USH'S MATRIX GAME 2006- Main Rules

I generally like the new system, though there's some perks from the old system that I will miss. But as long as Heph can still put down some bluepills and take on Agents, all is well. 😉

What do you miss? There's always things it is a shame to lose, of course.

Agents have new rules of their own...

I want to pose a question. Do Gunners have any martial arts skill? I was contemplating giving Klez the knives path for instances when he runs into 'Lack of ammo and/or guns' issues.

Not by default, though they can buy a little, and can use their Strength value.

Also worth noting that Hands of Light can be a good emergency power for Gunners.

I think that is advice I will take, actually. Klez will be up shortly.

I gto a question: I have both the Jade Emperor power and the Swooping Eagle. now if I get my bonus on the JE my opponent is Staggered, now by SE I get +1 on my pool to attack a Staggered Opponent.

So is it possible to combine the two?

Question, Ush. The encumbrance level for knives is set to 0, which should technically make the amount of knives one can carry very large indeed. Is there a limit to the number of knives you can have on your person?

Two tinies have an encumbrance of 1.

Fire- yes, definitely.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Agents have new rules of their own...

The Path of the Unstoppable Machine! cursing

hey Ush dumb question (and I think I know the answer as a 'no'😉 do Scales and Swooping Eagle stack?

Well Ush said that increases to the same category aren't cumulative, so using Scales' +1 to the attack pool wouldn't add to Swooping Eagle's +1 to the same for a +2 to the pool while attacking a staggered opponent (as I understand it).

However, I don't think there's any reason you can't use the first effect of one and the second of the other in conjunction.

Correct me if I'm wrong, Ush.

Ah, yes, some things might not be entirely clear, for which I apologise.

Swooping Eagle actually increases the bonus for attacking 'disadvantaged' opponents, rather than just being a pool add, so it does combine.

To clarify- it is only powers which don't stack. Obviously you still get, for example, the normal +2 bonus for attacking a Staggered opponent even if you are using Hands of Light tpo get a +4 bonus.

Swooping Eagle simply turns that +2 Staggered bonus into +3 instead.

I shall re-write the power to be clear.

Oh, one more question. Will there be the wonderful, amazing, best idea ever - fortune points again?

Not this time- you have to make your own luck.

Darn, they saved my life on more than one occasion

Incidentally, along with skills (mainly on the issue of them combining if you get them from different sources), currently being examined is a possible underpowering of Hackers, and overpowering of Storm Turtle.

Storm Turtle is looking powerful idd

Storm Turtle isn't overpowered at all. tongue_ss

I want a defensive sword path.

yea that'd be cool, silver prince is a bit defensive but not enough

Looks pretty defensive by comparison to the other Defensive paths.

We need Paths with Snakes and Dragons and Phoenixs and Tais. 🥷