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DFRPG / Would a frat house have a threshold?
« on: November 22, 2010, 04:27:33 AM »
Plotting out university based adventures and ran up against something.

Dorms wouldn't have any more of a threshold than any hotel; they're large, impersonal, and the residents are ultimately transient.  But a fraternity or sorority house... that's a different story.  They belong to an extended clan that claim brother/sister-hood with each other and have adoption ceremonies (i.e. rituals) to bind this, pride and energy is put into the house (in decoration, if nothing else), a great deal of emotions are expended within the bounds of the house (parties, papers, exam studying, etc) and, lastly, some houses have been within the possession of a single fraternity or sorority for years if not decades. 

So... would a frat house have a threshold?

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DFRPG / "It Slices, It Dices..." Dismemberment and the Bar Snicker
« on: November 20, 2010, 05:14:13 PM »
Okay, so, I'm the GM and I have a PC going sword shopping at the moment.  No issues there, he's clued-in Pure Mortal, and knows about the Fey; makes sense to have sharp pointy iron at hand. 

He wants a wakizashi... but I'm trying to nudge him in a less... well, stereotyped direction (if he actually got one, I think I'd be contractually obligated to have NPC mockage), so I started thinking about what to point him at.  And Toe-moss' favorite weapons came to mind--Calvary sabers and khukuris.  I personally like the khukuri; it's a cool weapon with lots of history and tradition behind it, and, unlike the highly hyped katana and relatives, is actually designed to lop off limbs with a single blow. 

So... how do I do that in game mechanics?  Maneuver?  Consequence?  What level consequence?  I'm not sure how to do it in a balanced fashion, so, I'm opening the floor on this: How would you handle things that go snicker-snack and other forms of disarmament (paging Chewbacca)?

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DFRPG / Having functional regular Ghoul NPCs
« on: November 09, 2010, 06:01:24 PM »
Okay, setup first.  Thanks to player requests during city creation, my local Accorded Neutral Ground is a Barbecue house, officially Ingram's Bar and Grill... unofficially "the Flesh Pit".   

Things started getting interesting when, during a big nasty combat a few weeks ago, one of my players said that, if he died, his next character was going to be a ghoul ninja--and that he could function within the city without eating anybody thanks to the Flesh Pit. 

The idea intrigued me, so during the last session, one of the nicer PCs had a compelled moment of mercy and now has a new houseguest: a 16-year-old blind ghoul fortuneteller named Delphine. 

So, the first question is A) do you guys think she's sustainable as a regular NPC without having to eat anyone?  B) Is she eventually redeemable? (especially given her young age?)  and related, C) are ghouls "always chaotic evil" as the saying goes, or is it just their nature, nurture and histories working against them?

Yes, I realize that I'm sounding like a vampire fanboy lite.  But, while I want this to be a regular NPC (for the RP opportunities, if nothing else), if the general consensus is that ghouls are bad to the bone, even when they don't have to be, I'll rethink this character, as I've obviously missed something.   

Alright, I just know that this is going to tangent fierce by the end of the first page, maybe within the first ten posts, so here we go. 

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