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Taran:
It's on the Wiki
Edit: Probably Sanctaphrax had a hand in building this power.
Sanctaphrax:
Thanks for the Arlen Bales rundown. It looks like writing him up will be a challenge, but I think I'm equal to it.
But first...
"Wild Cat" Kate (Feet In The Water)
Kate's Variable Abilities gives her 3 Refresh worth of Powers at a time. She can have Ranged Natural Weaponry (representing her cantrips) and Druidic Spellcasting, or she can have Beast Change into whatever animal and 2 Refresh of powers from her animal form. Her Beast Change doesn't change her skill list. (If it did, her Variable Abilities would have to cost more.)
Druidic Spellcasting is a custom Power that looks like this:
(click to show/hide)DRUIDIC SPELLCASTING [-1]
Description: You have spellcasting powers, but not the common wizardly sort. Your magic is the natural magic of the druid.
Skills Affected: Survival.
Effects:
Druidic Magic. At the beginning of each session, you may select up to four spells with a power no greater than your Survival skill. The spells may be Evocation or Thaumaturgy, but they must have a "natural" theme. You may use each spell once during that session, as though they were enchanted items.
Additional Power [-X]. For each additional point of Refresh invested in this Power, you may prepare and cast 4 additional spells.
High Concept: Half-Orc Moon Druid
Trouble Aspect: Feral Beast
Other Aspects: True Neutral, Uncle Taught Me, Hunter Of Experiences
Skills:
Great: Fists, Survival
Good: Endurance, Athletics
Fair: Empathy, Alertness
Average: Conviction, Discipline
Powers:
Variable Abilities [-5]
Total Refresh Cost:
-5
Refresh Total:
1
Romeo Lovegood (Feet In The Water)
Reduced Effect is a Limitation variant I just made up. It weakens a power all the time instead of shutting it down sometimes.
Bardic Spellcasting looks like this:
(click to show/hide)BARDIC SPELLCASTING [-1]
Description: You have spellcasting powers, but not the common wizardly sort. Your magic is the subtle magic of the bard.
Skills Affected: Performance.
Effects:
Bardic Magic. Design four Evocation or Evothaum spells that seem vaguely bard-y. You can cast four spells each session from among those spells. Their power is equal to your Performance skill, and you use Performance to control them as well. They don't cost mental stress.
Additional Knowledge [-X]. For each additional point of Refresh invested in this Power, you may design four additional spells that you may cast.
Additional Power [-X]. For each additional point of Refresh invested in this Power, you may cast four additional spells per session.
High Concept: Half-Elf Lore Bard
Trouble Aspect: Cheerfully Naive
Other Aspects: Chaotic Good, Former Noble, Sucker For A Pretty Face
Skills:
Great: Deceit, Performance
Good: Rapport, Lore
Fair: Empathy, Scholarship
Average: Athletics, Endurance
Stunts:
Bardic Inspiration And Cutting Words (Performance): +2 to Performance maneuvers made to inspire or discourage someone.
Song Of Rest (Performance): May use Performance instead of Scholarship for medical treatment.
Powers:
Bardic Spellcasting [-1]
Reduced Effect [+1] (No weapon rating, no bonus to maneuvers and blocks) affecting
Incite Mental Effect At Range [-3] (Cantrips, with Performance)
Total Refresh Cost:
-5
Refresh Total:
1
Victor Craftwell (Feet In The Water)
Warlock Spellcasting is like Bardic Spellcasting, but it uses Lore and has a warlock-y theme instead of a bard-y one.
High Concept: Mountain Dwarf Fey Tome Warlock
Trouble Aspect: Nothing Is Free
Other Aspects: Lawful Neutral, Consummate Professional, Shadow Tome Of Ancient Secrets
Skills:
Great: Lore
Good: Intimidation
Fair: Investigation, Weapons, Scholarship, Craftsmanship
Average: Might, Endurance, Discipline, Conviction, Alertness
Stunts:
Magical Attack (Lore): Use Lore to attack with Natural Weaponry.
Powers:
Ranged Natural Weaponry [-2] (Eldritch Blast)
Warlock Spellcasting [-1]
Item Of Power (Shadow Tome) [+1] granting
Incite Effect (Other Cantrips) [-1]
Additional Knowledge [-1] (For Warlock Spellcasting)
Total Refresh Cost:
-5
Refresh Total:
1
Okay, that was more work than I expected. What do y'all think? Do the custom Powers hold up under inspection?
To-do:
-Arlen Bales
-Goku
-Aang
-Father
-The Dragon (from the Paranet Papers)
-Maybe Nia Ofumbe
Mojosilver:
SWEET. Now hopefully I will get my gaming group to try something new. D&D is fun but I liked to play something else once in a while. LOL. THANK YOU Sanctaphrax!!!
g33k:
--- Quote from: Sanctaphrax on December 18, 2014, 03:59:38 AM ---That does make it a bit better. The way your post is phrased gives me the impression that I don't have the whole story here, though.
If there's a post or something explaining this person, can you shoot me a link? I can't find anything with Google.
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No, this is my own conception; you're right, however, that there's more story there...
The backstory of character-creation is thus:
I was interested in various "Lawbreaker Lite" starting PC's -- just one refresh of Lawbreaker (at least at start of game). Necromancy seemed like it was... covered. Chronomancy seemed interesting, but too-likely to overshadow a PC with Cassandra's Tears or the like, which I preferred not to pursue. Summoning Outsiders just seemed too likely to be a short-lived PC, and to be a cause of PC-vs-PC play, which I generally dislike (unless that's the point of the game). Etc etc... I settled on mind-magic as my likely Law to break.
This, of course, led to Capiorcorpus... who, it turns out, is as much better at mind-magic (than the general run-of-the-White-Council-mill) as she is at necromancy! She's happy to overwhelm the mind of any body, not just a corpse...
Given her name/title, though, it seemed like an unusual thing in the Kemmlerian ranks. So... where did she learn her mind-magic? Was there perhaps a tradition of Mentalist lawbreakers, akin to Kemmler and his Necromancy?
Well... no WoJ (that I know of), so I said, "YES, there IS such a tradition!" (and maybe other Lawbreaking lines of wizards... but I've got enough to go on, for now).
Hence Nia Ofumbe. In my version of the Dresdenverse, she was originally Capiorcorpus' master, seduced away by Kemmler's wiles, while he studied under Nia.
But Nia had other apprentices... one of whom would have taught the character I envisioned as a PC.
But when you asked for very-high-refresh characters (and I vastly prefer Dresdenverse PCs rather than some crossover'Verse), I thought first of Kemmler (but thought there might already be (or be forthcoming) an "official" version... so why not my High-Concept-only no-mechanics-yet notion of a "Kemmleresque" mind-mage? I wanted to do something different than the European model of Kemmler. I considered some twisted Tibetan (and you're free to go with that, if you want!), but in the end went with the Voodoo link, as having both necromancy and mind-magic, for the link into the Kemmler story and Capiorcorpus.
Thus was born Nia Ofumbe, and her backstory.
- Steve, the g33k
Sanctaphrax:
--- Quote from: sdfds68 on December 19, 2014, 12:32:33 AM ---Also, is that power something somebody made for Fate/stay night? Because that's really cool.
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--- Quote from: Taran on December 19, 2014, 12:43:14 AM ---It's on the Wiki
Edit: Probably Sanctaphrax had a hand in building this power.
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I was involved, but ways and means is the actual author of the Power. And yes, it's a Fate/stay night thing.
--- Quote from: Mojosilver on December 19, 2014, 12:52:48 PM ---SWEET. Now hopefully I will get my gaming group to try something new. D&D is fun but I liked to play something else once in a while. LOL. THANK YOU Sanctaphrax!!!
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You're welcome and good luck.
--- Quote from: g33k on December 20, 2014, 12:14:12 AM ---No, this is my own conception; you're right, however, that there's more story there...
...
Thus was born Nia Ofumbe, and her backstory.
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Hm, okay. I guess I could take a crack at her.
--- Quote from: PirateJack on December 18, 2014, 07:11:33 PM ---And here's my attempt at John Uskglass. Power Level is In a Submarine. He could possibly go higher, but all of his Thaumaturgy Specialisations make up for that. Strange and Norrell magic is all about the ritual and the majority of magicians in the setting are at Submerged or Snorkelling so he's rather more out of their league than most.
(click to show/hide)Name: John Uskglass, aka The Nameless Slave, The Raven King, The Magician King of Northern England
Power Level: In A Submarine
High Concept: The Raven King
Trouble: The Line Between Benevolence and Tyranny
Other Aspects:
The Nameless Slave
Raised by King Oberon
Magician King of Northern England
Giver of Prophecy
Alliance with the Trees, Hills, Streams and Skies
Skills:
+6 – Lore
+5 – Discipline, Conviction
+4 – Presence, Scholarship
+3 – Contacts, Resources
+2 – Empathy, Rapport
+1 – All Skills Default to Average
Powers:
Thaumaturgy [-3] (Specialisation +1)
Refinement [-10] (Specialisations +19 and +1 Focus Item)
Demesne [-1] (England)
Prophecy [-1]
World Walking [-2]
Stunts:
Ruler of a Feckless Race – Fairies are a lazy and unambitious race in general, but you know how to lead them. +2 to Presence when commanding your fairy army.
All Northerners Are My Men – As the rightful King of Northern England you hold power (though in absence) over those who were born there. +2 to Contacts when determining the identity of a Northerner.
I Have Seen This – Your Divination is second to none. +2 to Alertness for the purposes of Initiative.
Specialisations:
Divination Complexity/Control +4
Transformation Complexity/Control +3
Psychomancy Complexity/Control +2
Necromancy Complexity/Control +1
Enchanted Items:
Rose & Silver Pearl – Strength 8 Transformation Item that gives Supernatural Recovery for a scene.
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I can't comment on accuracy to the source material, but the Aspects and the stunts look pretty cool. And unless I miscount he actually bought an Average level in every single skill the honest way, which I like.
The Power stuff is a little iffy. England isn't really a valid Demesne, and I wouldn't let someone use that item if I was GMing. It's too much like an IoP. Also, unless I misread, he ought to have a bunch more specializations.
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