GM Screen

Tasks

Tasks give your target a Short Term Goal.

Test: (Social + (Presence OR Guile)) vs. (Social + Mental)

Tasks must be based on Cares:

Excite Emotions

Excite Emotions must have a contextual basis.

Test: (Social + (Presence OR Guile)) vs. (Social + Mental)

Combat Actions

Attacking & Defending

Test:  (Attacker dicepool) vs (Defender dicepool)

Net hits for the attacker are dealt as damage to defender.

Net hits for defender do not do anything unless special powers are used.

Static Defense Plugin

This plugin is recommended for all games.

Do not roll the defense dicepool.  Simply divide the defense dicepool by 2, rounding up.  This number is automatic successes.

Defenses

A player may choose whatever defense they wish to use each time they are attacked.

Health & Damage

Maximum Health = (Physical + Size +3)

Wounds

• Each time damage is taken:
  • GM rolls # of dice equal to damage dealt.
    • Hits on this roll becomes wound penalty.
      • GM tracks wound penalties.
• Wound penalties apply a negative modifier to all rolls.
• Wound penalties stack.

Incapacitation

• Damage equal to your maximum Health makes you incapacitated.
• You cannot take combat actions.
  • Move, attack, etc.
• Can be caused by things other than damage:
  • General anesthesia
  • Shackles/Ropes/Restraints
• Many powers require that the target be consenting or incapacitated.
• 1 Automatic damage per round unless damage was non-lethal.

Death

• Damage equal to 2X your maximum Health makes you dead.

Close Combat

Can only attack characters in the same space as you.

Opportunity Attacks

• Requirements:
  • You have a melee weapon readied.
  • You share a space with someone who triggers an opportunity attack.
• Triggers:
  • Enemy leaves the space you are currently sharing.
  • Enemy makes a ranged attack.

Blitz Attack

This is a core power, free for all characters.  It is crucial for Close Combat characters.

• Cost: 2 Energy
• Action Type: Simple Action
• Effect: Move up to your speed, and make a melee attack on a target.
  • Your attack receives +4 dice.
  • This power essentially lets you combine a move action and an attack into a single Simple Action.

Grappling

• Grappling pool
  • Net hits on attack roll become grappling pool.
  • Grapple ends when pool reaches 0.
  • Pool loses 1 at the start of the victim's turn, every round.
  • Grappling pool may be spent to inflict penalties on victim's rolls.  1:1 ratio.
  • Victim incapacitated when grappling pool is equal to victim's remaining health.
    • Incapacitation ends if grappling pool is lowered beneath victim's remaining health, or assailant ends grapple.
• Grappling Victim
  • May not take move actions.
  • May attack and defend as normal.
  • May reduce grappling pool by paying Energy @ 1:1 ratio.
  • Allies may attack assailant.
    • May reduce grappling pool with net hits, 1:1 ratio.
• Grappling Assailant
  • May release a grapple as an interrupt action.
  • May drag their victim 1 space by spending 1 from their grappling pool, and using a move action.
  • May attack and defend as normal.

Troops

Size

• Size has no effect in combat if all combatants are the same size.
• Defense
  • Larger defender adds difference in Size to soak defense rolls.
  • Larger defender gains Flawless Defense for soak defense rolls.
    • Flawless Defense = All dice are automatic hits.
• Area Attacks
  • Grant +1 to the attacker's size for the purposes of the attack.

Size Table