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Wierd Character Ideas
Chuck Chuck Razool:
I would say opening a rift to the nevernever and flat out vanishing before someone's eyes is pretty near it. Calling up winds to come in from different directions, or making a tiny whirlwind. If I saw someone do that I'd be sold.
Deadmanwalking:
--- Quote from: Chuck Chuck Razool on March 06, 2010, 08:05:09 PM ---I would say opening a rift to the nevernever and flat out vanishing before someone's eyes is pretty near it. Calling up winds to come in from different directions, or making a tiny whirlwind. If I saw someone do that I'd be sold.
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Actually, I'm pretty sure that, with modern techniques, good stage magicians in real life can duplicate the visual effects of both of those. If I saw them on a random street corner, I might be convinced (a good stage magician wouldn't waste the prep-work necessary for those kinds of things like that), but a fair number of people really wouldn't be.
Still, it's a goal, maybe not an achievable one, but progress could be made towards it.
finarvyn:
--- Quote from: Chuck Chuck Razool on March 06, 2010, 07:57:07 AM ---1. A character who's main motivation is to disseminate as much information about the magical world at large to the general public. This includes street corner 'performances' in which they gather a crowd and performs acts of harmless but undeniable magic.
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I guess the concern I have with this character concept is that if your character ever "wins" then the campaign "loses." In other words, the Dresdenverse is kind of neat because of the assumption that there is magic but no one knows about it and no one believes in it. Once you get to the point where the world says "hey, there is magic" and everyone decides to learn a few spells, you have a very different campaign. A lot like the MagiTech sourcebook for TSR's Amazing Engine game system. Could be fun, but I'm not sure it's Dresden-like anymore.
Just my two cents.
traeki:
--- Quote from: Deadmanwalking on March 06, 2010, 08:17:52 PM ---Actually, I'm pretty sure that, with modern techniques, good stage magicians in real life can duplicate the visual effects of both of those. If I saw them on a random street corner, I might be convinced (a good stage magician wouldn't waste the prep-work necessary for those kinds of things like that), but a fair number of people really wouldn't be.
Still, it's a goal, maybe not an achievable one, but progress could be made towards it.
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Yeah, that's pretty much what I was getting at. Could certainly be a fun character idea, but probably he shouldn't succeed, or be well liked by the supernatural community. Keeping in mind that "calling in the mortal authorities is like setting off a tacnuke", trying to tell everybody everything is like losing tic-tac-toe in the situation room. I'm guessing the attempts don't go over well. =)
mrsleep:
Seriously, have you never watched Mind Freak? For every one convert you'd have a dozen people quickly putting it out of mind and fifty saying Chris Angel does it better.
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