almondsAndRain Posted November 16, 2021 Posted November 16, 2021 (edited) Predator Archetype The proper mindset can make or break a mission. You view yourself as part of a team, a pack. When the pack excels, you excel; when the pack fails, you fail. This attitude slightly alters your perception of the world: your vision focuses, your hearing improves, you can smell your victim from meters away - most importantly, your illusions exhaust your opponents' minds, clouding their perceptions and forcing their attacks to fly off-center. Effect: The user may learn and perform Predator Archetype Genjutsu techniques. For one turn after being hit by a Predator Archetype technique, anyone targeted by the opponent's attacks increases the results of their dodge rolls against those attacks by 5. If the Predator Archetype technique's Pet Combination Effect was active, the rolls are instead increased by 8. This may not increase rolls of 5 or below and may not stack with itself. Requirements: Path of the Tamer. Cost: -2. Edited February 6, 2022 by almondsAndRain Quote
almondsAndRain Posted November 16, 2021 Author Posted November 16, 2021 (edited) Soooo, I'm resubbing my Archetype. I've got a couple reasons for this. From a design space perspective, it was directly competing with Combinatorial; Scorch and, as I learned not long after Predatory was approved, it was basically just Desiccation Archetype++. So it had a lot of overlap with currently existing subtypes, and while that may not be a no-no since you can't throw a dog without hitting a cost increase effect, it's still lame and told Desiccation to go pound sand. The second reason is entirely personal - Predatory sucked. +3% to costs for one turn is nothing, and stacking it up required either Set Traps, secondaries, or multi-turning, and… that's a lot of effort for +15% to costs for one turn. I mean… yeah, I dunno what else to say about that, it's a lot of work for minimal returns. I would have been much better off most of the time with Elemental Archetype and Combinatorial; Scorch, and that combo would have only cost me one more SP and none of my Pet Actions. Uh… I'm leaving the original Predatory in Approved for now partly because I'm currently in a battle and partly in case this gets shot down, so that I'm not suddenly out an Archetype. The name is different because I have to resub all my techs with the stat modification update anyway, and this sounds better. This is a little more unique than the original, even if it isn't winning any awards any time soon - it's basically a reverse Impaired Hearing or Deafened. Edited January 17, 2022 by almondsAndRain Quote
