Re: [BNW] Questions

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>I have some questions that came up from the session this past weekend.
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>I have a player who plays a Telekinetic.
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>It states in the book that the powers are invisible and hard to detect the
>delta using them.
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>Question: When he uses martial arts in an all out combat does the character
>have to just stand there like nothing is happening while fighting in his
>mind or does the character actually have to go through the motions of
>throwing a punch in order to have it hit 200 yards away?
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There's nothing in the power description (which implies the effect is 
subtle) to suggest he has to actually act out what he is doing. Seems like a 
Guide call to me.

>With this type of combat does he get the targets H2H added to his target
>number? If it is invisible how would they ever know it was coming to defend
>against it?
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Ditto.

>Now about the adventure
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>I put them through the Ripper adventure. I must say the final combat was
>horrible. It took so long and seemed tedious.
>We have a Telekinetic, Tough and Goliath.
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>Nobody in the party had AP ammo and they could not touch the Ripper in the
>suit. This combat dragged on and on.
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I don't have the adventure here in front of me, but remind me:  the Ripper 
is a Tough wearing armor, right?

>Was I doing something wrong? If combat was meant to be this way, my players
>will not play this game again :-(
>I have run many games in the past and I could have fudged things to make
>them go quicker but this being our first major combat I wanted to see the
>system in action.
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A Tough with 10 more points of armor might be a bit...misrepresentative of 
the combat system.  :) Is armor cumulative?    I don't recall, but I was 
under the vague impression that you only got the benefit of the single 
_best_ source of armor you were wearing or had access to.  Which is why 
Toughs still might wear Armor when they come up against a Snuffer, or a 
Blaster might wear a BP Vest (since the BP vest doesn't work against another 
Blaster or other powers that ignore non-Delta armor).

Again, don't have my rules here with me today, but did you give the Ripper 
(a Tough, right?) the combined benefits of _both_ types of armor?  If that 
was the case, I can see why your characters had some trouble damaging him.

Regardless, for future battles the solution (if you want one) would simply 
be to craft your opponent(s) more carefully in terms of what kinds of damage 
resistance they have.

>Jason Olivier
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Steve Crow

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