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Skalchemist: /* Overseer (Rapport Stunt) */

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‎Overseer (Rapport Stunt)

Skalchemist: /* Overseer (Rapport Stunt) */

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‎Overseer (Rapport Stunt)

Skalchemist at 23:26, 7 January 2017

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Skalchemist at 18:47, 11 November 2016

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Skalchemist at 18:26, 11 November 2016

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Skalchemist at 15:05, 28 October 2016

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Skalchemist at 21:04, 26 October 2016

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Skalchemist: /* Rules */

2016-10-19T20:48:06Z

‎Rules

Skalchemist: /* Longevity (Extra) */

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‎Longevity (Extra)

Skalchemist: /* Why these rules? */

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‎Why these rules?

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 The Overseer stunt (pg 94) is replaced with the following.
-You command groups to accomplish tasks, whether military, naval, or workers on large-scale projects.  When you give orders, directives, inspiring speeches, or advice to another character, hand each of your subordinates involved a token.  At any time when they seek to execute your orders, act on your advice, benefit from your speech, etc., they can use spend that token as a Teamwork bonus from you, even if you do not have the same skill and aren't physically present.  A given subordinate can only have one token at a time; if they spend it, you'll need to give them fresh orders, new advice, or a more inspiring speech with respect to a different situation to give them another.
+You command groups to accomplish tasks, whether military, naval, or workers on large-scale projects.  When you create advantages for your subordinates with Rapport by giving orders, inspiring speeches, good advice, etc., you can generate more free invokes on those advantages.  Specifically, for every two shifts you roll on the success past the first shift you get one free invoke on the aspect (1 shift = 1 free invoke, 3 shifts = 2 free invokes, 5 shifts = 3 free invokes, 7 shifts = 4 free invokes, etc.).
 ==Alternate Jump Rules==

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 The Overseer stunt (pg 94) is replaced with the following.
-You command groups to accomplish tasks, whether military, naval, or workers on large-scale projects.  You may consider Rapport a "similar skill" for the purposes of Teamwork Bonuses as long you can give or have given orders, directives, inspiring speeches, or advice to the person in question.  You may do this once per scene.
+You command groups to accomplish tasks, whether military, naval, or workers on large-scale projects.  When you give orders, directives, inspiring speeches, or advice to another character, hand each of your subordinates involved a token.  At any time when they seek to execute your orders, act on your advice, benefit from your speech, etc., they can use spend that token as a Teamwork bonus from you, even if you do not have the same skill and aren't physically present.  A given subordinate can only have one token at a time; if they spend it, you'll need to give them fresh orders, new advice, or a more inspiring speech with respect to a different situation to give them another.
 ==Alternate Jump Rules==

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 ''Costs 1 aspect, 1 or more skill points''<br>
 You older, possibly much older, than the default character age (page 37).  Incorporate your great age into one of your aspects.  You may use your budget skill points to purchase personal skills, as if you had earned those skill points at significant milestones, but you cannot have a skill better than Great (+4).
 ==Alternate Jump Rules==

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	All other Construct skills are not usable via the Avatar; the PC must spend skill points to add Character skills to the Avatar extra.		All other Construct skills are not usable via the Avatar; the PC must spend skill points to add Character skills to the Avatar extra.
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		+	==Active versus Passive Sensing==
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		+	Active Sensing and Passive Sensing work for the most part as described in the construct skill rules (pgs 201, 204), with the following exceptions:
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		+	* Active Sensing makes a spacecraft easier to detect, but this detection is NOT automatic. Your spacecraft's Active Sensing skill is added as a bonus to all attempts to located your vessel.
		+	* Active Sensing is limited by the speed of light. Practically, this means that active sensing may not be very useful at distances of greater than a few light minutes. However, it also means that by the time an observer might detect your use of Active Sensing, you can already be accelerating rapidly to some other destination.
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		+	Here is an example of the second bullet. Your spacecraft is hiding from a Venu vessel in the same system. That vessel is 50 light minutes away in orbit around a planet. You scan a planetoid that is 20 light minutes from your location to see if it has a covered location to hide your spacecraft. Getting the information from your Active Sensing scan will take at least 40 minutes (round trip time for light to and from the planetoid). This will give you roughly 10 minutes to act on that information before the Venu vessel could detect your use of Active Sensing.

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	* If there are crew members in a scene that could reasonably help on an action, the player gets a team work bonus (+1).		* If there are crew members in a scene that could reasonably help on an action, the player gets a team work bonus (+1).
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		+	==Construct Skills Usable by Construct PCs Through an Avatar==
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		+	The following construct skills can be used by a Construct PC via their Avatar as Character skills: '''Bureaucracy, Contacts, Empathy, Knowledge, Provoke, Rapport, Resources, Science, Technical, Will'''.
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		+	All other Construct skills are not usable via the Avatar; the PC must spend skill points to add Character skills to the Avatar extra.

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	At the end of each session, the Cooperative will ask itself what discoveries it made, and will receive the benefit of the most important discovery. Benefits are identical to those listed for Milestones. (Mechanically, this means that the Cooperative is rewarded with advancement for discovering new things, not necessarily for resolving situations.)		At the end of each session, the Cooperative will ask itself what discoveries it made, and will receive the benefit of the most important discovery. Benefits are identical to those listed for Milestones. (Mechanically, this means that the Cooperative is rewarded with advancement for discovering new things, not necessarily for resolving situations.)
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		+	==Crew and Crew Consequences==
		+	The Cooperative has other crew besides the player characters. Mechanically, they will interact with the game as follows:
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		+	* Whenever an additional crew member is in a scene somehow, the aspects on that crew member are also in the scene and can be Invoked and Compelled just like any other aspects.
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		+	* There are no extreme consequences available (pg 155).
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		+	* Any player character can choose to give another crew member in a scene a Severe Consequence to alleviate stress that would otherwise take them out. Each Crew member has only one Severe Consequence "slot", but its good for 6 stress. The GM will decide the nature of that Severe Consequence.
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		+	* The GM may make the ''serious cost'' necessary to succeed on a failed roll involve harm to a crew member in the scene.
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		+	* If there are crew members in a scene that could reasonably help on an action, the player gets a team work bonus (+1).

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 So, we'll try this and see how it work.
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 ==Longevity (Extra)==
 The Longevity extra (pg 110) is replaced with the following.  Credit to Jocelyn Mlynarz on G+ for the basic idea for this change.
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 The rules as written, in general, don’t seem to provide for very safe 2-Space travel.  That seems counterintuitive to the nature of Commonality society.  2-Space travel seems like it has to be at least as safer as today’s seagoing shipping otherwise the Commonality couldn’t exist as it does.
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 ## On a success, you make the journey within the same time ladder band as your minimum time, although not in the minimum possible time.  If you were on a schedule, you made it on time.
 ## On a success with style, you make the journey in essentially the minimum time, not off by more than a few minutes to hours.  You also have a boost.
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 Between the departure system and the destination system there are conceivably a number of conveniently placed gravity wells that could be used to make a journey by taking shorter jumps. Part of plotting a course to your destination is calculating the risk/reward of stopping off at these in-between systems in terms of extra time, how much interstellar matter is avoided, etc.  This is because an average octant contains maybe 4000 stars, but only a handful of these (30-50) will be of any interest.    The rules as written don’t take this fact into account, and assume that ships will always make a jump between “systems of interest” in the Octant.  That assumption seems strange to me.  These rules assume that ships and pilots will make use of these extra waypoint systems on an as needed basis to improve their travel times.   (As an aside, the rules as written have roughly a 1 day for every 3 LY rate; I’ve made this ratio more favorable (1 day:5 LY) to account for the fact that often ships will have to take more time to arrive safely.)
-The rules as written make Enormous scale ships with low planing engines (such as the Bulk Transport or Chembu Bioship) far more hazardous to take into Jump than they should be, I think.  Consider that the Chembu Bioship starts off at Great (+4) difficulty (due to its Regional size) before you even consider how far it is jumping, and it only has Fair (+2) Planing.  That is a recipe for disaster as written, I think.  These rules let the Bioship go wherever it wants to go safely, it just takes its time doing it.  As noted above, even with the worst possible rolls 2-Space travel is going to be faster than slowship.
+The rules as written make Enormous scale ships with low planing engines (such as the Bulk Transport or Chembu Bioship) far more hazardous to take into Jump than they should be, I think.  Consider that the Chembu Bioship starts off at Great (+4) difficulty (due to its Regional size) before you even consider how far it is jumping, and it only has Fair (+2) Planing.  That is a recipe for disaster as written.  These rules let the Bioship go wherever it wants to go safely, it just takes its time doing it.  As noted above, even with the worst possible rolls 2-Space travel is going to be faster than slowship.
 The rules as written, in general, don’t seem to provide for very safe 2-Space travel.  That seems counterintuitive to the nature of Commonality society.  2-Space travel seems like it has to be at least as safer as today’s seagoing shipping otherwise the Commonality couldn’t exist as it does.
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