SolarSurvival/GardenTAMComments
Comments about Tireless Assassin's Mark
Not a bad idea, but why not make it a supplemental Survival Charm (where Tracking usually falls, IIRC) that can be comboed with other Abilities- thus letting an Exalt track a wider variety of things more easily.
Also, possibly let the Exalt 'invest' Essence, rather than having a flat cost- each mote committed adds one die to their Perception+Survival dicepool to track the target, and the mark fades at a rate of one mote a day.
Survival is the most likely place for it, but one of my players was wanting to develop this style of thing for melee - he has no survival. So I was trying to come up with something reasonable that worked with just the melee. I like the idea of investing though, that gives it a bit more flexibilty too. - Garden
- Okay, had a think about it and you're right. I was just putting it on melee because I was feeling nice, but Melee can do enough as it is without encroaching on other abilities (such is the purview of Martial Arts ;) ). He can just suck it up and buy the Survival. Have moved it to Survival and added the investing idea. Let me know what you think - Garden
I'm not too keen on having a Survival charm with no Melee requirement that requires a melee attack. I'd either add a Melee prerequisite, or allow any strike to inflict the mark. Since you're tracking by embedded Essence rather than shed blood, why does it need a cut at all? Allow a punch or kick to mark the target. - Quendalon
That's left over from when it was a Melee charm, I'd just forgotten to change it. Thanks for pointing it out. Changed it so that it's just generic attack - how's that now? - Garden
Better! You should also clarify now whether you can use it with Archery or Thrown. Also, there's a fundamental disconnect here in the flavor text: it's supposed to be used by assassins when their targets escape alive, but the attack itself does no damage. Why would an assassin ever use it? If you only get one shot before your foe slips off into the night, either you use this attack first and let them go so you can track them later (in which case you aren't slipping up, it's a premeditated strategy), or you just try and KILL THEM with your attack. If it's going to be supplemental rather than simple, why not allow the attack to do normal damage? That way an assassin can try and kill the target, but as long as the attack hits they can still track the target later. - Quendalon
Okay, altered as per your suggestions, thanks for this Quendalon, it's very helpful. - Garden
Glad to help! One last thing: you might want to pull the phrase 'lightly skim' now that the attack does normal damage. - Quendalon
Ah, yes. Good point. Cheers :) - Garden
