I'd say that the Blackstaff "absorbs" or just already has all of the Lawbreaker powers, and therefore the penalties, aspects, and bonuses belong to the staff itself, rather than its wielder.
Oh, I like that. Really simple and it boosts all your spell casting with the staff to boot. Presumably it can be used as a Thaumaturgic as well as Evocation Focus too.
I second the absorbing Lawbreaker/the staff itself being the Lawbreaker.(click to show/hide)
It is -12 Refresh invested into one item, though, which always struck me as a bit excessive.
You could do Modular Abilities instead or Sanctraphrax's Variable Abilities Lists. That would make it significantly cheaper and still useful. On the other hand, the Black Staff is pretty one of a kind so it makes sense it's pretty expensive.
@Mrmdubois
That's some spell if that's the case...he literally through the off switch on all those gun men like he was turning off a bunch of toys.
Just more reason to like Ebenezar
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fwiw, it also has that whole summonable ability. So unlike most Items of power you dont run the risk of getting it lost or stolen (at least without extraordinary crcumstances
It is -12 Refresh invested into one item, though, which always struck me as a bit excessive.
fwiw, it also has that whole summonable ability. So unlike most Items of power you dont run the risk of getting it lost or stolen (at least without extraordinary crcumstances)
That doesn't necessarily follow, taking it from you may switch it's ownership to the thief, at which point they can summon it and you can't.
Taking every Lawbreaker is a massive waste of Refresh. If I had to guess I'd say 14 points of Lawbreaker provide roughly 5 Refinements worth of power.
So I think it'd be fair to make up a [-5] Power that does the same thing as 14 points of Lawbreaker.
Providing a 9 Refresh rebate for purely thematic reasons is usually a (very) bad move, but since Lawbreaker's cost has been inflated for thematic reasons I think it's okay in this case.