Nechronica: Lights Out Houserrules (WIP)

Nechronica: Lights Out Ruleset
(Mostly proposed by Kiwi)

Permitted Material:
-All BftP Skills/Parts are permitted.
-Gravel Expansion Skills are permitted.
-Gravel Expansion Parts are subject to GM approval on a per-Part basis.
-Vanilla classes, Psychedelic, Entombed, Erudite, Toybox, Grotesque, and Loviatar are permitted.
-Homebrew and vanilla material are subject to review and alteration.

General Notes/Changes:
-Auto timing bonuses to attack checks are capped to +2. The theoretical max is +4 Great Knife/Shotgun without Lullaby, Concentration, and +2 from other skills (Such as God of Death or Made to be Broken).
-Madness Removal in each Phase is limited to (Memory Fragments +1) and PCs begin play with only 1 Memory Fragment.
-PCs must REQUEST to roll Conversation Checks, and will not be regularly reminded to do so.
-PCs begin play with the standard 3 madness on all fetters.
-Cross-class and Cross-Position skills cost 15 Favor, and will most likely be limited to 3 in total.
-After the first combat, players will be allowed to rebuild their PCs if they so desire.
-Later-game respecs may be granted at the GM's discretion.

Skill Changes:
Court:
-Anticipate is Auto timing, and explicitly once per round.

Junk:
-Lame Beast DOES NOT bypass the hit bonus cap.
-Even Unto Tartarus is usable only once per Round.

Stacy:
-Protect is now Range 0.

Thanatos:
-Instantaneous is once per round and must be declared when the attack is declared.
-Drama of Death now only gives a +1 to the attack check (This is able to skirt around the cap FOR NOW, but will be altered if it becomes a problem).

Psychedelic:
-Instead of ARM 0/MUT 0/ENH 1, this class now starts at ARM 0/MUT 1/ENH 1.
-In this game, Psychedelic skills may be bought as Cross Class.
-Throne of the Void is removed.


Requiem:
-Trusted Companion now affects Blast Attack parts as well as Melee and Ranged.

Baroque:
-Super Strength is no longer a skill.  It is now a Tier 3 Mutation.
-Instrument of Evil is no longer a skill.  It is now a Tier 3 Enhancement.
-New skill (Supplied by Kiwi): Elastic Flesh [Auto/None/Self] Once per round, you may increase the range of a Mutation that has a range other than Self by 1.

Romanesque:
-BftP skill changes override vanilla.
-New skill (supplied by Kiwi): >One Last Dance [Auto/None/Self] Decrease the AP cost of an Enhancement part by 2, to a minimum of 0. As a cost for this skill, break the part you use.
"Your time on this stage draws ever closer to an end; but perhaps your heart can hold out for one last dance?"

Part Changes
Vanilla Parts:
ARM:
-Flamethrower gets a +1 to the attack check.
-Superior Katana no longer gets a +1 to the attack check.
-Monofilament is removed.  REMOVED!
-Ball and Chain is now Range 1.
-Netgun is now range 1-2.
-AT Rifle negates Defend 1 (Defend 2 is unaffected).

ENH:
-Electrigger takes a -1 to the attack check.
-Gauntlet is kept as an auto defend 1, but is only +2 damage once per round at damage timing.
-Manipulator AP cost changed from 2 to 1.
-Psycho Blaster AP Cost reduced to 0.
-Rocket Pack AP cost changed to 1 and is now usable once per round.
-Lightsaber does not benefit from maneuvers that increase melee damage.

MUT:
-Boy is changed to T1.
-Skinny is moved to T2.  The part's effect is now [Auto/None/Self] Once per Round, you may use this part when you declare an Attack Maneuver, you may declare this part.  Your Attack Check is immune to Hinders.
-Meat Snake no longer has its free reroll (and using it is grounds for a paddling).

BftP Parts:
(Currently unchanged.  The wiki's versions of these parts are the most up-to-date, and thus will be the versions used.)

Gravel Parts:
ARM:
-Hachimaki is changed.  The new part effect is [Auto/None/Self] Critical Hits you inflict and receive deal +1 base damage.
-Meat Hook is now a Tier 2 part.
-Bayonet is changed. The part's new effect is now [Action/3/0] Melee 3. When you deal damage with this attack, you may use a Ranged Attack Maneuver with Damage timing at Range 0, regardless of the Maneuver's original range.
-Kevlar is changed to [Auto/0/Self] Auto-Defend 1. Can only defend the Torso. Once per *Round*, you may pay 1 AP to increase the value of a non-Auto Defend Maneuver by 1.

MUT:
-Fire Sac is unchanged.
-Crawling Chaos has its AP cost increased to 1.
-Skitterers may not apply the distance traveled to its attack check, only to its damage.
-Appendage Wall is unchanged.

ENH:
-Orbital Weapon is unchanged.
-Hookshot is unchanged.
-Dash has its AP cost increased to 1 and is treated as resolving *after* that Count's Action-timing Maneuvers (unless it triggers due to a Rapid attack, in which case it resolves after the Rapid).
-Force Field Generator is allowed, but its uses apply *before* other Auto-Defends.
-Berserker Collar is REMOVED WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE.