Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[CrackedOzy]

1) How would you handle a mad scientist who wanted to build a melee weapon device? Near as I can tell, none of the powers are melee attacks.

2) When a Marshall uses fate chips, how do you handle Red ones? Does the posse get a chip?

[ogbendog]

1 - could build Smite into a weapon. could change trapping of bolt to be touch. I'm not sure offhand if Damage Field is allowed, but that could work

[jpk]

1) Let him. With a good Repair skill, which he pretty much has to have, he can build a melee weapon. So just let him build a melee weapon (comparable to stuff in the books). If he wants it to be more dangerous than your average melee weapon, then you're looking at building a power into.

If he wants a great sword, he builds a great sword. If he wants a Claymore than can sometimes explode in anti-personnel schrapnel, that's Burst that's built into the sword and would use the same rules for any other Burst power-gizmo.

If he wants a steam-powered shredding sword, it starts with a sword (which you can just let him build) which then becomes the power-gizmo for Smite. The up side is that he doesn't have to keep track of two doo-dads and doesn't have to draw the Smite gizmo separately. The downside is the he can't put Smite on anything else.

That's the sort of ways I'd approach it, anyway.

2)No, the posse gets nothing. It's a dark world.

[CrackedOzy]

Yeah I guess I should have specified, the mad scientist wants to use one of his power slots as a melee weapon. The problem with using Smite is it still requires Fighting and Strength, of which she is woefully low on both. I had considered allowing Bolt, but then I didn't know how to adjust for the 3 shot / bolstered shot options. I guess that could just be multiple strikes and a heavy strike.. Hmm, I guess that solves that one.

I'm blanking, but I know I had more questions so I'll be back later with more later.

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[CrackedOzy]

[catalac]

well a whip would still use a fighting attack but heres an idea for it anyway.
once the person some how manages to get the whip to tangle their foe (aka through a raise) that whip then sprouts out spikes that latch onto the defender (pining them for a lot longer then a normal whip) and every round there after you can send electric charges through the spikes every round (aka bolt except due to the vary hard method of delivery aka them making a raise on a fighting role. you can be nice and make it an automatic success although it still spends power points like usual.)
now getting that raise on the fighting roll is an adventure in itself. either she is aceing alot or she needs to make tricks and tests of wills.

[Clint]

[CrackedOzy]

[VonDan]

Any Gizmo that is like a gun and shoots a power uses the shooting skill. Any Gizmo that applies a power with a touch attack uses fighting. Almost any other Gizmo uses the Weird Science skill
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[Clint]

[ValhallaGH]

[ValhallaGH]

[VonDan]