[OOC] Guardsmith's The Draminov Cases (full)

[Guardsmith]

Rhun & Insight: I agree. Both of your characters are justified.

BTW, Rhun, that's a good idea about the license DCs. I may use it ...

 

[Salthorae]

I believe it is justified with my PC...


One thing to note, is maybe it is worthwhile to leave the increase on Restricted and Military weapons...but for simple firearms and driver's licenses, the original pricing is probably okay.

I like Rhun's suggestion too for the Restricted/Military DC's...

[sblock=Guardsmith]
I was thinking it was justified for Jeriah as well. My thought process was that after he stopped telling everyone the story of that night, his record would have been clean enough and he could have been granted a Mass, Class A permit to carry concealed...

That leads to another question I have, what would be the purchase DC on Silver coated bullets? [/sblock]

 

[Rhun]

Rhun & Insight: I agree. Both of your characters are justified.

[sblock=Guarsmith]
FYI, I'm not sure if you want our PCs to have jobs or not, but I could see Damon working in high-level private security. Not like a mall security guard , but perhaps corporate security or something of that nature.
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[Guardsmith]

I have decided to take Rhun's suggestion and modify the table regarding licenses. I'll make a change to the House Rules PDF when I get a moment, but the biggest change is that the lowest (Licensed) level's Purchase DC is lowered to 10 while the rest of the chart stays the same. I also noticed that I forgot to put in the Illegal level; its stats should be - Purchase DC: 30, Black Market Purchase DC: +4, Time required: 4 days.

While looking over character stuff, I saw that a few people purchased stuff on the Black Market (though that should change some now). Don't forget that to purchase BM equipment, you must first locate a BM merchant. This is done with the Knowledge (streetwise) skill (DC 15 as Boston is a big city) which cannot be used untrained and which you may not Take 20.

In all likelihood, I will be reviewing characters (and posting comments in individual spoiler blocks) this weekend.

[sblock=For Jemal]Do you need help with the equipment/wealth rules?[/sblock]

[sblock=For Salthorae] I'll post more detailed stuff about your character this weekend, but I just wanted to let you know that, according to Urban Arcana, buying silver ammunition adds +6 to the Purchase DC).[/sblock]

[sblock=For Rhun]I'm assuming that if you take the Profession skill, your character is somehow gainfully employed.[/sblock]

 

[Insight]

I have decided to take Rhun's suggestion and modify the table regarding licenses. I'll make a change to the House Rules PDF when I get a moment, but the biggest change is that the lowest (Licensed) level's Purchase DC is lowered to 10 while the rest of the chart stays the same. I also noticed that I forgot to put in the Illegal level; its stats should be - Purchase DC: 30, Black Market Purchase DC: +4, Time required: 4 days.

While looking over character stuff, I saw that a few people purchased stuff on the Black Market (though that should change some now). Don't forget that to purchase BM equipment, you must first locate a BM merchant. This is done with the Knowledge (streetwise) skill (DC 15 as Boston is a big city) which cannot be used untrained and which you may not Take 20.

I have revised my character to add the Knowledge (streetwise) skill. His equipment, therefore, doesn't need to change. I can get a 15 with a 7 or higher. If you still want me to make the rolls, I can.

 

[Blind Azathoth]

I'm afraid I'm going to have to withdraw from this game; I thought I would have the time to participate, but I do not think I will. Shame, too...I was warming up to that lawyer.

 

[Salthorae]

Aww man! I was looking forward to that too

 

[Mista Collins]

FYI, the license DC increases were a result of my last group that was willing to bankrupt themselves (wealth bonuses of +1 all around) to get lots of guns (assault rifles, submachine guns, etc.) It wasn't really the campaign I was looking for, so I increased the DCs to discourage it.

I will lower them to the levels in the book on one condition: please, please, please only take the Personal Firearms Proficiency or Archaic Weapons Proficiency and purchase weapons if it is reasonably justified by your background. By "reasonably justified" I mean that its likely your character is to have encountered/used these weapons in their life. If you use the phrase "its a hobby" or "he likes guns" then it may not be reasonable.

It will be justified for my character also when I put up his background. He is going to be a hostage negotiator for the Boston PD.

 

[Salthorae]

Wealth Rules

Hey Jemal -

I saw your ? in your character sheet just now...

for starting wealth you can either roll 2d4 or Guardsmith said we can just take a "5", you then add your wealth bonus from your Occupation, if you have 1 or more ranks in Profession (*) you get another +1...

So for me I rolled 2d4 got "6"+4(occuption)+1(3 ranks in Profession)=+11

Every time you gain a level you roll a profession check (wisdom check if you don't have ranks in Profession). DC = Current wealth bonus. Success = +1 wealth (+1/5pts you beat the DC by)

For Jeriah (DC11): 1d20+6->25 so 11+1(beat DC)+2(beat DC by over 10)=+14 wealth

Anything on the equipment tables with a purchase DC = or > your current wealth you can buy no problem. Anything higher and you have to roll (or you can take a 10/20), but you'll lose wealth by doing that. Purchase DC 15 or higher you already lose 1 wealth pt + 1 wpt if the PDC is 1-10 pts higher than your Wealth bonus, 1d6 wpts if it is 11-20 (I think) higher

SO: Jeriah can buy anything of Purchase DC 14 or less w/o problem, 15 & higher though and I lose wealth. I lose 2pts for anything PDC 15-24, 1+1d6 wpt's are lost for PDC 25-34...

If the item requires a license you have to buy that first PDC 10 per Guardsmith's new rules, of PDC 20 for Restricted licenses. You can also buy them on the blackmarket, but have to find a Blackmarket dealer (Kn(Streetwise) DC 15 to locate) and you add the Noted plus to the PDC of the item (so +1 for licensed items, +2 for restricted items etc)

Ex: a Glock 20 is PDC 18 if you have a license (Jeriah can take a 10 to buy it and loses 2 wealth pts reducing his total to 12). If you buy the same Glock on the black market it is a PDC of 19 since it requires a license. If it were restricted the PDC would 20...

Let us know if there are anymore questions!

 

[Insight]

I just received my copy of Urban Arcana. Lots of cool stuff in there, but probably not much we'd be able to make use of at this point. I might be interested in the Techno Mage advanced class. Is that approved for this game?