Category: Systems

Daily Punch 5-19-15 Acid Wave Spell for Shadowrun 5e

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You know what my favorite type of element in Shadowrun is?  Acid!  Almost no one preps for it, it’s a dirty way to get out of a room (the way), and it eats the enemy’s armor to boot!  Let’s build on what’s in Shadow Spells

Acid Wave

(Direct, Elemental)

Type: P  Range: S(A)   Damage: P

Duration: S    Drain: F+1

Why throw a ball of acid, when you can be at it’s center?  Acid Wave sends a wave of corrosive acid in all direction around you destroying everything in your and it’s path.  This repeats every combat turn as the caster’s first action if it is sustained while not hurting the caster.  However, everything else int the area is damaged by the corrosive effects of the spell.

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 5-18-15 Quick Reaction quality for Shadowrun 5e

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How about some love for the counterspell wage slaves out there?

Quick Reaction

Cost: 10 karma

You’re quick on the draw, or more specifically, on the anti-draw.  Each turn you gain an extra free action that can only be used to declare the counterspell action is ready.  This extra action follows all the regular rules for counterspell.

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 5-4-15 Someone from Nowhere quality for Shadowrun 5e

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If you can get a bonus, how about a penalty?

Someone from Nowhere

Bonus: 5 karma

Everybody knows that person.  This person has two anglo human parents in Brooklyn, but always gets confused with a half-Spanish/Half-Japanese dwarf from Africa.  It wouldn’t be so bad except the Human Polyclubs always tend to find this poor person when they go out to the McHugh’s.  Well, you’re “that” person.  When dealing with any non-player characters, any character who has a prejudice against any particular human race will always assume you are that race  and apply those penalties as appropriate.  Metatype penalties apply as normal.

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 5-1-15 Someone from Anywhere quality for Shadowrun 5e

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Let’s keep the hits rolling with some new qualities.

Someone from Anywhere

Cost: 7 karma

You look like the guy that everybody’s met. You get confused for street gangers from Hong Kong or upscale businessmen from Cheyenne.  When you have any interactions with any other persons, no race based prejudice are factored into these dealings.  People just assume your from whatever group they are from.  Metatype basis can still be factored into your dealings.

Daily Punch 4-30-15 Friends with Benefits quality for Shadowrun 5e

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I’m reading tons of Shadowrun lately.  Let’s put in a positive quaility that I thought of when I read about ally spirits…

Friends with Benefits

Cost: 10 Karma

You’re slick, and anybody who knows you just wants to help you.  This even goes for the spirits you keep around you.  When you spend karma to improve an ally spirit, decrease the cost of each individual improvement by one karma.

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 4-29-15 Astrally Insensitive quality for Shadowrun 5e

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Bug City Chicago is full of all kinds of horrible magic backgrounds.  Let’s see if we can work with that.

Astrally Insensitive

Cost: 7 karma per level (1-3 levels)

You’re attuned to the ways of mana, but other people’s mojo doesn’t throw you like it throws others.  For every level you have in this quality, decrease the background penalties you receive from a background count by one.

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 4-28-15 Quick Adapter / Slow Adapter qualities for Shadowrun 5e

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How about being able to deal with some background in a hurry?  How about NOT being able to adjust well?

Quick Adapter

Cost: 5 Karma

You’ve always been an early adapter.  You have the best commlinks and the newest grimoires.  You also are the quickest on the uptake.  Decrease the time it takes you to adapt to a background count by half.

And the flipside…

Slow Adapter

Bonus: 5 Karma

Honestly, you’ve never been “with it.”  Your style is at least 10 years out of date.  You can barely program your commlink, and don’t even get you on the AR as you can’t find your own PAN.  This is just like how you deal with magic.  Double the time it takes you to adjust to a background count.

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 4-27-15 Liquid Encouragement Positive Quality for Shadowrun 5e

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I have a player who’s a face who wants to get bonuses when he’s tippsy.  Let’s make that happen.

Liquid Encouragement

Cost: 5 Karma per rank( 1 to 3 ranks)

Requirement: Addition(alcohol) quality

Sometimes you need a little bit of encouragement.  You get yours from a bottle.  When you’ve a bit bit to drink ( or a bit more), you get a little looser, and its gets everybody a little more money when you meet with the Johnson.  For every rank you have in this quality, you may take a -1 dice pool penalty in all logic checks and gain an equal bonus to all Social skills, a bonus to Social Limit, and High Pain tolerance equal to the total bonus gained by this quality.

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 4-20-15 Barrister background for DnD 5e

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If we’re making Daredevil in DnD 5e, we need somewhere who knows the law.  Let’s make an old timey lawyer- a barrister!

Barrister

You know the law.  You’ve trained under smart men and women who taught you how to speak and how to convince.  You’re smart, driven, and convinced that the law is the only way to get true justice.

Skill Proficiencies: Persuasion, Nobility

Languages: Two of your choice

Equipment:A set of fine clothing, four books of local law from your home region, and a belt pouch containing 15 gp

Feature: Ability to Defend

As a barrister, you know the local law of most locations.  This provides you with the ability to defend those who run afoul of it, including yourself.  When you or an ally are accused of a crime by a lawful entity, you may speak in the defense of those individuals.  You are not guaranteed success, but you know how to ask for a trial instead of swift, brutal justice.  Also, any non lawful group such a mob may not listen to any defense you mount for you or your clients.

d8 Personality

1 I follow a barrister from the past as an example of how to live and how to interact with the law.

2 I use the law to my own ends twisting phrases as I see fit.

3 I see the law is merely a guideline that can be rigid or flexible as it needs to be.  This is how I see most of life.

4 The law as written is infallible and must be defended as such!

5 The fringes of the world need the gift of law to truly become great places.

6 I strive to constantly change the law to generate a more just society.

7 I will only serve the just and the law guides me to them.

8 Those who break the law often have deep pockets and thus must be defended from the law.

d6 Ideal

1 Greed. Only the finest in life will do! (Chaotic)

2 Order.  Without law we are no better than beasts. (Lawful)

3 Generosity. The weak must be defend by and from the law. (Good)

4 Authority. From the law, I demand control. (Evil)

5 Community. The law bring people together through common goals and hopes. (Good)

6 Aspiration. The law allows me a chance to better improve myself through a trade. (Any)

d6 Bond

1 Being a barrister doesn’t start cheep, and I’m indebted to someone.

2 I was on the wrong side of the law, and someone saved me from that fate.  Now I’m working to help others in the same boat.

3 I saved one of my companions from some repercussions of their actions.  Now I’m waiting for them to pay up.

4 I will make the world a better place one argument at a time.

5 I come from a place of chaos and now have seen a place ruled by order.  I will spread that order.

6 My family was poor, but found me this trade.  I will never let them be poor again!

d6 Bond

1 I can’t turn down those in trouble, no matter what the cause.

2 I can’t stand the poor.

3 If you don’t have coin then you are most likely guilty.

4 I can see guilt from a mile away.

5 I think everyone is innocent even when the evidence says otherwise.

6 I’m not proud of what I’ve done or said, and any who remind me get my full wrath.

Thoughts?