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Moriden:
Someone mentioned in another thread that in the dresdenverse emotions are essentially pure magic, or magic fuel if you would. this brought up something i thought about a long time ago when reading one of the earlier books. Pain can be used to power magic right? harry dose it a few times "channeling all his pain and rage" so how would you represent a magician with a syndrome like fibromyalgia, who is essentially in constant near crippling pain?

It seems like he would have a rather powerful wellspring of power to draw on, but i imagine it would be somewhat "tainted" drawing so much power from his own continual pain, and likely hatred.

KOFFEYKID:
The way I look at it would be consequences, we already know you can take a mental consequence to represent the fact that you are loosing your cool and high on anger.

Moriden:
that seems to "one shotish" to represent something that would always be there. for example if you said." play your in pain you can take that as a consequence to fuel your magic" once you've done that it cant be used again untill the consequence heals. but the pain would still thematically be there.

The more i think about it, the more i want to say to try and make it some form of sponsored magic. I would give you a boost for any magic that could be boosted by pain, but would also flavor your magic in the same way...

paul_Harkonen:
You could take it as an aspect.  Take a compel basically any time you do something, you'll have a huge pool of fate points, and could invoke it for almost anything (if your GM let you, of course).

Biff Dyskolos:
I think there are three ways to handle this,


* Take an aspect for your "emotion" and invoke it
* Take a mental consequence (2/4/6/8) for the emotion to boost your power
* Tag an existing consequence

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