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If you want to subdivide universal powers and sorceries, you actually probably want something like this: Power Type Universal Powers Sorceries Disciplines Path Art Individual Powers Power Spell So Revive the Flesh would be a Power within the Fortitude Path, while Aura of Decay would be a spell withi...

What was wrong with Disciplines? That seemed fairly clear - Clout, Progress of Glass, and Lure of Destruction were all Disciplines, and each Discipline contained three tiers of Powers. More to the point, an individual power such as Indominability might have several individual effects that it encompa...

Tangentially related: Aspect Hierarchies and Aspects as Advancement in FATE

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http://cdn4.joshuakennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Nailed-It.png A couple of characterization notes for J-Rock: 1. He has flat affect , which means he usually shows no emotion at all (except in the throes of Frenzy). Other than that, his mannerisms are pretty much those of Jesse Porter from Bu...

Hey, beats mine. My character's backstory is the plot to 8 Man After.

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Grek - that looks pretty close to complete. Need to add an additional line from Harley to J-Rock direct though, as she was also an underworld contact of his. +-----------------Harley | mutual / | | smuggler / | | friend / met | | / thru CoS | / | | Andrus--CoS--Adel under- | | world | | contact | | ...

So, just curious, did K always have these particular beliefs about design? Or are they a recent phenomenon?

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Omegon - I'm confused by your description of Andrus as a "bruiser"....his powers seem to be entirely stealth/intel based with a focus on confounding, manipulating, and scattering foes, he has no points in Intimidation, and his strength is below average. His origin story about beating a dud...

Why not make each supernatural type an entry on a sliding scale based on what powers they receive? Witches could be the most open with "anything in your discipline" for their powers, while Lycanthropes and Vampires are the least open (having a lot of core powers that are thematically criti...

I have no objections to either of those. J-Rock would probably have a significant net of contacts with regard to supernatural crime by this point - it's very common in genre fiction to have detectives and PIs come with a suite of contacts and informants on the wrong side of the law that they're forc...

Seems more optimal in every way, and fixes the problem with supernatural types that gain Devotions as part of their core powerset having fewer synergy bonuses than types that do not.

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Also, Drive should probably merged into Athletics. It would solve a lot of problems at once, and has a ton of precedent in film. The Progress of Glass bonus could then be rewritten to say "A user of the Progress of Glass gains a +1 bonus on any Athletics or Stealth roll in which they can utiliz...

Honestly, Light of Ennui just doesn't strike me as a good power overall. The only effect we can be absolutely sure it does is make Frenzy impossible, and that kind of undermines the entire idea of Master Passions. A character who just didn't want to have to deal with the downsides of their Master Pa...

Is Light of Ennui supposed to have any in-game effects besides suppressing Frenzy? For example, do people stop attacking you if under its effects?

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Withering doesn't seem to allow any kind of resistance roll. This seems problematic when a starting character can easily be rolling 12 to 14 dice on a Withering roll. Blood Puppets also doesn't allow a resistance roll, but it only targets human extras so I guess that doesn't matter. Strangely, the ...

I didn't fine tooth comb everything, but at a glance it does look like people have shorted themselves a few skill points--J-Rock in particular looks like he did everything right and then simply forgot to tack on his 6 discretionary points at the end. ffffffffffffffffffffffffff will fix this tomorro...

I volunteer for a glorious pathetic death in the Maze! Gershwin Aeieadurrilach, Lawful Good Half-Elf Fighter/Cleric of Corellon Larethian STR 11 (Open Doors 6, Bend Bars/Lift Gates 2%) DEX 8 (No Adjustment) CON 10 (70% System Shock, 75% Resurrection Survival) INT 10 (Speaks Common and Elven) WIS 14 ...

Okay, this is getting weird. I hit the submit button ONCE!

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Omegonthesane wrote:The notes of Dr Steve Morituri

I laughed, and then I was sad that I had gotten the joke.

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As a fallback it has deep slumber 6/day. I was surprised to find recently that Deep Slumber (and Sleep) have 1-round casting times, meaning that you begin casting them on your initiative on turn 1 as a full-round action and the spell completes at the start of your second turn. This tends to make Sl...

Whoops! Double post.

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Whipstitch wrote:I thought it was 5 and 9 friends, so you outnumber like 6 and 10 attackers (counting yourself) for Devastation and Elder Devastation respectively. That would require skills of 5 and 9 to set a threshold against, right?

I believe you are right.

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Devastation says that "[the character] can strike a single opponent [in Close Combat] as if they outnumbered them", but I can't find where it says what this actually does . Under melee combat, there is an entry about "a victim can only resist one more enemy than they have actual comba...

...getting these people to work together is going to be kind of tricky. Two of the three has no affiliations with any major faction, and one of them has no significant supernatural affiliations whatsoever. As an IMR character, J-Rock has probably handled a few supernatural cases by now and has most...

...getting these people to work together is going to be kind of tricky. Two of the three has no affiliations with any major faction, and one of them has no significant supernatural affiliations whatsoever. As an IMR character, J-Rock has probably handled a few supernatural cases by now and has most...