Talk:Bulletproof Blues 3e EN:Contents

Layout Todo

• Add the Bulletproof power to a few characters. Give Damage Resistance and Bulletproof to Master Sin.

Layout Todo (Done)

• Find XXX and insert page numbers and in-document links.
• Replace space plus linebreak with linebreak.
• Replace -- with mdash.
• Replace ' and " with curly quotes.
• Update the character sheet helper.

Format

Headings

All caps.

Table Titles

Sentence case.

Power Format

• Range if normal. Brief description. Attack value. Defense value. Range if unusual.
• Longer description.
• How to break out of it.
• What happens if the target hasn't broken out of it.

BB 3.0 Errata

Compare with May 30, 2021.

Changes

• Copy Mental Combat (Power Level) and alteration attack (Power Level) changes to other games.
• Copy Telekinesis changes to other games, again.
• Copy Command/Control changes to other games
• Copy action types changes to other games
• Copy Hold/Mind Hold changes to other games
• Copy Plot Point changes to other games (plot points are earned by, and spent by, players)
• Copy Blinded, Dazzle, Invisibility, unable to perceive, etc. changes to other games
• Update character sheet helpers (BB3, BSF, RM, ZS)
• Update links to character sheet helpers (BB3, BSF, RM, ZS)
• Add skills to rolls in Rough Magic: Magic
• Make the magic in Rough Magic follow the same rules as BB3.
• Add opposed rolls for all spells in Bog Standard Fantasy.
• Add "Avoiding Traps" to Bog Standard Fantasy.
• Add follow through spells for spells in Bog Standard Fantasy.
• Port BB3 changes to Jazz, where appropriate.
• Add gem-powered magic items to Bog-Standard Fantasy (Classical Chinese elements)

Changes (Done)

• Prowess removed. Absorbed into Brawn
• Accuracy removed. Absorbed into Agility
• Willpower changed to Will
• Remove/replace "melee" with "close combat"
• Add "close" where "hand-to-hand" is mentioned
• Replace "advantage" with "gift"
• Eliminate extreme success
• Remove/replace/update "Routine"
• Remove/replace "Demanding"
• Update "nigh-impossible" difficulty
• Change "(See margin" to "(see margin"
• Find and replace task difficulty examples; search for "target number" and "difficulty"
• Find "staggered" and figure out what to do with it
• Find and replace "protection value"
• "modifier" is okay as a column heading
• "Rank" applies only to attributes; deprecated, remove where feasible; equipment has "rating"
• Find/fix "damage rating"; change to "action value"
• When in doubt, round fractions down.
• "Lifts" column to "Lift" column
• "Throws" column to "Throw" column
• "Breaks" column to "Break" column
• Remove/correct references to Benchmarks table
• Remove references to human level Brawn doing stunning damage
• Change "exploding" and "explosive" completely; make radius work like range bands
• Penetrating -- If an attack is penetrating, any of the attacker's dice that show a "1" are re-rolled until the die rolls higher than 1.
• Change "ramming" to "charging"
• Combine "Time And Movement" and "Order Of Play"
• Rewrite section "Bonuses And Penalties"
• Revise Endurance. Make equal to Brawn or Will, whichever is greater.
• Search for "level", "recover", "recovers", "once", "point of", "recently"
• Change "1 Endurance" to "one Endurance"
• Change "below 0" to "below zero" ("equals 0", "to 0")
• Reduce recovery time. Look at Regeneration and Meditation
• Change recovery to "Barring some gruesome disfigurement, a character's endurance will be completely replenished after a solid night's rest."
• A character who has lost more than half of their Endurance incurs a penalty die on all rolls
• Capitalize Endurance
• Combine "Combining" and "Coordinating" attacks
• Check the "Failure" section for correctness
• Change "Gifts#Blindfighting" to "Actions#Sensory"
• Revise grappling
• Check "Blindfighting", "Sensory Deprivation", "Darkness" for accuracy
• Synchronize Grappling from [[Rough_Magic_3e_EN:Actions#Grappling]
• Synchronize Distracting from [[Rough_Magic_3e_EN:Actions#Distracting]
• Replace bonus with "bonus die"
• Replace penalty with "penalty die"
• Make bonuses and penalties cumulative, but you can always roll at least one die
• Change "greater than"/"more than"/"higher than" to "equal to or greater"/"meet or exceed"/"the target number or higher"; Look for match/matches/equal/equals/exceeds/more/greater/succeeds
• Change "base rank" to "base value"
• Change "asphyxia" to "suffocation"
• Synchronize "Healing"
• Change healing to just Power, rather than Brawn + Power
• Change "Immunity To Disease" to "Immunity To Poison"
• Eliminate pathogen(s) and disease(s); fold into poisons
• Check the "Poison" section in ZeroSpace for correctness
• Copy Poisons and Radiation from ZeroSpace
• Find and fix references to Immunity and Harmony
• Make Mass and integrity work the same way as Brawn and Endurance in ZeroSpace
• Make sure "Movement Action" has the correct bonuses and penalties
• Check the "Fire" section for correctness
• Eliminate "general" from skills
• Simplify expertise, making old-expertise examples, and new-expertise apply to a (formerly general) skill
• Add new-expertise to Bog-Standard Fantasy
• Clarify skill rolls as [Skill] ([Attribute]), meaning [Skill] roll based on [Attribute]
• Mind Shield = Will x2
• Remove taunting
• Synchronize Life Drain, search for "ignores"
• Replace references to close combat and ranged combat with [Close/Ranged] Combat ([Attribute]) roll
• search and replace: Charging, Distracting, Grappling, Slamming, Sweep Attack, Taunting; Star Fighter Combat, Starship Gunnery; [Specific Weapon Type], [Specific Esoteric Power], [Specific Power], [Specific Weapon Type]
• Copy "Initiating Conflict" from Jazz
• Change "henchmen" to "minions"
• Change task roll to [Skill] ([Attribute]) roll
• Change "coordinate" and "coordinating" to "combine" and "combining"
• Synchronize plot point description in Introduction, glossary, Creation, and Actions
• Synchronize skill purchase description in Creation and Introduction
• Change "repeating weapons" to "burst fire weapons"
• Under "burst fire weapons", change "Weapons which fire multiple rounds" to "Weapons which fire multiple times per round"
• Synchronize glossaries
• Write "Margin Of Success (Optional)" section
• Reactive defenses -- If a protective power or piece of equipment is reactive, any of the defender's dice that show a "1" are re-rolled until the die rolls higher than 1
• Replace "Being Prone" with "Prone Characters", including links
• Add section for "Helpless Or Unconscious Characters"
• Add "Restrained Characters"
• Change "Grappling" links to "Restrained Characters"
• Change "ranger" to "range" (typo)
• Add skill rolls to Grapple
• Change "close range" to "close combat range"
• Synchronize Telekinesis, based on Grappling
• Look for "inches", "feet", "miles", "pounds", "tons" and replace with metric
• Update the GM Resources tables, heroic
• Update the attributes tables, heroic
• Do something about falling damage
• Change "Challenging (3)" to "moderate (DV 3)" or "moderately difficult (DV 3) SKILLNAME (ATTRIBUTE) roll"
• Change "Frustrating (6)" to "remarkable (DV 6)" or "remarkably difficult (DV 6) SKILLNAME (ATTRIBUTE) roll"
• Change "Nigh-impossible (9)" to "extreme (DV 9)" or "extremely difficult (DV 9) SKILLNAME (ATTRIBUTE) roll"
• Add "inconceivable (DV 12)" or "inconceivably difficult (DV 12) SKILLNAME (ATTRIBUTE) roll" to difficulties
• If the combined bonus dice and penalty dice reduce the number of dice rolled to zero, the task is simply impossible.
• Remove diplomacy as an example
• Change Social skill to Diplomacy skill
• Move conversation to Diplomacy skill
• Add Perception (Reason) as skill
• Remove Perception as attribute
• Change Will to Presence (search for "motivations")
• Base sensory powers on Reason -- Sensory Deprivation, Illusion
• Base Telekinesis on Agility
• Chance Diplomacy (Will to Diplomacy (Presence
• Chance Manipulation (Will to Manipulation (Presence
• Change Entertainment to Performance
• Change Manipulation rolls to Performance rolls
• Change seven attributes to six attributes
• Change Legerdemain to Finesse
• Exploding damage: how is damage determined?
• Falling damage: how is damage determined?
• Revise Esoteric Power entries to specifically mention their range
• Remove references to routine. Update references to challenging (3), demanding (6), frustrating (9), and nigh-impossible (12)
• Find and remove run/sprint penalties
• Replace staggered with exhausted
• Remove attack penalty while running or sprinting
• Remove "under no pressure" limitation from take the average and take the max
• Update references to block and dodge
• Remove references to coordinating attacks; redirect to combining attacks
• Update references to combining attacks
• Remove/update references to protection rolls
• Move Underwater Combat from a skill to an advantage, and update links
• Move Zero-G Combat from a skill to an advantage, and update links
• Replace Prowess with Brawn
• Replace Accuracy with Agility
• Brawn vs. Brawn for hand-to-hand
• Agility vs. Agility for ranged
• Lightning Strike for Agility vs. hand-to-hand
• Elusive for hand-to-hand vs. Agility
• Resilient for ranged vs. Brawn
• Look up references to Elusive, and possibly add a reference to Resilient
• All protection powers and equipment should work with either Brawn or Agility ("relevant defense attribute")
• Check phrasing for explosion damage and fire damage
• Check fire damage
• Make explosions bigger?
• Consolidate attack attribute/damage rating into "attack rating, action value/attack value (AV)"
• Consolidate defense attribute/protection rating into "defense rating, difficulty value/defense value (DV)"
• Damage rating and protection rating and rank are all numeric: endurance levels are textual (one, two, etc.).
• Note the difference between astrogation and orbital mechanics.
• Drop "task" from "task roll".
• Move Setting to chapter after Introduction chapter
• Standardize capitalization of headings
• Standardize capitalization of table titles
• For heroic games, make rank 8 the peak of human potential. For superheroic, it's 4.
• Change "clean and jerk" to "deadlift".
• Change jumping, swimming, and walking to exponential curves.
• Update the GM Resources tables, Bulletproof Blues
• Update the GM Resources tables, Bog-standard Fantasy
• Update the GM Resources tables, Rough Magic
• Update the GM Resources tables, ZeroSpace
• Update the attributes tables, Bulletproof Blues
• Update the attributes tables, Bog-standard Fantasy
• Update the attributes tables, Rough Magic
• Update the attributes tables, ZeroSpace
• Replace +1 and + 1 with + Power.

• Add Rank 0 row for Brawn (needed to determine how much a character can lift and move normally while carrying).
• Update Being Unskilled sections in the Skills and Actions chapters to note that combat uses the "Unskilled Task" rules.
• Add "normally" to the Aliens: Mind Shield power ("an attack which normally bases the target's defense value (DV) on the target's Presence").
• Add "normally" to the Archetypes: Mind Shield power ("an attack which normally bases the target's defense value (DV) on the target's Presence").
• Add "normally" to the Esoteric Orders: Mind Shield power ("an attack which normally bases the target's defense value (DV) on the target's Presence").
• Add "normally" to the Gifts: Mind Shield power ("an attack which normally bases the target's defense value (DV) on the target's Presence").
• Add a note to Elusive indicating that it is usable without the Close Combat Skill.
• Add a note to Hard Target indicating that it is usable without the Ranged Combat Skill.
• Add a note to Tenacious indicating that it is usable without the relevant combat Skill.
• Change Aliens: Armor to Aliens: Natural Armor
• Change Natural Armor to grant a bonus die on defense rolls.
• Change Natural Weaponry to grant a bonus die on Close Combat attack rolls.
• Revise Telepathy to note that a character with Telepathy may resist unwelcome Telepathic contact with Presence + Power.
• Revised various long-term damaging effects to indicate that maximum Endurance is reduced, rather than having them inflict Endurance damage.
• Revised Regeneration and Meditation to indicate that hostile environments can't reduce the character's Endurance to zero.
• Add Endurance Points; change Endurance (not Endurance Points) to Tenacity
• In ZeroSpace, change Time Theft to Stasis.
• Correct Aerial trait table entry and description: "to fly at their ground speed"
• Note in Mind Link that the power is applicable to Groups
• Clarify description for Lightning Strike to say it is only for attacks
• In ZeroSpace, specify close range for starships as 1 km
• In ZeroSpace, clarify that Evasive maneuvers and Shields Maximum are activated at the start of the ship's turn
• Add (1 m) to references to "close range"
• Modify expertise to permit re-rolling dice which result in 1 or 2
• Change Power Invulnerability to Drain Resistance
• Change Tenacity to "maximum Endurance".
• Change Endurance Points to Endurance.
• Rename Power attribute to Power Level.
• Clean up Power Drain/Theft powers, clarify the effect on Ultra-Power (alternately, a different attribute and no powers).
• Change "task action" to "standard action".
• Change "remote" range to "extreme" range.
• "All rolls are skill rolls"
• Add Mental Combat (Presence)
• Replace "direct damage" with "physical or energy damage"
• Revise actions to identify the defensive skill
  • Attacking with Life Drain requires a successful Close Combat (Power Level) roll against the Close Combat (Brawn) roll of the target.
  • To communicate with and mentally control an android, the attacker must succeed at a Mental Combat (Presence + Power Level) roll against the Mental Combat (Presence) roll of the target.
  • If someone is actively looking at the character, or has any reason to suspect that the character is not the genuine article, the person observing the shapeshifted character may attempt a Perception (Reason) roll against the shapeshifted character's Deception (Presence + Power Level) roll.
  • To break free of the Telekinesis, the restrained character must attempt a Close Combat roll using their Agility or Brawn (whichever is greater) against the attacker's Close Combat (Agility + Power Level) roll.
• Ensure that power descriptions identify the defensive skill
• Re-order attributes: Agility, Brawn, Endurance, Presence, Reason, Power Level
• Make Endurance not derived. Move it up after Brawn. Endurance is a reservoir of points which is expended as the character is injured, and replenished as the character recovers
• Replace Exceptional Beauty with Fascinating
• Add actions to all powers
• Make reflection consistent across games
• Powers can have "Prerequisites" and "Follow through powers"
• Make telekinesis consistent across games
• Update Archetype powers in the Bulletproof Blues Creation chapter
• Check the action types for each Alien, Archetype, and Supernatural power
• Add persuasion as an example for Manipulation skill
• Check prerequisites and follow through powers
• Check ranges for consistency
• Update the rest of the BB3 tables
• Update javascript widgets
• Copy Equipment section to BB3 from Rough Magic and ZeroSpace
• Add examples to Brawn charts
• Make mental attacks be Presence + Power Level
• Make mental resistance work like damage resistance, adding Power Level
• Change "boost" to "surge"
• Clarify "do/does not stack" to say "with other abilities which add to the character's attack/defense roll."
• Note in Attributes and Actions that Power Level may only added to a roll once
• Change Bog-Standard Fantasy archetypes to all use Power Level
• Add "types of attacks". Normal, mental, and alteration attack.
• Change Power Resistance to Modification Resistance
• Change Barrier to [Element] Wall
• Change Life Drain to Endurance Drain
• Replace [Attribute] powers with Agility, Brawn, Presence, and Reason powers
• Removed Mental Resistance from Gifts
• Make Telekinesis and grapple consistent
• Make Telekinesis a mental power
• recalculate character costs and point levels for removing 1 attribute (removing Prowess and Accuracy, adding Power).
• Make all recovery rolls work the same way as breaking out of telekinesis or a hold.
• Add "Telekinetic Blast": as a follow-through power for Telekinesis.
• Drop immunity to blades and bullets
• Add "escape" to plot point options
• Add "disarming" maneuver
• Add Flight and Super-flight
• Change "sensory" to "blinding"; specify the effects of a blinding attack and how to recover from it
• Update Blindsense and Blindsight
• Fix Dazzle and other "break out of it" powers to be Power Level vs attribute
• Fix Telekinesis, Hold, and grapple again
• Fix modification attacks to be Power Level vs attribute
• Update bonus and penalty charts
• Update bonus and penalty charts on BBCSH
• Add pursuit example under extended tasks
• Copy the Telekinesis, Hold, and grapple changes to the other games
• Proofread BBCSH tooltips
• Add action type to power listings in BBSCH
• Change Animal Control, Machine Control, Object Animation, Plant Control to Command Animals, etc.
• Add villain-only power examples -- Blast, Continuous; Blast, Continuous Explosive
• Add Tunneling and Super-tunneling
• Add Psychokinesis to Telekinesis
• Change "movement action" to "move action"
• Change "free action" to "quick action"
• Add "free action", which can be performed at any time
• Change "all-out move (sprinting)" to: gains a bonus die on their defense rolls, but they automatically fail all other rolls.
• Base Haste on Power Level
• Change Power Level general effect progression
• Make all of the text referring to being blind, unable to perceive, etc. consistent.
• Change "modification" to "alteration"
• Update sample characters
• Update Characters chapter in BB3.

Errata for second printing

Introduction

• "Close Combat" skill changed to "Hand-to-hand Combat" skill.

Creation

• "Close Combat" skill changed to "Hand-to-hand Combat" skill.

Attributes

• "Close Combat" skill changed to "Hand-to-hand Combat" skill.
• Descriptions of "area" and "ranged" powers added to Power Level section.
• "Area" and "Range" columns added Power Level table.

Skills

• "Close Combat" skill changed to "Hand-to-hand Combat" skill.

Gifts

• "Close Combat" skill changed to "Hand-to-hand Combat" skill.
• "Sharpshooter" gift grants a bonus die against cover and prone characters.

Powers

• "Close Combat" skill changed to "Hand-to-hand Combat" skill.
• Descriptions of "explosive" and "ranged" added to chapter introduction.
• "Reaction" action type absorbed into "free action".
• The range and target of all powers is made explicit.
• "Great Darkness" and "Vast Darkness" are removed (see "Increased Area", below".
• "Mass Hysteria" is changed to "Mass Emotion Control".
• "Great Environmental Control" and "Vast Environmental Control" are removed (see "Increased Area", below".
• "Personal Immunity" is moved to the "Power Modifiers" section.
• "Strike" and "Explosive Strike" are clarified to indicate that Damage Resistance and Force Field are effective against them.
• Phrasing of "Ultra-power" is clarified.
• New section, "Power Modifiers", is added.
• "Increased Area" is added to "Power Modifiers" section.
• Added a new optional rule, "Spreading An Attack".
• "Increased Range" is added to "Power Modifiers" section.
• "New Follow Through Powers" section is made much shorter, owing to "Increased Area" and "Increased Range" are now power modifiers.
• "Area" and "Ranged" are added to "New Follow Through Powers" section.
• Phrasing of various "New Powers" is clarified.

Equipment

• "Close Combat" weapons changed to "Hand-to-hand" weapons.

Actions

• "Reaction" action type absorbed into "free action".
• "Close Combat" skill changed to "Hand-to-hand Combat" skill.
• "Close range (1 m)" changed to "hand-to-hand (1 m)".
• "Exploding" attacks changed from "within short range (10 m)" to "within the affected area".

GM Resources

• "Area" and "Range" columns added Power Level table.

Characters

• All characters updated.