it does, assign a Consequence.
- Return to step one.
So that, roughly, you could only take as many Consequences as you need to to soak the damage
That's basically my understanding, yes. I'll talk to the others and see about updating the language in the rules. If I stuffed up the scene, oh well.
I think Rihaku is just noting that Hazou has, in fact, actually used PEA in combat before. Once.
Sadly, nope. As mentioned above, that was Pangolin Conditioning Jutsu and Ghost Scales. I'm confident that he has never once used PEA onscreen, much less in a fight, although I'm willing to be faflec'd.
(Some day I want my name to be the verb for something cool.)
This is correct, he shouldn't have taken a Mild here. I also can't figure out why the Mild is penalizing the roll before he takes the Consequence.
It was a huge amount of mechanics and by the time I got finished with it I was sufficiently exhausted that I didn't check it carefully enough? It went through multiple drafts where I got partway along, realized I did something wrong and had to back up and delete a bunch of stuff to fix it.
There were a couple of very wounded Leopards at the end, did we let them escape?
Hadn't thought about it but you're right. Let's assume they were caught, interrogated, and killed. Feel free to put questions together for the interrogation.
Can we deactivate and reuse the Banshee Fucker?
I think they are single use but I'm happy to be corrected if it's been stated otherwise.
@eaglejarl
Could we have an FP for winning that fight?
Also, the FP total should be adjusted for the plan.
Right you are. Will do later today.
Goddaaaaamn that's busted
Yeah,
@Paperclipped pointed out the same thing. A couple things to note:
* The Leopards get +AB on all physical skills simply for being born in the right skin. No action economy, no chakra cost, every physical roll always.
* In order to get that +3 AB for themself, a dog needs:
- to have at least 3 dogs in the zone
- to spend a (possibly Reflexive) Supplemental
- to pay 72 chakra in order to cast at Effect 6 so that they can keep 3 tags and give 3 to someone else. Remember, this is a pack-oriented jutsu. You can't empower yourself more than you empower anyone else. You can't even keep 3 and give 1 to each of 3 other people.
- and they are tags, so single use (granted, you generate more next round)
You can also use multiple castings to collect those 3 tags, but then you are spending more actions and more chakra.
Granted, someone or someones else can pay the costs and give you the tags. Still, the costs are there.
So, yes. Very powerful but not as insane as it might seem.
