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  4. Posted

    hey everyone, one of my players wants to become an incarnation of a character but they have no summoning ability and next to no Zeon. i was just wondering if the book covered doing incarnations through KI or if someone here has?

     

    i know theres seals of invocation, haven't looked into it much, but it looks like it allows summoning checks, so maybe i can work that in somehow.

    thanks.

  5. Posted · Edited by Dalerik

    Long time no see everybody, I have returned once again in my time of need. But I haven't come just to take from you, this time I offer something in return.

    I've been playing pretty consistently over the last year or so getting to know the system a whole lot better, figuring out ways to better GM, and tweaking things. Recently I decided to try homebrewing a Potion’s Skill, for the budding alchemist type of character. Anima did not offer a lot of non-magic healing methods and that’s what sparked this.

    So I've started doing work into what was the best way to do a potion making skill, how to fit it into the game to make it easier on both the GM and the player, without making things too much of a hassle.

    Ill start by saying its probably in early alpha stages at the moment and I would like to get other perspectives before I create something that ONLY I think is effective, rather I would like to settle on something the community agrees would be an excellent addition.
     

    My idea is add a “Potions” skill, or even section. Similar to forging/artifact making there would be modifiers and rules.

    Now below I will be posting the 4 methods I have devised on how to make potion making in the game, and I ask which you believe would be the best way to do it.

    Thank you.

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    Method 1: the Simple Method

     

    How it works.  The player will decide they wish to craft a potion, they will then decide the type of potion they wish to create between, lastly they will decide the level of potion between 1-5

    Step 1. In order to craft the potion the player requires the necessary setup, refer to Table 7 of the artifact book Equipment/Tools

    Step 2. The player will then tell the GM the type of potion they wish to create, such as Damage potion, or Healing potion, or Potion of speed. And the GM will decide the materials the player needs in order to craft such a thing, things such as mushrooms or berries.
    (The GM could very well say these ingredients are easily purchasable at a store as well)

    Step 3: Now the player decides the level of potion they want, the higher level the more powerful the potion should be. But this also means the check would become higher

    an example of the levels should go
    Level 1 – 140

    Level 2 – 220

    Level 3 – 300

    Level 4 – 380

    Level 5 – 440

     

     

    I think this one is the most simple and rules light version. However it leaves a lot to be decided for the GM and not everyone enjoys that.

     

    Since everything is up to GM discretion, there are no balancing factors, and the GM may decide a level 3 healing potion is not much stronger than a level 1.

    Other factors would be involved in the process such as time spent and assistants

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    Method 2: The Artifact Method

     

    This method is a lot more tuned to the way anima does creating things.

    Depending on the level of potion 1-5 the player has a certain number of PP to spend on abilities such as Damage/Paralyze/Heal/Increase Speed

    Then spend points modifying the duration, whether its contact or ingestion, and a plethora of other charts that gives the creator plenty of choice and diversity in their potion.

    Similar rules will apply such as time/equipment/assistants. The plus side of this would mean higher quality ingredients may grant more PP if the GM decides, things such as unicorn blood or basilisk tears, whatever.

    I find this one to be very time consuming just like the artifact creation but it may be the best choice.

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    Method 3: Poisons method

     

    Make slight alterations to the Poisons chart found in the core rulebooks secondary abilities (and page 213) Where the roll you make determines the level of the potion, and various things such as inhaling or deadly change the difficulty and level.

    This was recommended to me by one of my players, they suggested making poisons INTO potions and keeping nearly everything the same.

    It didn’t seem like a terrible idea.

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    Method 4: Psychic Charts

    This one came way out of left field for me, but it didn’t sound all too crazy.

    You know how when you want to use a psychic power you pick your power, and then you roll your psychic potential and check your roll to see your result.

    Something similar to that, with the chart being different for each power AND allowing you to split your potential between different effects for your potions.

     

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    Lastly, a couple things and random ideas that would apply to or change any of the methods.

     

    If a player wanted to create an additional potion they could gamble and increase the difficulty of the check by +30 for each additional potion. Alternatively +20 for a level 1, +30 for level 2, Etc…

    a spoil period, the potions are considered unstable and after a number of days the potion spoils and becomes useless, this was suggested to me to prevent hoarding.

    Toxicity, based off the witcher and its potions, each potion has a toxicity equal to its level times 2, and a players toxicity is based on their CON. If the player reaches half their CON in toxicity they suffer negatives for 24 hours, if a player reaches Toxicity equal to their CON they pass out after an hour for 1d10 hours and suffer penalties for 24 hours.

    This prevents over consumption of potions and adds weight to the potions.

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    That’s it, thank you very much for reading through it.

    I would LOVE to hear your thoughts and ideas, whether you think any of this is futile or if you have an idea of your own

  6. Posted

    no, not overboard, the more info given the easier it is to understand something like this, when theres a possible translation issue or something thats hard to understand its best to piece things together from each book.

    But no you didnt go overboard, thanks a lot i understand it better now. ill look into the all action penalty part shortly.

  7. Posted

    Hey everyone, its been awhile hope every things well. Hope to catch up on some topics on here.

    But first, a player in my group is playing a berserker type character with the Berserker Magnus, it says a few things and i was hoping you guys had some clarifications.

    1. when it says enters the Berserker state, is this the same as the Rage state located in the book in which the person must exhaust all of their fatigue, or is it its own unique state?

    2. it says in the dominion of ki "the character must make a Willpower check, which, if he passes it, will immediately cause him to emerge from his Berserker state. " this means they must roll a characteristic check right? so a person with willpower 8 must roll a d10 and get below an 8 to pass?

    ​3. oh this also brings up a question I've had on characteristic checks for awhile, what happens if the person in question has a willpower of 13 instead? does he auto succeed since he can never roll above 13 on a d10 

  8. Posted

    Yeah, I added a custom rule that allowed certain weapons to cause criticals easier. basically i read the rule for bleeding out and thought maybe i could make a weapon rule around it, since id already had the idea for barbed arrows in my head for awhile. so for example if the Jagged Blade were to inflict a critical, it would also cause the before mentioned Bleeding Out on an opponent.

    although honestly, bleeding out is more against the players than for the players in most cases. so if you wanted to hook up your baddies with some jagged blades you could put a little fear into the players.

    Notice: within the next week i will be adding more weapons including a thorned whip.

  9. Posted · Edited by Dalerik

    No worries, this didnt look like bickering to me at least. From where i stand it was just two different approaches to one idea.
    i like the thoughts of it, ill have a look myself and maybe contribute my own giant scissors? all i can say now is that damage seems a bit excessive.

    I wish I could tell you there was a weapon making formula, I use a general rule of picking a base weapon and try to stay within those ranges.

     

    @cdcace. Yes please use these weapons! that would be great! I hope that more weapons and special rules can show up. 

    @SIlkentoes. Thank you very much, it makes me happy to hear that. 

    Please use these for your games, and if theres any special rules you've made? Or would like to propose? Go ahead and post them here. Bleeding has been very useful so far and it would hep diversify styles even further if you guys help add more.

    Thank you as always.

  10. Posted

    That is a tricky question, we had the same issue.

    We ruled it as there are still added effects, so lets say you cast in intermediate heal spell for 150 LP, and had three added effects you would add +15 life points.

    Its a simple way to do it without taking too much into our own hands.

  12. Posted

    Hey everyone, i thought up some items that weren't in the game which have gotten some requests from players over time and i just home-brewed, well enough of them were made i decided to make a small list of them. 

    These are just the first versions and I'm hoping that you guys are willing to tweak it if you feel necessary, please as always suggest your thoughts, ADD WEAPONS (or other items) for everyone else to see and help make the game more extensive.

    anyone with the link can comment so feel free. of course commenting here is no problem either.

     

    P.S. a few rules were added here as well

     

    have a good day

     

    Google Doc

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Cani-CwLedpQT8NXkKXThye4I2z8WWb7gI-6hndF8I/edit

  14. Posted

    Hey everybody

     

    Im finally getting better at GM'ing and anima in general and i really wanna thank you guys because I've been reading lots of topics on these forums and hearing what you guys have said and its all been super useful. just wanted to thank you for that. great community.

    now onto the real topic, one of my players is interested in taking damned 2. now I'm not a fan of anything that would kill my players outright, i don't think any of us would have fun with the risk of instadeath (that being said combat is no cakewalk for them either). so i gave him a few pitches on damned 2's he could take and none of them popped for him, so i told them to try coming up with something of their own and they can't think of anything. then i got to thinkning, either he just doesn't take damned 2 at all, or i could ask you guys for some Damned 2's that you guys have used, or even thought of.

    not only would it help me out, but I'm sure it would help anyone else who is looking to add some cool damned's to their collection. so feel free to post any and all of your favorite/most used Damned Disadvantages, i would really appreciate it, thanks.

  15. Posted · Edited by Dalerik

    welp...the second session happened, and he almost derailed the whole thing, refused to join the party, and began killing NPC's left and right instantly. i was seconds from killing him off before he critically fumbled, went into bleed out and coma and lost his character because the party refused to heal a murderous *******.

    so I've been asked to give him another chance, and all his characters have been really powerful, and I'm assuming his next one will be too, i have agreed to give him one more shot but i don't know how I'm going to deal if he does it again where he tries killing his way through an innocent town again for ***** and giggles.

    also this absolute zero power, wtf! thats ridiculous, insta killing everyone.

     

    i took your guys advice to talk to him, i guess it didnt work, in fact i think  it upset him, which is probably why he did this.

  16. Posted

    Alright, i showed him, and another GM we play with, this thread, we all agreed that there were some things, including INT that you couldn't increase using this spell, making it a lot more viable for only a lvl 32 spell.

     

    thank you for the help everyone, it really helped. especially with some of the clarifications i read above.

  17. Posted

    Thank you very much for the advice, i will have a talk with him before the next session, see if i can find out whats going on. maybe ask him to tone down the goal of becoming god level. 

    and although i would love to throw more role-play his way to try and stump him (which seems bad, its like punishing him), the party seems to travel together and i don't want to deprive them of having their chance at combat as well, I'm sure ill find out something. these were all very good tips.

  19. Posted · Edited by Dalerik

    alright, hey everyone. I'm running my first campaign soon and one of my players was getting some assistance from another player who is a bit of a min-maxer, and tries to exploit the game and whatnot.

     

    well we were going over one of the things he was told to get and that would be the lvl 36 essence spell Acquire Natural Capacities (the core exxet 2 translation attempt calls it powers). well basically the player wants to use it to increase his characteristics. which at first i saw as not too big of an issue, but then i saw that if he does that he gets things like +50 magic levels from increasing his int from 12 to 13. and he plans to spend those levels in game. 

     

    heres where the first issue comes in, if he were to spend those magic levels, maintain the spell for 6 days, and then drop the spell, what happens? at first i didn't think this was an issue, but then he had me read the spell over a few times and now i see plenty of implications.

     

    and if you read the spell again it says "the spell grants the chance of acquiring the abilities and characteristics of existing plants or animals". now i don't know of some existing animals here that have a 13 int. but can't you also define a Dragon as an animal? can't you say that giovanni's panther counts as an existing animal and acquire its powers?

    the next thing i read, it says "primary abilities may not be increased with this spell" and i had first thought this was straightforward, you can't increase attack and whatnot. but since I'm seeing more implications i decided to dig a bit more.

    we've all seen the translations and errors in these books, and that can cause great confusion. hell, read this specific spell, the english hurts. so i just would like some of you guys to weigh in since you guys have likely encountered such a problem?

     

    i personally think that this spell is really overpowered. hell chimera is a much higher level spell, with more dangerous implications. the only downside is the maintenance. which my player is getting around by taking superior zeon recovery 3 CP. he's also got the aptitude for magical development, so at 12 int he can cast it at the max level, granting him +200 DP at lvl 1.

     

    thanks.

  22. Posted · Edited by Dalerik

    new changes to the disadvantages, feel free to keep them the way they are if you would prefer them, i just feel the 2 CP ones weren't harsh enough so i adjusted them. please go over them again if you have taken any.

    the changed ones are

    -Degeneration (1,2CP): The character reduces his regeneration to 0, it cannot be increased, if a player wants to increase the amount of CP they also lose 15 LP a day (G)

     

    -Trauma(1,2CP): when your health reaches 50% the character rolls a d10. On a 6+ he suffers a -2 Max Fatigue cumulative penalty until he rests for one night. To gain an additional CP from this disadvantage, when rolling a 8+ for the check, the character suffers a -20 All Action Penalty as well. Penalties caused by this disadvantage directly or through Fatigue Loss cannot be nullified or reduced by any mean. (G)
    (as you can see this is clearly just another form of ElricOfMelnibornes nightmare disadvantage, i want to thank him, i in no way want to steal his idea)
     

    -Insomnia:(2CP) The character has trouble falling asleep, he must roll a d10 (on a result of a 5 or higher they suffer penalties) to see if he can get to sleep that night, if he fails he suffers the penalty for not resting. (G)

     

    -Branded:(1, 2CP) At some point in your life a powerful entity branded you, this brand is a mark of hate. People who see it know that you're not safe to be around, and creatures/monsters will instinctively attack you even without seeing the brand. Anyone with the ability to see supernatural can see the brand even if it is covered up. To gain additional CP, this brand instead covers the entire body, being clearly visible if skin is showing. (G)

     

    -Curse:(1,2 CP) The character has been cursed for whatever reason, whether it be from a demon, a witch, or their blood. But similar to how an ebudan has a mission this curse has a goal the player must complete, every day that goes by where the player still is cursed a searing pain fills his body at night. This curse could lead to freeing the demon from imprisonment, to the downfall of a country, or even performing a very dangerous quest specified by the entity that cursed him in the first place. The specifics of the curse are decided by the GM and the player. (a curse may be anything that isn't an insta kill like damned)(G)

     
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  23. Posted

    alright guys, i really need your help.

     

    in my campaign, mere seconds ago. i fumbled on casting a shield on myself and my character was left in bleed out. he may very well die in the next turn.

    i could have sworn there was a a rule about fumbling when casting a shield where it said i still cast the shield, but there was some problem. i can't find it. I'm desperate to find it.

    my GM said since i cannot find it, the spell just fails. but i could swear there was a rule, if I'm wrong then oh well. but if one of you guys can find this ruling it would have a chance to save my character.

     

    if theres anything i would love to know, if not then its all good.

  24. Posted

    Alright hey everyone.

     

    alright, i want to drain zeon from corpses. in my theory this could work. all beings have zeon right? (unless their pow sucks) even if they can't access it. so that there is that. also undead can have zeon, there is nothing preventing an undead from having zeon as far as i know (am i missing something?). there is nothing that says that the zeon in your pool leaves your body once you die. but then again the way zeon works it might leave the body, they don't talk about it. probably because they wouldn't think people would think about it this way.

    my thoughts are that when a person dies the zeon doesn't leave right away. if not at all. and that if you were to use an ability like drain zeon, or supernatural devourer you could essentially get all the zeon from their corpse. I'm thinking if i had the drain zeon necromancy spell i could go to each go the corpses after a battle and drain their zeon with them getting a 0 on their resistance check.

     

    it would allow me to regain a small amount of my zeon after each fight and help off balance some zeon spending for necromancers, it could be very useful.

    i wanted to get your guys thoughts on whether this is just impossible because of some rule saying as soon as someone dies they lose all zeon in their pool (not accumulated zeon). side note, would this extend to ki?

     

    thank you.

  25. Posted · Edited by Dalerik

    i am being told by one person that since it doesn't say "benefits from quality" it wouldn't count. and I'm being told by some other person. that since it doesn't have a starting quality it can't get qualities. which doesn't make sense, everything counts as quality +0 as far as i know. (for example equipment turns everything into +10, so i could have a +10 bowl, even though bowls dont have a quality per say, they still benefit). and lastly a third one saying that Equipment effects everything and that it would work. 

     

    so either we all come to a consensus. find a ruling. or leave it up to the GM

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