Daily Punch 4-26-24 Divine Return divine spell for Pathfinder 2nd Ed

HELP GOD!

Divine Return one-action Spell 9

Manipulate
Traditions divine
Range 50 feet; Target 1 willing ally


You ask your god to rewind the flow of time for just a moment. Choose a ally. that ally does not need to be alive, but must we wiling. You rewind to the start of that ally’s last turn revering all spells and abilities they cost, but only for them. Any effects that caused for others like spent spells or abilities are still expended. Thais also reversed damage on that ally, even fatal effects. The ally rejoins the initiative at the start of their next turn with these having occurred. If they are on a different plane of existence or dead, they are instantly returned and they continue their turn and life as normal.


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Daily Punch 4-25-24 Elemental Assault spell for Shadowrun 6th Ed

Ok, once more for another system.

Elemental Assault
(Indirect Combat
RANGE TYPE DURATION DV Damage
LOS P I 6 P, special
Elemental Maelstrom
(Indirect Combat, AREA)
RANGE TYPE DURATION DV Damage
LOS (A) P S 7 P, Special
You throw a ball of pure elemental chaos at an enemy. This ball is a bit of everything doing Fire, electricity, cold, and acid damage, so any resistance must match all these or the total goes through. Like other elemental spells, this one causes conditions, but only causes chilled one, corrosive one, burning one, and zapped. regardless of the total damage taken.
Elemental Maelstrom has the same effect except it affects all targets in an area.

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Daily Punch 4-24-24 Elemental Maelstrom arcane spell for Pathfinder 2nd Ed

IT’S THE BIG ONE!

Elemental Maelstrom one-action Spell 9

Manipulate Cold Acid Fire Electricity
Traditions arcane
Range 60 feet; Area 30 foot burst
Defense basic Fortitude


With a snap, you cause a storm of pure elemental energy to descend on an area. All targets are subjected 12d6 damage.. The damage type is either cold, acid, fire, or electricity with it being whatever type the targets are individually have a weakness to and/or not resistant to or has the smallest resistance to.


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Daily Punch 4-23-24 Undying skeleton power for DCC RPG

You cant die!

Undying
Type: actionRange: selfDuration: instantaneousSave: none
GeneralCan’t keep a good man down!
Manifestationroll 1d4: (1) You litterally just stand right back up. (2)Your body falls appart and your bones just roll back into position standing (3)You fall to dust and reform the same way (4) You don’t even feel the attack!
1failure and you can not have your body rolled!
2-11failure
12-13You die but return with 1d4 HP
14-17You die but return with 2d4 HP
18-19You die but return with 2d6 HP
20-23You die but return with 2d8 HP
24-27You die but return with 3d8 HP
28-29You die but return with 3d10 HP
30-31You die but return with 3d12 HP
32+You die but return with 3d12 HP and gain 1 point of luck!

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Ring Side Report- RPG review of Knight: An Avalon RPG Quick Start

Product– Knight: An Avalon RPG quickstart

System- Knight: An Avalon

Producer– Antre Monte Editions

Price– free here https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/all-about-games-consulting/knight-rpg     

TL; DR– Power Rangers meets Dark Horror with NEON!  97% 

Basics– Let’s cancel the Apocalypse!  Knight: An Avalon RPG is a near modern day retelling of Camelot with men and women donning power armor to kill horrors out of the dark.  Let’s break this down.  

Basics- This is a d6 rpg.  Your character has five aspects with three characteristics under each aspect for a total of 15 skills.  When you want to do anything, you total the correct aspect with the correct characteristic and roll that many dice. Each even result is success and each odd is a failure.  If you hit the correct amount of successes determined by the GM for the thing you are attempting to do, you succeed.  A good aspect is a five and your off aspects are about threes with your characteristics ranging from one to three most of the time.  The normal difficulty is three successes.  No success at all is critical failure, while all success is a great feat/critical success.

Combat-  Combat is round based and mostly theater of the mind.  You have initiative which is 3d6+ an initiative score.  Each round a character gets a move and an action with some reactions.  When you attack a target you are aiming at the defense score for melee and at a reaction score for ranged combat.  Here is the fun meat and potatoes of the game.  You are not just a dude with a gun fighting horrors, you are a guy/gal in power armor.  Your power armor has a force field that subtracts from all damage dealt to you.  After that, you have armor points which act as the armor’s hit points and for every 10 the armor loses, you lose one of yours as you get battered around in the suit.  Once the suit’s taken enough damage, it retracts and you’re just a guy/gal fighting the horrors of the dark!

Suit powers-  Your suit has powers as well and these are fueled with the suits energy points.  This works just like magic points in any RPG as you spend as much as you want until the suit is tapped out and you’re just left with your guns, fists, and harsh language.

Hope- Hope is sanity in this game.  As you experience the horrors in the dark, you have to make checks to see if you lose hope.  If you lose all your hope, you effectively die as you just become an agent of the darkness.

Heroism- Story candy!  Heroism is the story candy of this game where you get it for story reasons or just being the guy/gal to buy pizza that week.  It lets you reroll dice, avoid dying, not lose hope, or any other cool thing that the GM lets you do.

Alright, thats the basics, let’s dig in.

Mechanics or Crunch– This game plays like a strange version of Shadowrun and that’s a good thing.  This is a VERY crunchy game with piles of d6s being thrown at a problem.  I like that.  Some things feel a bit inconsistent, like choosing DCs.  When I want to do something opposed by a bad guy, the DC is half their relevant ability, but you do not do that for their defense stats.  That feels just a tiny bit off.  Not enough that it will keep me away, however. 4.5/5

Theme or Fluff–  Want gritty power rangers with rampant evils of capitalism and magic crap all over?  Yep, I do too.  That’s what this game feels like.  Do you remember the 90s TV cartoon where football players went back and were working for Merlin with magic power armor? Mix that with a little Clive Barker and TONS of neon light tracery, and you get this.  Yes, I want that.  5/5

Execution– This is well done and almost perfect for a crowd-funded project.  There is a 30+ page book with art, a basic walkthrough of the game, and a short adventure WITH five premade characters.  My ONE issue is that there is no hyperlinking.  But it’s 30 pages and free.  If I wanted to play it with friends, it took me 30 minutes to read through cover to cover and have enough of an idea how to play and run.  That’s a hell of an introduction.  5/5

Summary–  I grew up in the 90s and am a sucker for any power armor heroes.  I also loved the Matrix and Dark City.  This is that in a blender.  I have some slight reservations about how numbers are calculated, but that’s not enough to keep me away.  This is one to check out as it’s free, and in my opinion well worth your time.  97%

Daily Punch 4-19-24 Mind of Matter occult spell for Pathfinder 2nd Ed

If you don’t think, you are fine.

Mind over Matter one-action Spell 8

Manipulate
Traditions occult
Range 30 feet; Target 1 willing creature
Duration 1 minute


You help a creature block all pain for a moment at the expense of its mind. The creature gains resistance 10 to all damage except mental damage where it is gains .weakness 20 mental damage. If the creature has any other resistances or weaknesses these are lost for the duration of the spell.


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Daily Punch 4-18-24 Micky scientist plan for Everyday Heroes

Did you slip me a micky?

Micky
As an action, you enact this plan and inject a target within 30 feet with a dark. The target must make a Constitution saving throw against your plan DC. If it fails it takes a -1 to all checks for 10 minutes..
Level 3: The target gains a -2 penalty to all checks for the duration.
Level 5: The target gains a -3 penalty to all checks for the duration.
Level 7: The target gains a -4 penalty to all checks for the duration.
Level 9: The target gains a -5 penalty to all checks for the duration.

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Daily Punch 4-17-24 Gastric Explosion arcane spell for Pathfinder 2nd Ed

Might be something you ate….

Gastric Explosion one-action Spell 8

Manipulate Acid
Traditions arcane
Range 100 feet; Target 20-foot burst
Defense basic Fortitude


Your manipulate the biology of a target causing its digestive system to backfire and digest the creature from the inside out. Living targets with a digestive system take 10d6 acid damage based on their Fortitude save. If a target falls to zero hit points from this damage, they explode dealing 6d6 acid splash damage to all creatures within 10 feet. Targets that do not digest or are not alive are unaffected by this spell.


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