CORELINE (D20 Modern/D20 BESM Setting).

[marcoasalazarm]

Real cool suit.

OK... how do you guys think would be a good way to represent "Stunlock" in weapons? Some kind of Save, difficulty equal to weapon's damage inflicted, or end up stuck in place?

 

[kronos182]

Real cool suit.

OK... how do you guys think would be a good way to represent "Stunlock" in weapons? Some kind of Save, difficulty equal to weapon's damage inflicted, or end up stuck in place?

Stuck in place? Like paralyzed? or stuck by tangler grenade or gun?

 

[marcoasalazarm]

Stunlock is usually that the enemy remains stuck in place, unable to move or fight back, because the constant attacking is leaving them doing nothing but performing their "pain" animation again and again and again ad nauseum.

Probably "paralized" would fit. Not sure.

 

[kronos182]

Stunlock is usually that the enemy remains stuck in place, unable to move or fight back, because the constant attacking is leaving them doing nothing but performing their "pain" animation again and again and again ad nauseum.

Probably "paralized" would fit. Not sure.

I'd have to say paralyzed is the best fit.. triggered by massive damage or specific weapons or specific NPC have it as special disadvantage

 

[marcoasalazarm]

How would you mould a special weakness for demons that are extra-vulnerable to firearms? Like you go at them with a katana and they are tough, you hit them with a Kamehameha and they're tough, but you whip out a .38 and boom, they're luggage.

The idea in general is based on this fanfic, can't recall the name right now, in which Tatewaki Kuno, ever the wanna-be samurai jackass, summoned a kind of demon with this weakness because he wanted a "proper" challenge and obviously it went to Hell, and because we are talking Japan this weakness is not exactly easy to exploit.

 

[kronos182]

How would you mould a special weakness for demons that are extra-vulnerable to firearms? Like you go at them with a katana and they are tough, you hit them with a Kamehameha and they're tough, but you whip out a .38 and boom, they're luggage.

The idea in general is based on this fanfic, can't recall the name right now, in which Tatewaki Kuno, ever the wanna-be samurai jackass, summoned a kind of demon with this weakness because he wanted a "proper" challenge and obviously it went to Hell, and because we are talking Japan this weakness is not exactly easy to exploit.

That would be damage reduction / xx type.. So DR 20 / Ballistic, any type of physical damage (slashing, bludgeoning, slashing, crushing) has to do over 20 points of damage to even scratch it, but if the type is ballistic then that goes does full damage. Also would include energy immunity of different types or resistances

 

[marcoasalazarm]

OK, cool. Thanks man.

 

[marcoasalazarm]

OK, expanding the idea as I'm working on it:

The "[something] Mazoku" (need a good term, maybe something like "Tetsu" - "Iron", but I guess something more like "Tough Leather/skin"? Well, "Tough Leather" is "Jōbuna kawa", dunno if that could be reduced to "Jobukawa" or "Jobu"... an alternative is "Tekitou", which doesn't has a direct translation to English but can be used in a positive or negative way, and when used negatively it means roughly something like "vague" or even "half-assed") are a variant of demon that has appeared around the world, origin is Japan, were accidentally summoned by some jackass who wanted to use them as sparring practice without knowing how BAD an idea that was, and which have an unusual weakness... guns. You can kill them real easy with guns.

Which sounds very dang weird until you remember that Japan had one of the most strict firearms laws in the world pre-Vanishing (and even post-Vanishing it gets real iffy when it comes to allowing civilians to carry, plus the whole damn lot of Fiction stuff over there that is more devastating so better options are available) and you can guess that these monsters are a problem.

 

[kronos182]

OK, expanding the idea as I'm working on it:

The "[something] Mazoku" (need a good term, maybe something like "Tetsu" - "Iron", but I guess something more like "Tough Leather/skin"? Well, "Tough Leather" is "Jōbuna kawa", dunno if that could be reduced to "Jobukawa" or "Jobu"... an alternative is "Tekitou", which doesn't has a direct translation to English but can be used in a positive or negative way, and when used negatively it means roughly something like "vague" or even "half-assed") are a variant of demon that has appeared around the world, origin is Japan, were accidentally summoned by some jackass who wanted to use them as sparring practice without knowing how BAD an idea that was, and which have an unusual weakness... guns. You can kill them real easy with guns.

Which sounds very dang weird until you remember that Japan had one of the most strict firearms laws in the world pre-Vanishing (and even post-Vanishing it gets real iffy when it comes to allowing civilians to carry, plus the whole damn lot of Fiction stuff over there that is more devastating so better options are available) and you can guess that these monsters are a problem.

I could probably stat something up.. just need more info besides weakness to ballistics.. actually.. could just give it a high DR.. and special quality Ballistic Vulnerability - takes double damage from ballistic type damage, which ignores its DR.

 

[marcoasalazarm]

Gonna need to think. Guess it's pretty obvious that these guys are optimized for melee combat. Spikes, claws, can burp out smoke to try to sneak closer? Can climb walls, some maybe can glide. Leaders are obviously smarter than the regular goon-types, probably have some kind of "rallying cry" ability to bolster aggression. The ones who are smart enough to try to use weapons will obviously reach for blades or clubs and skew guns.