Magic Weapons strength bonus?
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:12 pm
Palladium Fantasy Questions:
I've been running a Palladium Fantasy Campaign for a short while now with mostly new players to the Genre and some "semi experienced" and inevitably lively discussion over rules come up as with an session. I'll be the first to admit sometimes reclarifying the same rules over 20 years of playing gets old but generally I have found that most players are good with rules house or as written so long as they are consistent. Recently I have been finding more players are wanting to be psuedo-intellectual and either want to split hairs and/or demand what source in Palladiums wide spread of material you are drawing from on the moment. Putting aside the whole how to handle it or DMs way or highway argument. I am more interested in the communities views on the mechanics (what book you draw your ruling from) and/or your feeling in players attempting to bypass the rules. Here are 2 scenarios for your entertainment and hopefully positive feedback.
First is more a question around Physical Strength (P.S.). When attacking creatures such as Vampires, Werewolves, or any other variety of monster that requires something such as a magic and/or silver sword, etc that when you hit the creature with the required object (say a magic sword) only the weapon damage is done to the creature and not your PS bonus if you have standard PS. The exception to this would be if your strength was Supernatural or some variation of that. What source material would you to point to to confirm or contradict that rule.
Second is more an argument of semantics. Circling back around to said previous question and magic weapons specifically. There are several players that now want to argue if you are going up against Vampires, etc that require a magic weapon you do not need to have a weapon that does magic damage but instead just put a magical effect on the weapon such as it now glows blue, and presto weapon it is now a weapon capable of dealing death to creatures that can only be damaged by magic weapons. When trying to explain the difference between magic effect and magic damage it fell on deaf, and instead I was accused of stealing player agency. Seriously making me think of just quitting gaming after 25+ years if this is the new standard of gaming. Anyhow I digress. Thoughts and feelings on this.
I've been running a Palladium Fantasy Campaign for a short while now with mostly new players to the Genre and some "semi experienced" and inevitably lively discussion over rules come up as with an session. I'll be the first to admit sometimes reclarifying the same rules over 20 years of playing gets old but generally I have found that most players are good with rules house or as written so long as they are consistent. Recently I have been finding more players are wanting to be psuedo-intellectual and either want to split hairs and/or demand what source in Palladiums wide spread of material you are drawing from on the moment. Putting aside the whole how to handle it or DMs way or highway argument. I am more interested in the communities views on the mechanics (what book you draw your ruling from) and/or your feeling in players attempting to bypass the rules. Here are 2 scenarios for your entertainment and hopefully positive feedback.
First is more a question around Physical Strength (P.S.). When attacking creatures such as Vampires, Werewolves, or any other variety of monster that requires something such as a magic and/or silver sword, etc that when you hit the creature with the required object (say a magic sword) only the weapon damage is done to the creature and not your PS bonus if you have standard PS. The exception to this would be if your strength was Supernatural or some variation of that. What source material would you to point to to confirm or contradict that rule.
Second is more an argument of semantics. Circling back around to said previous question and magic weapons specifically. There are several players that now want to argue if you are going up against Vampires, etc that require a magic weapon you do not need to have a weapon that does magic damage but instead just put a magical effect on the weapon such as it now glows blue, and presto weapon it is now a weapon capable of dealing death to creatures that can only be damaged by magic weapons. When trying to explain the difference between magic effect and magic damage it fell on deaf, and instead I was accused of stealing player agency. Seriously making me think of just quitting gaming after 25+ years if this is the new standard of gaming. Anyhow I digress. Thoughts and feelings on this.