I’m a bit unclear on when Fate Points change hands after invoking other aspects. I’m specifically not talking about tagging, since there are no FPs involved. I’m also not talking about compelling. Some situations seem to be pretty clear, let’s assume Alice and Bert are the characters:

1) If Alice invokes a character aspect of Bert to his disadvantage, Bert gets the FP Alice has spent. That’s happening in the example on p. 106, under “Invoking Other Aspects”.

2) If Alice creates a scene aspect on the scene (and not on Bert) and Bert invokes this scene aspect to Alice’s disadvantage, Alice gets the FP Bert has spent. That’s happening in the example on p. 106-7, under “Tagging”.

These examples are easy, because in both cases, the aspects in question are owned by the ones that are disadvantaged. In the first case, it’s Bert’s aspect and Bert gets a FP, in the second case, it’s Alice’s aspect and Alice gets a FP.


What about other scene aspects? Another example:

3) Alice places the aspect *Grappled on Bert. When Alice invokes that aspect to Bert’s detriment, does Bert get the FP?

4) Alice places the aspect *Grappled on Bert. When Bert invokes that aspect to Alices detriment, does Alice get the FP?

These examples aren’t as clear, since Alice might be the owner of that aspect, but the aspect is on Bert.


What about scene aspects, that are neither? Let’s say Clive enters the scene:

5) Clive creates the aspect *The Room is on Fire on the scene. Alice invokes that aspects to Bert’s detriment. Does Bert get the FP?


I tried the forum search, but it’s rubbish. I haven’t found anything about that. Sorry if this has been discussed before.

One last thing: I know how this is handled in Fate Core and I know that I could handle it just the same in DFRPG, but I’m interested in how the DFRPG is supposed to work. The example on p. 106-7 seems to contradict the way FC handles this.

Thanks a lot!

This comes up rather regularly in my games. I really tried to find an answer but to no avail. Maybe some of you can shed some light on this.

1. How does duration of spell maneuvers work? What do the extra shifts I put in there for duration do exactly? Except for the example on page YS252-3, all examples use the fragile/sticky-rules for mundane maneuvers.

2. How does the targeting roll work for spell maneuvers work? Let’s say I want to place *Blinded on a target using Evocation. My target has a defending skill of +4. I put 3 shifts of power into the spell, but roll only a +2 on my Discipline roll, so I take additional point of stress as Backlash. My target rolls a +3. Now what happens?

a) The spell works as intended, since my shifts of power are equal to the defense roll of my target.

b) The spell does not work as intended because I have no put enough shifts of power to match the target’s defending skill. It would have also failed when I rolled a +4 on my targeting roll.

c) The spell does not work because my target rolled a higher defense than my targeting roll. It would have worked if I rolled a +3 or more on my targeting roll, since that would have been enough to math the defense roll.


Thanks a lot!

Hey Guys,

I bought “Vol 1: Your Story“ when it was just released, read through it a few times and played a single session (a one-shot). Some months ago my gaming group decided to play the DFRGP regularly, so I read it again a few times, we played two sessions and then my book fell apart. A month ago I bought another one. This one had its headband loose, so I sent it back and I got a new one (my third). I read it a few times (as preparation), we haven’t played again yet. But guess what, it starts falling apart again. And I was very careful.

Any of you having the same issue? I think about getting my money back and just print it myself and put in a ring binder or something.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

EDIT for clarity: With “falling apart”, I mean that the pages of my book get loose from the glue binding. It’s holding together by those cords. But it’s getting worse, like the binding ripping of the cover.

Hey!

I thought about the battle against Kalshazzak (the toad demon from Strom Front) and I have two questions about how you would rule it if one of your players was Harry:

1. The magic circle: I would consider it as threshold, since he cannot even leave it with one finger without breaking it. Rules-wise I would call for a roll of Conviction and a base value of +2. So Harry could create a threshold with a value of +11 (base value +2, Conviction +5 and a roll of 4, plus some invoked aspects or something). That should keep Kalshazzak out.

2. Harry tapping a thunderstorm: Here I'm not sure. Basically, I would say it's an evocation with an invoked aspect, but the rules say no other power source can be used for an evocation. It also cannot be thaumaturgy, because thaumaturgy isn't fast enough to be used in a fight.

So, how would you handle these situations?

Hey Guys!

How do you decide which supernatural beings can be played? One big factor is obviously the free will, but who decides which creature has a free will? (Even the Fae Queens could have a free will: They cannot act against their nature, but they are aware of their nature and find ways to act according to their will and still satisfy their nature)

Personally, I like the "everything is possible" approach (everything can be played if there is a refresh level of at least 1), but this can lead to campaigns that are not "canon" (this is obviously not a problem if you don't care).

How do you decide which creature has enough free will to qualify as playable?

Hey!

What does it mean when a entry in OW says "The Catch (Stacked)", like it says on the Ogre entry at OW50?

Thanks in advance!

Hey Guys!

New to this forum, (relatively) new to The Dresden Files (I still have most books to read) and new to Fate. The books are great and so is the RPG. I've rarely seen a RPG created with so much love. Anyways, I have troubles understanding Vampires and the Feeding Dependency (at least rules-wise). So here are my questions:

1. How can Vampires (no matter if Red, White or any other Court) clear their Hunger stress track? As I read the rules only by being one scene absent as under "Failure Recovery". Does "The Taste of Death" also clear the Hunger track? Are there any other ways of clearing the track, like just using the "Drinking Blood" power?

2. Just for clarity's sake: You make the "feeding failure" check only when you have used one of your abilities, that are attached to the Feeding Dependency, right? So Inhuman Strength triggers that check, while "Feeding Touch" or "Drinking Blood" doesn't. So you cannot make a roll with +0 if you don't use any powers (maybe just in order to clear your Hunger stress track). Did I get it right?

The next to questions deal with understanding. Since english is not my mother tongue, I'm not sure if I get it right.

3. At the end of the first paragraph unter "Feeding Dependency" (p. 190) it says: "If you take this ability, it "attaches" to most if not all of your supernatural powers except for those from this category (at least 2 points' worth)." So the powers under "Vampirism" are not attached to the Feeding Dependency, and other powers only if they are worth at least two points? (I'm not sure where the 2 points belong to. To the powers not in this category, or to the powers in this category...)

4. The last paragraph under "Limited Reserves". What does it mean at all? A shot into the dark: When I have lost one or more powers and am in a stressful situation, I have to check for feeding failure, even if I haven't used any of my powers, with a value half of the refresh-rates of my lost powers. So let's say I lost some powers worth 4 points (all together). Now I had to fight, but did not use one of my remaining abilities. After the scene I have to check for feeding failure (+2). Did I understand it correctly?

Thanks in advance for your answers. And thanks for such a wonderful role-playing-game.