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Why rocks? Why not kunai?
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rationalist romance armageddon is looking better and better damn you kishimoto explosions everywhere explosives solve everyone if in doubt surrender to the mercy of zabuza it seemed like a good idea at the time looks like a really bad case of being a jōnin my god. where does the lore end? precommitting is the winning plan screaming in kagome screw the rules i have explosives something bad might still happen sometimes you gotta sociopath stabby zabby subsection c of paragraph 9 should include we can weaponize this so hard open voting
Emstar
The Shining One
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We can do either, but my point is I don't think you need to make a Ranged Weapons check to toss the kunai in the room. We aren't aiming for anyone, we just need to get the bomb in the door.
The diameter is 6m. That's sufficient to impede any given room at least if not take the room out outright.
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The point is still the same. Bad Things will probably still happen.
I'd prefer training kunai TBH since it's less risky and more aerodynamic (no mechanical penalty for an Improvised Weapon or something).
No they won't? Why do you think that using a cone to direct the flow of goo will cause Bad Things?
Emstar
The Shining One
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Then we can use Training kunai. My point still stands: just because the delivery mechanism is "Throw this through a door/hallway" doesn't necessarily preclude some sort of ranged weapons check that we couldn't pass.
I would HOPE that any Genin that made it to the Chunin Exams could throw with at LEAST the accuracy required to do this. If not, that is a BIG mechanical problem as far as the rules are concerned.
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While true, I'd rather we stack the deck as much as we can. Just in case.
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My understanding is that if they're in range when it goes off, they get to roll Athletics against Jiraiya/Kagome's Sealing. As for how you determine if the opponent is in range if the attacker aims the kunai at the ground... I'm not sure. Realistically, if you throw one into a medium-sized room, and enemies fail to evacuate it, it should be an auto hit, I think.
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What, throwing Goo Bombs into occupied rooms? Hells yeah!
Just, uh...Living Roots is expensive and I'd rather we just chuck explosives into rooms first. See what comes out, then Goo Bombs. Kagome-style, yeah
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- Potato land
Yeah, absolutely. This is basically what I imagined giving Banshees and Goo Bombs to melee fighters would result in.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
Woah, slow down there.What, throwing Goo Bombs into occupied rooms? Hells yeah!
Just, uh...Living Roots is expensive and I'd rather we just chuck explosives into rooms first. See what comes out, then Goo Bombs. Kagome-style, yeah
Why are we not spending ~20 CP to have an idea of where these guys are situated in the building? Chakra we can regain if this goes well, Goo Bombs we cannot.
It's all in, either we pull off the first breach or we are screwed. The same argument against conservative pangolin summoning (the one used against me a few pages ago!) can apply arguing in favor of Hazou using LR here for this purpose.
Emstar
The Shining One
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@eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail
Priority Question:
So we've been asking for a while what sort of Consequences the regular Earbusters (Not the 170+ Decibel one that Jiraiya made) can be expected to levy. Given @Adept_Woodwright 's earlier analysis last week or so, these appear to be less immediately dangerous as far as burst eardrums go as we thought.
I understand if this has been shelved due to mechanical issues, but seeing as these are an integral part of our non lethal arsenal and will likely see major use in the upcoming event, I think this is something we need an answer on if possible.
Tl;dr Earbusters : Severe Consequences or not Severe, what's the deal? Thanks!
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Priority Question:
So we've been asking for a while what sort of Consequences the regular Earbusters (Not the 170+ Decibel one that Jiraiya made) can be expected to levy. Given @Adept_Woodwright 's earlier analysis last week or so, these appear to be less immediately dangerous as far as burst eardrums go as we thought.
I understand if this has been shelved due to mechanical issues, but seeing as these are an integral part of our non lethal arsenal and will likely see major use in the upcoming event, I think this is something we need an answer on if possible.
Tl;dr Earbusters : Severe Consequences or not Severe, what's the deal? Thanks!
Edit: (Please like if you agree this is a priority question, funny if you think it's not, yay democracy!)
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Vecht
Self-Requested Ban
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- Snarksville, Snarkland
and yet we're still gonna wreck it
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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Which one?
Our Pangolin will likely be substantially better at it than Hazou is. He's... really not that great at Living Roots.
Emstar
The Shining One
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Does Pankurashun have a living roots equivalent? If so we should specify he use this
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Merc gonna merc ya
...Holy shit. How many times did the damn Quest Masters nerfed you guys?
Dissonance
Luna's Luna
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- Ginnungagap.
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*Snarky comment about ninja employing static defenses("T&I facility") when everyone looked at us like we were crazy for doing that in the Swamp of Mild Inconvenience*
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- The Deep Blue Sea
The general feeing is along the lines of "moderate but take extra time to heal maybe"
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
Clearly not enough.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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Ok, thanks so much!
My understanding of the first Great Rebalancing (as I was still irregularly lurking instead of actively participating at the time) is that while they'd set some ballpark numbers for each rank (genin 10-20, chunin 30-40, jounin 50+, I think?), they'd underestimated both the rate of PC growth due to XP and how much a sneaky minmaxing build could inflate numbers above your base skill, leading to a situation where our supposedly above-average but not Itachi PCs were hitting Special Jounin levels within six months. What followed was less a traditional nerfing and more buffing up our opposition to better reflect how good our enemies should be.
The second big change was moving from the initial homebrew system to one based on the Dresden Files RPG (itself an earlier edition of the FATE roleplaying game), which allowed for a bunch of things to get smoothed out, and included useful mechanics like Aspects and the Create an Advantage move to run clever tricks in a mechanically fair fashion (giving an advantage to the PCs when appropriate, but not an overwhelming one unless it really should be).
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There is only one current plan, and it doesn't have contingencies for these because there aren't any. I guess I'll put "Respond with lethal force to Mist assassins." in there if enough people scream about it. If you want to propose anything specific, be my guest.
I will note that this plan will let us get around the "Blue Team can't leave the site" limitation in round 2.