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Assorted questions
Sanctaphrax:
In general, rebate Powers are only used to modify other Powers. You can't really get Refresh from a weakness in this game, you can only reduce the Refresh costs of your strengths by limiting their usefulness in some way.
Compels pick up the slack. On its own, The Catch just makes you as vulnerable as a normal person to whatever your Catch is. If you're more vulnerable than that, you get Fate Points.
Anyway, here's Limitation.
--- Quote from: nadia.skylark on June 14, 2019, 12:59:28 PM ---I'm trying to come up with 12 demonic lords, and right now I can only think of 3: the demonic lord of emptiness, the demonic lord of deception, and the demonic lord of pain. Can you think of any others?
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I figure you can probably use any vaguely negative-sounding concept. Fear, gluttony, bigotry, foolishness, bureaucracy, pride, vengeance, sorrow, laziness, whatever.
nadia.skylark:
--- Quote ---Compels. What you're looking for is compels on an aspect.
Compels allow for pretty much anything, and not everything is suited to be represented by a power.
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--- Quote ---Compels pick up the slack. On its own, The Catch just makes you as vulnerable as a normal person to whatever your Catch is. If you're more vulnerable than that, you get Fate Points.
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Yeah, yeah :)
--- Quote ---Anyway, here's Limitation.
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Thanks!
--- Quote ---I figure you can probably use any vaguely negative-sounding concept. Fear, gluttony, bigotry, foolishness, bureaucracy, pride, vengeance, sorrow, laziness, whatever.
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The problem is, there are so many negative things out there, it's hard to pick. I'm trying to choose things that would make good story contributions (well, and one of them is just me ripping off another book series), but I'm stuck.
Yet another question, how would you represent Alex Verus' divination powers (and how much would they cost)?
Sanctaphrax:
--- Quote from: nadia.skylark on June 15, 2019, 01:30:50 AM ---The problem is, there are so many negative things out there, it's hard to pick. I'm trying to choose things that would make good story contributions (well, and one of them is just me ripping off another book series), but I'm stuck.
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Just pick at random and start writing, I say. If it doesn't work out, change it.
--- Quote from: nadia.skylark on June 15, 2019, 01:30:50 AM ---Yet another question, how would you represent Alex Verus' divination powers (and how much would they cost)?
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I'm not familiar with Alex Verus, but divination is generally Ritual or Thaumaturgy. There's also a couple of custom Powers for predicting the future:
https://dfrpg-resources.paranetonline.com/index.php?title=Prophecy
https://dfrpg-resources.paranetonline.com/index.php?title=Precognition
Precognition is excessively die-roll-y, unfortunately.
Mr. Death:
A thing to remember is that even if your setting canonically has 12 major demons, you don't have to involve or even explain all 12 of them in the story.
nadia.skylark:
--- Quote ---A thing to remember is that even if your setting canonically has 12 major demons, you don't have to involve or even explain all 12 of them in the story.
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True, but I need to know who all of them are if I want to involve even one of them, because it's important to the motivations and decision-making of the one involved.
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