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[TruthsWraith]

How did I forget about style? Anyway new questions for the day.

1. Whats the average gnosis you like to give PCs? For me the average is gnosis 15 mainly cause generaly I go for epic based games where eventaly they do something that drasticly alters the future.

2. I'm just reading though Dominus Exxet and I notice the nemesis abillity doesn't mention if they allow the use of Dominon techs and I'm paranoid about stuff like that so I might as well ask here.

3. This one is more for laughs but whats the most brutal fight your've ever seen in a game? I wasn't the one runing it but the last boss for this one Anima game I was in was rough. It was the last game with those characters so he went all out for the bigbad fight. All I need to say is Chao Meister with all the KI regn a 5+ divine artfact can give...that fight was insane.

4. What happens if a Ki summoner summoned something at the exact same time a normal summoner summoned the same being? What do they check against?

[alphawhelp]

How did I forget about style? Anyway new questions for the day.

1. Whats the average gnosis you like to give PCs? For me the average is gnosis 15 mainly cause generaly I go for epic based games where eventaly they do something that drasticly alters the future.

2. I'm just reading though Dominus Exxet and I notice the nemesis abillity doesn't mention if they allow the use of Dominon techs and I'm paranoid about stuff like that so I might as well ask here.

3. This one is more for laughs but whats the most brutal fight your've ever seen in a game? I wasn't the one runing it but the last boss for this one Anima game I was in was rough. It was the last game with those characters so he went all out for the bigbad fight. All I need to say is Chao Meister with all the KI regn a 5+ divine artfact can give...that fight was insane.

4. What happens if a Ki summoner summoned something at the exact same time a normal summoner summoned the same being? What do they check against?

1. I give the PCs Natura 10 when I'm GMing, I have no solid reasons why, it just feels like the right amount to give

2. Nemesis does not allow Dominion Techniques itself, but you can learn Use of Ki and Ki Control alongside Nemesis powers.  You can even use Ki Cancellation while accumulating Ki to use a Ki technique, but if you do so, your own accumulations are halved.

3. one level 5 Warrior Mentalist PC, three level 6 PCs (80/80 Creation/Earth mage, A Ranger/Shadow with Absolute Eye, and a Summoner with a level 7 custom psychic familiar and non-familiar Earth Elemental) accompanied by a level 7 generally useless NPC versus.....
two armies of 250 soldiers, a level 6 warrior Summoner, a level 6 Dark Paladin, a level 7 Warlock, and before the fight started, the Warrior Summoner summoned a level 9 Dullahan and the level 6 Dark Paladin controlled it.  It was pretty brutal with several near PC deaths.

4. Ki summoners summon specific beings, normal summoners do not, unless they know the beings true name, which it is unlikely they would have the true name of the Ki summoner's blood pacted monster.  If they did, I would just say there is no check, and the normal summoner wins automatically (as long as he succeeds in the rolls under the normal rules) other people will disagree, and I don't care.

[Kalis]

3. This one is more for laughs but whats the most brutal fight your've ever seen in a game? I wasn't the one runing it but the last boss for this one Anima game I was in was rough. It was the last game with those characters so he went all out for the bigbad fight. All I need to say is Chao Meister with all the KI regn a 5+ divine artfact can give...that fight was insane.

Our party just had a fight against a level 6ish Wizard with the 80 necromancy spell cast on him(basically a lich). We were high level 5(we leveled up on the cliffhanger).

Our attacks were all shut down by his Predetermined Metamagic Shield. His shield was the void sub-path shield. So if an item failed a presence check it was destroyed before any damage was done to the shield, and spells and ki ability need us to roll a power check or the shield consumed the power of the spell before being damaged by it. He also had high earth magic, meaning he had a Shell active all the time for like 8 AT. His first two attacks were petrifying our revolver wielding Shadow and the monster that our warrior-summoner summoned after a week long ritual(in the middle of the lich-kings army).

I was also informed that the Illusion MR checks that I could put out would be basically automatically resisted because one of the monster powers he took was increased Mystical resistance, which kind of took me out of the fight. I was also almost tapped out of zeon from previous stuff anyway(I put up an invisibility on all party members on the ground, which he automatically saw through, but which helped us not get bogged down by his undead horde). The kicker: The gm was not going as overboard as he could have. The lich could have taken predetermined metamagic at inhumanity instead of whatever it was(I assume impossible) to block all but the luckiest shots.

To end the session, my illusionist was making a stealthy retreat, while trying to figure out how to save the shadow(idea was turn his statue into a necklace to make it easier to carry and then drop the spell when in a safe place). The rest of the party had not even had a chance to get out of our airship, aside from the familiar of the Warrior-Summoner who was invisible to basically every enemy except the one that counts.

[Smilingknight]

4. What happens if a Ki summoner summoned something at the exact same time a normal summoner summoned the same being? What do they check against?

4. Ki summoners summon specific beings, normal summoners do not, unless they know the beings true name, which it is unlikely they would have the true name of the Ki summoner's blood pacted monster.  If they did, I would just say there is no check, and the normal summoner wins automatically (as long as he succeeds in the rolls under the normal rules) other people will disagree, and I don't care.

I'd agree with that, as the Ki summon is a pact that the creature must enter into willingly, but normal summoning controls them without their consent so it should be the more powerful of the two

[Sharpandpointies]

3. This one is more for laughs but whats the most brutal fight your've ever seen in a game? I wasn't the one runing it but the last boss for this one Anima game I was in was rough. It was the last game with those characters so he went all out for the bigbad fight. All I need to say is Chao Meister with all the KI regn a 5+ divine artfact can give...that fight was insane.

The player characters and their 'rivals' (a bunch of NPC's working for High Arbiter Arkeid, with whom the players enjoyed a grudgingly respectful relationship) versus the Doom Bearer in the throne room of the Castle of Midnight.  Both teams ended up absolutely ruined in the fight, with only one character from each left standing by the end (the PC psychic warrior and one fighter with Blood of the Great Beasts on the other side).     

Alternately, the PC's, their Rivals, the Knights of St. Helena, various mercenary companies, an untrained militia, a bunch of Windriders from Galgados, and sundry others against an army of Skuling, their warbeasts, and the Doom Bearer in defense of the town of Lenci.  The hope was to hold out until Taddeus Van Horseman's reinforcements arrived.  Ended up being a long, bloody battle with lots of 'cutscenes' to show how the fight was going.

Short fights?  The Psychic Warrior and the Dueling Windrider against a higher-level duelist-style fighter that had beaten them before, both simultaneously.  The Windrider was getting his rear kicked (again), the PW joined him and immediately got stabbed twice, then the Windrider (in sudden fury) went all 'Absorb Hits', ate some serious wounds, open-ended three times in a row and got two successful criticals, one of them lethal.  Kicked out the high-level fighter's knee, cut his face with the main gauche, then ran him through with the saber.

That one was pretty brutal, if short.