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DFRPG / Balancing a Wizard/White Court Virgin PC
« on: September 25, 2018, 10:14:50 PM »
I finished DMing the first arc for a group of friends and we've been looking to go forward and see where the group's adventures take us. It's the first time any of us have played with Fates Accelerated so we're still getting a feel for how to handle things and make adjustments as we go.
One of those adjustments is balancing one of the PCs, a wizard/white court virgin. It's a combo that gives some fun scenarios (i.e:PC doesn't know about Wamp heritage and nearly got mind whammied into Wamping out on his crush) but in terms of gameplay it leans towards broken when the player can take something like Evocation Specialist and get a +2 to evocations and then add vampire stunts to up the roll further.
With this in mind, any thoughts on how this can be balanced? Me and player have debated things like limiting what stunts can effect what actions (like, even if magic approach is forceful not being allowed to add vamp mods to it) as well as simply adjusting scenarios to make it so she can't spam all her abilities in one go (i.e: adding more confrontations or making the hunger a bigger concern), but it'd be nice to have a better idea before moving forward with them.
One of those adjustments is balancing one of the PCs, a wizard/white court virgin. It's a combo that gives some fun scenarios (i.e:PC doesn't know about Wamp heritage and nearly got mind whammied into Wamping out on his crush) but in terms of gameplay it leans towards broken when the player can take something like Evocation Specialist and get a +2 to evocations and then add vampire stunts to up the roll further.
With this in mind, any thoughts on how this can be balanced? Me and player have debated things like limiting what stunts can effect what actions (like, even if magic approach is forceful not being allowed to add vamp mods to it) as well as simply adjusting scenarios to make it so she can't spam all her abilities in one go (i.e: adding more confrontations or making the hunger a bigger concern), but it'd be nice to have a better idea before moving forward with them.