Nice character concept, but it's not what we are talking about.  An assertion was made that a PC could go from "I have the were form Template" to "I now fly and shoot lightning from my butt" using the RAW.

A custom template could do it.  Maybe a Changeling or Scion could develop a were form.  That's fine.  But I still can't see how a PC can go from "I have the were form Template" to "I now fly and shoot lightning from my butt" using the RAW.

You could say you were always such a being but simply didn't know about it until your powers manifested recently. Or just start the game with the template, possibly claiming you can shapeshift becuse of your lineage. Failing that, there's still Emissary of Power, for taking whatever powers you feel like.

"Billy, wouldn't Vittorio Malvora qualify as an Emissary of Power in the WHITE NIGHT casefile?" "Probably but he would already have the White Court Vampire template, so I thought that might be confusing as an example." "Real life doesn't always fit into neat little boxes."

Up for what, exactly?

There's a table on YS258 which addresses how difficult it is to intentionally hex something. Something could be made of that I suppose, but Harry seems to regularly hex anything down to difficulty five on the list, so some tweaking is in order. Maybe something like have the top point be whatever time you're going for, hex just the top part if you're a focused practitioner, top three for sorcerers and their ilk and top five for wizards. Still on the No Way / Problematic / Ok scale of course. You'd have to extend the list of course. Maybe we could get someone here to do that?

First you'd have to define what approximate time periods you aim for and what is the High Tech for each, of course. Some sort of "tech level" definition that some games have - any existing usable scales that anyone knows of? Some relevant breakthroughs were already mentioned: gunpowder - steam - electricity - electronics

Wouldn't horses and riding animals fall under Survival, though?

I think the "magic doesn't work with tech" change would have happened when technology started to make huge inroads on people's everyday lives.
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Yes, the years between the wars brought a massive, wide spread shift in thinking in the west as technology entered people's lives.  At  the same time you had the Empires shipping tech to the farthest colonies - where in some cases it was seen as another form of magic.  It looks like the perfect point for the swing to happen.

So if I was making the call, no real changes in hexing until the 1920s, variable from 1920s until the 1880s, and "milk curdles" stuff before that.

Quote from: Mr. Death on May 01, 2012, 03:33:17 PM

So I'd say the technology hexing probably started around the time that technology stopped working in "obvious" ways.

So a wizard with high scholarship should get a bonus to hexing.

That's a pretty great idea:  Roll it ahead of time.  They still got the roll, they can even decide if spending FP to prevent someone from misleading them is worthwhile, but the players aren't tipped off as to who!  You can tell them honestly someone is going to try and mislead them this session and still maintain the mystery.
I like it!  It just takes enough planning and foresight to do it at the beginning of the session. 

[Edit] On second thought, though, it makes it impossible for the players to meaningfully spend FPs.  They can't determine how their aspects apply to a given situation. 

Maybe I’m an odd GM, but I’ve never told my players to roll Empathy, they always ask to do so.