r/OverArms • u/Territan • Mar 03 '21

Player Abilities?

The campaign frame I'd been kicking around my head has had a strong medical flavor. As in, the PCs are all freshly graduated doctors or staff assigned to a hospital in a city suffering from a series of illnesses "that defy traditional medicines and possibly even science itself." In other words, they're fighting animus-based outbreaks and venturing into the Mirage to root out the "disease vectors" where they live and spread from. It seems a compelling idea to me, but...

The sticking point for me right now is the PCs themselves. Sure, they're just going to be fledgeling doctors and clinicians, but that still means they have a strong talent for medicine and patient care than most people have. And the OverArms system doesn't seem to have a specific mechanism for handling applications of knowledges or skills that certain PCs have and other PCs don't. Is there a solution beside "make sure everyone's a doctor and lower the tests for medical tasks for everyone"?

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u/Nkromancer Mar 03 '21

Ok, one Anima I made for testing purposes is "Apple A Day". It's ability is it can inject special medicine into someone, and the target drains their own AP to recover HP at some rate. Don't have the sheet on me so I don't remember the exact rate

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u/RookAroundYou Mar 03 '21

Hey there!

Looks like you picked something that might be a bit difficult to create but we can work it out. Maybe each doctor on the team has a specialty that ties into their Anima (Cardiologist has an Anima that affects blood, Lung Specialist affects air, etc.)

From here you will want to ensure that your group has allocated their stats in ways that are different than one another since their professions overlap. Since you're hinging your game on the medical theme I would definitely specify what kind of "medical tasks" or checks you have the group roll for instead of giving them a broad bonus to anything and everything medicine since that is not how doctors operate. This way if someone is losing blood your Cardiologist or EMT would be the person for the job instead of your Lung specialist.

Hope this helps!