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And we are back sports fans: with a vengeance

Now it has come to my attention that there are some unforeseen instances with the: I roll your defenses and vice verse system.

I feel, as a GM, it is my duty to address this issue.

Therefore I shall WIELD MY GM POWER TO ALTER THE TIME AND SPACE OF THE COSMOS...*ahem* and call a vote to solve this once and for all.

THIS VOTE IS A SECRET VOTE PLEASE PRIVATE MESSAGE ME YOUR ANSWER

The vote is between: Keeping the system where I roll for your character's defenses and vice verse.

OR

Going back to the old traditional way of me rolling for my own character's defenses and vice verse.

However, There will be only two answers. there is no: I don't care, Both are fine, both are bad (which is kinda weird and counter productive in its nature), tie vote (and since there are 5 players only a rupture in the time space continuum or magic can cause that) or I will not vote. I want definite answers people!

One more thing: The reason I decided to implement the I roll for your characters defenses and vice verse policy was to make the combat rounds go a lot faster and smoother. I'm not sure whether the game will slow down if the vote goes towards: I roll for mine and vice verse traditional policy because this is how I have been playing it since the beginning and this is my first time GMing a Shadow run game....Ever.

I HAVE SPOKEN!

Hey guys, its been a long day for me, I'll post tomorrow. Its going to have to be a biiiiiiiiiig post because a lot of things need clarifying and are about to happen at once. So just bear with me OK?

wait but dodge is only used when they take a full defense in ranged combat.


Ranged Defense = Reaction
Full Ranged Defense = Reaction + Dodge


Full means no complex action on your next turn.

we settled this argument once a bit ago, house ruling of both melee and ranged getting reaction + dodge

oof... so does going on full defense actually have any effect aside from making it so you can't act?


Also, that doesn't really help this situation since I still don't know the enemy's reaction score :-P

Jimbo included their reaction into their dodge score, so that we wouldn't need to keep track of two different sets of numbers.

And the Full Defense option still helps if your parrying or such.

alright, so I guess you're waiting on me to roll their defenses or something? I keep getting e-mails that the thread has new posts but I didn't realize it was about an edit, lol

I can't edit Phantom's post, but I'll just make another below it

> I finally caught some love from the roller. In a most satisfying way, too.

Sorry for the hold up I caused there guys. I've been pretty heavily medicated since last thursday due to a cold which seems to now be passing and I didn't realize there had been an edit to a post.

I kept checking the thread and seeing mine was the last post so I thought we were waiting on someone else.. lol

Alright. With his karma, Shadow will buy a new point of magic (6 x 3 = 18)
This gives him a new power point, which he will apply towards his improved reflexes, bringing the rating to 2.

I'll bank the rest.

yipee Karma, Jotunn and taviro are going for a group initiation with an Vengeance Oath ordeal, that should bring the price down to 6 for a grade 1 initiation, in which he'll pick centering as his metamagic power. , then Taviro is going to amp up his Magic from 5 - 6. That should leave me with 1 karma point, which i'll bank.

Great googly moogly! what is the Vengeance Oath ordeal group initiation Phantom!?

Group Initiation is when two or more magic slingers/adepts that believe in the same religion come together to initiate. That's a base-20% reduction in Karma

Oath Ordeal is where initiates have to swear an oath to the group. If they break the oath, they lose the benefits of their initiation, until they make it up some how. That's an additional base-20% reduction.

10 +(Grade*3) = base; these two reductions can be combined for a total base-40% reduction.

The Oath we chose is Vengeance.

Vengeance: An attack on one member of the Order is an attack on all members of the Order. All attacks must be repaid. The member in question may chose to decline assistance as a matter of personal honor.

10 + (1*3) = 13*.4 = 5.2, round up to 6
13-6 = 7

I'm going to bank all mine.

Group Initiation with Oath Ordeal Grade 1 = 7 karma
Metamagic: Adept Centering: Adpet Centers; free action (Battle Cry) to reduce negative modifiers to combat and physical tests by his Initiation Grade.

Remaining Karma 18

I'll decide what I want to do with that in a bit.

Ok what I'm saying is Hawk only Taviro can give orders to the captured soldier since he is under Taviro's spell. He is the only one who can give the directions to the dude. He can give instructions in English but the dude will be speaking responses in Spanish. And if Taviro doesn't understand Spanish he can't understand what the guy's saying hawk may need to translate for the captured soldier. I guess I'll pm this information to those characters that can speak spanish)

well, I had a nice post... full of the Oath and everything... but then my internet dropped... and I lost it... and I don't feel like doing it again.

Jim, it's your turn.

I apologize for my lateness in posting people. Ive been kinda down and out lately. Sort of a funk really. I'll try to post. But I'll understand if you want to terminate my position or move my Ultra red game to the grave yard.

sorry guys, life has caught up to me. I don't know when I'll be back.