Nah, metals are better represented through compels than through anything else. The only times it comes up in the novels are when it's dramatically appropriate. Atium is the only one that you really have to worry about, which could plausibly be modelled with a stress track, but I still think it makes more sense to have it work through compels as well.

Besides, the only times you're going to use Atium are when you need to curbstomp a whole load of baddies at once, or you're up against another Mistborn or Inquisitor. Anyway, it's not as though the other metals are particularly rare.

Everything in Luthadel (the capital city and setting of the Final Empire) is geared towards getting these metals. The Lord Ruler even made his capital there because of the abnormally high concentration of metals in the groundwater, which helps to both supply his nobleman allomancers and spot Skaa Mistings/Mistborn who instinctively burn their metal.

Anyway, I've given it a lot of thought and I agree with Theogony_IX. I think I'll adjust the costs of the powers down to -1/-2, though I think just being Mistborn is enough to warrant a higher refresh rate than -6. Mostly because I'm thinking of making Mistborn capable of use multiple metals at once in the same manner as Extra Appendages.

I'm not aiming to make this fit in to the same cost scheme as DFRPG. The costs are relevant to the other powers, rather than to DF powers.

EDIT: Also, unlike in DFRPG the powers in the Mistborn setting are fairly rigid. It's incredibly difficult, not to mention dangerous, to try to gain new powers. Mostly because doing so puts you under the influence of an evil god.

Looking at it again, however, I can see an argument for lowered costs giving players more options when creating characters. As it is Compounders would be pretty much impossible for default refresh games. I'll give it some thought over the rest of the week.

Nah, just been busy the past week. I'll be putting more up over the course of this week and the weekend.

Also, I'm doing it for two reasons. First is to bring the costs/benefits more into line with each other. In the setting each power is pretty much as useful as the others, in varying contexts, but as it is we've got a hilariously high variance in the refresh costs of the powers. Secondly, each power has its own benefits/drawbacks that I don't think are easily mapped by the current power lists. Not a fault of the powers, of course, just that the Mistborn powers are different to Dresden ones on a fundamental level.

I've been working on the mental metals a bit so I'll be posting up those in the next day or so.

I can't comment on the Feruchemy stuff.

Feruchemy is pretty simple compared to Allomancy or Hemalurgy (the two other magic systems in setting). Basically you can store a personal attribute within a metal, which can then be tapped at a later date. However, while you're storing an attribute you lose it while doing so.

For example, a Feruchemist can store health in a 'goldmind' at the cost of being physically frail while doing so. He can later tap this store of health for increased regeneration at a later date. It's an end-neutral process where energy is neither is gained nor lost in its use.

Allomancy, on the other hand, is an end-positive process where energy is gained during use because the energy for the ability is taken from the metals themselves (or rather, the Investiture/Magic inherent in them).

Compounding combines these two processes so that the otherwise end-neutral Feruchemy becomes end-positive (effectively turning a closed system into a perpetual motion machine) and end-positive Allomancy becomes supercharged.

I'll spoiler what I'm about to say about Hemalurgy, because it's a plot point in the second/third Mistborn books.

The wiki talks about the risk of running out of metal at an inconvenient time, though. Does that just hardly ever happen?

Only after they've been fighting for a while or have been forced to burn Aluminium, which would be much better covered by compels than powers.

Also, I did think about putting Tin as a Supernatural Sense power, but then I figured that since it gives a boost to senses in an active way, it'd be better off as Incite Effect so that the player could apply aspects to himself, which he could then use to boost rolls or perhaps Invoke for Effect to gain a relevant power for a scene.

It's also important to note that Allomancers can both burn and flare their metals. Burning is a slow, but less powerful method of using the Investiture inherent in the metals. Flaring uses the metal up quicker, but also gives the power a significant boost, which I see as creating a Flaring X aspect, which is basically opens it up for compels.

Honestly, if I had to use a system for Allomancy it would be Fate, but everything would be done through aspects rather than attacks and the likes. Allomancy can do direct damage, but a lot of the time there are multiple effects that go hand in hand with them. Take steel for instance; you can use it to push any enemy that is wearing metal away from you, but at the same time you are pushed as well, with weight and allomantic power determining how far you go (this comes up in the mini-sequel, where the main character can adjust his weight as well as burn steel, so that he can weigh hundreds of kilograms and use that weight to brace himself for his steel pushes).

Allomancers would go through a lot of fate points; many more than Wizards, I think, since they'd be up against Steel Inquisitors, which have their own set of powerful abilities.

EDIT: Also, Tin doesn't really give you any extra senses. It just boosts the ones you have to ridiculous levels.

"SCP Foundation"?

Start here. It's a wiki full of creepy stories.

I suggest reading it with the lights off, just before bed for best effect.

Agreed.  You could even take it a step further and make it entirely unaffiliated with the government, instead being privately operated (Kingsman style).  Though then you run the risk of being less distinguishable from the Venatori Umbrum. 

OOH!   How about a coallition of Nobel-level Scientists, whom ineviatbly trip over evidence of magic, and dedicate themselves to both understanding and cataloging, but also containing and preparing countermeasures for the Supernatural World?

And they named it the SCP Foundation.

Here's my take on Alex Armstrong, aka the Strong Arm Alchemist. I think I did quite well, though I think an FMA setting would get rid of Lore as a skill and just use Scholarship instead. That'd make for characters that don't have to spend 2/3 refresh on stunts moving trappings around. Armstrong could have done with maybe an Empathy or Rapport stunt, probably a Might one too.


Praise be to Sanctaphrax for helping me remember the Alternate Magical Paradigm.