SCION: HERO - Discussion

[Tokiwong]

Just to give you some insight on the tone of things I am going with the premise that most of the other pantheons have already fallen to the Titans, i.e. ones that are not described in the book. There are probably scattered gods from other pantheons but not many.

 

[Shalimar]

Those stats make me wonder how she would have survived a 2v2 fight against a pair of scions, let alone a pair of Scions backed up by giants. She isn't tough enough to take a single hit from a giant's club (11B + successes) she'll take more damage in a single hit then she has health levels and that is with the giant only getting 1 net success, and it gets an attack every 4 ticks.

She doesn't have any means of self-defense against a normal human let alone titan-spawn. If nothing else she should have epic dexterity to up her Dodge DV so that she doesn't get hit that often and so that she can have a chance of hitting the bad guys. A weapon might help too.

A giant is legend 3, and a tough legend 3 at that with Epic Strength and Stamina 2 and regular Strength 6 and Stamina 5. The things have a soak of 2A/5L/7B.

The example Loki scion for example has a dot of Epic Stamina, and a Level 5 weapon

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Those stats make me wonder how she would have survived a 2v2 fight against a pair of scions, let alone a pair of Scions backed up by giants. She isn't tough enough to take a single hit from a giant's club (11B + successes) she'll take more damage in a single hit then she has health levels and that is with the giant only getting 1 net success, and it gets an attack every 4 ticks.

She doesn't have any means of self-defense against a normal human let alone titan-spawn. If nothing else she should have epic dexterity to up her Dodge DV so that she doesn't get hit that often and so that she can have a chance of hitting the bad guys. A weapon might help too.

A giant is legend 3, and a tough legend 3 at that with Epic Strength and Stamina 2 and regular Strength 6 and Stamina 5. The things have a soak of 2A/5L/7B.

The example Loki scion for example has a dot of Epic Stamina, and a Level 5 weapon

Well for 1, she wouldn't face them direct. (and to be honest I picture her using a forklift/truck)

Truthfully I spent most of the weekend on a Scion of Thor but you beat me to the punch.

And I'm still looking for gear/weapons.

 

[Shalimar]

Toki would it be ok if the two of us fought a single Giant as an arena match? I'd like to get a handle on things, and I think that'd be the best way to do it before getting into the story, it'll let you get a handle on how much the two of us can take on without being too far over our head. I think the two of us against a single Giant would be a pretty big stretch, but I don't really know. Even if it were two of Kendal I wouldn't be sure that they would win.

 

[KaintheSeeker]

I quess it's back to the drawing board if you really think she can't pull her weight.

 

[Shalimar]

Well for 1, she wouldn't face them direct. (and to be honest I picture her using a forklift/truck)

Truthfully I spent most of the weekend on a Scion of Thor but you beat me to the punch.

And I'm still looking for gear/weapons.

We can certainly both be scions of Thor, that wouldn't be a problem when its a group of just two combat capability is not a bad thing. I also have a Scion of Artemis I could use if you'd rather your thor scion, but the Artemis Scion isn't really built for melee.

I'd honestly forsee a giant just picking up and then throwing said truck/forklift a mile straight up. Its not really reasonable to expect no direct combat in a game about heroes combating titans. By weapons I actually meant Relic weapons that could make up for her weak combat stats.

 

[KaintheSeeker]

We can certainly both be scions of Thor, that wouldn't be a problem when its a group of just two combat capability is not a bad thing. I also have a Scion of Artemis I could use if you'd rather your thor scion, but the Artemis Scion isn't really built for melee.

I'd honestly forsee a giant just picking up and then throwing said truck/forklift a mile straight up. Its not really reasonable to expect no direct combat in a game about heroes combating titans. By weapons I actually meant Relic weapons that could make up for her weak combat stats.

Pulled her ..

Will work on her and go for something more useful.

 

[Shalimar]

I quess it's back to the drawing board if you really think she can't pull her weight.

I honestly don't know either way, none of us have actually run a combat. I suspect she wouldn't because the book suggests that even non-warrior scions take epic stamina or dex just for survivability. Thats why I want Toki to run us a fight with the two of us against a giant, so we can figure it out.

If you decide not to go with your Loki, go with your Thor and I'll switch to my Artemis. But combat ability is important in this game, look at the the Scion of Aphrodite, he has a pair of relic pistols and Epic Dex 2 to boost his ability to hit and his DVs, and he can spend a legend point to double his DV bonus from Epic Dexterity for the scene.

Either way though I would like to run a combat with the Loki Scion and Kendal against a giant.

 

[Tokiwong]

Its a two-fisted adventure, everyone fights some of the time.

Sure although honestly if you are familiar at all with Exalted then it is pretty easy to figure out what you need, I would suggest even if you are not a combatant type you have some type of defense to survive.

 

[Tokiwong]

You would be better off just rolling the combat real time, doing it on play by post would take like a week to do anything useful, and I would rather spend a week role playing then roll-playing