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Assorted questions
nadia.skylark:
And does anyone have a good Nutcracker-related catch for a rat-type lycanthrope? I feel like just "nutcrackers" isn't a very good one.
Sanctaphrax:
The nutcracker was a transformed prince of some kind, wasn't he?
Royalty might be an appropriate Catch.
nadia.skylark:
--- Quote ---The nutcracker was a transformed prince of some kind, wasn't he?
Royalty might be an appropriate Catch.
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Thanks! Some kind of supernaturally-enhanced royal blood catch would be really cool.
g33k:
--- Quote from: nadia.skylark on June 05, 2019, 03:36:43 AM ---Thanks! Some kind of supernaturally-enhanced royal blood catch would be really cool.
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Royalty isn't so common these days that I think you need to add the "supernatural" extra.
OTOH, if you include "all descendents of" it's... kind of common, actually, and NOT that much of a Catch. Everyone with ancestors in Europe (or who came from Europe in the past 2-3 centuries) is a descendent of Charlemagne. Everybody alive is descended from Nefertiti.
I'd go with "heir to the throne" -- even if the throne was gulped up by an aggressor 1100years ago, if the reigning monarch had a clear and unambiguous heir who survived (and so on down the generations), such that the laws of the (no longer existing) realm would hold "Joe the warehouse guy" to be the True Heir... Then Joe would be incredibly dangerous to these were-rats.
nadia.skylark:
--- Quote ---Royalty isn't so common these days that I think you need to add the "supernatural" extra.
OTOH, if you include "all descendents of" it's... kind of common, actually, and NOT that much of a Catch. Everyone with ancestors in Europe (or who came from Europe in the past 2-3 centuries) is a descendent of Charlemagne. Everybody alive is descended from Nefertiti.
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The idea was that because everyone has some kind of royal blood, you'd have to do some sort of ritual to mystically enhance it, which would involve making yourself more like the ruler whose blood you're invoking. I was thinking something sort of similar to temporary sponsored magic, where you get a minor advantage (in this case, you fulfill the catch for x time; in the case of sponsored magic, you get to supercharge your attack spell with a thunderstorm) and in return you're hit with a compel to act in a certain way or do something.
--- Quote ---I'd go with "heir to the throne" -- even if the throne was gulped up by an aggressor 1100years ago, if the reigning monarch had a clear and unambiguous heir who survived (and so on down the generations), such that the laws of the (no longer existing) realm would hold "Joe the warehouse guy" to be the True Heir... Then Joe would be incredibly dangerous to these were-rats.
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That might work better, yes. What value would you put on this catch?
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