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Michael Sandy:
A player in my campaign has a real mad on for Black Court Vampires, and has a rote spell to create a circle of flowing water around the target.
It puts the sticky aspect of "Surrounded by flowing water" on the target, with the result that if the target is a Black Court vampire, it will not be able to move. Initial targeting is versus athletics to dodge the evocation, but to break out of the watery circle a Black Court vampire would have to roll their conviction, spend fate points, or both.
Everybody else would just step over the flowing water. But in an encounter where you want to lock a Black Court vampire in one place in one zone, it is cheap and effective snare.
citadel97501:
--- Quote from: Michael Sandy on May 02, 2011, 09:48:53 AM ---A player in my campaign has a real mad on for Black Court Vampires, and has a rote spell to create a circle of flowing water around the target.
It puts the sticky aspect of "Surrounded by flowing water" on the target, with the result that if the target is a Black Court vampire, it will not be able to move. Initial targeting is versus athletics to dodge the evocation, but to break out of the watery circle a Black Court vampire would have to roll their conviction, spend fate points, or both.
Everybody else would just step over the flowing water. But in an encounter where you want to lock a Black Court vampire in one place in one zone, it is cheap and effective snare.
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Probably works pretty good for locking down other Casters, as well? Block versus all of their casting at power, possibly an aspect to tag as well, if they try to move through it? Hell technically you do that spell, in a big area as a zone border, with a fate point and suddenly their magic can't escape and they probably can't gather much power to do evocation, send in uber beat stick to break said mage over his knee. . .
sandchigger:
--- Quote from: Michael Sandy on May 02, 2011, 09:48:53 AM ---A player in my campaign has a real mad on for Black Court Vampires, and has a rote spell to create a circle of flowing water around the target.
It puts the sticky aspect of "Surrounded by flowing water" on the target, with the result that if the target is a Black Court vampire, it will not be able to move. Initial targeting is versus athletics to dodge the evocation, but to break out of the watery circle a Black Court vampire would have to roll their conviction, spend fate points, or both.
Everybody else would just step over the flowing water. But in an encounter where you want to lock a Black Court vampire in one place in one zone, it is cheap and effective snare.
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How do you create a circle of flowing water? Once it's created, it's water and behaves like water. So if there's not a moat already around the BCV it's gonna soak into the ground or run downhill or whatever. Right?
devonapple:
--- Quote from: sandchigger on May 02, 2011, 03:26:10 PM ---How do you create a circle of flowing water? Once it's created, it's water and behaves like water. So if there's not a moat already around the BCV it's gonna soak into the ground or run downhill or whatever. Right?
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Since water includes dissolution, I was taking for granted that it created a little moat or something. If someone was continuing to pump power/duration into it, I might also be open to an actual ring of water hovering in place, unnaturally.
sandchigger:
Ah, so you use water's entropic abilities to dissolve the floor they're standing on and make a little moat. I'm not sure I'd count that as "running" water without duration, but I'm kinda a douche. :)
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