LucasC
First Post
I don't have a lot of new feedback to add here. The night was spent with the PCs exploring an old abandoned laboratory. There were lots of opportunities for skills and several combat encounters. As I mentioned last week, everyone moved up to Heroic Tier and subsequently switched their dice out to d8s.
The combination of d8s and increased skill ranks continues to fundamentally alter the power level of the game.
The combination of d8s and increased skill ranks continues to fundamentally alter the power level of the game.
- For trained checks, the lowest results were always in the high-twenties with 25-29 being the most common low-end and numbers in the mid-40s not uncommon.
- Mixed checks, where some people are trained and others not, are even worse. There were numerous PERCEPTION checks made and results ranged from as low as 3-5 for those without any training to as high as 50 for those with some skill ranks.
- Damage is often high enough that many things are one-shot kills. There is also a growing divide between those that have focused on combat skills and careers and those that have focused on other careers.
- Here are the damage results from one round of combat:
50-41-41-23-20-15-13
- Here are the damage results from one round of combat: