You could always allow Nemesis level treats to spend some of their dice pool to get extra actions, or alternatively allow them to add a purple dice to all their actions past the first one, such as the way it was allowed on the old West End Games Star Wars with losing dice for multiple actions. It's slightly more "heroic" than the darker nature of WFRP, but its a pretty simple fix to a glaring problem in *a lot* of games.

Interesting, please do share any other portable-bits.

If using the "templates" provided for uber creatures in Heroes Guide, you could simply decide that along with the fixed extra dice-line benefit, a Nemesis gains: 2 boons - make a free basic attack or an equivalent basic social action; comet - repeat action against another target.

I also suggest that any "big bad" should have 2+ reactive actions (e.g., the "if your parry worked immediately can do this", "improved counterspell", etc. sorts, and have some "on X, remove recharge tokens" actions - I also love giving them talents that exhaust for extra soak or recharging) - it's important if trying to make a foe flavourful that it's not just "on their action" you see their power, uniqueness etc. but also on your action! This, in effect, gives them an extra action without it being simply two normal actions.

Anybody got a summary list of the reaction cards?

@ valvorik

Did you mean me with porting other bits from other games?

If so, I could think of tons of mods you could make from heaps of games I have played over the years. If you have anything in mind however, that would help as I cannot recall off-hand just how many systems I have played I work better when given a specific issue to think about.

The Adversary talent from EotE is also something you may want to incorporate in Warhammer 3

Might I suggest a modification to that?

For every rank of the opponent more than two steps removed from the acting character or monster, add 1 difficulty dice on actions targeting that character or monster. For Example, A rank 2 character wishes to attack a rank 5 monster. Instead of the base one difficulty dice, it now becomes 2. The rank 5 monster however receives one less difficulty dice to attack the rank 2 character.

Thoughts?

The purple bump seems like a lot for a rank 3 adversary (4 purples to hit). Another option: keep it simple and just do a "cancel 1 success or boon per rank" rule instead.

jh

Nono, a rank 3 vs rank 1 still gives the standard 1 diff dice, a rank 4 vs rank 1 would give 2 and so on.

I do not think these kinds of rules really sit well with me. It feels like the enemy is artificially made more dangerous than he really is. I know that game in itself is artificial, but it seems like he breaks the game world.

If a nemesis does not have high enough stats to survive a full on confrontation and also lacks the smarts to realize this and avoid a full on confrontation, he does not deserve the status of nemesis. He should either have enough minions with him that he evens the odds or he simply avoids winding up in a situation where he will loose. If he winds up in a disadvantaged situation, that is when the characters have won. The combat is more like a celebration party. Actually getting to fight him is the challenge.

If a nemesis does not have high enough stats to survive a full on confrontation ...

No one has the stats to survive a full-on confrontation in this game. Just sayin'.

Depends on the party size, career makeup and rank of the player characters though. A rank 1 party of 3 social characters would get completely crushed by something a rank 3 combat party of 5 would eat for breakfast. And if your players are the combat party, the nemesis should not be facing them without enough backup to make it a hard fight.

@ Ralzar

The idea is not to make them "artificially dangerous", it's more an attempt to plug a hole in the rules. that being of scaling. Besides a few more actions and some more gold dice, a rank 1 character is really not a lot different from a rank 3 character in terms of what they can throw out in damage.

You make a good point about a nemesis should be able to avoid being caught in a combat where they are outnumbered though, but I think that falls more in how the ref plays the Nemesis (if you have ever played the original module Ravenloft or House of Strahd, they are good examples of this). I don't think the climactic combat should be a cakewalk however, they should still be a challenge.