(YBA) A few more proposed powers.

[Kalanyr]

Strategist
Requirement: Master of a Style or Location
Cost: 2 XP
Effect: You act in initiative as if you possessed a Dirty Trick.

Quick Learner
Requirement: Flexible Style
Cost: 5 XP
Effect: At the cost of 3 yen, the Bounty Hunter may become an Expert of the first style he generates in a move in a fight as a signature style for the rest of the fight.

Instant Master
Requirement: Quick Learner
Cost: 5 XP
Effect: At the cost of 4 yen, the Bounty Hunter may become a Master of the first style he generates in a move in a fight as a signature style for the rest of the fight.

Mirror Style (Originally by Ciardan)
Requirements: Student of at least 1 style or Flexible Style
Cost: 3 xp
Effect: Once per fight, when declaring a regular attack against an opponent, the fighter may become a Student of any signature style known by that opponent. This lasts for the duration of the fight. This power may only be taken once.


Flowing Style
Pre-Req- Mirror Style, Expert of at least 2 styles or Quick Learner
Cost: 4 XP
Benefit: Once per fight, when declaring a regular attack against an opponent, the fighter may become an Expert of any signature style known by that opponent. This lasts for the duration of the fight. This power may only be taken once.

Epic Powers:

Dazzling Style
Pre-Req- Mirror Style, Flowing Style, Master of at least 3 styles or Instant Master
Cost: 7 XP
Benefit: Once per fight, when declaring a regular attack against an opponent, the fighter may become a Master of any signature style known by that opponent. This lasts for the duration of the fight. This power may only be taken once.



Question:

Could making Purity of Focus exclusive to Holy Battery be considered in order to set the cost to a number of Chi equal to the XP/Ki/Chi cost of the power cancelled? ie if Purity of Focus is used to cancel Shove it costs 2 Chi, if used to Cancel a Trick it costs 3 Chi.

Otherwise Purity of Focus is basically a waste of Chi/XP on anyone with an equal sized battery or as many XP invested in Shove/DT as you have in Purity of Focus, you burn through your Chi/XP but don't achieve much.

 

[Kalanyr]

Energy Blast
Requirement: 4+ Chi/Ki
XP: ?
Benefit: You may spend 4 Chi/Ki once per round to force an opponent to be only able to generate a defensive move and be unable to attack or to use any attacking power. You must go first in order to use this power.


Epic Power

Ambush
Requirements ?, Must not be a Holy Warrior (Cannot be taken before becoming a Holy Warrior?) *
XP: ?
Benefit: In the first round of combat you get to act normally while your opponent may only defend.


[Tangent]
* I think the way you can get a DT before becoming a Holy Warrior but become an Assassin only afterwards is kind of awkward, if there's going to be a ban on powers with other powers I think it should be a more general ban, ie no DT/Assassin and Holy Warrior in any combination, or else be consistantly banned before or after for all powers. ie All banned powers must be taken before taking the power (that bans them) in question or must be taken after, not some either way. ie 1 of a) DT and Assassin must both be taken before Holy Warrior
or
b) DT and Assassin must both be taken after Holy Warrior.
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[Wicht]

I don't understand strategist.

I can't see a lot wrong with most of the others.

Ambush seems fine. But I am not sure it would have to be an epic power. Perhaps a cost of 5 experience and an acknowledgement that the person possessing ambush must attack first for it to be effective.

 

[Kalanyr]

Strategist just allows you to go last in a round, unless someone else has Strategist or Dirty Trick and has higher natural hits allowing them to go last, basically just a dirty trick without the ability to negate a round.


So these look ok?

Ambush
Requirements: Must not be a Holy Warrior
Cost: 5 XP
Benefit: In the first round of combat your opponent may only defend. You must go first in order to use this power.
Note: Holy Warrior should have noted that you may not possess this power and become a Holy Warrior.

Energy Burst
Requirements: 4+ Chi/Ki
Cost: 5 XP
Benefit: You may spend 4 Chi/Ki once per round to force a single opponent to be only able to generate a defensive move and be unable to attack or to use any attacking power. You must go first in order to use this power.

 

[Deedlit]

Thanks. I need chi blast to represent fist of the beast king. I thought they would be the same power though, not two different ones, and ambush was an earlier version. At level 6, fist of the beast king can finally be used in combat, and not just for show. Don't we have enough not for holy warrior powers already though?