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First, each chronicle (is that what we're calling them?) will have two stress caps. The following table gives the suggested values of the stress cap for each of the three "chronicle types". Street Gang : The adventurers are a gang of toughs or low lifes, with relatively limited resources a...

As per a few pages back, conjuration is mechanically similar to having a bunch of magical contacts (of varying quality) and the ability to wave your hands around and get one of your magical contacts to show up with magic. It doesn't interact with the E economy at all, much for the same reason as ge...

Occult Economics DrPraetor, is there any particular reason that your other currency has an exchange rater other than 1? Also, did we ever decide on the purchasing power of one SPdR? $1,000 is meant as a placeholder. I'd say, for pricing things in F'sCFH, it's like kilograms. A gram would be a good ...

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Okay, we *know* the following: * Magic enables more legwork. Eventually this will involve a link to Dan Dennett talking about how a religion is a "domesticated meme", but for now the crucial issue is that magic gives you access to an entire extra universe full of agents with whom you can b...

Dr. Arroyo taps another button. "Yep, they're really eyeballs." Marionette peers quizically at the tanktainer. It was *supposed* to be full of about twenty million dollars worth of liquid helium, but Chun had noticed the weight discrepancy as soon as he'd latched the tanker onto their empl...

As in Shadowrun, this isn't something you can dodge. If the player characters (or even their repeating adversaries!) can summon spirits who are giant bulls - and I assume that they can - then you need somewhere a rule for giant bulls. Likewise, you need rules for Engulf, even if none of the player c...

What about invisibility? Is that in Energy Physics, Communications or Glamour? What about third-person illusions/holograms? How about Shape Shifting? Likewise, that could be Glamour, but that seems a bit strange. Finally, what about those powers which certain spirits enjoy intrinsically - like, say,...

There are a lot of interesting questions in what I've posted above - how the magic design system should work (mainly for your adversaries), how the technocracy-type coincidental magic-which-pretends-to-be-science should work. This is the main point of the entire game, which was primarily inspired by...

This is probably going to lie fallow for a month. Spell Magnitudes Spell Level Primary Mag. Secondary Max Mag. Total Mag. of Secondary 0 0.25 0 0 1 1 0.25 0.5 2 2 1 1.25 3 3 2 3 4 4 3 5 5 5 4 7 Thus, a Fireball (a level 2 spell) can include a Bolt of Fire (a level 1 spell effect) which hits whoever ...

This needs a lot of fleshing out. Comments and suggestions welcome. Common Positions on Philosophical Questions as Reduced to Practice The player characters, of course, may think whatever they want. However, they may often wish to secure the assistance of other initiated individuals (and spirits) vi...

Are these in universe names which you'll be working into the dialog, or are they purely game mechanical names? I'm assuming that the Technocracy, being team science, would have some latin or greek derived formal naming for these things? So, sidh = genus loci object spirit = daemon and so forth.

My apologies all, but something has come up Wednesday night, and by "something" I mean "tickets to see Tim Minchin." If possible, I would like to reschedule for Thursday or Friday night. If that doesn't work out, I will be extremely active in the play-by-post to compensate. I th...

Mandates, Sustained Effects, and Spirit Types Each wizard/spirit (including the player characters) can maintain a number of points-worth of magical effects with a total rating equal to her: Edge + Auspice + Mandate Scores If you exceed this limit, your edge is reduced by 1 point for each point in e...

This is the most boring class ever. All it does is stand in one place and shoot arrows. It doesn't even fucking move . The 3e Full Attack Archer fighter is dull, fairly effective sometimes, but dull. If you want the character to be vaguely interesting, give it a shit tonne of things to do with a st...

Other Misc Stuff If you were trained in the Technocratic Union, take a free +1 to a corresponding resource and +2 to two academic backgrounds (probably raising them above 4!) in which you were trained. This is a mini-splat, I guess. Directorate of Industry, Engineering and Process Optimization (IEP...

There will not be traditional mages in out space. That's silly and out of theme with what I'm doing here and has all sorts of baggage that I'd just as soon ignore. Likewise, it will neither be possible nor useful to post rules in the empty void. Consider your splinter project to be itself splintere...

This has been very heavily modified and I'd like feedback on the new version. Adjustments to In Media Res Character Generation [/b] I will worry about other types of character generation later. First, attributes and skills are scaled 1-4 rather than 1-6 (because the target number - to use ancient sh...

Again and still: I under no circumstance want to go to patches of void to post rules, because that is as boring as mopping up the sea. Old One Space Ships work because they carry their mandates with them and the rules of reality in space are "soft". So from a Shadowrun perspective, they a...

That sounds like adjudication hell to me. What qualifies something as indirect vs. direct? I'm a bit confused about where you disagree, since you seem to me to be saying the same thing I said, but answers below. In the example above, did I not say giant bear? Like, big enough to knock over a trolle...

Okay, in the same sense that the Powers are very much the meat of After Sundown, the Occult Sciences are very much the meat of War vs. Otherwhere . Not a final title The Occult Sciences are not quite as general (and better balanced) than the Spheres in Mage, but considerably more general in what the...

this can (as in the example above) lead to an incongruous situation where people around the corner flee the noise of an unknown explosion, while people within line of sight don't react at all. Why would this be something that should happen? There are two reasons for this. One, I want direct exposur...

The Veil, The Mandate and the Otherworld Veil Mechanics The Veil is triggered whenever one or more normal humans observe an overtly magical phenomenon. In general, this will be any spell effect which is not covert , but the observation must be direct and unambiguous, and the magical nature of the ef...

Don't have Department the PC works at be a splat. It's stupid. The PCs are all going to work for the same Department because they are all coworkers. Well, I work at a University so this may not be widely known outside of Academia, but most of my coworkers aren't in my department. I'm in the Mathema...

Please never write comic relief, because "comedy" like that is dumb. It's like a force of nature. If you let people take Anachronism, they'll do this to you. Try to endure. I will remember not to actually suggest it. That said, the idea is NOT to do a comedy, thank you for requesting that...