Fantasy Craft Q&A Thread!

[Morgenstern]

if my character wants to use "charge basics" mounted, who needs to have the feet? me or the mount? the mount schould move and the character should  attack.

Either character having the feat should be fine.

[Morgenstern]

The mounted character can use these actions
to do anything either of the pair can

just for clarification: a mounted character can use stances?

Why not?

[Daedalus]

Is a Captain's Personal Lieutenant eligible for the Veteran quality?  It says in the feat description p.108: "Your lieutenant is a special character with a Threat Level equal to your Career Level minus 4 (minimum 1)."

I was asking since I have a player who is a Captain and his Lieutenant has grown in power through Basic Combat feats, but not in Threat Level, being TL 1 since the Captain was 1 and stuck there until Level 6 of Captain, making his VP extra low (and WP too since it's a goblin).

[Crafty_Alex]

Is a Captain's Personal Lieutenant eligible for the Veteran quality?  It says in the feat description p.108: "Your lieutenant is a special character with a Threat Level equal to your Career Level minus 4 (minimum 1)."

I was asking since I have a player who is a Captain and his Lieutenant has grown in power through Basic Combat feats, but not in Threat Level, being TL 1 since the Captain was 1 and stuck there until Level 6 of Captain, making his VP extra low (and WP too since it's a goblin).

Allowing veteran would mean that your GM is letting the player endrun the main limitation on a PL (lower TL) - a d-bag player would easily drop 10 XP to jack the character's TL 5 levels and throw the whole thing out of whack. Since this is GM prurview, it's not really errata (the GM should decide his own comfort level, here) but it'll be something we watch in case we feel it necessary to stop "cheating."

[Krensky]

Depending on the player, as a story element it could be cool, the young knight and the grizzled armsman his father assigned to guard him for example. Narratively speaking, the old man should die heroically at some point and the player should make a non-Veteran PL as his young squire.

[Crafty_Alex]

Depending on the player, as a story element it could be cool, the young knight and the grizzled armsman his father assigned to guard him for example. Narratively speaking, the old man should die heroically at some point and the player should make a non-Veteran PL as his young squire.

That is cool...and exactly why we left it open I would prefer not to start putting conditions on what qualities PLs can or can't take unless it's game breaking - this is why all PLs (and Animal Partners, and Contacts) need to be GM approved.

[Dhampire]

I would like to give a Specialty-specific ability (in this case, Step In from the Guardian) to an NPC.  I cannot find a way to do so.  What would be recommended?  Would double the specialty point cost on the wiki be appropriate?

[prototype00]

How does glint of madness interact with menacing threat? Glint of madness allows you to threaten an opponent as a free action when you down an opponent and menacing threat allows you to threaten three opponents at once with a threaten action, do they synergize?

prototype00

[Crafty_Alex]

How does glint of madness interact with menacing threat? Glint of madness allows you to threaten an opponent as a free action when you down an opponent and menacing threat allows you to threaten three opponents at once with a threaten action, do they synergize?

prototype00

Yes, that's absolutely the intent. If you have menacing threat and Glint of Madness you can Threaten 3 foes as a free action when you take down another.

[paddyfool]

1) Does the "fire lance" use the same ammunition (powder and shot) as other black powder weapons?

EDIT: 2) I would like my level 2 Nimble Human Burglar to be better at taunting people.  He does not have Sense Motive as a Class or as an Origin Skill, so cannot ordinarily take ranks in it.  I see there are two skill feats which would allow ranks in this (Well Rounded being, perhaps, the more tempting, since it also allows other stuff); alternatively, I could take the skill basics feat to cover it rather than taking ranks.  What other ways are there to take ranks in, or otherwise improve, non-Origin, non-Class skills?

[prototype00]

Yes, that's absolutely the intent. If you have menacing threat and Glint of Madness you can Threaten 3 foes as a free action when you take down another.

Brill! I was hoping that was how they interacted!

prototype00

[Deral]

Do multiple weapons with the guard quality stack (each adding to defense) or no? While the idea of someone lugging around two shields might be silly, I could see reason why he might get the higher boost to defense, but I really see kind of fair argument either way- that, and I would've sworn I'd seen this talked about here before, hell if I can find it though.

Which leads me to a second question one of my players brought up: With Knife Basics, any knife you carry is always considered armed, as written this would mean just carrying around a Fan Blade would grant you the benefit of it's guard (which, admittedly, brings up an interesting image), is that right? That's not a big deal by itself but it really hinges on the answer to the first question, as you can imagine.

[Crafty_Alex]

1) Does the "fire lance" use the same ammunition (powder and shot) as other black powder weapons?

Yes. No reason to differentiate.

EDIT: 2) I would like my level 2 Nimble Human Burglar to be better at taunting people.  He does not have Sense Motive as a Class or as an Origin Skill, so cannot ordinarily take ranks in it.  I see there are two skill feats which would allow ranks in this (Well Rounded being, perhaps, the more tempting, since it also allows other stuff); alternatively, I could take the skill basics feat to cover it rather than taking ranks.  What other ways are there to take ranks in, or otherwise improve, non-Origin, non-Class skills?

Unless you have access to Paired Skills or a core ability like Breadth of Experience or Show-Off, I don't think so. The problem with using skill feats is you're still technically untrained - you'll need at least one rank to escape the untrained skill cap. Thus, Well-Rounded's better if you want to lift the lid off your skill results

[Crafty_Alex]

Do multiple weapons with the guard quality stack (each adding to defense) or no?

Guard grants an unnamed bonus to Defense, so they stack (this has been discussed elsewhere ).

Which leads me to a second question one of my players brought up: With Knife Basics, any knife you carry is always considered armed, as written this would mean just carrying around a Fan Blade would grant you the benefit of it's guard (which, admittedly, brings up an interesting image), is that right?

Yes - though as Guard notes on page 176, you don't get the bonus in a number of circumstances.

[Deral]

Do multiple weapons with the guard quality stack (each adding to defense) or no?

Guard grants an unnamed bonus to Defense, so they stack (this has been discussed elsewhere ).

Which leads me to a second question one of my players brought up: With Knife Basics, any knife you carry is always considered armed, as written this would mean just carrying around a Fan Blade would grant you the benefit of it's guard (which, admittedly, brings up an interesting image), is that right?

Yes - though as Guard notes on page 176, you don't get the bonus in a number of circumstances.

So, then my concern is that this is kind of open to exploitation, since it seems you could have a couple dozen Fan Blades on your person, have them all considered armed with Knife Basics and have a huge defense, granted, there are ways around that defense (and conditions that negate the bonus), but it still seems pretty significant for a feat and a thousand silver. Of course, no way would I let a player do that, but where would you guys draw the line at this?