the way i see that they might be doing the magic effects in this.. is not necessarily based on the pyramid system.

It looks like they are leaning to stunts.. and if you look at the way they are doing stunts in SotC the more powerful a stunt is, it has specific requirements before they can be taken.  so the more powerful spells would require more pre requisites...

until i actual see the spell and magic system however.. i can only speculate based on what they have discussed here

I guess i will wait until i get accepted into the alpha or beta testing than...   i can see alot of different ways that powers can be respresented... and i am curious than about which dynamics you will use.. havent seeen a work up yet online of 3.0... so i will look more.. and i like the core concept of SotC.  Curious as well how u will deal with advancement.. because SotC is a fairly static in skill advancement, it seems to suggests buy more stunts, and more aspects, and fate points... but i am very excited ... and looking forward to testing the ideas... i luv gaming..

thanks for the opportunity even to talk about it in these forums..

personally i like the idea of a pyramid system for advancement of magical skills... because so far as i have seen most of the competant wizards that have been around have knowledge of other magical areas, but they dont necessarily have enormous skill in them...  so it prevents the over balanced character who wants to do nothing but specialize.

and this system provides well for a apprenticeship approach where you buy aspects initially in the mentor and magical skills.. and as u progress as a mage you switch out aspects from the teacher to the student representing his increase in skills and his relying less on his master and more on himself.

this can also be represented by switching out of specialized items given to the student to aid in his learning and replacing them with the requisite skill..  no power is sacrificed in the character.. but it is merely relocated..

there is tremendous potential everywhere you look..

wow..i still have one group in the dresden verse.. using a game system i created based on a percentile system.. and I run lots of pick up games .. one or two term sessions..

my guess in that regard.. is that the first half of the book is going to be helping ot contain the Canim.. with the help of the Marat... and an eventual truce .. as u suggested.. and that the legion will be drawn off to the north... i dont think the truce will occur unless the Canim reveal why they left their homeland....  there is plenty of space for them near this area ... so it would be a nice settlement... and an end to the threat... remember.. the Canim were fostered to hate the alerans.. considering them a plague... the question is why.. and how this came about..

a potential interesting thought...

I finally did it.... I wrote an opening to the book i want.. and it might work...

could i get some comments... please....

Death is  only a beginning.  Those were the words that Bevon had said to him before he had gone to his eventual death against his brother Bualla. With his passing, the War of Ascension had been brought to a close.  And though Bualla had so callously taken his brother's life more than three millenia ago, Caleb was still no closer to understanding what Bevon had meant by those words.

Shaking those thoughts from his mind, Caleb reigned in his horse.  He was on a hill just beyond the eastern edge of Caravan's Rest.  Sitting still for a moment, he observed the small town that was the last outpost for caravans leaving the Dutchies to go toward the Counties to the north.
 
Caleb looked thoughtfully toward the small town and wondered. Was anyone aware that this city  would soon be changed forever?  Could anyone feel the strands of the Weave drawing closer to their lives? 

In his unnaturally long life,  Caleb had met few who could sense warp and the weft of the tapestry.  Most were happily oblivious to the greater currents and events that occasionally surfaced to guide the lives of men, but he was not such a one.  Not only could he see these currents, but he could feel them, call them to himself, and impose his will upon them altering the flow of everything around him.  It was a gift that had earned him many names over the years: Thread-Bearer, the Gray Wanderer, Caleb the Undying, but the one that best described him, the one that he hated more than any other was The Voice of the Lady.  And it was not that he hated the Lady, or what She bade him do, but that he hated the results.

You see, there were forces in the world that most could not see, and if they could, they would wish every day of their lives for their ignorance to return.  When these forces set their will upon this world, She would intervene.  For those who walked upon this world were special to the Lady, and though She would not directly interfere, She would put Her will upon those who could.  She would lift the veil and let them see, and the rest was their decision, and though She would force their eyes to be open, that was as far as She would go, after that all was left upon them.

 From deep within, Caleb knew that the veils were soon to be parted.  He could feel it for his gift was stirring within him, and Her Voice was growing in his mind.  Yes, tonight was the night, and this was the place.

Caleb shook the reigns and his horse continued forward. As his mount sauntered toward the city, a tower could be seen off in the distance.  And as the sun dipped below the horizon, the edifice was not bathed in the orange hue of the setting sun, but rather in was enveloped in deep azure. No, there was no mistaking this. Blue was the color of the Lady.  She had set the Place. Now all he had to do was await the Time.


Thanksa!!!!!!!!

As I said in the previous blog... I am an aspiring writer... but i have done a great deal of fantasy rpg.. and sci fi rpg..

I have many ideas that i want to convert into books eventually.

One is an alternate reality time line where the civil war was not about blacks being slaves.. but about the emancipation of the Demons who were being used as slaves.. and what h appened when Lincoln attempted to free the demons..

Another .. demon oriented.. is the world is invaded by demons from 7 gates... about how our world changes.. how we might fight them... and how they were defeated in the past..

but the one i am currently working on .. is an epic saga..

an evil theocracy is trying to conquer the last group of nations that have escaped its grasp.  5 great heroes are bound to save the young man who is destined become an emperor and begin a war to hopefully overthrough the theocracy for good.  but they soon discover that there is more than just the theocracy at work.. a deeper darker threat eventually emerges and challenges their understanding of the world they know.. and they begin to see that their world has become the last stand for an evil which refuses to forgo its existence