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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6295151" data-attributes="member: 1">Thanks!  Longish post, but I think I can cover most of it quite quickly:1.  Ambidexterity and Deadly Shot are, I agree, both too powerful.  Tricks which feel like mandatory choices are generally overpowered.  Ambidexterity has already been reduced in power a lot in my own playtest document (based on your earlier comments about it) and Deadly Shot definitely needs a closer look.2. SOAK vs. Vulnerability - hah!  I had no idea that was still in there.  It was removed from my weekend playtests weeks ago!  Vulnerability no longer bypasses SOAK; it simply adds the bonus one or two dice of damage.  You're absolutely right that as written it was far, far too powerful.3. Countdowns have gotten little playtester feedback so far.  I suspected they might be a bit long, but I think we can mitigate that easily with larger removal spreads (5-6, 4-6, for example) representing slow, medium, and fast countdowns. 4. Character traits - the XP needs changing to reflect the new XP charts; more importantly, does the 1-die bonus not affect anyone?5. Medics - you're correct; they aren't supposed to be infinite healers. I'll look at rewording that.  My original intention was any give character can benefit from the 1-die touch heal once per day, thought that might be a little harsh.6. The variation in skill-related checks is mainly intentional - some characters are intended to be able to do difficult stuff that others cannot (although everybody has access to every type of check via a straight attribute roll). The medic should be a lot better at healing folks than the pilot is, for example.7. That's a great use of LUCK.  I like that a lot!8. That XP projection sounds pretty good to me.  D&D takes about 18 months to 2 years on average to top out in levels, but most campaigns in my experience simply don't last that long.  6 months seems realistic.</blockquote>

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