Re: [BNW] New tricks Body Bomb and Blaster tricks

[Kirk Monsen <munchwolf@yahoo.com>]

Well I'm glad to see more tricks posted.  It has been
noted by some that the powers seem to be rather weak. 
Well that's because the varity and strenght come from
the tricks.  The more tricks there are, the stronger
the packages will seem.

As for the Body Bomb, I think I like Doug's idea of
having the damage 5d6+5 massive.  Maybe instead of the
suggested ways of decreasing personal damage have the
wound level decreased by 1 for each extra success. 
This would make it harder to reduce damage from larger
blasts.  I'd also rule that the player doing the body
bomb can 'pull his punch' so that damage is anywhere
from 1d6 to 5d6+5, as well as changing the Blast
Radius from 1 to 5.  Maybe need 1 extra success to
change the blast radius to anything less than 5.


So since we're on the topic of tricks, I was thinking
of going through and listing various tricks for each
package, and since we're talking about Blasters I'll
start with them.

Delayed Blast- Inspired by the body bomb.  With this
trick the Blaster can create a small orb of energy
which will last for a few rounds before exploding. 
Initially it has a life of 1 round (exploding at the
beginning of the round), but for each extra success it
can be delayed by an additional round.  This bomb can
be thrown and is considered size 1.

Range: Self
Blast Radius: 5
Quickness: 2
Tn: 5
Damage: 5d6+5 Massive


Other ideas:

Immolate:  Allows the blaster to surround the target
with his energy blast as if it was Massive damage.  To
succeed at this action the blaster must get a number
of extra successes equal to half his targets size
(rounded up), so for most size 5 targets he'd need 3
extra successes.

Illuminate:  Allows the blaster to glow (or at least
his hands glow).  He can perform this trick
indefitintly by concentrating, but cannot use his
blaster ability while glowing.  Normally this only has
a radius of 3, but with on an easy spirit (I couldn't
think of an appropriate skill, anyone else can?) roll
each extra success allows you to increase the radius
by 3.

Any more ideas for blasters?

-Munch Wolf

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