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Nehiel Mori wrote: Not requiring Line of Sight is an exception, not the rule. Some things, like Honor (Or Loyalty [....]) wont but giving a +10 to a skill check or using laughter do.

Um...sorry to be pedantic, but Loyalty is the only Element that specifically mentions line-of-sight:

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Alright, one last question about redirect focus. If I use it and become dazed, does that count as my sole action for the turn, or is the action limit imposed after I use the talent, so I could do something with that additional pip on my turn?

Also, what is the set pattern of occurrences in a turn? ...There's a much better way to put this.
At what point do (save ends) affects that happen at the start of your turn (ongoing damage, etc.) happen?
At what point do you roll your 1/turn saving throws for all your (save ends) conditions?
Taking these two answers together, how are you affected by (save ends) conditions the turn you save against them?

If inflict a creature with contagious curse (Save ends) am I still able to inflict ongoing damage (save ends) onto and if so does each instance act separately for the purposes of inflicting damage and effects like shadow archers and conjurer's shadows?

Contagious curse for reference:

As far as I can tell, contagious curse inflicts 5 ongoing damage. When CC is saved against, the 5 ongoing disappears, but it is equivalent to normal ongoing damage. So you other ongoing damage effects won't stack with it, but stuff like fleshrender and Conjurer's shadow will increase it (it even uses the term "suffering from ongoing damage"). The one loophole I can think of here is that CC states that when suffering from it, the target suffers from 5 ongoing damage, so you might not be able to boost the ongoing damage (or the game just bugs out if you turn ongoing 5 into ongoing 7, and then the ongoing 5 gets reapplied...Let's just not worry about that possibility.)
We may want to reword that somehow, clearly.

Does "unacceptable" take into account rolls that your conjurations would make (since technically they're rolls that you make for your conjurations)?

Is "blood pact's" "health loss" affected by vulnerability, resist, temporary hp, and other such damage-altering effects, or is it considered the same as "paying hp" and a flat, unpreventable value?

You take a level 3 boon at level three, you can take a level 3 boon at level 6, and you can take TWO level three boons at level 9...
Does this mean that theoretically a party could have 4 'build a boon workshop's at level 9?

I think this is the right place to ask this...

Why was there just a massive change in the posting formatting?

tygerburningbright wrote:I think this is the right place to ask this...

Why was there just a massive change in the posting formatting?

There's a button that switches it to the old format if you guys find that more convenient. It's the one to the farthest right of the toolbar. But I would also like to know the answer to this question, although it seems mostly because of some update to how posts are made making the new mode (which technically was always there but no one used) the default one...

Hmm...

For Interrupts/Reactions is it one interrupt per trigger per character, or one interrupt per trigger?

If, say, the trigger is 'an ally would take damage' then could both players A and B use the interrupt when player C falls victim to a damaging attack?

Zarhon wrote:Does "unacceptable" take into account rolls that your conjurations would make (since technically they're rolls that you make for your conjurations)?

Is "blood pact's" "health loss" affected by vulnerability, resist, temporary hp, and other such damage-altering effects, or is it considered the same as "paying hp" and a flat, unpreventable value?

No, Unacceptable does not. You make the rolls because your conjurations don't exist as actual people but in the rules the conjurations are making the rolls. This is why the conjurations don't crit unless they have a special trait. 

Health loss and paying hp act the same way. Vuln, resist, temp hp and all other damage altering effects do not effect health loss or paid life.

Z2
You take a level 3 boon at level three, you can take a level 3 boon at level 6, and you can take TWO level three boons at level 9...
Does this mean that theoretically a party could have 4 'build a boon workshop's at level 9?
 
Yes, you may. Enjoy ALL THE LEVEL 3 BOONS. 

Z2Hmm...

For Interrupts/Reactions is it one interrupt per trigger per character, or one interrupt per trigger?

If, say, the trigger is 'an ally would take damage' then could both players A and B use the interrupt when player C falls victim to a damaging attack?



Yes, both players A and B could use the interrupt. Its one interrupts per trigger per character. You can think of it like the trigger happens uniquely for each character. Each character can only respond to the trigger once, but they can each respond.

I remember Dan saying something about "true domination" which meant enemies who are dominated are not dazed but this is what you have in the book for the Dominated condition.

 Dominated - The dominated creature has its turns controlled by the dominating creature.

By that wording, a dominated creature can take minor, reaction, and interrupt actions that occur on its turn. If this isn't the intent, you might want to change the wording.

Ramsus wrote:I remember Dan saying something about "true domination" which meant enemies who are dominated are not dazed but this is what you have in the book for the Dominated condition.

 Dominated - The dominated creature has its turns controlled by the dominating creature.

By that wording, a dominated creature can take minor, reaction, and interrupt actions that occur on its turn. If this isn't the intent, you might want to change the wording.

Nice catch.

combat talent doc wrote:Free Action - Free actions can be performed on any player’s or enemy’s turn at any time, at no cost. They can also be used in response to actions as though they were interrupts.

In theory, a monster build with a free action that doesn't cost pips nor has any trigger... By the fact that there is no outright statement of limits to how many free actions can happen. Basically you can deal an INFINITY of such a talent... I'd suggest giving an limit on how many free actions a round or saying if it was once per each character's turn... Or what...

Xel Unknown wrote:

combat talent doc wrote:Free Action - Free actions can be performed on any player’s or enemy’s turn at any time, at no cost. They can also be used in response to actions as though they were interrupts.

In theory, a monster build with a free action that doesn't cost pips nor has any trigger... By the fact that there is no outright statement of limits to how many free actions can happen. Basically you can deal an INFINITY of such a talent... I'd suggest giving an limit on how many free actions a round or saying if it was once per each character's turn... Or what...

Alternately, don't make monsters with free actions that doesn't cost pips unless it has some other costs (such as a Free Action that costs health instead)? Although, I will admit, I'm sure I read somewhere that you could only use a free action once per turn...

sunbeam wrote:Stunned – A creature that is stunned cannot take standard, immediate or free actions.


This is what's written in the combat section of the handbook. Minor actions are suspiciously absent. Is this leftover from before Minor actions were invented, or can you take minor actions while stunned?

Its a leftover, you can't do minor actions while stunned. 

Xel Unknown

combat talent doc wrote:Free Action - Free actions can be performed on any player’s or enemy’s turn at any time, at no cost. They can also be used in response to actions as though they were interrupts.

In theory, a monster build with a free action that doesn't cost pips nor has any trigger... By the fact that there is no outright statement of limits to how many free actions can happen. Basically you can deal an INFINITY of such a talent... I'd suggest giving an limit on how many free actions a round or 
saying if it was once per each character's turn... Or what...

Currently, a free action can only be used once per-round. Also, free actions always have a negative cost so even if they could be used more then once a round you shouldn't be able to do them infinitely because you'll run out of resources. A monster designed to do so is, well, probably poorly designed.

What happens... If somehow you get multiple different "Roll Twice" effects active for one's dice? (we have four of them, two traits, one talent, and one item)

Combat Traits wrote:Bloodlust
You may roll twice on attacks made against bloodied targets. You may use either result.

Fool Me Twice
Whenever you roll a 1 on a d8, d10 or d12, you may roll twice on all your d8s, d10s and d12s next turn and take either result.

Combat Talent wrote:[+2] Friendly Encouragement - Standard Utility
Target ally can roll twice on his or her next attack and take either result.

Treasure Trove wrote:Chain of the Drunken Master - 1000 Gold
Armor
While you are dazed, you may roll twice on all die rolls and use either result.

So yeah, if like somehow... All four of these got triggered, would you like roll like what, 16 times?

As written, I don't think "roll twice" stacks. It just grants you the ability to roll twice. If two of them are activated, you've still only been granted the ability to roll twice, not roll twice twice or something.
So they probably don't stack.

I apologise if this question has been asked before but does the effect of Barter in Blood active Bloody contract?

Combat Talents for reference:

Losing HP=Paying HP, but neither of those are the same as taking damage. So, no.
On a side note, this is also why paying/losing HP doesn't activate vulnerability or resistance.

One of the first utilities in the utilities doc is the derp utility, which causes you to treat ones through threes as critical failures on skill checks in exchange for an additional magic point. This is basically a flaw, no? Which makes me think, why isn't there an optional flaw system? Something that would allow you to trade things your character can do for bonuses.

My party, thankfully, has a really cool DM, and he has allowed us to create our own character flaws. Doing things like trading a bit of total hp for an extra utility, Or having your character have a phobia or a compulsion of some sort in exchange for some kind of skill bonus. I think over half my party members have some kind of little deal like this going on. And if my party is representative of the population that plays this game, then there are probably a lot of people who are making similar deals with their DM's, or who would use a flaws system if it existed.

So, has an optional flaws system been discussed before? And if so, was it rejected for a reason? I mean, there is nothing wrong with doing what my party is already doing, allow the players and their DM's to work it out on their own, but the point of all these docs is to make things easier for DM's by providing structure. So, why not have something in place for players that want to give their characters flaws?

If a flaws system wasn't vetoed earlier on in game development, and if there isn't one that I somehow missed, I would be willing to write something up. 

I'm thinking of something kind of like the genetic engineering system. A system that allows you to apply flaws to your charactre (phobias, compulsions, -hp, capping skill bonuses at +5, blindness, ect...) and get points for them. You could then spend those points on things like, attribute points, magic points, utilities, skill bonuses, genetic engineering points, +hp, ect...

I think I could make a pretty balanced system that is also very flexible. Obviously, players that decide to use this should end up with a character that is more fragile or restricted in some ways than they had before. So, if you traded 5 hp for a flaw point, you would only be able to trade that point back for, say, 3-4 hp. Overall characters would end up with less, but with more of it where they wanted it.

So, if this is something that would be used, or that could possibly be integrated into the game as an optional mechanic in character building, I would love to write up a first draft and toss it around for improvements and suggestions. And if a similar idea was shut down a long time ago, I would like to hear the reasoning behind that decision.

There is a community-made flaws system, but the driving force has left the community for real life reasons...

The devs generally wish to avoid adding more systems to Pony Tales. In addition, they don't like mixing Out Of Combat with Combat, so they don't like things that would reduce or increase HP unless it was a Combat Trait or something. So while the devs do allow players to make their own flaw systems if they want to, they don't plan on officially adding one...

Hmmm, I  poked around for a flaws system and didn't find anything. Guess I missed it. Still this looks interesting, I'll defiantly take a look at this. Also, Those reasons for not including this in the main doc make perfect sense. Thanks for the quick replies! ^_^

Also, I don't consider a little post like that "bringing it up in a big way." Now, if I had jumped the gun and written up the system I had in mind... Still, I thought I would offer. I'm of the mind that the person who points out a problem should also volunteer to help fix it. This was the least I could do.