Cybernetics – Revision based on Elemental (Streetfighter STG)

Cybernetics is another that would need a big overhaul. By RAW, this background's main use is to create Focus monsters that use cheap Cybernetics background dots instead of expensive Focus technique dots, physical stats instead of mental ones for Focus maneuvers, and can also spend Health instead of Chi. The extra health, extra physical scores …

Animal Hybrid – Revision based on Elemental (Streetfighter STG)

As said in my last post, I'll try to rebuild the backgrounds using Elemental as a template to rebalance them, by giving them all combat-relevant options rather than to have Animal Hybrid and Cyborg backgrounds being outliers that grant free combat stuff.This background represents a rather generic feral predator. Adjustments may be needed for specific …

Backgrounds – Revision based on Elemental (Streetfighter STG)

As anyone who has ever taken a closer look at the Player's Guide can attest, two of the new backgrounds introduced within (Animal Hybrid, Cyborg) are very much more powerful than the ones in the core book, granting direct mechanical combat advantages, where the regular backgrounds are just fluffy Magical Tea Party. Non-Brazilean Musashi has …