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Question: What if I desired some Bloodstained crossover-y goodness in my Castlevania game and wanted to play a Shardbinder? It's basically the same as Soma Cruz's ability to steal souls, right? Are there rules for that?

Also - minor tangent - speaking of Bloodstained and on the subject of guns, firearms are the most powerful weapons in that game. Using a maxed out Renee's Requiem with Diamond Bullets with the Recycle Hat and Gunslinger Scarf can get your attack well past the 700 range, and can reasonably kill almost every enemy in the game with one to three hits.

... Except Valac, that two-headed piece of shit.

Shrapnel wrote:Also - minor tangent -

Did you also get the enhancement for unlimited ammo?

Shrapnel wrote:Question: What if I desired some Bloodstained crossover-y goodness in my Castlevania game and wanted to play a Shardbinder? It's basically the same as Soma Cruz's ability to steal souls, right? Are there rules for that?

I'd imagine you could write rules that would easily cover both since they're so similar.

Dogbert wrote:

Shrapnel wrote:Also - minor tangent -

Did you also get the enhancement for unlimited ammo?

Ayup. That's would be the aforementioned Recycle Hat. Best damn item in the game.

ColorBlindNinja61 wrote:

Shrapnel wrote:Question: What if I desired some Bloodstained crossover-y goodness in my Castlevania game and wanted to play a Shardbinder? It's basically the same as Soma Cruz's ability to steal souls, right? Are there rules for that?

I'd imagine you could write rules that would easily cover both since they're so similar.

I know less than nothing about writing rules for TTRPGs.

That's why I come here, so other people can do it for me.

It can be almost anything you want it to be.

Soma's souls and Bloodstained shards are "power slots", you slot in some passive or active or minion autonomous or MP consuming powers.

For a cooperative tabletop game, such a versatile character would kinda be like the Tome blue Totemist. In a game where other characters are specialists this character type has to be carefully tuned to not be useless but also not do everyone elses job better.

That also depends on if you want certain monsters to be super hosers of certain character styles. Like if there's a monster that sees through all illusions or is immune to fire then the illusionist fire guy won't do as well as the icicle hurler.

We are Legion!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYNGDUIBUhE

Dogbert wrote:

RadiantPhoenix wrote:Since the monsters are magic, you could also give the monsters magic that protects them from normal bullets but not normal blades and whips. (Or even makes them more vulnerable to whips)

"I come from a fantasy land where the only weapons are sticks and stones, so I'll use magic to protect my minions from everything but STICKS AND STONES!"

I meant from a Doylist perspective, not a Watsonian perspective.

From a Watsonian perspective the explanations could be things like:

• "they just are more resistant to this stuff."
• "There is no such spell"
• "The spells to do that are too difficult to mass-produce"
• (as mentioned) "They expect to fight armies with guns, because they're actually preparing for this shit and know what's around, and most armies use guns."

Dogbert wrote: "I come from a fantasy land where the only weapons are sticks and stones, so I'll use magic to protect my minions from everything but STICKS AND STONES!"

To expand on the "those spells don't exist" suggestion from RadiantPhoenix,
"I come from a fantasy land where magic makes monsters immune to bullets and explosives, so we fight with sticks and stones"

which is basically the premise of Dune, right? People fight with swords because everyone has a force field that requires you to stab them slowly.

It doesn't make sense with real world physics, but magic can work however you want.

In the Dune they just shot Paul's (?) Dad with a drill bullet.

Leto I Atreides was betrayed by his physician and killed himself in an effort to take Baron Harkonen with him.

I don't remember any slow-moving bullets in Dune but I haven't many of the prequels and sequels and such so such things could certainly show up.

Adding a personal ki channeling element makes "werewolf shrugs off bullets, but the ki channeled through the hand held whip tears it up"