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[PTU] Godfather
Topic Started: Nov 3 2014, 08:26 PM (857 Views)
Lwmons
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Godfather
[Class]
Prerequisites: Novice Guile, Novice Intimidate, Novice Command
Static
Effect: People are inclined to return favours that you do for them, even if your requested favour is greater than what they requested. IF they attempt to resist this inclination, they must succeed a DC 8 Focus Check, plus 2 for every Godfather feature you possess.

A Small Favour
Prerequisites: Adept Intimidate, Guile, or Command
Scene/10 - Free Action
Trigger: An enemy makes a move that misses
Effect: The move does not miss, however, the next time you or an ally miss with an attack in the scene, you can declare it an automatic hit.

An Offer They Can't Refuse
Prerequisites: Adept Intimidate, Guile, or Command
Static
Effect: You may add half of your Guile, Intimidate, or Command ranks to all negotiation checks

A Big Favour
Prerequisites: Expert Intimidate, Guile, or Command
Static
Effect: Gain the moves After you and Bestow.
Special: After You can be used on unwilling targets. After using Bestow, you may make a free At-Will or EOT attack against the target.

Keep your Friends Close
[Ranked 2]
Rank 1 Prerequisites: Expert Intimidate, Guile, or Command
Rank 2 Prerequisites: Expert Intimidate, Guile, and Command
Static
Effect: All of your allies gain a +1 to all accuracy rolls for each rank. This does not affect the user

And your Enemies Closer
Prerequisites: Expert Intimidate, Guile, or Command, Keep your Friends Close
Static
Effect: All your enemies within X spaces gain the bonuses from Keep your Friends close as if they were allies, but they also lose two combat stage in one stat of the player's choosing for each rank of Keep Your Friends Close. X is equal to half of your Intimidate, Guile, or Command ranks rounded down. These stages can not be removed while within the range of this feature.

Kiss of Death
Prerequisites: Master Intimidate, Guile, or Command
Static
Effect: Gain the moves Swagger and Flatter


Edited by Lwmons, Nov 3 2014, 09:18 PM.
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This is neat would be great in a bad guy game for sure.
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And Your Enemies Closer raises a few red flags for me. At cap, it requires three skills at LV5, which isn't that hard, and it equates to essentially FOUR negative combat stages on all enemies, with infinite range.

At the very least, make it so that it only applies to enemies within a certain range of you (3 metres is a good rule of thumb). I'd also do it so that it just lowers 1 stat by 2 CS for each rank (picking a different stat on the 2nd rank), but that is just me.

For Keep Your Friends Close, I would assume, based on flavor, that the feature does NOT apply to yourself. That should probably be noted.

I have nothing else to say at this time, as everything else looks fine by me.
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Good call, changed to:

And your Enemies Closer
Prerequisites: Expert Intimidate, Guile, or Command, Keep your Friends Close
Static
Effect: All your enemies within X spaces gain the bonuses from Keep your Friends close as if they were allies, but they also lose two combat stage in one stat of the player's choosing for each rank of Keep Your Friends Close. X is equal to half of your Intimidate, Guile, or Command ranks rounded down. These stages can not be removed while within the range of this feature.
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I can Diglett.
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Careful. Don't burn yourself out.

So. Godfather. We're doing this. The class seems to be based around the idea of favors for the most part (so... every single character in Animal Crossing?), but also bounces back and forth between being a social class and a combat class. I'm going to go over each feature individually.

Godfather, Base Feature. This immediately sets off sirens in my head because you are manipulating other characters, both NPC and player characters into doing an action they may not do. In addition, there's no supernatural cause for it, and RAW, it ignores the fact that you may have damaged the goods while doing that NPC's favor or treated them poorly. I'm all in favor of a social class, but you have to be able to do it without forcing another character to do something.

A Small Favor creates a sudden jump from a social class to an Active Pokemon Support Class. Scene/10 trigger that trades one hit that would miss for another. Suddenly you have a viable way to make Focus Blast hit. Maybe clarify that the result does not trigger effects caused by dice rolls like Flinch on a Headbutt?

An Offer They Can't Refuse is back to the social class, and this one is in the right direction. While you're not directly manipulating another's actions, you are improving your ability to do so via roleplay and skill checks. A solid feature.

A Big Favor brings us back into combat, but this time, it's trainer combat (0_o), and the feature grants two very solid moves and gives those moves bonus effects. I would like to suggest that the bonus effects get made into another feature that has A Big Favor as a prerequisite at the very least so you don't give too much power to this one feature.

Keep Your Friends Close is a Passive Support Role, and a very powerful one. +2 Accuracy to all allies, regardless of distance? That's SCARY. I might put a range cap on that (since you are keeping your friends close), but otherwise, I'd let it slide.

And your Enemies Closer is also a Passive Support Feature, but this time, it's much worse. You're giving nearby enemies a to-hit bonus in exchange for reduced combat stages, but the stages can be random, and that means you have to keep track of constantly changing stat drops. That's a pain in bookkeeping, and can really slow the tide of a battle. Drop this feature.

Kiss of Death brings us back to Trainer Combat, and is making me wonder a bit why this class lacks stat tags.

In short, the concept is good, but the execution is all over the place. I can't tell what it is this class is trying to actually do. I like the idea of it working around favors, but that might not be a "Godfather" kind of thing to do, so take it with a grain of salt.
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This WAS originally a pure social class, but I found a lot of non-social things that seemed to fit. I'll do some more work on it, tilt it back towards Social and Passive Support.

Once again, thanks for the input!
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