2.1 Alpha Packet FAQ's

[Manflesh]

A few days ago on the Chicago Discord, I asked @tieran , Head of ARC a bunch of questions involving the new packet. He has offered to re-answer those questions here.

Archery: Does the bonus coating effect with workshops no longer exist?

Bonus Armor: Due to equipment like “Healthstoring Plate”, Bonus Body should also be a codified game term alongside Bonus Armor.

Broken Items: Can Claws be broken?

Indomitable Will: Can this ability be combined with other mettle discounts?

Ritual Talisman: With these new requirements, what visually distinguishes a talisman and a catalyst?

Craft Superior Equipment: Can Ritual Magic Talismans be cast on Superior Equipment?

Workshops: Does workshop help with Crafting points to spend on other crafting abilities or does it only bump craft Adventuring equipment?

Crafting Rituals: Will there be solely crafter versions of rituals or can both a crafter or scholar use the same talisman that falls in their respective schools?

Crafting Materials: With the mention of excess Crafting Material potentially being lost during production making, does that mean Crafting Material tags/reps will be worth more than one CP?

Cloak Other via Tinkering: Can I Cloak Massive?

Deft Dosage: Could this be used in conjunction with Quick Salve considering both require expending a potion?

Healing/Harming Blades: Is there a count and physical requirement to absorb? Does the potion need to be in their hand and touching the weapon? Is the verbal call “absorbed” or “X spell Effect Absorbed”?

Efficient Protectives: Do they have to say the incant again when the spell affects them?

Enhance Weapon (silver): With the new silvering rules, can you not enhance an already made weapon?

Immovable Shield: What is the verbal call for this Guard?

Automatic Injector: Is this being done at logistic or whenever during the LP?

Deadman’s Switch: Just to be clear, the trap tag “set” on the character’s body? Does the trap tag and rep need to be on the body? Additionally, is this being done at Logistics or during the LP. If during LP, if the meditate is interrupted, does the trap go off?

Armor Patch: Is there an official rep requirement for this?

Alchemy Globe Trap: With poison being a material attack, can alchemy globe traps now be guarded the same as weapon traps?

Good Night Tea: What are the Rep requirements?

Liquid Courage: Is the verbal call for the Guard “Alternate Effect”?

Howlbear Brew: Is the crippling exhaustion an RP effect? If so, how long should the player be under that RP effect after coming back from 0 Body?

Eat Me Not: How does that play out on the battlefield? Do they immediately say “No Effect” if an Engulf starts or at the end of the counted action?

Congealing Powder: Is this the very next swing with the weapon? Can this be used in conjunction with Poison Cache or Viscous Poisons?

Elemental Runed Weapon: What is the verbal call for the swing?

Moonshield: What does “made along with a strengthened shield” mean? Do they have to be created at the same time or that the shield used in the construction of the Moonshield must already be strengthened?

Bag of Cats: Can assassinate or other fancy weapon skills be used, like stunning strike?

 

[tieran]

I believe all the above are answered below. There were a couple changes from what was answered previously and are marked as such. The answers provided here are correct.

If I missed anything please let me know!

Archery: Does the bonus coating effect with workshops no longer exist?

Alchemy no longer receives multiple throws from a single coating. Instead they will function like every other weapon. The coating will be applied to the bow and you can throw with that effect until either a defense is called or a successful hit is landed.

Broken Items: Can Claws be broken?

No. This is unchanged from 1.3.

Indomitable Will: Can this ability be combined with other mettle discounts?

Indomitable Will can be used at the same time as Armored Mettle. While your armor is fully refit, you are able to use per day uses of Mettle for a cost of 5 body and Indomitable Will uses of Mettle for 15.

Ritual Talisman: With these new requirements, what visually distinguishes a talisman and a catalyst?

Nothing.

Craft Superior Equipment: Can Ritual Magic Talismans be cast on Superior Equipment?

Yes, but the opposite is not typically true. Additionally, ritual batches will not, in any way, impact the duration of Superior Equipment effects.

Workshops: Does workshop help with Crafting points to spend on other crafting abilities or does it only bump craft Adventuring equipment?

Workshop only impacts CP spent on Craft Adventuring Equipment.

Crafting Rituals: Will there be solely crafter versions of rituals or can both a crafter or scholar use the same talisman that falls in their respective schools?

At this time, they are identical.

Crafting Materials: With the mention of excess Crafting Material potentially being lost during production making, does that mean Crafting Material tags/reps will be worth more than one CP?

Potentially. This is up to the discretion of the chapter.

Cloak Other via Tinkering: Can I Cloak Massive?

Yes.

Deft Dosage: Could this be used in conjunction with Quick Salve considering both require expending a potion?

No. Deft Dosage takes effect when you administer a potion to someone else. When Quick Salve is activated, you are not using a potion.

Healing/Harming Blades: Is there a count and physical requirement to absorb? Does the potion need to be in their hand and touching the weapon? Is the verbal call “absorbed” or “X spell Effect Absorbed”?

A standard meditate is required to absorb a single potion, but multiple potions can be absorbed over consecutive meditation sessions.

Efficient Protectives: Do they have to say the incant again when the spell affects them?

The entire “casting from a scroll” process needs to happen twice.

Enhance Weapon (silver): With the new silvering rules, can you not enhance an already made weapon?

You cannot.

Immovable Shield: What is the verbal call for this Guard?

Resist.

Automatic Injector: Is this being done at logistic or whenever during the LP?

Whenever.

Deadman’s Switch: Just to be clear, the trap tag “set” on the character’s body? Does the trap tag and rep need to be on the body? Additionally, is this being done at Logistics or during the LP. If during LP, if the meditate is interrupted, does the trap go off?

The trap tag needs to be carried.
**Please note the above is a change from what was posted on the Chicago discord and takes precedence.
The meditate to absorb the trap can be done at any point and does require the presence of a trap rep. The trap will go off (as if triggered while being set) if the meditate is interrupted.

Armor Patch: Is there an official rep requirement for this?

No.

Alchemy Globe Trap: With poison being a material attack, can alchemy globe traps now be guarded the same as weapon traps?

Yes.

Good Night Tea: What are the Rep requirements?

Potion vial

Liquid Courage: Is the verbal call for the Guard “Alternate Effect”?

Yes.

Howlbear Brew: Is the crippling exhaustion an RP effect? If so, how long should the player be under that RP effect after coming back from 0 Body?

The player is so exhausted at the end of the effect that they fall over with 0 body. Once they either lay there for a minute or get healed, they are not “rules” exhausted, but can still RP exhaustion.
**Please note this is a change/clarification from what was posted on the Chicago discord and takes precedence.

Eat Me Not: How does that play out on the battlefield? Do they immediately say “No Effect” if an Engulf starts or at the end of the counted action?

The “No effect” will happen at the completion of the 3 count.

Congealing Powder: Is this the very next swing with the weapon? Can this be used in conjunction with Poison Cache or Viscous Poisons?

Yes, the next swing with the weapon, as if it were a weapon coating. It can be used in conjunction with poison cache, poison trigger, and other effects/abilities that mimic their functionality.

Elemental Runed Weapon: What is the verbal call for the swing?

Use whatever your standard offensive Martial or Stealth skill is as normal, followed by “## spell <element>” similar to Foundation Strike.

Moonshield: What does “made along with a strengthened shield” mean? Do they have to be created at the same time or that the shield used in the construction of the Moonshield must already be strengthened?

For now, all superior equipment will also create the piece of Adventuring Equipment that is needed for them to work. This will result in some potential weirdness with armor in particular and will be addressed in a future packet.
**Please note the above is a clarification/condensation of several comments on the Chicago discord and should take precedence.

Bag of Cats: Can assassinate or other fancy weapon skills be used, like stunning strike?

Bag of Cats, in all ways, works like Thrown Weapon, except that it does not require a weapon skill to use. Weapon Proficiency, Back Stab, and all per day offensive weapon skills can be used with it.

 

[Manflesh]

Healing/Harming Blades: Can this be used in conjunction with

Purify the Potion/Corrupt the Concoction

 

[tieran]

Healing/Harming Blades: Can this be used in conjunction with

Purify the Potion/Corrupt the Concoction

No. PtP/CtC can only apply when the potion is consumed like normal, not when it is used to fuel something else. It also cannot be used to flip what’s being stored in a spell store, memory store, potion coating, etc.

 

[Gulgrim]

Healing/Harming Blades: Is there a count and physical requirement to absorb? Does the potion need to be in their hand and touching the weapon? Is the verbal call “absorbed” or “X spell Effect Absorbed”?

A standard meditate is required to absorb a single potion, but multiple potions can be absorbed over consecutive meditation sessions.


Good Night Tea: What are the Rep requirements?

Potion vial

Sorry, I am newb and dont understand how quotes work. Is there a verbal call for absorbing a potion/elixer for either the blades or Vomitous Blasts?
Also, the Description for Good Night Tea refers to it as an elixer. Was curious if this is a discrepancy or if the intent is that it can be mixed into a drink which imo provides a much more interesting roleplay option

 

[tieran]

Sorry, I am newb and dont understand how quotes work. Is there a verbal call for absorbing a potion/elixer for either the blades or Vomitous Blasts?

You should state, “Absorbed,” once the meditation is completed.

Also, the Description for Good Night Tea refers to it as an elixer. Was curious if this is a discrepancy or if the intent is that it can be mixed into a drink which imo provides a much more interesting roleplay option

It is a potion as it is created by Brewing.

 

[Richard Wilson]

I did the thing and bugged Justin with many questions and comments, who was very kind and answered all of them. They're all found in this Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HZ0bKeK_1Ou5wDyXAdvJKeDWKQJvlZlWL41Dq6LrG18/edit?usp=sharing