sandchigger

Love it! Can't wait to play a broadsheet spreading Union propagandist/Brawler

Oh no. I apologise, I wasn't clear. My issue isn't that I dislike social pursuits, my issue is that this one looks like it's going to be All About Favors. The trading of and creation of social obligations, with mechanical abilities for same. The problem, in my opinion, then is that if you have mechanics or abilities in the game that allow for the creation of favors, those characters without those abilities are now incapable of - or at least severely disadvantaged in - trading favors for favors.

As soon as you create a rule for something that was just fluff or flavor before, it greatly increases the difficulty of don't that thing for someone who isn't built to use the new rule. See also: Feats in D&D.

Unlike the previous previews, I'm pretty meh about this one. Honestly, this seems like a way to gamify something I would rather leave to Roleplay. YMM, of course, V.

On 10/31/2017 at 5:12 PM, TemplaroftheMS&U said:

ya i figured the outcast was not likely, that part of why i labeled it last.

 

Well I mean we need at least 3 more books to complete the name on the spines, right?

1 hour ago, pgholland said:

So does this mean the original schedule of books (including From Nightmares) has been pushed back? Or simply got rid of?

There was a SCHEDULE?!?!

3 minutes ago, Monkeysword said:

Does either Neverborn or Gremlins have their own Magewright?

I would be shocked if there weren't a couple gremlin tinkerers out in the Bayou on this pursuit. 

On 10/29/2017 at 12:52 AM, DarthBrooks said:

Hello everyone. I still don't know the rules inside and out but I wanted my tinkerer to make some armor for one or maybe two characters in our group and my question was regarding the amount of time it takes. I understand the rest of the process but was wondering if I missed a table with suggested times for such tasks or a quick rule like 2 weeks per skill level requirement.

Aside from crafting a construct (which explicitly takes one day), other uses of the Crafting skills are just assumed to take place during downtime. Don't worry admit it too much, basically.

1 minute ago, Mason said:

You can certainly tell your players "just ignore that, you're all Witch Hunters" without breaking anything.

The intent of the book is to promote more "mixed division" groups, though, similar to how Into the Bayou promoted groups of Gremlins that hailed from different families.

Sure, I get that. But there's a much bigger difference between a witch Hunter and a Guild guard than there is between bayou gremlin 1 and bayou gremlin 2.

2 minutes ago, TemplaroftheMS&U said:

I'm not against random.
Ram - Guild Guard
Crow - Marshall's
Tome - Witch Hunters
Mask - Monster Hunters
Red Joker - Pick one two.
Black - Infiltrator for a different factions.

I'm kinda against it because sometimes you want a single unit group where everybody works for the Witch Hunters.

2 minutes ago, Mason said:

Ah, gotcha.

Well, no worries; Above the Law has a stupid amount of information about Malifaux City, the Guild, and the Special Divisions. Characters created using the Ram's Head Tarot start the game as Guild employees belonging to one of the various special divisions. There's plenty of room in the Guild for all sorts of characters, and the Death Marshals are comprised of more than just our favorite coffin-wielding half-zombie dudes.

Please find a way to make special division selection non-random. I'm begging ya.

6 hours ago, Mason said:

The Death Marshal advanced pursuit is already available in the Core Rules.

Yeah, but I bet last week's Commander preview would roll up well into a Witchling Handler type character.

14 minutes ago, Xavian and Deathgrip said:

Would this also work for players who would like to dedicate themselves to bows or thrown weapons?

It doesn't sound like it from the description (it specifically mentioned long arms but ALSO mentions canons so maybe?) But if not, it sounds like it would be easy to reskin.

8 minutes ago, RMK said:

Would be an awesome model

edit: When Wyrd is ready can we get a list of the pursuit names in the book basic/advanced? Made me excited for into the bayou last time. 

Ooh, yeah. That would be awesome grist for the speculation mill!

1 minute ago, spooky_squirrel said:

If you never have more than two at a time: name them all Jankowski and Santiago (recurring red shirt names from horror-shooter games FEAR and Gears of War respectively).

Wedge and Biggs are also acceptable.

3 minutes ago, Lithaine said:

Most of the conditions can be found starting on pg. 306. in the Core book.

Prone is a callout box on pg. 294 under movement actions: A character who is Prone gains  to her Defense flips against Projectile  attacks but suffers  to her Defense flips against Melee  Attacks.

Yeah, most. But not the one we looked for for a few minutes during a fight. Eventually we ruled (semi-correctly) that it gave a positive flip to hit the character in Melee and cost an action to stand back up. But still. This would be a fantastic thing to have on the FM Screen.

So in our game last night, one character was knocked prone. Nobody was able to find the rule effects of this status in the core book or on the FM Screen. Does anyone have a compiled list of all the effects? Like prone, burning, poisoned and so on? I would love a rule sheet but a dang index would be awesome at this point.

I used this last night. Thank you. Oh my glob, thank you for this!

5 minutes ago, Kai said:

I'm going to take this as an homage to me.  /preen

Sweep the leg, Johnson!

3 minutes ago, Kai said:

This might be my favorite idea.  

Thanks, I try!

25 minutes ago, doombladez said:

I bet someone more creative than I am could come up with a great10 Thunders character concept for this pursuit.

Cobra Kai instructor. 

5 hours ago, Kai said:

Now I have to come up with names for every single soldier when I play this pursuit...

Their names are all Johnson. "Johnson! Get in there and take that sniper out! You don't want Johnson's sacrifice to have been in vain, do you?"

Does anyone know of a place to purchase the Streets of Malifaux or the Buildings set. Please let me know as I'd be willing to work with anyone who can get a hold of these sets

I think my FLGS still has Streets available. I've yet to have seen Buildings though.

Thanks man, you are on TOP of things, today!

Awesome, thanks!

I picked up the Bound by Law boxed set at GenCon and it doesn't seem to have the 2 Guild Guards listed on the back under Box Contents. Did this happen to anyone else? Was the mistake the printing or the non-inclusion?