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Custom Powers Master List (Work In Progress)
Belial666:
Heads up guys - I don't have much time but I got to say something on the issue of accuracy;
1) Someone with True Aim, Swing for the Fences, A Few Seconds Ahead and a skill cap of Superb can attack at Legendary. That's with only -3 refresh worth of powers.
2) Someone with Incite Emotion, Emotional Vampire and a skill cap of Superb can attack at Legendary, doing mental stress and a maneuver at the same time. That's with only -2 refresh worth of powers.
Powers can get you lots of accuracy for cheap-like. Now add Supernatural Strength to the melee guy and supernatural toughness for -6 more refresh (catch is holy powers or inherited silver or something like that) and give him a sword. He attacks at Legendary with Weapon 7 defends at Superb, has armor 2 and 8 stress. That's without Items of Power or any other rebate-givers for a Submerged character. The guy can potentially take on Magog from the Denarians. Add Item of Power or other rebate and they can take on more than one Denarian at once.
Sanctaphrax:
Swing For The Fences has a drawback. If you use a power to negate the drawback, you shouldn't get the bonus.
I don't think that Incite Emotion gives its +2 bonus to attacks.
Belial666:
It does give the +2 to attack - the wording on Lasting Emotion does not say you use a different bonus so you use the same.. But you are not using it to attack in this case anyway. You are using it to maneuver or block at melee (hence the +2 for sure) and use the same roll to deal mental stess by feeding via emotional vampire. So you both lockdown the enemy and deal mental stress. Plus when you take them out, you heal all your own stress and mild consequences. Enjoy.
As for the Swing for the Fences thing, again technically you are not negating the block/parry Defense penalty. You are using another type of defense altogether, one gained via power. A wizard with SFTF would not take any penalty to his blocks, for example. Neither would a Fae (or skinwalker for that matter) using Greater Glamours to attack while staying invisible. (and using his invisiblity as defense, essentially)
Silverblaze:
"As for the Swing for the Fences thing, again technically you are not negating the block/parry Defense penalty.You are using another type of defense altogether, one gained via power." - Belial
(yes I know I can quote, I just didn't)
I call shenanigans!
No GM should let that fly. If they do they deserve an OP PC.
Aside from that you make amazingly good points similar to my thinking.
BumblingBear:
^^^ Good points made.
My counter argument is that I tell PCs they can take whatever powers they want but just to keep in mind that the monsters will scale accordingly.
There's always a bigger fish..... :)
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