[BNW] [BNW]An answer and a question ...

["Mountain Man" <the_mountain_man@hotmail.com>]

Well, after running a hell of a lot of BNW demos at GenCon I guess it's only 
fitting that I be the one to pose the first actual gameplay question to this 
brave new listserv (sorry poor joke)... and hopefully answer a question as 
well.

My first question :
If I read the rules correctly, and God knows I was flying by the seat of my 
pants all during GenCon, a character can suffer wound levels in any area 
only up to their characters stregnth level.  For instance a speedster with 
stregnth 2d6 can only suffer 2 wounds in each location before he is down.  A 
Goliath has a stregnth of 5d6 but gets a modifier of +10 to his stregnth 
because of his power.  However it was my impression that he still can suffer 
only 5 wound levels in any area before going down, since wounds should 
affect your base stregnth level.  However it was brought to my attention 
that when Mat Forbeck was running a booth demo, the Goliath could suffer up 
to 15 wounds in any location before going down! (The situation being that a 
Goliath goes bust on a throwing roll, falls out a 7 story window, lands on 
the street below, suffers 6 wounds in addition to the 4 wounds already 
existing and still walks away)  Is this true? Does a Goliath with 5d6+10 get 
15 wounds or only 5?

As for my first answer :
A question was posed - can a delta gain powers beyond their specific 
archtype?

Short answer : no

Long answer : Deltas have "power packages" for a reason.  When you create 
your character, you pick what kind of superhero you want your character to 
be and that's that.  You can expand your ability within your character, but 
you can't go beyond it.  It's the whole superhero mentality. I think it was 
Hal Mangold that gave the best analogy.  Spiderman is a webslinger, as he 
runs through the city fighting crime he eventually gets better at 
webslinging, bouncing off walls, dodging attacks, using his spidey-sense etc 
...  but he dosen't all of a sudden gain the ability to fly, shoot laser 
beams out his eyes (or other parts of his body), teleport, grow adamantium 
claws or anything else.  He's a webslinger.  That's what he does.  In the 
superhero genre most if not all characters do one specific thing and do it 
well.  You'd have to admit that a half-ton goliath that could fly AND shoot 
blast beams from his hands AND could run at a pace of 110 AND could teleport 
himself anywhere AND could make himself a suit of armor would be a 
ridiculously powerful character.  The game is designed to be fast and lethal 
... for the heroes.  Deltas in BNW are "locked in" to their  power packages. 
  That's all they are and all they can be.

Alphas on the other hand ...




Arick Madrigal
a.k.a. "The Mountain Man"



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