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Post by takewithfood on Jul 2, 2012 15:18:59 GMT -5
Brainy is talking about Avalanche as a Watcher character, though. A Watcher character wouldn't roll against the doom pool, right?
~TWF
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Post by WildKnight on Jul 2, 2012 15:24:18 GMT -5
Brainy is talking about Avalanche as a Watcher character, though. A Watcher character wouldn't roll against the doom pool, right? ~TWF Why not? The Doom Pool is the generic difficulty, and there are plenty of instances where a Watcher character is rolling something that doesn't target any specific character. If you (the Watcher) were running an Avengers game and Black Panther (a Watcher character) broke into the Avengers Mansion and hacked the computer... what else would he roll against? We haven't had a ton of situations where the Watcher rolls against his own Doom Pool, but it seems to come up at least once a session (for instance, what would a Watcher-controlled Wolverine take a healing roll against for his regeneration?)
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Post by takewithfood on Jul 2, 2012 15:58:19 GMT -5
If you (the Watcher) were running an Avengers game and Black Panther (a Watcher character) broke into the Avengers Mansion and hacked the computer... what else would he roll against? That is indeed the question. As for "why not?", it isn't spelled out either way in the book, hence the desire for clarification. ~TWF
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Post by Brainstem on Jul 2, 2012 16:48:23 GMT -5
If you (the Watcher) were running an Avengers game and Black Panther (a Watcher character) broke into the Avengers Mansion and hacked the computer... what else would he roll against? That is indeed the question. As for "why not?", it isn't spelled out either way in the book, hence the desire for clarification. ~TWF This. I'd default to rolling against the Doom Pool, but I'd like to know if there's a more concrete ruling on this.
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Post by WildKnight on Jul 2, 2012 17:19:21 GMT -5
Sorry, I'm not aware of any concrete ruling. We never really questioned whether it was supposed to be done that way. Cam will probably check over here in a day or three and give you a good answer.
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Post by andyman on Jul 2, 2012 19:42:58 GMT -5
1. Iron Fist's Chi Healing lets him add his Enhanced Stamina to rolls trying to help others recover during Transition Scenes etc. During an Action Scene, he can spend 1 PP to recover stress, but since his Stamina's die rating is d8, it can't help him as much as (say) Wolverine's healing factor that is based on his Godlike Stamina. When you use the PP option, you don't have to roll the dice but you can only get rid of a d8 or lesser stress immediately; if the stress is d10 or greater, it's stepped back by one. 2. Use the largest stress and largest complication out of everyone you're targeting, and add that to your dice pool when staging an area attack. 3. The order in which you resolve those area attacks is going to make a difference, yes. Also, don't forget that each time you use your reaction effect die to cause stress on your attacker, it costs you a PP (or it costs the Watcher doom dice). And if their attack effect die was larger than your reaction effect die, your effect die is stepped back by one. Cheers, Cam Thank you for answering Cam!
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Post by Brainstem on Jul 4, 2012 20:13:27 GMT -5
Here's another question to come up! How do you step up a d12 from the Doom Pool? Say someone uses the Berserk SFX and wants to grab a d12 from the Doom Pool. You can't step up a d12, so what happens? Is that dice just off limits?
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Post by takewithfood on Jul 4, 2012 20:59:20 GMT -5
Damn another good Q.
~TWF
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Post by WildKnight on Jul 4, 2012 21:18:31 GMT -5
This came up on the MWP board. The answer (though I can't say for certain it was an "official" response) was in that case only, "stepping up" a d12 means adding another d12.
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Post by takewithfood on Jul 6, 2012 22:54:06 GMT -5
So when the Watcher wants to add an effect dice to the Doom Pool, what does he target? Say I'm running as Avalanche and want to cause some chaos by tearing up a city with an earthquake. There's no Doom Pool to roll against, so there's nothing for the Total to oppose. Would I just take one of the dice rolled and use that as the Effect to be added into the Doom Pool? Going back to this question, I just found this in the book on OM53: That's not exactly a direct answer, but it's pretty close, I think. ~TWF
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Post by Brainstem on Jul 9, 2012 10:41:36 GMT -5
Ahhhh, SO MANY QUESTIONS.
Okay, so let's look at The Brothers Grimm's datafile. I understand the two of them are treated as one unit, but how does that impact Affiliations? Are they always considered in Buddy or Team? Since there's only one Buddy dice, there's really no way to eliminate one, so I'm not sure how to handle that (or how to make my own characters that function in a similar manner).
Let's say, hypothetically, The Brothers Grimm and Bushwacker are teamed up because their datafiles are next to each other and that's enough to make sense for me. Are they considered a Buddy situation (because you have two Datafiles) or a team situation (because you have the two brothers and Bushwacker)? If the Brothers Grimm are on their own, are they treated as Solo or Buddy?
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Post by Silentking Alpha on Jul 10, 2012 10:22:01 GMT -5
Hey, what should one do as Watcher if a Watcher character requires you to spend a D6 to activate a SFX but you only have D8s or higher?
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Post by Brainstem on Jul 10, 2012 10:29:36 GMT -5
Spend the d8. I don't know the page, but the d6 is the minimum spent.
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Post by Silentking Alpha on Jul 10, 2012 10:54:35 GMT -5
Okay, got it. Thanks for the clarification.
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Post by cambanks on Jul 10, 2012 18:01:46 GMT -5
A few answers to questions! Doom Pool: The Watcher never rolls against the doom pool. You just apply a die from the datafile and use it as the effect die. No rolling. It's often a good idea though to ask the table, "Anyone think they can stop him?" If so, then the Watcher takes an action and the player rolls a reaction.
Stepping up a d12: If you step up a d12 in a dice pool (as opposed to an effect die, since that does something else), step up the next highest die. If there's no other die, add a d6.
Spending dice: If you don't have a die of the right size, but do have a die that's larger, spend the larger die.
Hope that helps! Anyone checked out Civil War yet?
Cheers, Cam
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