This made sense when all you had to do was hit the person and call a target.
With the way the system is setup now, you have to hit the item.
In effort to better understand: So what would I do if I am wearing physical armor (say, a Chain Mail Shirt and some forearm guards) and I get hit by Shatter in the leg, but I'm not wearing any leg armor. Does it still effect my armor even though it didn't actually hit any of my physical armor? If so, it feels like a really weird amalgamation of the old rules and the new and is inherently confusing because for other things, you have to hit the item, but for armor it would be, "hit their physical armor with shatter, it breaks, but also hit them in the leg where there is no armor and it breaks"?
I'll see how we can clear up the wording, but this is certainly the intent (and is based entirely on how Alliance Armor Points work against weapon attacks already). Perhaps "If the Shatter attack would have caused Body or Armor Point damage were it a damaging attack, it will affect the target's currently equipped Armor" or the like?
-Bryan Gregory
ARC
An Alliance suit of armor - physical, Natural, Arcane, whatever - is an abstracted covering that protects against any hit that does damage to a person. We don't tell people "if you get hit on your breastplate, you take damage to armor; if you get hit in a gap on your side where your breastplate doesn't cover, you take damage directly to Body Points" (note that there *are* LARPs where this is how armor works!). The same should be understood to work for a Shatter weapon attack.
I'll see how we can clear up the wording, but this is certainly the intent (and is based entirely on how Alliance Armor Points work against weapon attacks already). Perhaps "If the Shatter attack would have caused Body or Armor Point damage were it a damaging attack, it will affect the target's currently equipped Armor" or the like?
-Bryan Gregory
ARC
Similarly, is it the intent that a small handheld item such as a wand is unable to be disarmed or shattered by a martial skill?
And everyone's complaining fighters need a buff.
All hail our new equipment destroying overlords.
If by fighters, you mean NPCs with weapons I'd agree. I've said it before in other threads. Alliance is a PvE game at it's core, not a PvP game.Those people with their equipment getting destroyed are probably other Fighters.
If by fighters, you mean NPCs with weapons I'd agree. I've said it before in other threads. Alliance is a PvE game at it's core, not a PvP game.
Sure, but then again that is plot's responsibility to be smart and control what they put out. If the town has a stockpile of sword tags laying around, putting out a few shatters isn't as big of a deal. If magic weapons are rare, and there isn't a stockpile, hey they might have ruined the weekend for some.The CULTURE of the players might be PVE-centric, that doesn't make the game and its rules PVE-centric.
Also this:
I commonly used Fighter cards for NPC's when I was running plot, especially bandits and the like (or Rogues).
And remember: Whatever PC's get, NPC's get too. The only difference is I can put 8 Disarms on a card and not have to worry about having Fighter/Rogue skill Pre-reqs already bought.
And everyone's complaining fighters need a buff.
All hail our new equipment destroying overlords.
If by fighters, you mean NPCs with weapons I'd agree. I've said it before in other threads. Alliance is a PvE game at it's core, not a PvP game.
Edit: With the obvious exception of sanctioned fights such as tournaments.
Fighters don't need a buff. Scholars just don't need free stuff.
I can't remember the last time I faced an npc that used weapons. They usually don't breathe either.
Yup. Undead and constructs with claws for days.
Follow up question: Why does Shatter do damage to Indestructible armor, but not Indestructible anything else, even if it is an otherwise legal target?
Yup. Undead and constructs with claws for days.
Follow up question: Why does Shatter do damage to Indestructible armor, but not Indestructible anything else, even if it is an otherwise legal target?