Skill Idea Archive: General

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Thu May 27, 2004 1:00 pm

Read Offense (general trait)

This player is skilled at reading the offense's formation and shifting his own placing to counter their plans. Immediately after the receiving team has set up, any player on the kicking team with this skill may move up to three squares. They may not move in such a way that their team's set up becomes illegal. They do have to dodge, cannot go for it and cannot be shadowed. A player moved in this way may not use the kick skill on the subsequent kick off.

Alternatively,

Call Defensive Audible (general trait)

This player is skilled at reading the offense's formation and can try to counter it by shouting out last second instructions to his teammates. Immediately after the receiving team has set up, so long as a player with this trait has been set up by the kicking team, the coach of the kicking team may move a single player, of his choice, up to three squares. They may not move in such a way that their team's set up becomes illegal. They do have to dodge, cannot go for it and cannot be shadowed. A player moved in this way may not use the kick skill on the subsequent kick off.

sean newboy · Post by **sean newboy** » Thu May 27, 2004 10:14 pm

Both skills should be limited more. Either d3 guys or just the guys with the skill.

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Thu May 27, 2004 10:47 pm

The first one does say "any player with this skill" and the second "any one of his players" (the word one should be bold). I'll go back and reword them to make it a bit clearer.

sean newboy · Post by **sean newboy** » Fri May 28, 2004 12:48 am

My bad, they have my support for what its worth.

Munkey · Post by **Munkey** » Fri May 28, 2004 11:31 am

On first glance I like them.

Not sure whether i'd ever actually pick one on a doubles roll but maybe that would be my loss.

Drool_bucket · Post by **Drool_bucket** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:56 am

looks like I'm supposed to put my idea here.... hope somebody sees it and thinks its worthy of a comment....

Stolen pretty blantantly from the old dwarven alchemist.

Endorsement - [General]

A player with this skill has become popular enough that during his downtime between matches, local pubs and merchants pay good money for his time and fame. After a game in which this player has played (is eligable for random MVP) and has no injury which has resulted in that player being forced to miss his next game, the team coach may roll a die 6 and divide the result in half. (round down) This result is the amount in 10,000's of gold pieces that may be added to his team's treasury.

No more than one Endorsement roll may be made after each match.

What do you think?

I didn't want a niggling guy who fails his roll, or a guy who got his head kicked in during the match to earn the extra money. It's not a huge skill, perhaps the roll could be modified somehow? The only other though is to have this skill also modify the team's FF as well. Perhaps +1 for purposes of gate and kickoff chart.

anyhoo...

duff · Post by **duff** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 2:42 am

Bump Off - Blitzing player bounces off his opponent on a both down result. Should help with a genuine runner position.
Discussion here - viewtopic.php?p=257648#257648

Taffsadar · Post by **Taffsadar** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:12 am

Kantona kick
The player throws a vicious drop kick on any fans who seem to be cheering for the other team or otherwise annoys the player.
The coach controlling may choose to ignore any "get the and "pitch invasion" rolls on the kickoff table and turn any "cheering fans" roll into an automatic win but everytime he does this is he forced to roll a penality roll on a player with Kantona kick to see if he's sent out just like if he had committed a foul.

Taffsadar · Post by **Taffsadar** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:20 am

Dirty kick
A player not standing in the widezones or on the line of scrimmage is allowed to make a dirty kick against any player standing within 3 squares of the line of scrimmage. Make an unmodified agility roll for the dirty kick player, if he succedes is the targeted player hit and suffers a 2 dice block (kicking coach chooses). Treat the block as a normal block except that the attacker can't fall down and if the result is a skull is the targeted player given the ball just as if he had catched the ball when it landed. If the ball is not catched will the ball bounce as if the targeted player had been knocked down while carrying the ball.

If the result is a miss will the ball scatter from the targeted square just as if it was a normal kick, the kick skill may not be used on this scatter.[/i]

Trob · Post by **Trob** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 6:59 pm

Touchdown Dance (General Trait)

This player is one of those players who gets the fans & teamates fired up. After a player with this trait scores a TD, they perform a fantastic dance in the end-zone (wow look at the moves on that zombie! - a headspin!!!).

The coach must perform this dance (to the 'oohs' & 'aahs' of anyone else present) & on a D6 roll of 4-6, the team receives a re-roll.

This is off the top of my head - I like the idea, but not sure if the trait is under/over powered or even usefull. Might be too powerful in the hands of an uber-scorer...

Any thoughts?

sean newboy · Post by **sean newboy** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 7:06 pm

Make it a 5+ but the coach recieves bonus' based on how well he perfoms it.

Trob · Post by **Trob** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:22 pm

sean newboy wrote:Make it a 5+ but the coach recieves bonus' based on how well he perfoms it.

Yeah, I like that. Unfortunately we're trying to conform to the LRB so I won't get much of a chance to try it out.
Thanks for the suggestion

Kormantaouk · Post by **Kormantaouk** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 12:07 pm

Acid Claws
These horrific claws are only given to the toughest of the greater daemons. Roll as normal at your starplayer roll, if it's a new skill, roll again, if the score is a double, well, then the gods have seen you worthy and mutates the hands into a pair of acid dripping steel hard claws.
The acid works in two ways:
Â· As for the first. The acid halfes the opponents armour.
Â· As for the second. The acid adds +3 to the injury roll.

plasmoid · Post by **plasmoid** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 1:11 pm

Hi Kormantouk,
the fact that this skill is very rare doesn't make it balanced.
For those who do get it, it would be as powerful as having claw, claw again, fang, and then some.
Sorry, but thats not a good idea.

Oh, and you posted this mutation under general skills. (See the sticky at the top of this forum for each skill category)

Cheers
Martin

stormmaster1 · Post by **stormmaster1** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:11 pm

Low Blow General skill

When a player with this skill knocks an opposing player down they may choose to make a low blow instead of rolling for injury normally. Instead of making a normal armour roll, roll a single D6. on a 4+ the opposing player is stunned.