Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[ValhallaGH]

[The Dread Polack]

[77IM]

I'd just say, when you make a called shot to the neck with a vorpal blade, the penalty is only -2 instead of -4.

That's still fairly powerful, but also straightforward, and meets the original goal of making decapitations easier and more frequent. I'm assuming that the vorpal blade has a regular damage bonus too (and I like the idea of counting it as a Heavy Weapon).

-- 77IM
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[warrenss2]

Make it have only a -2 for a called head shot instead of the -4?

<Edited in> = curse your nimble fingers, 77IM!!!

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[gleepism]

I think I'd handle it one of two ways.

1) as a trapping to the damage
first, give the weapon itself some bonuses due to its magical nature, but in line with other +1 or whatever weapons.

Then any time the weapon delivers the "killing blow" to defeat something, it's trapping is the head is lopped off.

This could easily give the awesome imagery of the wielder going through a crowd of extras with heads flying but still show some back and forth with a wild card enemy until, finally, the head comes off.

For the ''power'' of the weapon, perhaps it negates the reason to roll to see if anything defeated actually survived. Especially devastating on the Extras of the world.

2) sneak in a d20 roll.
That 1 in 20 is a 5% chance so just increase the weapon's damage to d10 with a d10 Strength minimum. Just keep an eye on the player's damage rolls and any time you see a 96 to 100, just announce that they sliced target's head right off.
Bonus points if you never mention WHY this happens and since a 2d10 roll that high usually means lots of damage anyway the players may just assume it's nothing special.
(For low strength, either decide the weapon's special ability isn't activated or watch exploding dice for results above 9 and 6. The latter seems like extra work to me, so I'd just go with the former.)

I use sneaky random %'s a lot in my games, if the player rolls similar dice I just go with the 10's dice being the one to my left.

--gleep
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Your notice roll was a fourty-one?!

[Snate56]

As for Wild Cards Soaking, I look at Soaking as a kind of "altered reality" where the shot never hit, so in this case you can Soak a vorpal blade.



SteveN
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"We've got a blind date with destiny... and it looks like she's ordered the lobster." <The Shoveller>

[Soothsayer]

If the first card dealt to the swords user is a joker they get the benefit of mighty blow and no penalty to a called shot to the head until the end of the round.

[longarms]

"Living targets within 2 sizes of the attacker have to make a vigor roll (-2) or lose their head. Simple, straightforward, bypasses most of the Toughness rules, more effective on Extras than on Wild Cards, and still insanely deadly."

I thought it was living targets in the range of sizes -2 and +2 (not affected by the size of the weilder).

And I would suggest modifying the 50F version as follows:
- as above, but for each raise over the first, it can affect another +1 in size.

[StJason]

[Ornimancer]

A Vorpal Blade could just have the trapping of decapitation if it uses the Mighty Blow Wild Card Edge as an effect/ability of the weapon. The chance of drawing a joker is roughly 1 in 20, and the Joker Effect could emphasize the control of the blade itself influencing the attack. I would also suggest adding that the doubled damage should be high enough to cause at least 2 raises for the effect to occur. Howzat?