The Immortals Handbook

[Upper_Krust]

Hello again!

Radiation damage - I'm not sure if the direct effects of the Gamma radiation should be treated as anything other than heat (energy) damage, but I suppose there's a case for a save vs poison to avoid being 'sterilised' by the gamma rays.

I think we have to have some sort of radiation poisoning mechanic, likely affecting constitution (as in Knight Otu's link).

I would tend to assume immortals' bodies regenerate over time so they'd be immune to long-term radiation poisoning effects.

Immortals are immune to all natural poisons (including radiation poisoning).

However, deities of superior status manifesting atomic/radiation abilities would still be able to affect them.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey Knight Otu mate!

There is a nuclear toxyderm (basically pollution elementals) in the Urban Arcana book for d20 Modern. It is also in the SRD. I've attached the relevant portions from the SRD file.

Thanks for the link.

I wonder does Urban Arcana have rules for nukes themselves?

By the way everyone here is a link to a fantastic Kaiju site where you can learn all about the likes of Godzilla, King Ghidrah, Mothra, Rodan & co.

http://www.kaijuphile.com/rodansroost/

This section is particularly good.

http://www.kaijuphile.com/rodansroost/kaijustats/kaijustats.shtml

 

[Knight Otu]

I wonder does Urban Arcana have rules for nukes themselves?

Nope, just radiation exposure, from the toxyderm's breath weapon and explosion. I think there's a chance for such rules to be in d20 Future, though.

 

[S'mon]

>>Presumably Simon, any nukes you use in your campaign will be of the realistic physics damage potential rather than the comic book damage potential? <<

Of course

 

[Alzrius]

Nope, just radiation exposure, from the toxyderm's breath weapon and explosion. I think there's a chance for such rules to be in d20 Future, though.

The D20 Modern web enhancement has rules for radiation exposure and damage. No rules for nukes though (heck, I'd be happy just to find rules for rocket launchers).

 

[Knight Otu]

The D20 Modern web enhancement has rules for radiation exposure and damage.

*Checks*
They're the same rules as in the Urban Arcana SRD.

 

[S'mon]

OT: I don't recall too well what scenario with Captain Picard you mean, U_K, though I think I once gave Fergus a chance to kill Wesley Crusher...

 

[CRGreathouse]

I have a quick question: what kind of ability is Metamerism you mentioned earlier (divide whenever you'd otherwise die)? Cosmic?

Oh, and any recent estimates for the book or website?

 

[Cheiromancer]

Time to bring out a dead horse for another beating...

I want to bring up the xp system again. I think that a good rule for assigning xp is to assign each challenge a raw xp value equal to (CR^2)*300. Then, when the challenge is overcome by a party, divide the raw xp by the total party CR, and award that amount to each character.

It really is a lot more straightforward than a lot of table look-ups, and gives appropriate values.

For more discussion, look here.

For example, suppose you have a party whose total ECL is 77. (A 20th level Rogue, 20th level wizard, 15th level Monk half-dragon, and an 18th level cleric) Versus a CR 15 Vrock. That's a raw value of 67500, or 876 xp per person. You give 37.5 xp per person, or between 675 xp and 750 xp. If you like, you can assign each party member a +1 CR for being created with the Standard Point Buy, and then each will get 833 xp.

Or suppose they are facing a CR 33 balor. That has a raw xp of 326700, or 4243 xp per person (or 4033 if you treat the group as having a total CR of 81 instead of 77). You give between 3800 and 4000 xp.

This method is really quite similar to yours, but far easier to implement (imho). You do have to use a calculator to compute squares and do the long division, but folks would probably use one anyone to calculate stuff like what 18.75 xp/level worked out to for their 17th level character.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi CRGreathouse!

I have a quick question: what kind of ability is Metamerism you mentioned earlier (divide whenever you'd otherwise die)? Cosmic?

I was toying with the idea that it would be Metempiric, though I think that might have been more because of how it juxtaposed with other abilities. It should really be a Transcendental Ability on its own merits.

Oh, and any recent estimates for the book or website?

Yes, but all of them bad.

I can't get the website sorted until I can get some kind of credit card and I can't get that until I sell the first pdf. I have the website finished, albeit with only a dozen or so articles at this point.

So at this juncture it looks like I may not have the website up prior to the release of the first pdf.

Obviously thats not an ideal situation, but since when has anything surrounding the development period of this book been ideal.