"Armor Lightening" Charm support

[Starmage21]

There are a handful of charms out there that remove penalties for wearing heavy armor. Any chance a submodule can be added which recalculates available motes, and DVs based on having motes invested in an "armor lightening" charm?

These charms would be: Armored Scouts Invigoration (Solars) repurchase of Viridian Legend Exoskeleton (Infernals) Ghost Armor Prana (Abyssals) plus any of the other splats' charms.

[UrsKR]

Not sure. Can you go into a little more detail what the Charms actually do with the mote pools and DVs?

[Starmage21]

As it stands, Anathema calculates your mote pools and DVs as if you have whatever equipment equipped or attuned. Orichalcum Superheavy Plate for instance costs 8 motes to attune and has a -2 to Dodge DV due to the mobility penalty.

The armor lightening charms reduce the mobility penalty by allowing you to commit extra motes during attunement. For each 3 extra motes you spend, you reduce the mobility penalty and fatigue rating by 1, so for 6 extra motes, your orichalcum superheavy plate does not hinder you at all (full Dodge DV and no fatigue rating). Admittedly that is how it works for Armored Scouts Invigoration and it's abyssal mirror Ghost Armor Prana. Viridian Legend Exoskeleton works slightly different.

[smattox]

I would suggest copying the armor equipment item, and modifying it as necessary for the changes applied by the Charm.

[UrsKR]

Thanks, perfect example.

@JMobius, does your chiming in indicate you are interested in adding the feature? I was wondering if we should add an entirely new screen for Charms that you can semi-permanently invest essence in, with these Charms as a prime example. For these, you can link a Charm to an Armor item and choose the number of activations, then modify the Armor item and register spent motes.

For the time being, I'm adding it to the list of unsupported rules, just to keep that current.

[UrsKR]

@JMobius, I understand, and I agree. That is the easiest way to go about it, no change to the program necessary.

As such, @Starmage21, I don't think we'll deal with it soon, as it is not easily added and we have several initiatives already running. Sorry about that.

[smattox]

It is something I might be willing to look in to in the future, but I'm kind of in wait-and-see mode with respect to adding new mechanical content until 3E comes out.

I do think that at some point we will need to explore a more robust framework for mechanical Charm effects. This sort of Charm would be a good one to add to that list.

[Starmage21]

that is a great workaround for the time being. I appreciate the response.

[UrsKR]

@JMobius, agreed. I'm somewhat distracted currently, but I hope the new rules engine can help with problems like that once I get back into R&D mode.

Closing, as the immediate problem is solved.