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Harry's pain-blocking stunt
nadia.skylark:
How would you write up a stunt to reflect the pain-blocking trick Lash taught Harry in Dead Beat? Would it clear a consequence? Prevent aspects associated with consequences from being invoked against him? Give him armor against pain? Temporary extra physical stress boxes?
I'm not sure how to model it rules-wise.
Sanctaphrax:
Something along the lines of the Unshakable stunt (YS 151) might work. Or just No Pain No Gain (YS 152). Or the Feel No Pain custom power.
Really, you have any number of options for representing an ability to fight through or ignore suffering.
nadia.skylark:
Feel No Pain seems perfect!
How much of a discount, if any, would you give it for needing to take an action to establish it as functional before it starts working?
Sanctaphrax:
1 Refresh.
That's just gut instinct, but most custom power balance is just gut instinct.
nadia.skylark:
So here's what I've written up:
[-2] A Block Against Pain: You have the ability to set up a block against pain. You do this by rolling your discipline skill, and unlike most blocks, this one stays up until someone takes it down. While this block is up, you automatically succeed on any roll meant to ignore or endure your own suffering, and nobody gets a free tag for inflicting a physical consequence on you. In addition, people have to exceed the value of the block in order to inflict physical stress on you. However, any consequences you have while this block is up heal as if they were one step more severe.
What do you think? It feels true to what we see in the books, but I'm not sure if it works mechanically.
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