Talk:Bulletproof Blues 3e EN:Contents

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.

Changes

• Revise Telepathy to note that a character with Telepathy may resist unwelcome Telepathic contact with Will + Power.
• In ZeroSpace, can a Character with the Esoteric Power Stasis use their Power Attribute to defend, if they are Attacked by a Character with the Trait Time Theft and vice versa, since the abilities are effectively the same?
• Why is Reason the Attribute for Starship Combat and not Agility for Aiming weapons? Is it Possible to aim the Weapons manually?
• In the Trait Table the Arial trait is described with movement double the Ground speed, while in the Description it is the same speed as the Ground speed. Which one is the correct speed?
• Are Natural Ranged Weapons, like poison glands or corrosive Salvia possible, and should they be described under Natural Weapons?
• Is the Mind Link Power applicable to Groups, since the Description only says two participants.
• In ZeroSpace, why does Armor not Stack (even with diminishing Returns?) Where does the difference between Armor and Shields lie, since both are doing effectively the same, while shields are much more expensive. Is it just for flavour Reasons?
• In the Table for Gifts the description for Lightning Strike is not clear enough, it can be misunderstood to be used for both offense and defense, since it just says Combat rolls
• Exceptional Beauty is missing a Reference to the corresponding Trait (or does it Stack?)
• Unsettling is missing a Reference to the corresponding Trait (or does it Stack?)
• Can Team Player also be used in Combat, the description is not fully clear on that point, since it only says tasks.
• In ZeroSpace, Max Shields sounds mechanically wrong: If it is a Free Action, it can be activated after attacking for the Round, effectively always granting a Bonus Die since the effect ends with the beginning of the next round of the user. He Can Attack again now and reapply maximum shield energy. One Solution could be to allow the activation of Max Shields only at the beginning of a turn, before an attack is made.
• I do not see the meaning in Specializing on a Specific spaceship weapon, as is used as an Example in the Skills table, since the effect of spaceship weapons are not influenced by type but by range.
• How long is the close Range of Spaceships, since there is no real rule of thumb like an Arms length or the length of the arms and the weapon it holds. A Turbolaser or Railgun can have a significant reach, compared with personal weaponry.

• Powers which ignore normal defenses default to close range
  • ZeroSpace
  • Rough Magic
• Area powers default to short range (10 meters), unless there is a prerequisite power with short (or greater) range.
  • ZeroSpace
  • Rough Magic
• Mental powers default to short range (10 meters)
  • ZeroSpace
  • Rough Magic
• Ranged powers default to medium range (50 meters)
  • ZeroSpace
  • Rough Magic

• Add attribute examples for areas of expertise that are exceptions.
• Mix up the target number calculations so they aren't always 14.
• Find a synonym for "difficulty" when not used in the mechanical sense. Arduous?

• Update the rest of the tables

• Copy Equipment section to BB3 from Rough Magic and ZeroSpace
• "Value" applies only to "attribute", "action", "attack", "defense", and "difficulty"
• Bring back the Stolze section of GM Resources?
• Powers can have "Prerequisites" and "Follow through powers"
• Port BB3 changes to Jazz, where appropriate.
• Update Characters chapter in BB3.

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:Actions#Grappling]
• Synchronize Distracting from [[Rough_Magic: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
• For skill rolls: not having skill at all gives penalty (-3), having skill is base roll (+0), having expertise gives bonus (+3)
• 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.

New Complications

Musclebound

The character has greater strength than they are able to use effectively in combat. In hand-to-hand combat, the character's attack value is based on one-half of the character's Brawn (rounded down). The first time a musclebound character misses with a hand-to-hand attack during a game session, they receive one plot point. This plot point is lost if not used by the end of the game session.

New Advantages

Lightning Strike

A character with Lightning Strike can deal devastating blows using speed and finesse rather than brute force. When in close combat, the character may substitute their rank in Agility for their rank in Brawn when determining their attack value (AV). The player may choose which attribute to use on a case by case basis. This can reflect the character's advanced advanced martial arts training, their superhuman speed, the harnessing of the character's chi, or some other effect, depending on the specifics of the character's archetype and abilities.

Notes

• recalculate character costs and point levels for removing 1 attribute (removing Prowess and Accuracy, adding Power).