Recent content by Dan Nickname Beshers

I guess I would also like to echo Ali's call for patience and perspective. I hope that I am not inciting aggression or ill will within the player base. The whole world is pretty damned stressful right now, and I know I personally had to fight through the emotional reaction phase of my response...

In the interests of clarity: I did not and am not saying that national ownership should surrender all control. I don't believe that was in my first post, but perhaps it is unclear because not everyone knows about how the overall ownership structure works as defined by the bylaws. The Bylaws...

There are many, MANY things that I could say here, but I will limit it to what I believe is the most important one: If the new national ownership of the Alliance wants to convince the chapter owners and the broad player base that they intend to play fair and to function primarily in a role of...

I was one of the designers; I owned Alliance New Hampshire until 2017 and was heavily involved in the design process for the 2.0 rules. We never talked about whether or not armor could be refit while being actively damaged. If that had been raised as a deliberate change to the rules I would have...

To be clear, I do not have any misapprehension that Refitting can be done partially, stopped, and then resumed from the point of stoppage. In Alliance rules something must be fully successfully to have any success: 100 Obliterate does nothing to you if your card says you're immune to damage in...

I feel differently. If I am a monster with the ability to rip free from binding and I am hit with a Web, I can begin to rip free as per the ability. If, during the time of the three count, I am hit with a second Web, I am required to start over. I feel that these two situations are reasonably...

I would like to flesh out my suggestion for what I'd tentatively call Resourceful Action: a /60 stealth skill that allows the use of one (1) choice from a small list of options. Suggested choices include: 1. Three uses of Assassinate, using the character's Assassinate damage. 2. Three uses of...

I get that, but I do have a counterpoint to offer: monsters do not have infinite resistances. Using up a Resist is a valuable thing to do, but it is wasteful to target more than one kind of delivery and Effect Group when wearing a target down in that way. The results of a burned Resist Magic...

I meant to post this in the original thread a few days ago but work got in the way. I'm reproducing my thoughts here.

Specifically as a high level earth adept, Doom Blow feels 100% superfluous, because I can spellstrike Doom and that is almost always strictly better. Frankly, the ability to kill small to mid-range targets doesn't seem to need any help using a Stealth-focused skill set, and against big targets...

You should have two tags, one being the Restricted item tag and the other being the LCO tag. Whether the LCO tag contains all the rituals or just the LCO batch is eventually up to that chapter; I can see arguments for both options, leaning toward separate tags if the durations do not match up.

You can play at the New Hampshire chapter at age 16 with only one restriction, that being that an adult family member/guardian must be on site while you are there because the chapter staff cannot act on your behalf in an emergency. @Videa Logistics and @ZeroDonavan can give you more detailed...

I have actually previously confirmed with ARC that United Blow can be used in conjunction with Riposting Blow and does not expend a spell, so if your riposte is a damage call you can add your highest damage United Blow option to it gratis. You cannot, as I was firmly told, add more than one...

Staff is a cheap weapon with restricted usage because Alliance is rooted in LotR/D&D-style tropes, and frankly staff is for wizard. There is no "monk" style class, and with apologies to Little John, no design intention to have staff be an offensive world-beater. It's meant to be a primarily...

1. That is likely an oversight, it should be Weapon Qualifier attacks. 2. No, Fortress stops Weapon blows of 10 or less. No damage is not lessdamage than 10, it is simply no damage at all. 3. Yes, any effect that causes the player to break the physical requirements ends the spell. That could...