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Custom Powers Master List (Work In Progress)
Oblyss:
--- Quote from: Crion on February 12, 2013, 12:03:30 AM ---Just a random thought (and I'm late to the game here), but wouldn't the baseline of Reality Marble be at a -2 instead of a -1? I figured the -1 for Demesne, with another -1 for an "attack" for force everyone into it. I only ask this since we've seen a few Reality Marbles in the series (I can name two, three if you count the Gate of Babylon), and they all seem to work the same way: bring someone into a world of your design (i.e. Demesne) and have the Home Turf advantage.
As for the powers of the Marble, I'm personally at a tossup between buying them as set powers like you have posted, have a collection of Scene Aspects (theoretically an unlimited number since the Demesne allows you to create Aspects), or even some combination thereof. I'm not too keen on some of the costs, or even a better balancing act. Perhaps we should try to scale some of the Reality Marbles of a few of the characters we have seen and determine it as we go?
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The trade off is that you can't alter the reality marble during a conflict and so you sacrifice all the home field turf in favor of being able to drag people in, for the -1 cost. Then you can upgrade it for home field turf aspects for additional cost. That's my thinking on it.
Also if you look at the Reality Marbles suggested ruleset, it mentions bringing people into the marble as a conviction based attack, defended against by enemy conviction/athletics. Their score is rolled against the wizard's conviction roll on the ability.
Sanctaphrax:
Demesne might be narratively similar to Reality Marble, but mechanically they have almost nothing in common.
Crion:
--- Quote from: Sanctaphrax on February 12, 2013, 01:38:44 AM ---Demesne might be narratively similar to Reality Marble, but mechanically they have almost nothing in common.
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Narratively, yes, but some elements of the Demesne could theoretically work (like the Discipline for attacks; could explain why someone not physically powerful, like Caster, could have a killer Marble).
Sanctaphrax:
You could add similarities, but by default they're not there so it's not really possible to use Demesne as a reference for how much Reality Marble should cost.
Crion:
--- Quote from: Sanctaphrax on February 12, 2013, 02:33:32 AM ---You could add similarities, but by default they're not there so it's not really possible to use Demesne as a reference for how much Reality Marble should cost.
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I have to disagree with that. A Demesne is a location created by an entity/spirit as a home turf, so to speak, where they have a great deal of control. They can still get beaten there (as we see with Agatha Hagglethorn and Dresden in his own dream), but they have a lot of advantages.
A Reality Marble (at least in the cases of Ionioi Hetairoi and Unlimited Blade Works) is essentially a location created by the entity where they hold a great deal of power, an advantage, and unlock their true potential. We do have some exceptions (Emiya Kiritsugu has a Reality Marble inside of him to alter his body by way of heartbeat and general speed, but that can be Biomancy and Time-like magic)
The similarities are:
Home Turf (entity has a great deal of power there)
It is difficult to escape (destroy it, destroy the entity, or escape through another supernatural means)
It takes the form of whatever the entity wants when it is first created (Agatha has old Chicago, for example, while Emiya has the vast desert with swords).
The biggest differences I see are:
Victims (and allies) are dragged within the Reality Marble, often against their own will, while a Demesne normally has to be entered.
The entity usually has a sole purpose for the Marble, specifically to unlock a special power (Gate of Babylon and Unlimited Blade Works act as a super armory, Ionioi Hetairoi has the army, etc)
With that in mind, I still think they are mechanically close, thus why I commented on it being -2: -1 for the Demesne-like location, and another -1 to make an "attack" (or simply be the effect) to bring others in. From there, I think designing a collection of powers, or a single power, to be utilized within the marble would be fitting, but at a discounted price (very much like Human Form, as it can only be utilized within the Marble).
In the case with Emiya's Unlimited Blade Works, I think it would be the -2 for the Reality Marble (using the above logic), followed by either a collection of points in Refinement (to denote the increase in his magical power or just the number of weapons; Enchanted Items, perhaps?), some increased physical traits, or even a custom, but fitting, power set he would acquire, then grant a discount due to the limitation of only being active within the marble.
Again, my two cents.
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