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propofthedead1 year ago

Hello Mr. Bloom,

First I love the system and how creative you allow the flow to be, while making it challenging and potentially rewarding for players. Even having the abilities having some open-endedness to allow cross Blasphemies synergy.

This is more of a ruling question, is there mechanical/narrative benefit or importance to having a CAT on weapons, since using weapons on SINS are already considered Hard? Like would increasing CAT just make it so we can do more anime-like stuff in the higher level, like a CAT 4 exorcist with a CAT 3 sword can bisect a building with a Hard force roll? Or a CAT 2 exorcist with a CAT 1 pistol is able to snipe like it has a range of a rifle rather than a handgun?

I just to want to understand the benefit the characters would get from spending 60% of a successful, no death, mission payout on an upgrade like this.

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QafianSage1 year ago

I'm seconding this question as well.

Also, Horde Spirit's speed bonus is pretty small at the moment, especially at low CAT levels - would it be reasonable to raise that power to giving CAT+1 or maybe even CAT+2 speed? That way, a CAT 1 Exorcist could have the equivalent of a horse or something at will, rather than spending a Psyche Burst to... Get the speed of a fast human.

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Stebb1 year ago

All great questions, would recommend heading to either the CAIN discord server or the CAIN section in the Pilot.net LANCER discord c:

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mors_rubrum1 year ago

In page 18 is explained that category can be used by the Admin to determine the nature of dice rolls. While this part wasn't changed on the 1.1 update (It only talks about the exorcists and their powers), I asume that it also extends to the weapons, so higher CAT weapons would be more destructive/powerful (as a house rule, with the integration of category on weapons I'm also asking my players to choose/describe their weapons according to their CAT, so as they are on CAT 2 now, they still have no access to highly destructive weapons), and maybe even make certain actions don't even require rolls.
An example I'm thinking is using like a CAT 4 weapon against mercenaries or police forces (which are normal humans), I wouldn't even ask for the roll then, they just kill/obliterate them.

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