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Evernight:

[Clint]

[Psy-Kosh]

Okay, here's my hopefully less than umpteen bajillion rules questions for NE:

First, what is the actual net effect of the Ageless power? ie, under what circumstances in play would it make a difference if a villian had that power or not?

Second, the free version of the Aquatic power and the Atlantean version seem to be slightly different as to how they work, including precisely what happens when the char hasn't been in water enough. Is this an error, or are they really supposed to be different?

Third, with all the size and strength boosts, would any of those affect the ranges for throwing?

Fourth, for the speed power, does it have any affect on the running die, or crawling pace, etc?

Fifth, well, several questions on the Growth power:

When it says a char is considered large or huge, does that refer to the large and huge monster abilities in the SW book? (ie, with the modifiers to hit and so on?)

Also, would Growth have any affect on pace directly? (I'm pretty sure no, but with longer legs and such... just checking, since even though it doesn't actually say it there, it would seem logical, so wanted to have an official answer on that)

If a char grows in a confined space, what happens?


Sixth, for the Regeneration power, that actually counts as natural healing or no? ie, does a raise heal two wounds?

Seventh, finally...

For the Attack, Melee power, it says it counts as a heavy weapon. Does that refer to the entire damage, or just the damage from it? What I mean is, using the example in the book, would the entire Str + 4 + 1d6 count as heavy damage, or if attacking something with heavy armor, only the 1d6 would get through?

And thank you muchly for constantly answering all our questions.

[Psy-Kosh]

Oh yeah, one last thing I meant to ask:

For something of human proprortions, what hights would the different sizes correspond to? or how would I compute that? since human size = 0, doesn't look like hight, surface area, or mass would be linear in size.. Though looking through some of the beasties in the main book, it kind of seems like size represents multiples of human hight added to the original, but I'm not sure of that, so wanted to check for an official answer to that.

Thanks again. (I'm actually not sure if this one should be here or if in Core SW rules questions, could see it either way, so if I posted this to the wrong place, sorry about that.)

[Old Patch]

NE: What type of damage do V'sori Blasters do (for purposes of absorbtion and immunity)? The desciption says "particle beam weapons" but that could mean either kinetic, heat, or radiation - or even worse a combination!
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[marshal kt]

here's a reply i got from clint on this.

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From: Clint
To: marshal kt
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 8:38 am
Subject: Re: question
marshal kt wrote:
in NE, 1 of the characters took absortion, [kinteic energy]. now i know normal bullets, genades and melee attacks can be negated. what about blasters, the weapons the v'sori use? are they kenetic? is there any part of the damage that would be negated? what about knockback?


Blasters are kinetic. However, note that fusion grenades are not; they are energy.

Knockback gets a little tricky. In essence, an attack shouldn't do Knockback unless there is a kinetic component to it.

Melee attacks are easy; the character is just attempting to absorb the total damage, Knockback included.

A Ranged Attack, with the Knockback modifier could be trickier. It depends on the trappings. Usually, the attack would be kinetic in some fashion, but it might not depending on the trappings.

If fully kinetic, he could obviously attempt to absorb all of the damage, but perhaps if only partially kinetic, he could only absorb a maximum of half the damage.

Really, it's a case-by-case call, and even then, we're talking about a very rare occurence, so it may never even come up in the game.

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Necessary Evil:

Force Field - like a thousand questions. I'll try to reduce it to the basic problem: can the different uses of Force Field from modifiers be combined under a Multiple Action Penalty (for example attacking with the Force Field while maintaining it as a Barrier), or can only one benefit be used per round (either barrier or attack or flight or ...)?

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[Psy-Kosh]

Okie, thanks for the answers, just a couple other clarifications and such and I'll hopefully have all the rules nitpickyness done. (For the moment)

[Clint]

[Psy-Kosh]

Okie, Thanks again. As far as edge bonuses to nat healing vs regeneration, I meant that someone asked that in the past, and you had said something about it being close enough, not that I saw it the most recent time it was asked. (Having trouble storing enough charge in my flux cap )

Oh dang, sorry, there was one last thing I meant to ask and forgot: Growth and clothing/armor, does it follow? (I assume "depends on the trappings") and probably less variable: Z-belt and growth? Does that work, or is it considered to only be able to extend the field around human sized entities? (if not, then really large could wrap the belt around their arms or something?)

Okay. _now_ that's it. I hope. ^_^;;

[fanchergw]

Some questions regarding ships in 50 Fathoms:

1. Does the captain/pilot count toward the minimum required crew? I.e. if the Crew rating is 6+10, then can the required 6 be the captain and 5 other crew (as long as they all have at least d6 in Boating)?

2. What are the modifiers (other than range) for ship-to-ship cannonfire? Are there any adjustments due to the size or relative size of the ships? Are large ships such as those commonly found in 50 Fathoms considered Unstable Platforms? For example, let's say a Galleon has caught a Skiff on the open seas and pulls up alongside for a Broadside. What modifiers does each ship have to their Shooting rolls to hit the other with their cannon(s)?

3. Same question for people using their own weapons to fire on another ship (assuming it's in range). Modifiers for size? Aiming at parts of the ship, such as mast, sail, rudder? Unstable Platform?

Thanks,

Gordon