| From: | The Deb Decker <RJR96326@****.UTULSA.EDU> |
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| Subject: | The Three Mutileers |
| Date: | Sun, 24 Oct 1993 23:34:52 GMT |
Focus. Plural foci. You should disallow it on the basis of bad grammar :)
> What he wants is the following:
> a bastard sword size weapon
> w/ a dagger/dirk in the handle.
As others have, noted, swords just ain't built that way. However, a bastard
sword has a pretty long handle, and judging by the way some modern knives use
their handles to store MacGyvers (those little things that let you do so much)
you could allow it.
However, this would really screw up the balance of the weapon. You could assign
some kind of mod with that. One way around it is to put most of the
counterweight in the dirk, but then the dirk would be really crewy too.
> Now the fun part- he wants the handle to be detachable.
> The handle will be separable into 2 pieces... with
> a monofilament garrote between the handle components.
Same notes above apply to this. The grip is less solid. And this won't be
something he can immediately draw and use, unless he really does want to risk
cutting himself to bits when switches things around.
It sounds to me like this guy wants to be a Power Ranger. He should be killed
for bad taste and general munchkinism.
> Add insult to injury- he wants the weapons foci garrote
> to be a +4 reach basically by packing it w/ orichalchum.
Insulting your intelligence after injuring himself, I take it. As Carter pointed
out, he's reading the words backwards. If you increase the size of something
it's no longer the same--1 14' spear is called a lance or pike.
Also, there comes a point where the thing is too long to be whipped around
effectively-there's too much slack to work through. And do you realize how long
the thing is? Just let him try to whip it out in the corp corridor, or better
yet the bowels of some UB chapterhouse.
> What this means in my game is that the Called Shot needed
> for a garrote to be effective is negated completely by this
> reach bonus!
Only if they come into range. See "Raiders of the Lost Ark" for details.
Technically foci CAN be made of highly-processed materials, but the target
number is much higher. I think it's something like 10 or +10 to the base.
Remember that he needs at least one success before he can go success-buying,
and may very well have to burn plenty of karm just to get that first success.
I don't have a probably with giving him the stacked foci discount, but if you
want to burn more karma for him go ahead and charge him separately (side by
each). If he wants the monofilament to be magical and you don't, tell him that
oricalcum simply doesn't work at that small a level; say it loses its magical
propertiesand simply can't hold enough magical energy to make it an effective
focus when that small.
And from Rob:
>Oops, a vampire just appeared out of nowhere, and tore the heart out of
>your chest. As he drops your still beating organ on the ground, he picks
>up your sword, comments on its fine workmanship, and walks away with a
>hint of a smile on his lips.
That's a bit heavy-handed. Let him fight for it--but stack the odds. Could he
beat an Initiated Vampire, full-up on Essence 12, who tosses Manabolt-10 at
range? I hope not.
>Oops. Covered in blood, the sword slips from your hand and slides into a
>storm grate. The torential Seattle rains cause the sewer to be filled
>with water and the sword is washed away into the sea.
With the Watcher of a friendly mage hot on its tail. When they find it, they
say "Sorry Charlie" to the Giant Kraken living beneath the Narrows Bridge
(there's one there now) and eat mutated fish for a week, freshly filleted by
the free-floating whip. :)
>Oops. The metal detector you just walked by is set off and a dozen cops
>decend on you, confiscating your sword.
Aren't swords legal, at least in general?
>Ooops. Your use of the magic in the sword opens a rift in the space-time
>continum and a heard of angry Klingons emerge, and, seeing your blade,
>assume you to be an enemy. The last image you see is of a Klingon
>plunging a gathpa into your chest.
4 hour later, Picard and company beam down and say "damn! another viewer
lost to the 3rd season!" They then give chase to the Klingons and negotiate
little plastic beads in return for the sword, which is promptly stolen by
time-traveling aliens from the 27th century.
>Ooops. You wake up and realize your life all along has been only a dream
>and you return to your dull life as a wage slave for a pathetic
>corporation. (this could make for an interesting storyline if the
>character find out that his life as a wage slave is programmed, sorta
>like Total Recall).
And in the dream you drop your sword down the drain and realize Life IS
nothing but a dream, merrily, merrily merrily, merrily floating down the
stream.
>Oops. As you are falling from the window, you land on the sword. you
>are dead.
Or just dies from the fall.
J Roberson
