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[Feats] Precognitive

Started by Hastur T. Fannon, June 07, 2006, 04:26:17 PM

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Hastur T. Fannon

This is written for d20 Modern, but I think it would work with any other d20 system that uses action points.  Heck, it would work as a Buffy quality if you substituted Drama Points for action points

Precognitive
Benefit: This feat can be used in two ways.  The first is that a character can spend an action point in an attempt to gain a glimpse of the future.  The content, form and information gained is controlled by the GM, but he or she should make every effort to gear the future of the campaign so that the vision will be of at least some use to the character at some point in the future.  The second way that the feat can be used is this; the GM may at any point give the character a vision in order to feed information to the party.  Each time that the GM does this, the character gains an action point.  However, if the character decided not to act on the contents of the vision (for example if the vision is of a disaster that the character could possibly avert, but choses not to) they lose the action point
Normal: A character normally gets to know about the future in the same way as the rest of humanity – one second at a time

Edit: messed up the title of the thread - can someone fix it for me?
 

Gunhilda

Pretty decent feat, I think.  Although the second part could get darn annoying with a DM who has railroading tendancies.
 

Hastur T. Fannon

Good point.  Maybe I should set a once a session limit?  Or even once a week?

Thanks to whoever fixed the title
 

Gunhilda

You're welcome.  :D

Once a session would be fine.  That could even make for a good schtick, with the players waiting to see when the precog would get hit with a vision.  Lots of TV shows have used the same or a similar schtick to good effect.

If used properly, this could be a great way of giving the players hints *without* outright railroading.  :)
 

Hastur T. Fannon

Quote from: GunhildaLots of TV shows have used the same or a similar schtick to good effect.

Well Angel was my inspiration ;)
 

Aos

Railroading Dm's are likely to ignore the once a session rule, but I still think it's a neat idea. Old school V&V had a power called cosmic awareness which I (ab)used in a similar way.




I've been thinking of making a comabt precog feat for true20. the character would see her opponents blow/defensive move right before it occured. in game play it would grant an attack and/or defense bonus. I have yet to sit down and write it up though...
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Hastur T. Fannon

Quote from: AosI've been thinking of making a comabt precog feat for true20. the character would see her opponents blow/defensive move right before it occured. in game play it would grant an attack and/or defense bonus. I have yet to sit down and write it up though...

The Operant Psychic Advanced Class is from the same setting and still needs a lot of work.  I'm thinking about improving it's BaB and Defense to represent a combination of pre-cognition and body awareness
 

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