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Rewriting Lawbreaker Powers
Martyr of the Cause:
In my setting, we have it where in order to actually kill a character you must invoke one of your aspects. A thought would be to alter the role of Lawbreaker from being a thing you spend refresh points on to one where you must spend a fate point to invoke one of your aspects to actually break the Law of Magic. So, if you needed to kill, you must invoke an aspect to do so. With this, there is a price to breaking the Laws of Magic, but it's more personal (because of aspects) and not as impactful to characters in the long run. If desired, maybe frequent Lawbreaking would require modification of an aspect to bring that broken law into the character (and serve as what they use to invoke when breaking the law subsequently). Finally, if you still like the Lawbreaker powers, you could have it where spending a refresh on one allowed you to invoke that specific aspect to break that specific law without the fate point being spent.
Again, this is all just food for thought.
nadia.skylark:
Okay, here are my versions of the Lawbreaker powers:
1st: +1 power bonus to attack spells
2nd:
3rd: +1 bonus to reading people's minds and also to using empathy to read people
4th: +1 bonus to enthralling people and also to recognizing when someone is being forced to do something against their will
5th: +1 bonus to all necromancy
6th: can use time as an evocation element
7th: +1 bonus to all Outsider stuff, but if you have Outsider-sponsored magic, this bonus doesn't stack with it
As you can see, I'm still stuck on Lawbreaker (2nd).
Also, when you upgrade Lawbreaker (6th) to -2 refresh, you gain +1 control for time magic.
Shaft:
--- Quote from: nadia.skylark on May 17, 2019, 07:13:53 PM ---I'm still stuck on Lawbreaker (2nd).
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How about a +1 Control bonus on attack spells?
nadia.skylark:
--- Quote ---How about a +1 Control bonus on attack spells?
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That sounds useful, but what does it have to do with transforming people?
Shaft:
--- Quote from: nadia.skylark on May 20, 2019, 05:21:14 PM ---That sounds useful, but what does it have to do with transforming people?
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Isn't a transformation spell an attack, with the transformation occurring when all consequences are filled?
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