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Custom Powers Master List (Work In Progress)
Silverblaze:
--- Quote from: computerking on April 11, 2012, 07:46:00 PM ---Interjecting a possible True Faith power (For those of Evil Bent)
A Pox on Both Your Houses [–1]Description: Your faith in evil is such that even the protection of a threshold withers under your glower.
Skills Affected: Conviction.
Effects:
A Pox on Both Your Houses. By your very presence in or outside of a place, you may attempt to decrease the strength of its threshold — assuming your abilities aren’t already dampened too low by a threshold for this power to work. If your Conviction (After any Threshold Dampening) is higher than the Natural Threshold Rating of a particular place (i.e. before any characters’ Bless This House are added in), You may make a Conviction roll, lowering the place’s Natural Threshold Rating by the number of shifts you roll above the Threshold Rating (To a minimum of 1). Multiple individuals who have this power can stack the effects, making a coven of those Faithful to Demons or the Unholy a force to be reckoned with. And woe to anyone who is so foolish as to invite one of them in.
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I'd just have it automatically decrease any threshold by two - (inversely) like Bless This House, under the same exact circumstances.
computerking:
--- Quote from: Silverblaze on April 11, 2012, 08:36:32 PM ---I'd just have it automatically decrease any threshold by two - (inversely) like Bless This House, under the same exact circumstances.
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I'd thought about that, but it seemed too passive for that kind of character.
devonapple:
--- Quote from: computerking on April 11, 2012, 08:58:40 PM ---I'd thought about that, but it seemed too passive for that kind of character.
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Are you maybe envisioning this acting like Rituals: Thresholds, focusing on destroying Thresholds from within?
Silverblaze:
--- Quote from: computerking on April 11, 2012, 08:58:40 PM ---I'd thought about that, but it seemed too passive for that kind of character.
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Not really trying to be arguementative, rather offer another perspective. My Knight character is very proactive, often skirting the edge of what the sword should allow. (Hence the reason I managed to temporarily render it inert)
I still have Bless This House and the character is far from a passive guy, very rarely behind a threshold. Ultimately, I think having to roll against the threshold makes the power harder to use and gives the threshold/"good guys" an advantage. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. Just my observation.
If it works passively (all the time, without fail) it seems more useful. The power though very fitting for a profane knight... will still only come in handy when going after someone on the other side of a threshold. Also, it will only help if hte threshold would have caused issues for the character in the first place. (2-3+)
UmbraLux:
Re: A Pox on Both Your Houses - Have you considered rewriting it as partial immunity to thresholds? Something along the lines of "...threshold effects are reduced by two when applied to you." I suspect it might fit into the game play easier.
It also fits my view of what most thresholds are better...but that's probably beside the point. ;)
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