When you cast this spell you create three balls of force the size of a pebble that float around you head. For the duration of the spell or until all the pebbles are expended, when an enemy enters within 10 feet of you, as a reaction, make a ranged spell attack against the targets AC. On a success, you deal 1d6 force damage and the target must make a basic Fortitude saving throw. On a failure, the target is pushed back 10 feet. On a critical failure, the target is pushed back 10 feet and knocked prone. You determine the direction the target is pushed, and the pebble is expended regardless if the enemy is hit or missed.
Heightened (+1) The number of pebbles increases by 1.
Yep, Ed’s playing Elden Ring like all the others. Time to mine it for ideas!
Protective Pebble
1st-level evocation
Casting Time:1 action Range: self Components: V, S Duration: up to one minute, see text
When you cast this spell, three magic pebbles of energy float around your head and last until used or the spell ends. When an enemy engages you or starts it turn engaged with you, a pebble launches itself at the target. Make a ranged spell attack. On a hit, the target takes 1d6 magic bludgeoning damage and must make a Strength saving throw. On a failure, the target is pushed back 10 feet.
At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, increase the number of created pebbles by 1 for each slot level above 1st.
You can build up yourself, but what if you want to build up your toy?
Extra Innovation Feat 1
Inventor
You focus on build up your inventions instead of yourself. Gain an additional innovation. This feat can be taken multiple times. If taken at level 7 or higher, you can choose a breakthrough innovation. If taken at level 15 or higher, you can choose a revolutionary innovation.
Basics– Time to go on a hunt! We Hunt Bugs is a SMALL rpg. It’s honestly printed on a pamphlet and that’s the whole thing. The GM/world guide is a slightly bigger book going 32 pages. Let’s look at the preview of this micro RPG.
Base Mechanics- This is a d6 based game. You have two parts to a character: abilities and skills. Abilities are like in any RPG; they are your base attributes. There are only three of them. Skills give a bonus to dice rolls in the right situation. For a check, you roll a number of dice equal to your ability. If you roll a 6, you reroll and add to that six. Then when you finish rolling, you then add a skill if you have it. If you hit the target number for a check, you succeed.
Combat- Combat is resolved like the base mechanic above. Turn order is determined by each acting character or creature rolling a d6 and highest goes first. Successes mean damage and most players only have three boxes of damage they can take before they are knocked out.
And honestly that’s it.
Mechanics or Crunch– This book honestly made me do some soul searching in a good way. I LOVE good, crunchy, in depth RPGs. This isn’t that. It’s short and sweet. It doesn’t waste time and that’s a concept at the heart of the games I love. What is here isn’t much. There is gear, toys, guns, and some light background bonuses, but not much else. And it doesn’t need much more. The crunch here isn’t deep, but it is done simply and well. 5/5
Theme or Fluff– Again, there is just enough to get you interested and help you build a world the basic of the story is humans discover faster than light travel and instead of hell like Event Horizon, they fall into a bug dimension where bugs now join our universe and kill EVERYONE! You play spacers who go kill those bugs. We’ve mapped where bugs are now, but there are still bugs out and about that are killing space ships adrift. Throw in some obvious evil space company shenanigans and a dash a cyberpunk and you got a solid game. I like the story here. It’s enough to help you get interested in where it goes and how you could play it next. 5/5
Execution– I’ve loved everything so far, but this is the low point of the book. The book is a PDF. It needs spaces, bold text, and a bit more layout work. The player pamphlet explains things not in the book which is ok, but given infinite real estate, I want more in the book, so I don’t need the pamphlet as a GM. It works, but some polish will help. 2.5/5
Summary– Monstrous bugs in space and a lightning fast system to deal with them and corporate evil? Literally one page building a world and system? SOLID FUN! If you have d6s, you can play this on a car ride. This might not be the 12 year campaign you play forever, but this is the fun one-night or few-week system that will be a solid adventure in the cosmos as you meet new creatures and kill them. Needs a bit of polish to make the main book a bit nicer, and that might happen by the time the RPG goes to print for the 2nd Ed. But overall, this is a solid game that you will easily get into and have a blast. 83%
There are items that let you see magic. Why not some fun toys for the constructs and themselves?
construct innovation
Metaphysical Vision: You’ve worked to allow your creation to see the arcane. Using two actions, the construct can see magic as per the detect magic spell for as long as the spell would normally last.
armor innovation
Metaphysical Vision: Your work now allows you visons of the fantastic. Using two actions, while in your armor you can see magic as per the detect magic spell for as long as the spell would normally last.
You hop right into the fight! • Cost: 10 karma • Game Effect: For the first round of combat, you only need to beat another character’s compared characteristic by 2 instead of 4 to gain points of edge for any test and can gain up to 4 points of edge this way instead of of a maximum of 2.
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