Category: Systems

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?

Daily Punch 4-16-15 Way of the Chair and Table

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Let’s continue building on the monk with a chair theme from yesterday.

Way of the Chair and Table (Combat)

You’ve trained, and you’ve drank.  At this point, your fists are good, but the chair is better.

Prerequisite: Catch Off-Guard, Monk unarmed damage, Way of Your Surroundings

Benefit: When you use an improvised weapon the size of a chair or larger, your unarmed damage with improvised weapons increases by one step up the monk dice chain.  When you use something like a table, you gain the benefits and penalties of a tower shield while not losing your monk bonuses due to using a shield.

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 4-15-15 Way of Your Surroundings feat for Pathfinder

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I saw someone online asking for this feat. Let’s make it happen.

Way of Your Surroundings (Combat)

You’re as much of a student of the monastery as you are a student of the bar.  Now you swing equally well with your fists as you do with a chair.

Prerequisite: Catch Off-Guard, Monk unarmed damage

Benefit: When you use an improvised weapon of small or larger, the weapon does bludgeoning damage equal to your unarmed monk damage.

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 4-14-15 Severing Magic Ties quality for Shadowrun 5e

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Some creatures are magic, but don’t want to be.  Let’s do something about that….

Severing Magic Ties

Cost: 10 karma

You were a creature of magic and wonder, but you’ve changed that.  It’s hurt you badly.  Maybe not on the surface, but deep in your soul.  Decrease your essence by 1, and reduce your magic rating by 1.  If this would reduce your magic rating to 0, this does not kill you as it would normally.  You no longer count as dual natured as you only count as a physical being.  Any assensing test with three successes will determine that you used to be a dual natured creature.

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 4-10-15 Magic Master feat for DnD 5e

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Let’s build on the idea of a feat tree to teach magic.  Now with third level spells!

Magic Master

Prerequisite: Magic Initiate, Magic Adept

Be it from your own training or intense studying.  Gain the following benefits for the spell casting class you choose for Magic Initiate:

  • Learn one additional cantrip.
  • Learn two more 1st level spells and gain the ability to cast two more 1st level spells.
  • Learn two more 2nd level spells and gain the ability to cast one more 2nd level spell.
  • Learn two 3rd level spells and gain the ability to cast one 3rd level spell.

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 4-9-15 Magic Adept feat for DnD 5e

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If you don’t want to multiclass, but you want some spells, let’s add some feats to build on this idea!

Magic Adept

Prerequisite: Magic Initiate

For the class you choose for Magic initiate, you gain the following:

  • Gain two more cantrips
  • Learn three more 1st level spells and the ability to cast two more 1st level spells before you must take a long rest.  You may cast the same spell more than once but each spell you cast uses a 1st level spell slot from Magic Initiate or this feat.
  • Learn two second level spells and the ability to cast one second level spell from this class.

Thoughts?