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Custom Powers Master List (Work In Progress)
Tedronai:
Well, it wasn't a matter of 'simply being strong', but it WAS a physical effort that removed the spell. A physical effort empowered by Dresden's magical abilities, no doubt, but a physical effort nonetheless.
Addicted2aa:
Might is pretty much about being strong. I don't remember the scene that well, but I think that makes more sense as might restricting the discipline roll to target his spell. I'll give the scene another once over see if I still hold that opinion.
Tedronai:
I would have represented that scene as a small ritual with extra shifts supplied primarily from Might-generated aspects backed up by aspects generated by way of The Sight.
Sanctaphrax:
--- Quote from: Addicted2aa on November 14, 2012, 06:25:31 PM ---Might is pretty much about being strong.
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Not entirely. Lifting, breaking, and wrestling also require a fair bit of technique. So Might also includes the effective application of strength.
That's why you can have Mediocre Might and Mythic Strength.
--- Quote from: Addicted2aa on November 14, 2012, 01:13:25 PM ---Is it? The warden sword is a counterspell at a fixed value, no? You touch the warden sword to a spell and it dissipates, not you cleave through it, using your weapons skill and it shatters.
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The Warden Sword is a counterspell at a fixed value because that's how enchanted items work. Not because that's how it's portrayed in the novels.
The way it's portrayed in the novels could be "use Weapons", a fixed value counterspell, a focus that boosts counterspell control/power, an Aspect...it's flexible, because the novels are notably lacking in rules text.
--- Quote from: Addicted2aa on November 14, 2012, 01:13:25 PM ---Not saying it's a bad power. Just saying, Not at my table, cause I can't see how it makes sense in the Dresden Universe. Makes plenty of sense in other worlds
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The Dresden universe has all sorts of crazy nonsense thrown together with no obvious rhyme or reason. Fans try to make it all seem consistent and clear, but honestly cyborg aliens could show up in the next book and they'd fit just fine if Jim presented them with his usual style.
IIRC in Ghost Story Bob says that Spiderman exists. And Sir Stuart says that, much as the White Council loves to classify stuff, the world does not accommodate classification well.
Really, "doesn't fit the Dresdenverse" is a pretty weird thing to say.
InFerrumVeritas:
My thought for writing the power was that I had a big bad bruiser. Might Over Magic was applied to an IoP, which he had recently acquired. So the axe focused the user's strength against the spells and allowed it to break them. He used it to shatter a block and cleave through a sonic wave. This fit the universe, to me.
I agree that it's probably more balanced to apply half strength bonus when used defensively.
On an unarmed character, I'd reflavor to use Fists. Magic defeating Kung-Fu or something.
Really, this was a power designed to throw the players off. Their normal tactics were considerably less effective, and they didn't see it coming.
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