aricene's page

Goblin Junk Tinkerer Mom: "We have dolls and blocks at home."

(The dolls and blocks at home: -2 item penalty to all play checks.)

Hello! I'm a representative of the sinister collective of entities known as the Dominion of the Black.

If anybody has any questions about our identities, I'd be happy to clear them up with a few lies. Or make them more obfuscated by telling the truth. One of those two. Let me know, thanks!

Here's another Devise a Stratagem possible boost or house rule: on any enemy not the subject of Pursue a Lead, Devise a Stratagem still costs an action *but* only the first time. That would represent the investigator's brain switching gears and getting caught up, stuttering a little bit, but then adapting afterward. It keeps Pursue a Lead meaningful, too, because if you don't have it, you're still paying an action tax on the first round of combat (i.e. the most important round).

This is definitely one of those rules that I'm going to have to play through and experience before I decide how to use it. But I've done that with a bunch of rules that I couldn't quite game out in my head until I saw it on the virtual table, and it usually worked well.

About healing in-combat being a trap: I'd suggest that GMs play hostile encounters differently, too, with the enemies treating a wounded and healed PC limping away from the fight like that PC is not a threat, because they genuinely (probably) will not be. The PC will likely be trying to just get away. Unless the enemies are the recklessly vengeful or mindless types who would ignore a threat right in front of them to kick a wounded non-threat, that is. Even bullies have some sense.