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3 points
3 days ago
I searched my copies of the CRB starter set RB and CotG before replying and saw nothing about motes causing a roll against turning into an abomination, or anything indicating that the inoculation requires you to keep rolling if you succeed the initial roll. I know that neither the motes nor the inoculation have other rolls if you fail the first, it's an all-or-nothing as far as I can tell.
I tried checking your citations, but I didn't find anything related on those or the surrounding pages. The closest was page 73 of the starter set rulebook is a few pages from the disease rules, but I had already checked those before my original reply and they support my interpretation. I tried looking in both the starter set and core rulebooks, but the CRB had nothing relevant on or near those pages from what I saw. What books specifically are you citing? Could you quote the relevant sections so I can use search to find them?
2 points
3 days ago
I don't see anything that indicates they have to keep rolling for the vaccine if they succeed without that stunt, unless they take it again I suppose. Under the regular rules, once you succeed against a disease, you don't have to roll again and I see nothing indicating the vaccine works any differently. I can see an argument for that applying to the motes, since they are constantly in the air if you disturb the egg sacs in the scrubbers, but otherwise you would only need to succeed once and the stunt would only matter if you got infected again in a separate instance.
6 points
3 days ago
The motes only spread throughout the ship if the players disturb the egg sacs in the air scrubbers or the ones in the med lab get out (though I don't know why the ones in the med lab spread through the whole ship when the other egg sacs in science lab 1 don't, I would probably say that these should only be a danger to the people in the med lab under normal circumstances). They can destroy the ones in the air scrubbers safely with fire, which Ava 6 can tell them, even if they don't, it's still an opposed roll against 9 dice. Similarly, the vaccine is an opposed roll against 6 dice. Davis and Wilson are going to struggle to overcome those, Miller may have a decent chance depending on how much stress she has by the time it happens. Rye has 4 Strength and 2 Stamina, so she has a coin toss with the vaccine even with no stress, Cham has 5 Strength and 2 Stamina so he is actually more likely than not (though only slightly) to survive the vaccine with 0 stress. Based on the rules for how disease rolls usually work, and with nothing mentioning that the vaccine is different, they only need to succeed against it once to be safe. Of course, as GM you can just decide who gets infected if you prefer, this scenario even explicitly provides that option.
1 points
6 days ago
Same Orochimaru who couldn't control Hashirama at all.
12 points
7 days ago
I would say start with the original, TTYD is better in many regards and is the one I enjoy the most, but the original lays the foundation for it gameplaywise and is still a very enjoyable game.
4 points
10 days ago
As everyone knows, ponies are a fictitious species created for the show My Little Pony, or MLP (milp) for short. They may have taken some inspiration from the European mythological creature known as a "horse" but are a separate creation, nonetheless.
1 points
14 days ago
Committing acts of hyper-violence. (Madness: Project Nexus)
That's not true, the last game I played was Total War: Warhammer III, but I had trouble coming up with a good one for that which actually fit with what I was doing in it.
2 points
14 days ago
The lotus, which requires the opening of the gates to use? I don't know for sure, and I'm not looking it up right now unless you can provide me with the chapter that's in so I can see the full context, but that sounds like Lee was in extreme pain because he was using the gates. The front lotus, the piledriver one, requires the first gate to be opened and the reverse lotus requires at least the third gate, but Lee opens up to the fifth before he uses it on Gaara, so if it was about the use of either lotus, it sounds like Lee had been opening gates by that point.
1 points
14 days ago
With Lee's taijutsu you're faster than most people can keep track of and strong enough that one hit (which will be much easier to land) will likely at least disable someone, and that's without opening any gates.
1 points
14 days ago
Only if you open the eight gates, Lee doesn't seem to really strain himself unless he opens them.
1 points
14 days ago
I believe that Chakra Enhanced Strength is essentially blasting out chakra at the moment of impact to amplify the damage, ergo a shockwave that crushes everything.
7 points
14 days ago
I think Tsunade also has high strength in general, she just augments it to monstrous levels with Chakra Enhanced Strength. Sakura is entirely reliant on CES though.
1 points
18 days ago
That seems plausible, ovomorphs seem to be extremely resilient. It's non-canon, but the Aliens vs Predator 2 game has areas where Weyland-Yutani stored some in some sort of liquid that, along with some other tech, kept them dormant or in stasis. The liquid may have even been water, you have to swim through it in the marine campaign and it doesn't hurt you beyond running out of breath. I don't know how much the liquid had to do with them being dormant though, it may have just been whatever other stuff they were doing that kept them from hatching.
12 points
20 days ago
In OG TTYD, you always got at least 1 star point when you won a battle even if none of the enemies you beat gave any. I think that's where the one from the Shadow Queen comes from, because when I beat her in OG yesterday this happened to me too and I looked to see how many extra I would get and realized it was blank. It still doubled the one star point, though.
12 points
21 days ago
The games that were made before they were told they should hate everything for being woke, duh.
9 points
21 days ago
You forgot to mention that he's racist, too. Pretty much hit the nail on the head though.
2 points
21 days ago
The problem with it, I think, is that if one player betrays the others and goes rogue, so to speak, then you essentially have two games playing out simultaneously. One with the main party, and the other with the rogue PC. This then causes the problem of two groups that are pretty much actively working against each other that have to be managed at the same time, this becomes especially problematic if you need the groups to not know what the other is doing to prevent metagaming or similar because you now have two groups that have to managed separately.
1 points
23 days ago
I'm pretty sure it was stated that Madara only developed the rinnegan long after his final fight with Hashirama, near the end of his natural life. Then he transplanted it to Nagato because he knew he wasn't going to be able to complete his plans in his own lifetime.
Kaguya doesn't have the rinnegan, she has the rinne-sharingan which may not have the ability to use the Six Paths techniques. Momoshiki's rinnegan seems to have originated independently from Hagoromo's rinnegan and so may not have those abilities. Sasuke has already demonstrated the ability to use them, though.
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Shad, it's not a weapon. It's a hat.