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Harry's pain-blocking stunt

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Sanctaphrax:
I don't think that's a good idea. If you can pump that one Discipline roll into the stratosphere, you become more or less invincible. Not a particularly fun play pattern.

nadia.skylark:

--- Quote ---I don't think that's a good idea. If you can pump that one Discipline roll into the stratosphere, you become more or less invincible. Not a particularly fun play pattern.
--- End quote ---

Good point. Would it work better if the block could be used as armor against physical stress? That would cut the value in half, right?

Sanctaphrax:
That would actually be stronger. Armour is generally considered twice as valuable as a block. And it would be particularly strong in this case, since there'd be no way to remove it.

In general, I don't think an indefinite-duration protective roll is gonna work well.

nadia.skylark:

--- Quote ---That would actually be stronger. Armour is generally considered twice as valuable as a block. And it would be particularly strong in this case, since there'd be no way to remove it.
--- End quote ---

Okay, I think I've forgotten how armor and blocks work. Could you remind me? I'd thought that if you exceed the value with shifts, you can put those shifts toward destroying the armor/block, and the difference between the two was just that using something as armor meant that you cut the shifts in half. But from what you're saying, I have that wrong.

Sanctaphrax:
A block opposes actions in general. If people want to do anything that the block affects, they need to beat the block's strength. It doesn't stack with defense rolls, you have to pick one or the other.

Armour is only for attacks. It reduces the stress inflicted by successful attacks, essentially reducing the weapon rating.

If an accuracy 5, weapon 5 attack is thrown at a target with a 4-shift block, a defense roll of 3, and armour 2, the attack hits by a margin of 1 and inflicts 4 stress.

Normally blocks and armour are not damaged by attacks that exceed them, but magical shields are an exception. If the 4-shift block in the above example was from an evocation, it would collapse after the attack. Armour from evocations does not have that problem, but you only get half as much of it from a given spell.

Your Story 252 is probably the page you want here.

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