Moonsilver
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I have some concerns about the power level of Ebon Shadow style p. 92, which seems to have rather a lot of “avoid the normal balancing rules attacksâ€
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Form charms are complex things, involving a lot of movements such as striking chakra points and intricate gestures realigning the flow of Essence in an Obvious show of power. Â Even in real life martial arts, adopting a "form stance" can be a lengthy affair, relative to how fast their attacks normally are. Â Given this, I think I understand the restrictions on it.Seems odd a person can't activate a Form charm and attack the same turn though.
Well, anything that allows you to ignore or negate crippling effects will null this charm out, so, balanced, IMO. *shrugs* It would also be two speed six actions to accomplish this, or comboing it with an extra action charm. You also can't flurry it with other stuff, so you can only get one sneaky attack in easily.Moonsilver said:Limb Immobilizing Method: If you can get one success past DDV or PDV the target has a paralysed limb for the scene. Two attacks (cost 6m) hitting arms both times would take an Archer, Melee or Sorcery opponent out of the combat.
Again, anything that lets you ignore crippling effects will negate this one. *shrugs* Makr sure you have a charm or something that does so, and it's useless.Moonsilver said:Paralyzing Touch Attack: Complex one. But with a MA Excellency Combo, pump your dice pool up and take out an artefact armoured opponent in one hit.
Hmm. I've seen worse, I think. I'm also not sure you get persistent charms, since it states that you must defend against it with reflexive charms, and you can't even do that (unless they specifically work against attacks you're unaware of) if you fail the Wits + Awareness roll. Since I think perfect defenses are reflexive, so long as you can make the roll, you can perfect it away, or otherwise negate it...and hopping defenses will negate a flurry attempt completely. And all the willpower expenditure will become expensive fast unless you're sure you can successfully pull it off. Against someone with a lousy Wits + Awareness pool, yeah, it might be nasty, but otherwise...Moonsilver said:Blow Concealing Gesture Technique: The target gets no DV expect that from persistent Charms. A Wits + Awareness roll, Diff = Attackers Essence allows use of reflexive Charms or abilities to counter the attack. A Flurry can be used, cost multiples of 2m 1wp.
Discussion about this charm can be found here. Or here. Though the second is basically a summary of the first discussion.Moonsilver said:Distracting Finger-Gesture Technique: (2m, Reflexive) The party are up against the Big Bad Guy at the end of the Scenario. Our Ebon Shadow guy just keeps giving the finger, maybe with a flurry attack. Big Bad Guy will have half the actions he would normally get in a fight and cannot flurry. The rest of the gang paste him.
It does if you catch your target after they've already used a charm. Unless they've got someway to use another charm before their DV refreshes, they're potentially defenseless.Dracogryff said:.... it does not prevent the use of charms....