Yeah, I was hoping Samurai would eventually come back, but it's been 4 months (to the day) that she left, and it's looking less and less likely...
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I'm hanging in there, had the flu (or something) a couple of months ago. Work has recently ramped up from a 5 to an 11, but that's just for another couple of weeks. Still hoping Aloha will come back eventually...
Aloha - so very sorry to hear about your dad. I hope eventually you can continue to DM, but take *as much time as you need* to recover. We'll be waiting.
Please note, if Remnant says you *do* need to make a Driving check, that would constitute a second action, and thus a MAP. That wouldn't affect your Shooting roll (still a Success), but would affect your Driving roll.
Nope, normal movement (usually up to 6") is a Free action, which you can take as many *different* ones of in your turn as you want (but not two of the same). Running however is a non-Free action, and so would impose a MAP.
Azure lets go of the raccoon, looks him in the eye and says "Stick around and do nothing, or I'll shoot you again..." Azure shoots at one of the mooks with both barrels (-2 due to recoil) :
And shoots again, with both barrels (-2 due to recoil, no MAP due to Quickness) :
Ah well, two swings and a miss...
Azure hesitates to leave Esper on her own, but there's no time for debate. Azure picks up the racoon creature and runs for the nearest outside exit, at double speed (Quickness). Over her comms she practically yells "We *may* have a large, powerful Grimm on our hands in here! Esper's going to do her best to draw it outside, meet us at the [north] exit of the factory as soon as possible!"
Azure looks at Esper and says "He's scared enough I'm inclined to believe him. If it's as large and powerful as he says, perhaps we should leave now?"
Remnant, since you're going to make a ruling about how to handle Semblances soon, I'd just like to re-iterate that Fatigue penalties will make *every* aspect of combat significantly harder and harder the more you use your Semblance, which I don't think accurately reflects the action in the shows, while with PP you're just as good a fighter at 1 PP as you are at full PP (you just can't use your Semblance any more).
Sorry to hear about your loss. Take your time to recover. I really like this game too, and am willing to go a little slower.
Azure activates her semblance :
And with her second action (due to the Quickness, no MAP), she shoots at the stranger with both barrels (-2 due to recoil) : = 5, a hit
Doing
and
damage.
Azure forgoes putting on her armor, realizing that Esper is all on her own, and runs for the factory floor.
Yep, ready to go!
Yeah, ditto on all counts!
Upon hearing that Esper wanted help, Azure decided that she would go, and so quickly threw on her regular clothes over her pajamas. When she hears that Carmine agrees with her decision, she merely nods and grabs Reaper, and runs towards the middle of the factory.
"...Who? What? Where?" Azure says as she hears the loud noise, having only been lightly asleep. "HEY EVERYBODY, wake up! That sounded like it came from the center of the factory!" She gets out of bed, and tries to decide whether she should get dressed, or armored up, or just throw on a bathrobe over her light sleeping clothes.
Azure shares the pictures she took of the Grimm's tracks and claw marks, and asks if anyone can get anything more out of them.
Azure takes plenty of pictures on her scroll, from where the thresher stopped obliterating the tracks, all the way back to the plant.
Azure looks at Shamrock, her eyebrows raised in a question, then turns to the robot and says "Um...confirm?".
Jumping up on the thresher and rooting around in its guts : = 1 "Shamrock, you any good with mechanical devices?!?"
I'm against Fatigue on general principle, because you only need three levels of it to become Incapacitated (as opposed to four Wounds), unless the recovery time was obscenely short, like a half an hour per level or so. Also, with PP, you're just as good a fighter at 1 PP as you are at full PP. But the Fatigue penalties will make *every* aspect of combat significantly harder and harder the more you use your Semblance (especially once you *also* start taking Wounds! - can you say "-5 to *every* roll"?), which I don't think accurately reflects the action in the shows. I like using Spirit to activate Semblances (Remnant, are you sticking with that?), and I'd prefer it if they only cost 1 or 2 PP per activation. And I assume that an "activation" lasts for the standard 3 rounds that most Powers last for? And, if we get the lowest range for our Ranged weapons for free, does that give us another weapon creation point to play with? Also, my PC was built around Powers, not Superpowers, please can she be grandfathered in? And if by "retcon", you mean my communication mistake, maybe Shamrock and I were separated enough in the forest that I called him on my tablet, and we all were linked together in order to stay in touch, so Esper happened to hear it? Or, I spoke directly to Shamrock, and the conversation between Esper and Mr. Sable just never happened...
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"Esper, you have any ideas about what to do about that thresher that's about to remove the Grimm's tracks? Should we try to stop it, or have we learned everything we can here?"
= 3 "It's more likely that someone, maybe Sable, has already tried to track this thing."
Well, by RAW, you can bump up *one* skill that's the same or higher than its linked Attribute (I'm assuming that's what you were referring to by "the other one", please let me know if I'm wrong), whereas the house-rule only allows you to bump up a skill that's strictly *lower* than its linked Attribute (so it encourages you to increase your "newer" skills). A subtle but important difference...
People who start out heavily specialized have a rough time branching out... There's a common house-rule among Savage World'ers whereby when you use an Advancement to get a d4 in a new skill, you can also bump up another skill that is lower than its linked Attribute. Kind of takes the sting out of "just" getting a d4 in a new skill for the price of an Advancement... Whatdayathink?
"Right. Keeping eyes out for breeches in their defenses and Grimm. Got it."
Esper, FWIW, I suggested you butter up Mr. Sable before I read your above post... Guys, from a meta- point of view, does anyone have the Tracking skill to find the Grimm? What about Stealth to go where we shouldn't? I have neither. We're built to be fighters, not investigators...and a d4-2 only has a 32% chance of success, even with a Wild die! And Remnant, what *would* we roll to evaluate and/or find holes in their security system? Knowledge/Security? Anyone have *that*?
Looking back and forth at Carmine and Esper, Azure says "Well, you've each taken two tasks, which for the moment leaves Shamrock and me with nothing to do. We can't patch the holes in their security until we've found them, and we can't attack the Grimm until we've found it. Esper, you're a personable person, why don't you try buttering up Mr. Sable? Carmine, you want to look at the security system or track the Grimm?"
Azure stares at Esper, mouth agape, then finally closes it and swallows hard. "I don't think there's anything more I can add to that analysis" she says timidly.
Her ears having pricked up at Sable's "take care of my farm" comment, she actually breaks out into a grin at the mention of Grimm and a recent attack. "Ah ha!" she says, looking at no one in particular, "so we're *not* here to study dust or farming methods, but to protect the farm! That's better!"
Common Knowledge : what do I know of Mr. Sable?
Azure yawns again and says "Eh, you've seen one huge dust-driven automated farm, you've seem 'em all..." She's just as curious as the rest, she just doesn't want to look like a gaping yokel.
As cloudy as her mind is from being awake at this obscene hour, Azure is perhaps a little more forward with a professor than she should be, saying "Professor Peach, I thought Professor Ozpin said he would be testing our abilities in the field? How is studying a dust farm going to do that? And how do we make up missing two weeks of our other classes - all that homework, and quizzes, and exams?"
Yawning, Azure misses Professor Peach's fumble. Altho she is also a morning person, having to get up at 4 AM is a bit *too* early...
Well, technically it is needed to use two weapons with the same effectiveness in each hand, but if you are going to be making two (weapon-based) attacks a lot, Two-Fisted removes a -2 from *each* attack (the Multi-Action Penalty, or MAP), while Ambidextrous removes a -2 only from your off-hand attack, so Two-Fisted is a better first choice as it gives you more "bang for your buck". Unfortunately, Two-Fisted only applies to Fighting, Shooting, and Throwing attacks, so it wouldn't remove the -2 MAP from a Shield Bash.
Esper, just checking - you only need Ambidextrous when you use a shield as an Improvised Weapon, and if you'll be using it for that a lot, taking Two-Fisted would be a better first choice. It's up to Remnant to decide if the Shield Bash Push maneuver would be subject to an off-hand penalty (since it doesn't involve a Fighting roll), which Ambidextrous would then help...
If it's possible to go into town, Azure will do so, to see the sights. She'll either go on her own, or with Shamrock should he express an interest in going out loud. Otherwise, she'll be hitting the books (and training mats) hard, wanting to do the very best that she can. No late night parties for her!
Bumping Agility up to d8.
Azure simply says "I'm in", and hopes there's no quaver in her voice to give away the misgivings she's having at getting "assignments" a year or two above her training.
Remnant - ok, no problem. I know SW excels at bunches of Extras, I just noticed that you Wild Attacked me in two 1-on-1 fights, and thought it was going to be a "thing". P.S. - that Grab/Takedown combo sounds nice!
Azure searches her memory for what she's heard about them :
But, having grown up in a different land, doesn't know anything about them.
Azure blushes at Ozpin's compliment, and says "Thank you sir, but I'll be the first to admit that I got *very* lucky at the end, there...sir."
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