Mine got damaged in the car accident, which was one of the ways I nearly died last year, and then after that my toddler kneed me in the face and they just didn't have the hit points to handle it anymore, so they completely fell apart.
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I'm better off than I was before. Just need new glasses to come in cause mine are broken beyond use and I'm practically blind.
oh holy shot. take your time. I agree, 2017 is the worst year of my life, and likely everyone. Nearly died 3 times personally, and everything else sucks a dirty toilet. This year was s$*% from day 1
Carmine continues to pour on the assault on the off-balance white-fang, hoping to take one down quickly.
Carmine looks at the two ranged weapons users and grins. "Let's see if you're even worth fighting trainees." he says. He then opens fire on the one on the left, hedging them together where shamrock can do the most damage.
Carmine watches the four start to move forward to fight and tosses Gravitas into the air over his head. It shifts and changes into it's Red Queen Form, coming into an orbit around his head. He snags the targeting baton out of the air and points it at the four. "I've got your back." Carmine says to Shamrock.
"You know we're not going to do either of those." Carmine replies, raising Gravitas into a fighting stance. "You have the one chance to give up."
"Gyah! I'm up!"
Carmine doesn't wake unless physically shaken awake.
"maybe it was a guy with stilts?" Carmine guesses with a shrug. "Night patrols is a good idea." -Posted with Wayfinder
Carmine relays everything he found out during his meeting with the security guards and the observation room. He also tells of the area they could splice a feed into the camera lines so they could see what the security teams are seeing without them being any wiser. He also will babble on for several minutes about their weapons and the after-market modifications they have. When dragged back onto topic, Carmine suggests Esper and him spend some time making the device to connect their scrolls to the security network. He also tells everyone the uniforms have trackers on them, so do NOT wear any of their gear if stealth is planned.
Carmine nods, thanking him for the offer. After that, he excuses himself to head back and relay the offer to his team and figure out rotations. Once they're back in a unwatched location, he turns to the professor. "So, That was... informative." he summarizes. "I think I'll need to spend some time with Esper and get us a wireless hack into their security net."
Well, I'm glad everyone likes my aura shielding thing. I think the only change that we need to do is give the ranged weapons some kind of default range for free, and just keep the rest of the modifications as normal. As for Semblances, I really enjoy the SPC's way of handling powers from a mechanics perspective, but for the setting I really think they need a cost. How about first use in a scene is free, and then additional uses fatigue you?
Carmine nods as the man explains how it works. "Ah, I see!" Carmine realizes. "So the attacks happen when you're both unavailable. That's expected with so few people here. Since we're here and are basically extra manpower, we can help cover shifts until we head back. I'm sure you guys are being bored to tears just sitting here." He hopes that they can agree and actually get someone of their own eyeing the cameras. If not he could work with Esper and perhaps hook their scrolls into...
While he's looking it over he takes mental note of how the camera feeds are routed. Perhaps they can see what these two see even if the man turns them down.
Carmine makes mental note of the 'dead zone' in the security, and also the tracking system. He will ask a few questions about patrols, if anything was seen during the attacks, etc, but they're really just to get a feel for what the facilities operations are like.
Carmine's actions: Carmine will look at the uniform and put it aside. "I'll get changed once I've had a chance to look around. No need to rush into company work, right?" he reasons. He does take the gloves with him, but stows the rest in a locker for later. When complimented, he takes off his glasses and cleans them, using the look down at his glasses to hide his face. "... thanks." he replies. "I'm gonna try to do right by my team. The least I could do, right?" Regardless of the route, Carmine is careful to remember the location of the control center in relation to the building's interior. Even if one way were to become obstructed, there might be another route he could plan for. As Goldberg greets him, Carmine will give him a polite smile and nod, noting the weapon designs and finding the after-market modifications interesting. Ex military? Possibly. Atlas veterans do like their weapons to operate to particular standards. Noted. "Hello, Mr. Goldberg. Pleased to meet you too." he replies with the courtesy that comes from having to greet his father's co-workers many times. "I suspect this rash of problems has been a thorn in your side. If you have anything you've noticed of recent events that will help, I'd be glad to hear it."
This is why I'm not TERRIBLY concerned! Also my character has D10 in smarts. He miiiight make the checks.
It should be fine. We are also still kids, you know? We wont have skills at everything we night right away, or we wouldnt have needed to go to school -Posted with Wayfinder
"Ill look at the security system, you two focus on tracking down any grim in the area and clearing the local threats out. Sibce we are here we might attracts them with our presence." he declares. -Posted with Wayfinder
Carmine nods. "All right, let's break down our objectives into more manageable chunks, then see who can handle what." he offers. "At least that's how it worked at my dad's office. Should work here." He takes off his glasses and wipes them clean. "Okay. So we need to Protect the farm from grimm, find the source of the nevermore, and figure out what Mr. Sable is concealing from general inquiry. Let's break down the 'protect the farm' into at least two more sections: Find holes in their defenses and patch them, and... remove the current threats to the facility. For the Nevermore... we should break that into two steps, one finding the frequency and directions the attacks come from and then tracking it, and then step two is mustering together as a group to either block it from returning or, optimistically, destroy it." Carmine puts his glasses back on his face, blinking. "Mr. Sable's going to be difficult. We need his cooperations to handle the other two objectives, so we need to avoid getting his suspicions up or setting off any alerts. I feel we need to take a look at their camera set up first and foremost, which we'd need to do anyways since we're going to be examining their security. Then we need to find out where we're not allowed to go... and, well, go there. Stealthily if at all." "Okay, so I've broken it down into something more manageable without getting too complicated. Any volunteers for particular parts?" He asks. "I would be willing to look at the security system, and spearhead the Nevermore tracking."
"Uhhh... Good job, Esper. I... Couldnt add much to that... Other than its not very hard to record video..." Carmine adds -Posted with Wayfinder
Carmine stares up at the wall and shakes his head. "No... no way it's a beowulf." He points to the tracks. "And... there's no way he just 'walked' up to this wall. Look at the tracks. He left, but there's no sign that it arrived here on foot. A... nevermore?"
Struggling to keep up due to gawking, Carmine gives Esper a faint shake of his head. "My dad works for the Schnee company, not atlas military. He might have some of the tech but I think its still classified." -Posted with Wayfinder
Carmine adjusts his glasses, staring out at the dust machinery in awe. "Thats... a lot of dust." he observes dumbly.
Carmine groans. "Ugh... laundry." he sighs. "I packed my tools and... It's too late to go back, isn't it?" he asks, hanging his head. Welp, I foresee me in just my shorts for a while. Maybe I can figure out how to clean my clothes with an application of dust? He opens one of his notepads and starts scribbling, doing some preliminary math-work on applications of elemental dust.
Carmine, as disinterested in taking artificial stimulants as he is, finds the idea of studying dust more extensively very interesting. "Awesome! I need to practice more with my dustcraft either way." he says energetically.
"Huh? Test?" Carmine asks. "But we just started... Ooooh. I get it." he mutters. Not a morning person -Posted with Wayfinder
No all the posts disappeared for a few hours there.
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Carmine will spend time (with azure's permission) studying the schematics of her shield/hoverboard, and taking notes he could use to help design upgrades.
"Sooo... I take it we can't tell anyone about these missions... Right?" Carmine asks. Hunter by our first day of class? Jackpot! I'm gonna need to read up between missions. "I mean. I'm all for it, sure." he adds quickly. He looks at the other three. "But we have to do it as a team. If everyone else is in, then so am I." -Posted with Wayfinder
Carmine chuckles awkwardly. "Hehe... yeah... that would be a thing, wouldn't it?" he says, looking down at his lap. "My dad would flip if I got a better job at the same company he works for, right?" He knows! Does he know? How could he? Dad didn't even see my designs! He totally knows. I'm so doomed. Ohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrapohc rapohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrap... Maybe he doesn't know? "I got the idea to use the repulsors for Gravitas from my dad's work on the stabilizers used for our airships... or hoverboards, I guess..." he blathers, his eyes wider than they should be. "It's cool, but not very useful for combat yet. Can't go far from the control unit..."
Carmine has rubs his face as they leave the class. After everyone's obvious dismay in how the combat went, steps forward. "Woah, Shamrock, we're okay. None of us did anything wrong. Azure may have hit the guy hard, but we didn't tamper with the safety equipment. Like she said, we shouldn't have been able to bypass it, so... that's a good thing." He sniffles, touching his nose. "I hope he's okay too..." he grumbles further about Felix and stupid stunts and getting himself killed.
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Yes, please let's not let my inner designer ruin a fun game! :D
Yeah, I thought we're still using the current system until everything is peachy between me and Aloha on the new changes. Azure, your votes are pretty much spot-on for what I'm thinking, though I still want to tinker with the weapon system. I think the fatigue level on a 1 on the spirit die also seems to be in line for the game, so sure, sounds good to me.
I also started on deadlands classic, so sometimes I make the mistake of making an assumption that would have been correct in classic mode, not the new mode. I particularly loved the Junkers from Hell on Earth, and have one that's lived through a very, very long campaign. Now THAT was a list of customizable powers! I get where you're coming from. I feel that the system needs to be a little more in balance, and neither melee or ranged should be incentivizing the players to pick them from a mechanical benefit position; they should pick which they want because that sounds like fun for them. I don't think you should cripple players who want to do ranged by their weapon not having a 'default' operating stats, since melee does. I think it would be fine if I dropped it to short range and 2d6, but a ranged weapon should start as a ranged weapon. I was going to toss my proposed AB out entirely, and just salvage the bits from it I liked. We'd keep the original weapon creation system, (Not the proposed AB one. I'll work out something for the melee/ranged balance) I like the idea of spending a benny to get your semblance to do something 'different', so why not keep that suggestion too. I feel like I should explain a bit more what I meant by using aura mastery as a skill. This would have been used to also activate dust into powers, but I get that no one wants it. Anywho, thank you for the feedback. I should be able to put the update together soon.
Thank you for the feedback Azure. I did say I'm working on fixing the imbalances (and the ranged/melee thing is the worst offender). I'm going to insist that Aura use be a skill roll, however. I get where you're coming from, please understand. I, also get from a design perspective what needs to be done too. I am still working on making changes, so please be patient with me. :)
I know nobody wants a penalty. :p It is, as I said, an alternative to spending points on secondary, as I'm already hesitant to give out more skill points. Characters are already plenty powerful as they've been designed, giving them yet more free points would just further tip them out of balance. Because ultimately, no matter how *this* game goes, I want this pdf to be able to be used by other gm's in other games with as little problems as possible too.
True, it does affect the odds a fair bit. A -1 would be better.
So if you're like Carmine and do shooting as your primary, your secondary would use shooting, but with a penalty, to do the melee parts.
The skill points were considered, which is why I suggested the fix to streamline combat skills.
Azure: my apologies. The edges are semblance novice, expert, and master. -Posted with Wayfinder
Like I said, I THOUGHT I had a solution that handled everything. Which is why I asked if you'd at least look at my idea. I only meant the new idea was annoying. I didn't expect the radical change option to go over easily. It was... spitballing? Throwing Ruby at the wall and seeing if she sticks? I dunno -_- As for the V2... Why don't we collect the 'issues' each person is seeing with the weapon system, and I'll try to work from there. I really think aura use should be a skill though. Then we could do something this with Semblances: "Aura Mastery roll: Hit activates your semblance to use during the current scene, but you take a level of fatigue after. Raise, you don't get fatigue?" (I'm assuming most of us can tell what a 'scene' is) and just use Aloha's original semblance creation setup.
And the combat skill thing I suggested sounds interesting but I haven't playtested it. I.E. I have Fighting at D12, and if I have to use the gun form of my weapon instead of having to buy up shooting I could roll my fighting with a -2, since it's this specific weapon I'm so familiar with. It's kinda a quick and dirty workaround, but.. you know. Saves on skill points.
All right, obviously I've reached the stage of just annoying everyone. I'll just drop it. It was *heh* a long shot.
One thing that bothered me about using the proposed system for weapon design, and my version only made it worse, was that Savage Worlds has a design ethic of Fast and Furious Fun. I think we've kind of overlooked some already existent resources because we've been so focused on what we want it to do that we forget one of the key features of SW: Trappings. Because of trappings, one man's Bolt power *looks* vastly different than anothers. One could be literally a bolt of lightning, and the other a supersonic marble or something. Both are bolt. Both have the same mechanical effect, and now both can have fun without being forced to take fireball at level 3 because it's the only way to have an offensive 'spell' or something. So, to kind of fix things, I'm going to do what we Americans have been doing for years. I'm gonna steal something. ;)
Specifically, I'm going to steal heavily from the Superpowers Companion, a book everyone here likely has and enjoys. I'm going to go the opposite of what I did before and open up the gates for people to have their character, their way, with little to any modification to the core mechanics while still feeling like RWBY. So, here we go:
Proposed Solution:
This is the way we're going to fix everything. REASONS! Firstly, normal characters in their world are the same as any extra in a SW game, so locking all the fun stuff behind an AB allows for characters to innately stand out. Secondly, this makes a lot of sense from a more detached perspective. The characters in RWBY do superheroic stunts on a day to day basis, things that normal humans could never do. Sounds good to me. Thirdly, we already touched on using superpowers to use our semblances but they were... not very clearly defined in the first document. We can fix that. The Arcane Background will grant access to multiple things.
First, a Power Point Pool!
They also get another type of Power Points!
Build Power Points are used to build their Technical/Huntress weapon. They can choose from the Superpowers Companion any attack power as their 'Primary' power. This power comes with the 'Device' and the 'Switchable' power modifiers (one's a +2 cost and one's a -2 cost, so they cancel each other out for this purpose). The alternate power is going to be their weapon's other 'mode'. So a melee power if they had a ranged one, a ranged power if they had a melee one. The important thing here is that characters can much more readily customize their huntress/hunter with this, choosing how many of the 15 BPP they get to build their awesome weapon. Also, with trappings they can have these powers be the kind of weapon they want. The remaining points after building their weapon are used to buy the power of their Semblance, and, if they want, to buy specific [special techniques] that they can perform with their weapons that aren't technically their weapon (Example: Blakes use of Gambol Shroud as a way to swing around high areas). Leave final say on what they can choose to the GM. I would say the only *explicit* ones that are on the no-go list are the Toughness/armor increasing ones and intangible. Let's say general guidelines are ~10 points for their huntress weapon, 5 for semblance. (I. E. Ballistic flight, shadow clones) Aura Soaking!
Adjusted Skills
Skill: Weaponcrafting (Smarts)
Fighting/Shooting/Throwing= (Agility)
System Adjustment
Okay there it is.
Of course, if accepted, everyone would have to re-configure their characters, but I think in the long run, making characters this way is easier and faster, and easier to double-check for errors too.
At the time of my post, the new idea wasnt polished. I've got it a little cleaned up but im sick today, so i might not be able to get it on paper yet. -Posted with Wayfinder
Question: If I had developed a way that can handle the weapon stuff without using the existing system, and it flowed well/let players have the style they wanted, would that be okay? is using this particular system of weapon design a must with each of you? *Might have other options to use, just checking.
Thanks again!
Thanks! I appreciate all the honest feedback for this. I will look at a way to do the weapon system so everyone's at the least, satisfied. I will get back to it. Probably be a few more days. Everyone, i appreciate the feedback. Also, if you want a particular piece of art in the book let me know! It looks solid enough I'll throw it up for other people to download. -Posted with Wayfinder
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