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So then Pocket Armory, at least is miscosted. It should be 2 MP less, since you pay for the creation of the 1200 GC worth of value which is more than the 2 MP needed for the area. There are a few other spells that pay 1 or 2 MP for a basic creation effect and it's not always clear why.

Can you clarify if the GEAR pool you describe is only the dice from the quality level of the gear (High-Quality, Exceptional, Mastercraft, etc...) or if it includes other dice that are specific to the type of item? For instance, camouflaged armor gives a +1d6 to checks to hide in appropriate...

All right, here's the rest of the spells: Field of Weakness: 9-12 MP: 4 MP drain attribute, 3 MP area, 3 or 5 MP duration with contingency (1 minute or 1 hour), -0 or -1 casting time (one action or one minute) Firebolt: Unchanged Flaming Barrier: 12 or 14 MP: 6 MP elemental object area, 2 MP...

So I've started in on this, but many of the spells will need to be changed to work with the new durations table you give (e.g. there's no 5 or 10 minute duration any more), and some others are currently using invalid casting times (e.g. two rounds). I'm also not entirely sure if the cost of a...

BlckKnght submitted a new resource: WOIN Character Creation Worksheet - A tool for keeping track of your skills and attribute ranks as you pick your starting careers. Read more about this resource...

A while ago I created this Google docs spreadsheet that is very handy for keeping track of your skill and attribute increases as you're creating a new WOIN character. If you're just using a standard character sheet, it's really easy to get confused about how many ranks you have in a given skill...

I like the idea of a universal exploit exempting certain rolls from the MDP, without relaxing it completely. I'd suggest something like this: Specialist (requires 6 ranks in a non-[combat] skill): When you make an attribute check using the prerequisite skill, you may exceed your maximum dice...

I'm the player of that character in knikpiw's long-running game. My android started at grade 4 with LOG 10 (thanks to the +2 from the Service Droid origin) and got a +1 from every advance, I think. I ended the campaign at grade 10 with LOG 16. I think I would have hit grade 11 if we'd gone one...

I was just reading over the careers from NOW, and it seems like some of them have exploits that grant skills at a much higher level than is normal in the the other WOIN games. Normally an exploit can give you three or four new skills at 1 rank, or with a College degree you can get a single skill...

I'm not sure this is exactly what Drekin was getting at, but a related question I've sometimes thought about is "How do you 'break in' to certain sets of careers that have certain hard to acquire skills as prerequisites?" Often the best careers to give certain skills also have those skills as...

I think armor skills are still a thing, but they have only narrow uses and you'll seldom roll them on attribute checks. You don't need any skill to just wear normal quality armor. Having skill in a category of armor (Light, Medium or Heavy) does however let you unlock the extra SOAK from higher...

That's a good point! Your armor's quality could add to your dice pools if a player and GM agree that there's a good reason to apply the armor skill to an attribute check. That just doesn't happen very often (and not on the pools that contribute to DEFENSE scores), but we shouldn't assume it...

Those books got turned into chapters of the main rule books. Fantasy Equipment is just the equipment chapter of O.L.D. Future Careers is the character creation part of N.E.W (though it's the 1.1 version, not the latest). My opinion is that it's much better to have just the core books being...

No. Higher quality armor adds extra SOAK. You can see how much in the Armor column of the quality table (page 80 in NEW 1.2): Quality Price Rarity Min. Skill Upgrades Armor Improvised Standard Normal Common High-quality x3 + 100 Uncommon 1 (1d6 pool) +1 +2 SOAK...

A bit of a counterpoint, as one of knikpiw's players: I feel System Override is overpowered when you use it to shut down the nearest shield facing immediately before shooting at that side of the enemy ship (other uses of the exploit are fine, or maybe even weak). If the target's main (or only!)...