Bob Schroeck Wrote:It works by weapons and bombs being extremely wimpy. Nukes do 1d100, for example. All of the Warriors -- even the super normals -- could smother an exploding nuke with their bodies. And survive, ready for more action.
Oh, those always suck to work with. Like the 6.4-ton MBT, or 100-ton F-15 from Hero. Or some strange game my sister is now working with where a hand grenade is regularly lethal out to about 150 feet.
Bob Schroeck Wrote:Oh, and add Cooking to the skill list. Forgot about that...
Dhur! I even remember those scenes and I didn’t think to add cooking.
Shepherd Wrote:Since you're already giving him Injury Tolerance (Damage Reduction), give him extra levels with a Limited Defense (area attacks) limitation, which would likely count as -20%. The justification is that Doug is being effected, but his defensive field is neutralizing most of the damage. His field is simply more effective at protecting him from explosions because they're more like millions of tiny attacks (with his probability field affecting each one seperately) instead of one big attack.
However, as Rob and I were trying to explain as the SJGames fora, that only works against damaging attacks. I’m pretty sure Doug’s field protects him against sleep gas area effects as well as explosions. On the other hand, the +8 he’s getting to resist maledictions and the like would protect him against those as well.
Granted, it may wind up being more than just one, additional, advantage, so I’m still working on it.
If the field wouldn’t protect him against non-damaging attacks, please let me know.
robkelk Wrote:Would that protect Doug from getting tagged by a drive-by graffiti artist, though?
(For that matter, would Doug's field protect Doug from getting tagged by a drive-by graffiti artist? Mark is the one who said "It’s effective against anything that targets him, or his immediate vicinity," not Bob.)
Bob Schroeck Wrote:Speaking in terms of V&V: If the graffiti artist had to make a "to hit" roll to paint Doug -- a not-unreasonable assumption for a GM to make under improvisational circumstances -- then Doug's field will apply its usual -8 penalty to the roll.
While it wasn’t something that Bob had said, it did seem to be how the rule was written, mechanically.