Daily Punch 2-19-14 New encounter type for the Lord of the Rings LCG

I love the Lord of the Rings LCG.  We have the standard will power quest that uses willpower, we have battle that uses attack, and we have siege that uses defense…how about one more?

Endurance-This questing mechanics works much like the other quests.  Players assign characters to the quest as normal, however, the total threat of the enemy is compared to the health of all assigned characters.  Players do not gain threat as normal, however, any difference between the threat total and the enemy total is damage that must be assigned to each players heroes and characters.  Characters can only have as much damage assigned to to as they have health preventing one character taking all the damage, and if you do not quest, you will receive a high amount of damage.

I envision this as an environmental mechanic.  Think of the original quest for quest on Caradhras.  Instead of question with will power, the quest will wear down the characters health.  Characters will freeze to death because they die instead of giving up the will to live through will power.  In addition, the monsters and encounter cards could represent smaller attacks on the players or more environmental, single event dangers.

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 2-18-14 Feats for Cure Wounds in 13th Age

I haven’t done some 13th Age feats for  awhile.  How about some for the Cleric?

Feats for Cure Wounds pg. 98

Adventurer Feat:  The target cure wounds add the escalation die to all saves for a round including any given by Cure Wounds

Champion Feat: One other nearby ally may spend two recoveries to heal a recovery in addition to the target of the Cure Wounds.

Epic Feat:  Cure Wounds recharges on a 9+

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 2-17-14 Nightingale Drone for Shadowrun 5e

How about a drone for Shadowrun 5e?

 

Drone Handl Speed Accel BOD Armor Pilot Sensor Seats Avail Cost
Red Cross Nightingale 3 2 2 10 14 3 1 – 12R 30000 Y

Red Cross Nightingale:  Developed around the end of the Eurowars, the Nightingale was a joint effort be between the remains of the Red Cross and Saeder-Krupp.  The Nightingale was designed to serve as a battlefield medical drone specializing in preventing traumatic injury while being able to survive heavy bombardment.  The Nightingale has no weapon mounts, and may never have weapon mounts added to it due to strict limitations placed into the pilot program.  The drone is treated as having a dice pool of 12 for first aid tests and a 14 for first aid performed on an individual who is currently dying.

 

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 2-13-14 Master/Slave program for Shadowrun 5e

Something I love from Shadowrun 4e was having multiple drones work together.  How about we bring that back for 5e?  To be fair, I think you should be able to slave a drone to another drone, but it should take a program slot on your RCC.  For general rules on programs, see page p243 in the main Shadowrun book.

 

Master/Slave:  Choose one drone you control as a master, and choose a second drone that you control to be the slave.  When you issue a command to the master, the slave will also undertake the same command.

 

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 2-12-14 Ice Armor spell for Pathfinder and DnD Next

I really liked the last encounters season.  During it I saw the main baddy had an awesome bit of spell armor.  How we everybody get a taste of that?

 

First the DnD Next Stats

 

Ice Armor

2nd-level conjuration

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Touch

Duration: 8 Hours

Touch a willing creature.  That creature is surrounded in a nearly invisible field of ice.  The ice hat hit points equal to your spell casting ability times your character level.  When you take damage and the ice shield still has hit points, the ice shield appears around you and takes the damage instead of you looking like crackling ice on a like.

 

and now Pathfinder

 

Ice Armor

School conjuration (creation) [force]; Level cleric 2, sorcerer/wizard 2 witch 2 Domain water 2, weather 2

CASTING

Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S,Df/ F (a piece of glass shaped like a suit of armor)

EFFECT

Range touch
Target creature touched
Duration 1 hour/level (D)
Saving Throw Will negates (harmless); Spell Resistance no

DESCRIPTION

An invisible but tangible field of ice surrounds the subject.  The ice shield has 5 hp of temporary hit points per character level.  When struck, the ice shield takes damage before the target appearing instantaneously to all as a flash of ice cracking like the ice covering a lake.

Daily Punch 2-11-14 Lay on Hands in Witch Hunter

Witch Hunter is a hard game to heal in.  Thats not bad, but I think the game needs a bit more.  How about a healing prayer?

 

Lay on Hands

Mastery: 4

True Faith: 1

Time: Special

Duration: Instantaneously

Description:  This Rite channels the power of god directly into the target to mend their wounds.  When a character casts a spell, the time the spells takes is equal to one hour divided by their True Faith score.  At the end of the time, the caster makes a Prayer check with the difficulty equal to their damnation score.  If the caster succeeds, the target of the spell heals one wound with one additional wound for every success.

Boost: Increase the Mastery by 3 to heal one additional wound.

Daily Punch 2-6-14 Attack Superiority for Witch Hunter

I’m catching up on my webpage, and this is something I’ve been thinking about the whole con….

 

Attack Superiority (Heroic)

Requirement: Attack Specialist

Description: You are death incarnate when it comes to fighting.  When you deal damage with one weapon with which you have Weapon Focus, you achieve successes on a 6+ instead of a 7+.  You may a select this talent multiple times.  Each time, the benefit apply to a new weapon.

 

Thoughts?