[DL] Re: deadlands-digest.20000302

["Douglas W. Moore" <dwm@a-net.email.ne.jp>]

>Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 15:03:20 -0700
>From: darious@darious.com
>Subject: Re: [DL] Blade Slingin'

>Very nice .

>Just one thing about hexes - you might want to step down the initial power
>and hand required, and then let the better hands achieve the more powerful
>results.

Normally I would agree also but I felt that killing blow should be more all
or nothing. I am making a hex entitled Strike for the Heart that has a
graded damage potential.


>It's less frustrating to the player.

This hex is designed to be very risky but to pay huge dividends if it
succeeds. I don't know how many bladeslingers will want to use this but it
has a great cinematic feel.

DWM

>For example - on Killing Blow - all extra damage is not reduced for armor.
>Ace - +1 point of damage.
>Pair - +1d4 damage
>Two Pair - +1dX, where X is the Str die type.
>Three of a kind - +2dX

>etc, on down the poker hand chart, until you reach the most powerful level
>you want.

>Killing Blow
>Trait Cognition
>Hand two pair
>Speed 2
>Duration 1 attack
>Range Self
>
>When the bladeslinger really needs to put down some horror this is the
>way to do it. First the bladeslinger must pay 5 wind when he uses this
>hex(if the hexslinger has less than 5 wind they pay all but one wind)
>Second the bladeslinger must succeed in an attack on their very next
>action(they cannot hold it in any way) without spending any fate chips
>to influence the roll(though the marshal may spend chips as he desires)
>If this attack succeeds the bladeslinger's weapon damage becomes weapon
>damage + strength(rolled not as an aptitude but as normal damage)
>
>Example: Jim(as above) with his 4d10 strength and 2d8 weapon damage
>wishes to mortally wound the mohave rattler attacking a small town. He
>prepares a Killing Blow. He successfully casts the hex and hits the
>rattler. He now does a monsterous 4d10+2d8 damage to the rattler.