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powered by the apocalypse => Dungeon World => Topic started by: evilben on April 04, 2011, 11:02:16 AM

Title: fighter signature weapon
Post by: evilben on April 04, 2011, 11:02:16 AM

one thing I've noticed about the fighter signature weapon:

the attributes that can be selected seem a bit imbalanced. mainly the single + 2 damage entry and the two +1 pierce entries. for balance sake it seems like it should be the other way around, one +2 piece and two +1 damage as the +2 damage does everything that the two +1 pierces do and more for a single choice instead of both of them.
also, are there any plans on expanding the choices given to the signature weapon? just curious, but maybe a +1 armor entry (a +1 to hack and slash seems a bit OP). i bring this up mainly because we have two fighters in our game and we both were going to have the exact same weapon, but the other guy changed his to a +1 pierce instead of +2 damage for the sole purpose of being different.

any ideas/comments/thoughts?

Title: Re: fighter signature weapon
Post by: sage on April 04, 2011, 02:13:24 PM

That's a good point about the imbalance there. Those should definitely be the other way around.

As far as more options, that's something I've thought about, but I need to think of some good ones. I don't think there's too many more straight mechanical things we'll add, Armor is already too high most of the time, but there's potential for other bonuses.

Title: Re: fighter signature weapon
Post by: fealoro on May 14, 2011, 12:33:51 PM

Just to clarify.

When the fighter chooses the signature weapon, he can add the tag of the base item, right? Like if he chooses the sword he get also +1dmg listed in the equipment part, plus any other two enhancement, right?

Title: Re: fighter signature weapon
Post by: evilben on May 16, 2011, 09:16:19 AM

i would say no. the type of weapon it is is only for color. with the two tags the fighter weapon is better than anything out there already.

Title: Re: fighter signature weapon
Post by: sage on May 23, 2011, 05:33:29 PM

The base just describes the general appearance of the weapon, the tags narrow that down. It's all fictionally relevant, but only the tags have direct mechanical representations.

I just updated signature weapon for our last playtest, to work more clearly with the current state of weapons. We had a fighter in our game, and it worked pretty well - he had a spear with a smaller blade on the butt, letting him strike at two ranges. It came in handy when the whip-wielding demons showed up.

Title: Re: fighter signature weapon
Post by: fealoro on June 01, 2011, 04:37:07 PM

We are currently working out a low speed pbf Dungeon World and, until now, we are using the signature weapon with stacking both base tag (of the base weapon, like +1dmg) and improv tag of fighter.
We would like to keep the things this way and let you know how it is. This could help?

Title: Re: fighter signature weapon
Post by: sage on June 01, 2011, 04:48:25 PM

Sure! We'd love to hear it.