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Mirror Magic (sponsored magic)

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Sanctaphrax:
I'd be inclined to increase the cost to 5 as well.

Not confident that it'd be fair then, but I figure it's at least test-able.

nadia.skylark:

--- Quote ---This I'm not so sure about. Clearing stress boxes isn't really much of a thing in this system; I think it would be better to be able to hand a mild physical consequence off to the mirror.
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Just re-read this and realized that you might have thought I meant physical stress. It's actually supposed to be clearing mental stress to help with spellcasting.

Sanctaphrax:
I assumed it affected a track of your choice.

Regardless, I think the consequence-based approach is better.

nadia.skylark:

--- Quote ---I assumed it affected a track of your choice.

Regardless, I think the consequence-based approach is better.
--- End quote ---

Thanks. So, modification is that it lets you clear a mild mental consequence.

nadia.skylark:

--- Quote ---I guess that could work. Honestly, though, I'm not a fan of the whole "you're overpowered until you get screwed over" paradigm.
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Would it be better if it cost a point of sponsor debt? I don't want it to be too overpowered; I just want to make a power designed for characters who like to game the system*, and encourage character development away from doing that too much. A character with this power doesn't have to deal with a sponsor telling them what to do (ex. faerie queens), doesn't have to deal with dark powers like necromancy, and isn't tied to a location. Seems awesome, right? Until the character realizes that they're being driven to delude themselves, all their friends are upset with them because the character keeps lying to them, they can't have wards on their house, and on top of that if their house is attacked (or if they so much as trip and bump the wrong thing during a ritual) they risk fracturing their mind.

The power is supposed to have as many downsides as upsides--they're just not supposed to be obvious to characters when they start using it.

*By "game the system," I mean doing things like Constantine's trick of selling his soul to three demons, or trading your firstborn child to Summer only to turn around and make a deal with Maeve to get her handmaiden pregnant in exchange for something. Also, this power should probably not be taken by any character whose player is not willing to have the mirror destroyed in gameplay.

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