| From: | Bull <chaos@*****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: the uac dilemma (minor insect spirit spoilers!) |
| Date: | Tue, 22 Jul 1997 20:01:08 -0400 |
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>You wrote:
>> Actually, having just checked the Grimmy and Bug City with a close read,
>> it would appear that only the Queen and Mother-type spirits have Immunity
>> to Normal Weapons (which makes no sense at all, if you ask me...)
>It might be that, since they are produced in some measure from human hosts,
>that insect spirits are not so purely 'spirits' as the Queen, and so do not
>have the benefit of INW. They are still human enough to hurt the way humans
>hurt. From a game-balance POV, it's also sensible, because otherwise the
bugs
>wouldn't have to hide so much, and would probably be taking over more than
just
>poor old Chicago.
>
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Actually, in QE, all the trueforms have Immunity to Normal Weapons, and
while i's been a while sicne I read over Bug City, I thought all the True
Forms did...
And someone asked how INW worked, you (IIRC) double the force of the spirit
and that counts as the spirits armor when getting shot and such. In
addition, you use your WIllpower instead of Strength of the weapon when
fighting in HTH... When you're dealing with the average sammy (Srength 8+,
wilppower 3-4), this can be a HUGE difference, when suddenly the force 8
you're fighting is takeing 4M damamge instead of 10M, and has 8 points of
armor, making it's resistance role effectively a 2 (Of course, it would
have been a 2 anyways, but you get the point.)
As a note: Most of this comes from my sketchy memory, and the QE Module,
which is in 1st edition rules, so... Some of the Bug Stuff may have
changed...
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