[BNW] Regarding the Tempest...

[Mark Kilfoil <kilfoilm@nbnet.nb.ca>]

Robin Hill wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2003 13:44:21 +0000, Remial wrote:
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>>I've never heard of the Tempust powers what book are they in?
> 
> I found the Tempust power package on The encaffeinatedONE's excellent website:

Eegad!  Some reference the site!  Now, I *really* have to get off my 
duff and update that start page (coming soon: 2000! eek!)

> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Quadrant/8309/bnw/index.html

Look under the "Archetypes" section on the right...

> My Tempust player has also been helping me to design new tricks, as follows. We're 
> still playtesting them to see how they play for balance (they are a touch on the 
> powerful side) but they're a good antidote to the big'n'nasty chargers and blasters.

Hey, if you ever get those tricks to primetime (although they look good 
to me...) send 'em on and I'll actually make an update to my site..

> Power: Temporal Control/Timetripper:
Power or Trick?  (Discuss... ;)

> New Trick: Temporal Distortion
Does this also affect their dodge?  Might give them a bonus to dodging, 
and cancel/reduce Aiming effects...  (Can't track what you can't follow...)

> New Trick: Temporal Drag / Temporal Boost
Might make this one a bit more expensive as a base (perhaps 10).

> Additional Trick using Temporal Drag

This affects the target, and not the people on the ground, so it's a 
little wierd.. So the target is wrapped in a bubble of "slow time", such 
that one action to them is (metaphorically speaking) like two actions of 
the outside world?

> Designer's Note: I'd like to playtest these to see how they work in combat, but I 
> think the balance is about right. Temporal drag ought also to work on machines 
> moving at speed, but I haven't figured on how that might work. Particularly 
> powerful timetrippers ought to be able to slow down bullets in flight. Certainly 
> Temporal Distortion would be a mightily efficient alternative to Dodge!

Surprised no one has suggested this one yet:

Trick: Bullet Time: May only be done as a reaction to an attack 
(particularly a ranged attack...).  Done almost as an instinct, a 
Tempest discovers very early that they can get out of harm's way with 
preternatural speed.  Roll an Easy (5) Spirit check.  For each success, 
add a +2 to your Dodge.

Shutter Speed:  Every Tempest knows that it isn't the speed at which you 
move that is truly important, it is the speed at which you *perceive*.. 
   With this trick, a Tempest can notice the flicker on your TV...  When 
watching an event, roll an Easy (5) Spirit check.  For every success, 
add +2 to any perception-type rolls.

(Haven't playtested the above -- don't even have the rulebooks in the 
same *city*, so take 'em as you might...)

Ever Defiant!

the Encaffeinated ONE ~~ Saving the world, one COFFEE at a time! ~~
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Mark Kilfoil                                   <kilfoilm@nbnet.nb.ca>
  Software Designer/Developer, Radio Host, Gamer, Curmudgeon, Oddball
     From the FINE mega-city of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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