exec continues to be fun. i neglected my company driver so frequently that i ended up leaving him in the car while my pc was having dinner out. there's a -4 penalty for forgetting a Team Members' contributions, so that was soundly logged. that npc is more the property of the gm, so this is a bit by design. Chisato's bodyguard is a character played by myself since that's necessary for keeping the gm from rolling against himself in combat, but the driver is the gm's npc and i have to actually get into his head and figure out how he ticks, so failure is part of the point
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also Vivi is getting a linear frame implanted. she's now able to fire man portable weapons (which isn't much due to her being locked into pistols, but a skill chip can make things like the Hurricane shotgun or the Cowboy grenade launcher feasible should i find one in the wild)
i've made peace with the gm being irritable by just not seeing what he posts on the tal server anymore. the fact of the matter is Chisato is over-minmaxed, but she's over-minmaxed as a martial arts character in a game that bars bullet dodging. she's a jagen anticipating other pcs growing into their abilities, and that has already happened
though weirdly this includes vivi, ig. I remember breaking her down in an overly long and overcorrected rant, but basically the Company Bodyguard isn't supposed to be this strong. very few of their statlines permit a reflexes of 8, and their statlines with an 8 reflex tend to nerf their abilities with brawling. Vivi is operating off a statline with 7 ref and dex, so she's quite balanced and the former is easily amendable to let her hit pistol range brackets with full accuracy. the fact the bodyguard's evasion base of 10-12 doesn't come into play for ranged combat means Vivi's defences are on par with any PC and so is her offensive potential
I don't think it's Chisato who's all that powerful, it's actually Vivi who's as close to a juggernaut she can be short of making a rifle PC with the means to smuggle their longarm. the gm then made a mistake and enabled a houserule item that allows pistols to fire on the rifle range brackets (basically a carbine stock, which i understand why gun heads would homebrew that in, but pistols have a limited range table for a reason, and that's the tradeoff for their lower profile).
this is a mistake because Vivi's sole limiting factor is her mediocre move tied to a weapon that's accurate up to six squares of distance. when you have the rifle range table, move isn't as big of a deal (though it can help if your gamemaster makes large maps, like my sunday gm does)
gms also like to houserule that the exec picks their team members' statline. i don't like this since i think the fun of team members is working with what you have, even if it isn't always the most optimal in their bases. team members have such a wide skill distribution that often even if they're not great at the primary things you want from them, they'll be a pitch hit for certain skills you then don't have to worry about. that's how people undersell the importance of the covert operative, whose stats aren't optimal, but all their skills are things the exec can decide are their responsibility or are able to be rolled as assistance actions
now that I’ve played exec, the hardest thing about them is consistently knowing how the game master will handle teammates and such. But that’s not really a weakness of RED. Each class has a set of core elements the gm is going to bring in sharper or duller focus
Like, for example. If the game master wants to control my company bodyguard, I will not get a company bodyguard. That way leads frustration for everyone involved
But let’s say the gm doesn’t let me monkey with my Team Members’ gear and chrome? That’s okay. One of the community’s prime theorycrafters is an LC player rolling a combination solo, exec, nomad (which is kind of like saying, they’re an LC player), and they can get their head too much in the reeds, but they can also point out what modifiers can be stacked on team members and thus far they’ve pointed out Team Members aren’t too hard to optimize for, regardless of what hand you’re dealt. Given the game master is frustrated with my PC, that’s not always a good thing
Now my gm was frustrated with my pc before Vivi really came online, so yknow
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