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[ragnarok97071]

GWG, you're not going to even do an active defense? You don't need to clash, you just make an opposing roll with your defense stat.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Oh.

I don't really understand the system yet.
...It doesn't help that the Doc didn't mention the Active Defenses thing aside from a note in the Attack thing, so I thought that that was referring to the Clashes, which I wanted to save for later.

[ragnarok97071]

... if Active Defense doesn't exist, why would Passive be so easy to overcome with comperable stats? :p

Yeah, normal attack resolution is something like this:

Attack Declared --> Roll against Passive Defense (Defense + 3) --> Active Defense Choice (block or Clash) --> Overcharge/PP expenditure (basically, up to +3, but you get fallout after the fight ends depending on just how much you accrue) --> Damage roll.

[GreatWyrmGold]

... if Active Defense doesn't exist, why would Passive be so easy to overcome with comperable stats? :p

Because of the way the game was designed.

Some games' combat systems are designed for quick combat, others for more drawn-out combat. In the former case, easily hitting an enemy would help.

[ragnarok97071]

Ah, right, Overcharge.

On any magical action, you can take a point of Overcharge to get up to three bonus dice on a roll (1 point for one, 2 for two, etc.)

if you have even a single point of Overcharge, you can't return to human form, and have to vent it. You do this by taking Fallout.

Basically, if you take Overcharge, then it means you're stressing your magic and it's going to cause weird shit to happen.

Less than three, and you lose one Overcharge per scene from a single attribute.

Above three, and you have to take Fallout, which can be anything from a ball bouncing on its own for five or ten minutes while laughing a bit (2-3 point Magic Fallout) to a massive, city-block sized explosion of doom (12-point Magic Fallout).

The most powerful also tend to fuck over your social links, and if you get an 8+ Fallout and you don't have any social links left...

Well.

You also have to assign it to one of your magic attributes, so need to do that before I post the response.

[ragnarok97071]

Wyrm, need your post.

On a somewhat related note, I'm considering changing over to a regular weekly meeting on Roll20, for combat phases.

What's everyone's opinions on this?

[kj1225]

I'm fine with it.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Wyrm, need your post.

Oh. I wasn't sure...I suppose that the fact that there's nothing else going on should have clued me in, though...

[Harry Baldman]

Wyrm, need your post.

On a somewhat related note, I'm considering changing over to a regular weekly meeting on Roll20, for combat phases.

What's everyone's opinions on this?

Wouldn't work for me, I'd say. I much prefer a purely play-by-post format.

[scapheap]

Wyrm, need your post.

On a somewhat related note, I'm considering changing over to a regular weekly meeting on Roll20, for combat phases.

What's everyone's opinions on this?

Wouldn't work for me, I'd say. I much prefer a purely play-by-post format.

same for me, you know what problems I had with ragnarok(the forum game)

[GreatWyrmGold]

Wyrm, need your post.
On a somewhat related note, I'm considering changing over to a regular weekly meeting on Roll20, for combat phases.
What's everyone's opinions on this?

Wouldn't work for me, I'd say. I much prefer a purely play-by-post format.

same for me, you know what problems I had with ragnarok(the forum game)

For the record, I too prefer PBP.

[ragnarok97071]

sorry, just seems that we've had problem getting past the fight. it was supposed to be really sort before we get the others magic'd up and shit.

[ragnarok97071]

Alright, Gold, I'm going to just make absolutely sure of this.

If you switch to a GB, he'll be using his defense score for his response instead of attack. Which is four higher.

You're going to have to get REALLY lucky to get your hit, and you'll only get three bonus damage.

True, that's more than enough to mean that you're highly likely to kill him

But if you stick with a normal attack he doesn't get a counter (Since he's using his attack to do a Clash)

[GreatWyrmGold]

Oh, missed that one caveat.

Stick to the normal attack.
Suddenly notice that this appears to be the OOC thread.

[ragnarok97071]

Hence the un (())'d OOC.

XD

So yeah, gonna take the OC?

At this point you're gonna be getting the same Fallout anyway (Mutations! Yay!), so.