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New to GMing entirely and our group is new to Gamma World, but how do you split exp in an encounter?  For the first sample GW encounter we had a party of 3 level 1s.  They all fought the two badders and porkers but only two people got kills.  They both killed one of each monster.  How do we split the exp fairly?

Furthermore, they're going to use these characters saved EQ, stats and all, in a campaign I'm working on along with 2-3 more new players.  How do I scale enemies, etc, appropriately?

What about making original enemies?  For now I'm just considering creating "original" monsters and just using the basic monsters/stats/abilities that suit whatever creatures I have them encounter.

And last, but not least, is there an effective way to work out some kind of vehicle combat of any kind?

Apr 7, 2011 -- 11:46AM, lefthandpunk wrote:

Furthermore, they're going to use these characters saved EQ, stats and all, in a campaign I'm working on along with 2-3 more new players.  How do I scale enemies, etc, appropriately?

Encounters have XP budgets. Take the XP for a normal monster of the party's level, and multiply it by the number of players. That's the XP budget for an equal-level encounter. So, for a 3-man party at level 1, this would be 300 XP. A 6-man party could take on double that.

You can fill this budget however you like - elite monsters (XP equal to 2 normal monsters) are my personal favorite, I try to include one in nearly every combat. Minions (XP equal to 1/4th of a normal monster) are another easy way of spicing up encounters.

Encounters of lower level are easier, encounters of higher level are harder. Try not to use too many encounters more than 3 levels over the party, unless you enjoy killing your player's characters. Gamma World can be surprisingly deadly if you roll a few criticals in a row.

Apr 10, 2011 -- 6:38PM, sgcrutch wrote:

Question about Encounter Omega Tech cards: Am I allowed to use each item only once per encounter - even a weapon such as a fusion or blaster rifle? In other words - if I fire a blaster rifle Omega tech item once per encounter, I CANNOT use it any more during that encounter? Thanks for any help.

As I understand it:

Generally, the item will have a power, and the power will say either 'at will' or 'encounter.'  The item may or may not have a 'benefit' instead if or in addition to a power:

• Benefits aply the whole time you have the item readied.  Recieving a benefit, alone, does not force an omega charge check
• At-wills can be used as often as you like in the encounter, but you 'tap' the Omega Card when you first use the at-will, and make an omega charge check even if you only use it once, or there's an encounter power that you never used. 
• An encounter power can be used only once, and you make an omega charge check at the end.

I'd probably make wall jumping be a high-moderate athletics check (perhaps an moderate-easy check at higher levels) that gets more difficult for each consescutive wall jump you perform. Each successful wall jump would probably lower the DC to jump vertically by 2 or 5 (your call).

So with a running start, a successful wall jump will allow a PC to jump an extra 5 ft vertically (if you're giving them a +5 bonus).

However, I don't think that wall jumping would help with horizontal jump distance. In this case, if a PC tried to wall jump with a running start, I would half any remaining horizontal distance from their jump check after they perform the wall jump. An exception might be if they were jumping almost parallel with the wall.

Wheeled crit allows a full move speed as shifting, felinoid 3 squares as shifting but with "free action" tagged. Because wheeled says "you can then shift your speed ..." does that imply that if you have already moved that turn, that this rider is wasted?

 

Edit: Customer Service says it is a free move in addition to your movement. It will also stack with Felinoid for a 11 square shift + prone on a critical at level 6 onwards.