"Necessary Evil" - supervillains save the world!

Game Master ZenFox42

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To: Everyone

Around Christmastime I came down with multiple viruses that left me able to only do two things: 1) Cough, and 2) wish I wasn't coughing.

They also had a pretty good symbiosis worthy of a Magic counter-burn deck: The headache from the cold wasn't that bad...except when I coughed.

I can finally start to see the beginning of the end from here so I thank all of you for your patience and promise to start getting caught up soon.

-cheers

I'm wanting to run a play-test of a spaceship-combat system that I found posted somewhere on a board, and have modified somewhat.

I'm thinking that the play-test itself would only take 2-4 weeks of real-time involvement (altho we all know how PbP can take longer than you think...). I'd like to run 2 combat scenarios.

To generate PC's, you'd literally only need to allocate points to 4 skills. If you *want* to generate a full PC and/or backstory, that's fine, but not required.

Everyone on the spaceship will have skills that apply to space combat, and so everyone will be engaged during space combat, not just the pilot. Each character will have at most two skills in : Piloting (with 5 possible actions to chose from per turn), Gunner (2 possible actions), Sensors (4 possible actions), and Engineering (3 possible actions). Each round, everyone will have a chance to apply one of their skills to the situation (altho with more PC's, some rolls may only be Cooperative rolls).

The rules are pretty much made up for Slipstream, but I've added some things from Daring Tales of the Space Lanes (in particular, Shields), so the ships are fairly simply defined. I will be giving you your ship, you don't get to build it.

Ideally, I'd like to have 4-6 players. Less than 4, and not all possible actions are covered, and more than 6 means some PC's won't be doing very much. If I get more than 6 offers, I'll take the first 6 that posted an interest.

FWIW, I'll be using the SWEX Chase Rules (just because). I can provide a summary of the rules if you don't have them.

Anyone interested?

No takers?

If i had more time i'd be down, but my irl group is wanting to start up yet another game(we have like 3 already one for each gm) and i think i may be getting towards my limit of concurrent dnd-like thought trains.

My time is packed out right now. It does sound interesting, though.

I'm asking all my folks to forgive me for a few days. I had a friend commit suicide this morning and I need some time to process this. I will be back in a day or three. In the meantime, if you or someone you know needs to talk, PLEASE call someone! Send me a private message if nothing else. I am always willing to listen and I promise that it will remain confidential!!

I am really sorry to hear that man. Take all the time you need.

I'm sorry to hear about your loss. Depression and suicide are always very difficult things to wrap your head around. Make sure you take the time you need for yourself.

So sorry. My wife committed suicide about 14 years ago, after 12 years together. Things will get better, it just takes time.

I can't even fathom what they must be like, never having had to deal with that. Please take all the time you need.

Sorry folks, been a busy last few days, will get a post out after work tonight.

Also, sometimes I think that we forget that we all of us are not supposed to be heroes.

We're villains who just happen to me at war with worse people.

Ngl kat really is an anti-hero who does some bad s*@+ from time to time. Honestly after this heist i may have to actually show that XD. Ya know kill a few mortals infected with the deadly spooky s~@% attached to em. Or jack someone's bike...(i'm so bad at being bad x.x)

Angel is more of an anti-hero than an actual villain. She is guilty of being too extreme in her judgment, but she would never consider harming innocents and she has no reason to be robbing banks. She would execute a child molester or even a common criminal (as I said, her responses are a little extreme), but the innocent have nothing to fear from her.

Now, if you want me to play a true villain then, with the GM's permission, I will switch to Biohazard. He is more the villainy type and revels in carnage and destruction (and is capable of inflicting both).

Do you want to play Biohazard? I've often had the feeling that Dark Angel's muse does not speak to you as greatly as something else might.

What Thomas said. If you *want* to play Biohazard, go for it. But I'm not insisting that any PC be a "villian" instead of an "anti-hero".

Can we talk about potential houserules for what I mentioned BTW? It's something that's always bothered me about Savage Worlds, that in scenarios like what you posted (where you have a massive modifier to the roll), having a lower die is better. Eg napkin math, I had a 15.5% chance of succeeding that check with a d10; that chance goes UP to 16.4% with a d8, and significantly DOWN if I ever go up to a d12 (the chance drops to a 13.8%).

I've never had the scenario where -4 and -6 modifiers to the roll were common, but if we're going to be throwing them around with any regularity (which given a museum has this kind of security, I can't imagine how good a V'Sori military base or something is), it might be worth talking about.

The numbers aren't huge, but they're not completely insignificant either, and boy do they bother me.

Speaking of Wraith BTW, I still check the Savage Rifts thread daily on the off chance it's started back up.

What would you do to fix the math issue?

Maybe a scaling reduction in difficulty based on die size? Eg. if the base DC is TN-6, it's TN-5 for d8, -4 for d10, etc.?

I think this doesn't just result in an even distribution, since all the percentages change. Don't have time to math it just yet though.

Kat looks at Thomas and poses for the pictures unaware that he's using it to snap photos of the hidden security so she makes a bit of a show about it.

"Sure thing babe, where did you have in mind, think they'll have those little doughnut holes?"

Sorry thomas, not as eloquent or southern belle as Wraith XD

"Meh. I can be eloquent or wearing pants. Pick one."

Oh jeez, you woke her up from her nap.

I hear that if you say "Wraith Whiteangel" in a mirror three times she'll appear!

But then she crashes on your couch for a week.

Lol dude can't wait to get my rigger in, i've been jonesing to play him so bad. I hope i've got the sheet and everything set up right.
Also having wrsith crash on the couch wouldn't be too bad if she weren't a possibly murderous psycho with guns and body mids as crazy as she does.

Speaking of Wraith BTW, I still check the Savage Rifts thread daily on the off chance it's started back up.

I have finally replaced my computer. Would there be interest in getting my Rifts game going again?

I'll place a bump in that thread and see if I can guage interest. It's been something like 6 months, so i thought it might have been too long...

Eg napkin math, I had a 15.5% chance of succeeding that check with a d10; that chance goes UP to 16.4% with a d8, and significantly DOWN if I ever go up to a d12 (the chance drops to a 13.8%).

I just ran a computer simulation (including Acing), and I got these results for a -6 :

I don't know how you got your numbers, but they're not right. There's nothing wrong with the system.

I know what I did for the d12; I brainfarted and set the target number at 6.

The rest of the numbers fit what I got though; mine included the Wild die. You'll notice there that the d8 has a 1% higher base chance than d10.

It's not a huge deal but it still annoys me. I know there are certain other breakpoints where smaller die trump larger die as well, it shifts based on TN modifiers.

Ah, cr*p, I forgot the Wild die!

d12 : 31% success
d10 : 17% success
d8 : 18% success
d6 : 16% success

So now my results for d8 and d10 are much closer to yours.

Yeah, some people refuse to use the system because of that "glitch". I just ignore it.

Hey guys, just so you are aware, I've taken on a new position IRL and it has severely limited my time during the week. That said, I will get back into the swing of things soon because I want to give you guys the time you deserve in game. I'm hoping to get things back on track before the weekend. Thanks for understanding!

Crossposting to all my games.

I need to apologize to my GMs and players. I have less than two weeks to a local convention on which I serve as the Game Operations Director, overseeing the entire gaming room (which is the largest gaming floor in my area). I also have to make a trip to Dallas this weekend that cannot be avoided and I have possible jury duty starting on Monday next week. Anyway, I will update when I can. I haven't forgotten you, just been very busy.

Hey guys,

I'm going to have to bow out. My schedule is getting crazy and I'm finding less time to game on the boards. I love me some savage worlds, and this game has been hella interesting, but I gotta cut some games down.

Sorry,

Happy Gaming
Niles

Two things:

1) RAW: "While intangible, any items the character carries also become intangible and do not function."

Whatever that means. I suppose one could interpret that as "all technology stops working", much as what you have said: an Intangible firing pin has no effect on an Intangible bullet.

2) My head-space for it is, I feel, akin to the "Shadow" power in Magic: That is, creatures without Shadow can not block creatures with Shadow, and vice versa, but creatures with Shadow can affect other creatures with Shadow.

Thomas over here leaving poor Helion to defend herself. He fought as he lived, escaping conflicts and living to tell another tale and taking all the credit :P

There is another way?

=p

Okay, I'm back. The con was great, but very tiring! We had about 1500 unique visitors, which is pretty good for a convention our size. Guests included Morgan Berry (voice actress), Jay Little (gaming guest), Brendan LaSalle (from Goodman Games), and fantasy artist/gamer Melissa Gay. I found time to run two original Savage Worlds adventures (a fantasy jaunt titled "The Banshee's Tower" and a Weird War II adventure called "The Dogs of War"). Jay Little signed my copies of Age of Rebellion and Edge of the Empire and Brendan signed my copy of How to Write Adventure Modules That Don't Suck. All in all, a good weekend! I'll be getting back into the swing tomorrow.

Balargh. This game wasn't updating. I know that's a problem that happens sometimes but I -hate- it when that happens.

Moving on!

Thomas, with a Flight speed of Pace, I'm having a hard time envisioning how you're "hitching a ride" with the V'sori craft - when you're intangible, the ship will just pass right thru you,

Uh, I dunno about that. How do I ride in a car while Intangible? How do I, uh, not fall through the Earth while Intangible?

I've always imagined that there must be some de facto thing about taking on the motion of the object you currently occupy.

If not, then the Fridge Logic of the thing becomes overwhelming. (And if someone can be a tiger, but look like Mel Gibson, then how can't I hitch a ride? =-)

Tell ya what, I'll still give ya a Smarts roll to be able to pull it off.

So, to my mind, there's probably some amount of concentration going on when an intangible person "sits" in a chair, or is "walking" along a surface, or travels along inside a moving vehicle. Normally I wouldn't call for a roll in ordinary circumstances, but this was extraordinary (remember the scene from the second Matrix movie where the "brothers" went intangible, passed thru their car and Neo's car, and materialized in the back seat? That took *expert* timing!). Even if you weren't going tangible to stay in the ship, I figure it would take some concentration to stay moving with the ship, so I thought a Smarts-2 roll was reasonable.

Everyone okay to being botted if we haven't posted in 2 days?

I call it the 2-day rule because life happens.

For everything else, there's Visa(tm).

I'm good with it.

Seems pretty okay considering.

I'm pretty used to it, considering my access is sometimes limited and erratic as well. I'm good with the 2 day rule.

Ok, probably Thursday... Does the 2-day rule apply to the GM? :) If so, feel free to 'bot me as needed...

I sense a few more advancements are needed.

also, you all get a giant robot. ;)

According to my calculations, everyone should be at Seasoned rank (4 advances) with 28 PP.

Does anyone have anything significantly different than that?

miscalculated my max PP got 2 to spare right now, tempted to bump up mobility, also tempted to save in case extra action/limb opens up.

I don't know how Biohazard is still Novice. I will correct and submit the new sheet.

Okay, Biohazard is up to date.

I see my confusion now. Paradigm Has Knowledge: Science the same way I have Knowledge: Engineering, since I figured that would be the most applicable for applied science/making stuff.

If you're ruling Knowledge: Science is the skill for that, any objection to me just trading in Engineering for Science?

Hmmm.... Ok, I was going by RAW, but now I can see that both Science and Engineering could be needed to make a device, so I'd allow either one to be able to Aid the other.

Sorry i've been quiet guys between being back at work and an extra large super grande mug of depresso espresso I've sort of been a bit burnt out on a few of my games. I'll try to get a post out tonight though.

I think I'm going to officially pull out of this game. There's something about Savage Supers that really doesn't grab and excite me as much as another game for the genre would. Savage Worlds is good for a lot, but apparently "big, bombastic super stuff" isn't one. Combined with my general lack of attachment to the setting and situation (coming in late as I did, with everyone already having pre-established character threads) and I have a hard time finding motivation to post for this one. Sorry guys.