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What's the least amount of time it takes to cast a ritual using Thaumaturgy?Probably a scene...which isn't very exact.
When performing multiple actions, the total bonus from skills on all actions taken in the round must be at least one step lower than your highest skill.It's an interesting solution to limiting the power of multiple actions. However it looks like it penalizes generalists over those who specialize in a few skills. Do you have any generalist PCs in the group? If so, how often are they able to take advantage of multiple actions compared to their specialist cohorts? Finally, have you considered basing your total bonus on the current max skill level instead of on the characters' max skill?
Hi all,I'd give one Incite Emotion (Despair) plus Lasting Emotion and Potent Emotion and, possibly, a Supernatural Sense based around death. If you're going for the full Shinigami power set I'd add Spirit Form and Domination with Possession.
I will be playing a Reaper/Shinigami Scion in an upcoming game, and while I have the story part handled, I would like some input on power selection. Which powers do you think fit such a character thematically? I believe Ghost Speaker fits rather well, but other than that, I can't really decide on which route to go.
Also, for the purpose of draining someone's soul/life force, which power fits better: Blood Drinker or Emotional Vampire (assuming one does not have Incite Emotion)?Probably Emotional Vampire though either would work - the two are, in many ways, the same power with different skills and trappings.
...making them decide this stuff for themself defeats the purpose and makes your work less useful.This is something we all do with the published material. Or have the forums broken out in a chorus of unanimous agreement while I wasn't looking?
Also, Wasting Touch is not very similar to Venomous. They really don't have anything in common.Shrug. In the end, both are ways to use a combat skill to apply specific aspects to a victim.
The modifications are significant enough that they create entirely new mechanical questions. Like Tedronai, I'm not sure how you intended this item to work.My intent matters far less than the interpretation of any group using it.
I could come up with my own answers, but that would be more effort than just rewriting the item entirely.The OP would probably appreciate that, I believe Shiniba was looking for multiple sword ideas.
That writeup leaves some serious mechanical questions.I could give answers but they'd be my answers not yours. Better to let you come up with your own answers should you desire. Suffice it to say, the three powers are pulled from the book and modified / re-skinned to fit the background text. Applying them shouldn't be all that difficult.
That even this kind of divination or time magic is either very difficult to impossible to perform to a very definitive detailProbably true...I can't think of a good symbolic link to a specific point in time. Anything physical has existence across some chunk of time, you'd probably get confusing visions mixed together from its whole existence.
I was thinking mechanical differentiation...Ahh, in that case here's a possibility:
You guys have any ideas for something I can do to spice this Item of Power up a bit?Are you looking for mechanical differentiation or background/story?
I thought that players couldn't flat-out reject concessions and go to the taking out. Because that would mean that if a monster wants them dead, and they try to concede to stay alive, the monster can just say no. And kill them. So the same courtesy would then apply if the players were winning and the monster wants to concede before he dies.They can...and you're not missing anything. I believe the book recommends letting the players know (in character or not) when the NPC intends to kill, but that is certainly an option.
Or am I missing something here?
Does anyone have experience with someone having the ghost speaker power? My player has it, but beyond the obvious "a ghost comes to you and wants your help with x" and "rolll a contacts roll to see if the ghosts know anything" I don't know how to help him shine in my game.He can also do a fair amount of information gathering (I had a player trading favors done in the physical world for information ghosts knew or could find out), use them as trackers / spies (for a favor again), find sites where people were killed recently (ghost, if there is one, may be too traumatized to speak), or even use them for minor maneuvers in the physical world (this either needs to be something the spirit is willing to risk existence on, cost a lot, or require the ability to command spirits). Basically, anything a spirit can do he may be able to bribe them into doing for him...costs depending on how risky it is to the spirit, how much it aligns with the spirit's goals, and seldom having much to do with money.
Any ideas?