Dragon Scales armor and capacitors

[Nuala Byrne]

Item Name: Dragon Scales
Description: A sleek, spiritually-enhanced suit of finely scaled gunmetal grey armor with a light, angled breastplate, and complete with a quilted gambeson, scale tunic, elbow-length sleeves, and leggings. At the right hip of the armor is a series of six ports, where capacitors may be attached by a secure mechanical action. Colored furry trim is optional.
Class: 1
Item Type: Armor
Item Power (IP): 900
Offense Type: None
Durability: x3 Item Power
Bonuses: The armor can equip up to 6 ordered capacitors. Capacitors take Durability damage from any attack striking the armor in excess of their own Item Power, not the combined Item Power. The capacitor in the forward-most slot takes damage first and; only the forward-most capacitor slot is active. If a capacitor is destroyed, the remaining damage clashes with the armor itself, following the normal item clash rules, and then the next capacitor in order becomes the forward-most capacitor. Changing the order of capacitors or changing out spent capacitors takes up to ten seconds per capacitor.

Drawbacks: While wearing the armor, the user's step techniques suffer a –2x Speed penalty unless the multiplier of those techniques is already x3 or less. Requires 800 or more in combined spiritual stats to benefit from the armor, otherwise, the capacitors do not function and Item Power is halved.
Cost: 40,000 Ryo
Crafting Skills: Crafting 3
Donated to Urahara's: No



Capacitors
Name: Power Capacitor Type 1
Description: A small black and green capacitor resembling a 12-gauge shotgun shell with a mechanical port on one end. When spent, the green depletes out of the capacitor.
Class: 1
Item Type: Ammunition
Item Power (IP): 300
Offense Type: None
Durability: 900
Bonuses: No special bonuses.
Drawbacks: Expended on use, even in an NDE thread.
Cost: 2,000 Ryo each
Crafting Skills: Crafting 3
Donated to Urahara's: No

Name: Ghost Capacitor Type 1
Description: A small black and green capacitor resembling a 12-gauge shotgun shell with a mechanical port on one end. When spent, the green depletes out of the capacitor.
Class: 1
Item Type: Ammunition
Item Power (IP): 100
Offense Type: None
Durability: 200
Bonuses: While this capacitor is active, the armor's wearer benefits from 2 ranks of Stealth.
Drawbacks: Expended on use, even in an NDE thread. Stealth gained from this source overlaps, not stacks, with other stealth sources unless explicitly noted.
Cost: 3,000 Ryo each
Crafting Skills: Crafting 3
Donated to Urahara's: No

Name: Cutback Capacitor Type 1
Description: A small black and green capacitor resembling a 12-gauge shotgun shell with a mechanical port on one end. When spent, the green depletes out of the capacitor.
Class: 1
Item Type: Ammunition
Item Power (IP): 300
Offense Type: Spiritual
Durability: 900
Bonuses: Enemies striking the wearer with melee attacks while this capacitor is active suffer damage from an Offensive Strength equal to the combined Item Power of the armor.
Drawbacks: Expended on use, even in an NDE thread. Functions a maximum of one time per post.
Cost: 3,500 Ryo each
Crafting Skills: Crafting 3
Donated to Urahara's: No

Name: Elemental Capacitor Type 1
Description: A small black and green capacitor resembling a 12-gauge shotgun shell with a mechanical port on one end. When spent, the green depletes out of the capacitor.
Class: 1
Item Type: Ammunition
Item Power (IP): 150
Offense Type: None
Durability: 450
Bonuses: While this capacitor is active, the armor's wearer benefits from 1 rank of Cold, Heat, and Lightning Resist.
Drawbacks: Expended on use, even in an NDE thread. Resist gained from this source overlaps, not stacks, with other resist sources unless explicitly noted.
Cost: 2,000 Ryo each
Crafting Skills: Crafting 3
Donated to Urahara's: No

[Zeich Yajuu]

Alright, grader #1!

Honestly, I'm fine with the armor as it is, since only one capacitor at a time is active, so the bonuses don't become enormously stacked. Approved.

Capacitor Type One is just additional durability, I'm assuming, since it has no special abilities but a higher durability, and I know that hits go capacitor > armor. I'm down for this, approved.

Ghost Type One is alright. I want to ask just to be 100% sure, when you say it doesn't stack with any source and merely overlaps (i.e. the higher takes precedence), does this include ranks that someone already has in the Stealth skill? If so, I can approve this.

Cutback Capacitor is the first hiccup. There are two things I would recommend for this: one, I would either specify that this is for melee, or indicate that in the event of a ranged attack being reflected, it fires a projectile with a set speed. Two, I would bring it down a bit, as this essentially lets you fire off costless 1200 IP attacks every time you're hit. Granted, it takes 1-3 hits to break, which helps its viability considerably, but a means of counterplay is needed to not just instantly bash someone with a full OS of hit. 900 IP (the armor's IP) would be a reasonable amount of damage, and you can up the durability of this item to let it take another hit or two. Combine that with a reasonable means of counterplay and I have no issues. I like the idea!

Elemental Capacitor is cool, too! Very situational SKP. Normally I'd be a bit eh about allowing three SKP, but these are very situation specific and rarely overlap, so I'm okay with it as it is. Approved.

[Nuala Byrne]

That's right on the Ghost type. The rank overlap clause includes ranks already had in the skill.

I fixed the Cutback capacitor. I set it to melee-only, and it now functions only once per post, and the IP is 0 while the durability is 1,000, as wrong as that feels.

[Zeich Yajuu]

For what it's worth, you can leave the IP as an actual value for determining how much durability damage it takes; for example, having 300 IP instead of 0 means that an 800 OS attack only does 250 durability damage as opposed to 400. No need to set it to 0.

[Nuala Byrne]

If I've parsed that correctly, I have it fixed now. 300 IP, 900 Durability, but only the IP of the armor, not the capacitor, will go toward cutback damage.

[Zeich Yajuu]

Correct! I figure that it still deserves to be able to take a few hits before it breaks, so adding that IP helps bolster it while still getting its effects across.

With those in place, I can comfortably give a 1/2 Approval for these.

[Camila Adaronde]

All righty Dram, let's get this shit' goin~!

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Dragon Scales looks good in all honesty! IP isn't too high, and given reliance on other items, 40k is solid!

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Power - Type 1 is up next, and no qualms here.

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Ghost - Type 1 follows, and Z addressed my only real concern with these.

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Cutback - Type 1 is then, n' I feel these should be a little more expensive, given they're the most universally impactful. 3,500 Ryo a pop should work!

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Elemental - Type 1 finishes this grading off, and honestly these look good. Kinda situational as to when "Lightning Resist" would come up, but not something worth making a fuss over 'v'

[Nuala Byrne]

Changes were made

[Camila Adaronde]

Dope! 2/2