I'm playing in a game wear we use the Thorn Manacles quite often, but I've searched both the RPG books and couldn't find a way on how to run them in game.

So my question is this, how would you run the Thorn Manacles in game?

Side question, do you think the Manacles prevent the practitioner from opening their Sight?

I'm currently looking into rules about Thuamaturgy (I finally have a reason to do so beyond simple crafting). For taking consequences to power rituals, what happens in the case of spellcasters with Recovery Powers?

Example: A Spellcaster has Great Lore (+4) and Supernatural Recovery, he decides to make a 10 shift potion. While making the potion he decides to take a Mild (+2) and Moderate (+4) Physical Consequence to help pay for the effect, but because of Supernatural Recovery he is fully healed at the end of the scene.

This Spellcaster just got a 10 shift potion effect for the low, low price of one enchanted item slot.


I may have missed something in the rules, but is this just one of those situations where the rules can be badly abused?

In this thread we post and discuss our awesome Focus and Enchanted Items, discussing and compiling their badassery.


I'll start, both of these were made for my Sorcerer/Wizard Faraday Church.

Sword Cane Blade (+2 Offensive Control for Earth); The cane is covered with runes and lightning designs carved into it to enhance and control Earth Evocations. On the pommel of the sword (or head of the cane depending upon your perspective) is a small copper pentacle. The focus is just the blade and hilt (head of the cane); the scabbard is not required for the focus to be “whole.” Weapon:2 (Sword) or Weapon:2 (Baseball Bat)

Lightning Gun [Colt 1911] – Earth [lightning] Evocation Weapon:4 x 7 Uses, roll Guns to attack. Usable by anyone. (5 Enchanted Item Slots); The gun gathers ambient electrical energy and focuses it into bursts of deadly lightning Instead of bullets in the gun’s magazine, it is filled entirely with a chunk of rune inscribed copper. Although Faraday made the weapon, the gun is not powered directly from him making the lightning a more normal electric blue color rather than the greenish lightning Faraday wields when throwing around evocations.
Base Strength 4, 3 slots for Uses, 1 slot to make it usable for everyone.
Notes: More or less Rule of Cool on this one, it’s a gun that shoots bolts of lightning! I used an older gun, which because of the enchanting can no longer fire bullets, it’s uses per session reflect the normal magazine size for a real Colt 1911.

I remember a couple days ago about a discussion of White Court Sorcerers using the Hunger track to aid in spellcasting or using it as a "Ki bar" for using "Ki Powers"

Has anyone considered using the Hunger bar as a Soul Bar? To equate feeling worn down as Harry describes after using large amounts of Soulfire? The Feeding Dependency for it would be the things Bob describes in Small Favor, having fun, time, living, etc.

Though I would use a different skill than Discipline for the "Soul." Conviction would probably be better fit for the "Soul."

I'm curious what a taser would be stated as?

I suppose since it doesn't do damage it'd be gun that does a maneuver attack?

Cold Iron seems to be one of the most common catches, but what exactly counts as cold iron? I mean are all bullets cold iron?

I tried searching Your Story, but couldn't find much mention of it.

My gut tells me it would be Performance, but I could see the argument for a Writer using Scholarship.

Are there any requirements for joining the White Council? For instance, could a powerful Focused Practitioner join?

Can a Focused Practitioner have a Wizard's Constitution or the Soulgaze ability?

Why can't a Focused Practitioner use Refinement to increase the power/control/complexity of their Channeling/Rituals?
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*UPDATED* I'm attempting to make an enchanted defense item somewhat similar to Harry's coat.

I've got 4 Enchanted Items slots and Good(+3) Lore, I want to make a collar/necklace that creates an always-on Earth-based electromagnetic field to STOP incoming bullets of most handguns of at least all Weapon:2 (Which means I need Armor:2?)

I think I can do this by using 1 slot to make the item, and 1 slot to increase it's strength to 4. Then I halve that to make it always-on... so it has Armor:2, but only the character that made it can use it?

Would I need to do something special to make it so it only affects metal?