(OOC) Transformers: Robots in Disguise!

[hafrogman]

I've come up with a new concept to replace the school bus (who would have been gargantuan) [Thus you are all spared the horror of . . . Educator "Prepare to be schooled, Decepticreeps!"]

My character will have an SUV alt, and have large, oversized hands. He could wield a katana if needed, Kal. But I did plan on having him focus on unarmed combat.

I'm terribly proud of his name, but I'm putting the thought process behind it in spoiler so that if you wish you may be spared the terrible pun behind it all.

Spoiler

We start with his giant "hands" which led to "Hans" which is a silly name for a bot, so I switched to spansih, were we find "Mano" which is espanol for hand. This led me to "Manny" which is still a silly name, but is also short for "Manuel" which is close to "Manual". . . Thus my autobot's name is . .

Stickshift.

 

[Kalanyr]

Nah, as I said if no one has a concept that works with it let me know, I have an animal morpher that I like quiet a lot too. A wolf with a slow special ability, called (bad pun alert) Paws.

 

[Vendetta]

OK
I posted the character creation guidelines in the rogues gallery. Go ahead and get started on those characters and email me if you need to discuss things like special powers or something else.
rahjr2k@hotmail.com

Transformers: Robots in Disguise! Rogues Gallery

Sorry it took me so long. Hope no one was waiting around last night hoping it might go up before you went to bed.

 

[hafrogman]

A few thoughts on creation.

Alt bonuses - all of the things you listed are available as Form Feats (except increased speed which is only +20%). And for every point of Form Feats you gain 2 extra. So I guess I question why have these at all. Nobody should really purchase them for manueverability or acceleration as you're only getting half benifit for your priority point. If you want speeds to rocket then you can always change the form feat's bonus.

Special Powers - I'm slightly confused about your magic missile example. I assumed special powers used character level as caster level (thus a third level bot using magic missile would have 2 missiles). Is spending more points the only way to increase the caster level, or is it more like a bonus over your character level?

Personally I was considering this for my special power

"Electron Punch" (as Shocking Grasp)

Special Nexus powered capacitors loacated in the bot's hands allow him to store a charge and then release it on command into his opponents.

That okay?

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

[Thus you are all spared the horror of . . . Educator "Prepare to be schooled, Decepticreeps!"]

My character will have an SUV alt, and have large, oversized hands. He could wield a katana if needed, Kal. But I did plan on having him focus on unarmed combat.

Ditto, but I would be willing to go for the weapon Kal.

But maybe the gruop leader should weild the weapon? Who wants to be leader?

In spoiler so that if you wish you may be spared the terrible pun behind it all.

The pun didn't bug me as much as the thought process did. (I do indeed like the name though. )

A wolf with a slow special ability, called (bad pun alert) Paws.

God, that is bad...

Sorry it took me so long. Hope no one was waiting around last night hoping it might go up before you went to bed.

No, the wife was off last night so I think I logged off of ENworld at like 530 pm... (I'm soo far behind now.)

I don't know the rules of the top of my head so I'll need the night to collect my thoughts.

 

[Vendetta]

Alt bonuses - all of the things you listed are available as Form Feats (except increased speed which is only +20%).

Yes… but maybe you didn’t want to use the feats for it. I granted the +50% because I felt it should be better than the feat. (But, the speed is the only one that works on as it turns) I had given two shifts because I wanted the priority to be better than the regular feats but if you priority the form feats one higher, you get two more, so right back to the same… I had missed that… so it is all pretty moot I guess. Though, there are other things that could be improved that are not feats (snicker).

Special Powers - I'm slightly confused about your magic missile example. I assumed special powers used character level as caster level (thus a third level bot using magic missile would have 2 missiles). Is spending more points the only way to increase the caster level, or is it more like a bonus over your character level?

Yes. It will also allow you to go over the maximums (So a few more magic missiles than the five max if you buy it up) listed by the amount you went over the spell level in ranks. As well, at third level, you could have more than the two you would normally get. Rereading it, I didn’t hit that properly… sorry.

As well, I missed something else based on this… and that is the duration rules. The Per minute/round/hour/etc rules as I wrote it didn’t consider your character level and it should. (I forgot that) If at 10th level you would cast a power that lasts 1 minute per level, so, 10 minutes, then you pay the energy reserve once per 10 minutes. (It was late when I posted that so I probably made a few more mistakes)

Further, like the "extra" magic missiles, if you have a duration power bought higher, the duration also acts longer (Effectively two character levels higher per rank over the spell's level, since each rank is equivalent to a spell level, which requires two levels to attain a new spell level.)

And, hafrogman, Electron punch sounds great as a power for a character. I’ve always thought that a character’s fist/hand igniting in electrical (shocking) energy would be rather intimidating.

 

[Kalanyr]

Hmmm, unless you have a huge charisma, you're basically guaranteed to use up more Nexus Points than you regain on a single use of your powers. Even at rank 1 you require a charisma of 12 to get 1 use per day. If you have a charisma of 10 you regain 0 Nexus Points back from Stasis so you only get to use your specials once ever, if I'm reading that right. Or do you regain a certain base amount of nexus points per stasis as well ?

Edit - I was also wondering how others felt about a slightly higher sum to, I just noticed I over spent by 1 priority on Bushido (oops).

 

[rangerjohn]

Not to mention, I thought it had to be 1,2,3,4,5. Your are prioritizing what is important to your character. At least thats how I read the book.

 

[Kalanyr]

Rangerjohn, yeah you are correct thats how the book does it. Vendetta went with a sum to 15 instead.

 

[rangerjohn]

Ok, after reading the character creation addendums. What would you think of fly as a special power, in the form of jump jets. This would give us a chance of reaching the flying deceptacreeps, without being jets ourselves. Admittedly, it would be for tactical use, no flying across the country.