So, after playing a bunch of Sentinels of the Multiverse, I had an idea. There's a handful of ways in that game to redirect an attack away from a friendly target and into someone else, so how about:

Redirect Attack: After a successful defense against a melee attack, you can skip your next turn to attack another target using the Weapon rating of your attacker.

I'm stuck on whether this should act like Step Into The Blow, where you get to roll another attack immediately, or like Riposte, where you'd just use your defense roll as your attack roll. Wording may also need some work.

Thoughts?

So, kind of just thinking aloud here/looking for feedback on my wizard healer character for a friend's game. Wanting to suss out just how healing would work without leaning on sponsored magic, mechanically speaking, so I thought I'd jot down ideas for spells and such.

Also, yes, the healer does have the Doctor stunt and a high Scholarship skill.

Bandage
Healing mild physical consequences.
5 shift total
3-shift maneuver to numb pain (i.e., the target can tag it to counter a compel against the consequence)
2-shift maneuver to begin/accelerate the healing process (may not even be necessary -- mild physical consequences going away after a scene anyway)

Disinfectant
Healing poison
3+X shift total
3-shift maneuver to numb pain (if poison is indeed causing pain)
X-shift maneuver to counter the poison (cost dependent on what the strength of the poisoning is)

Strong Bandages
Healing Moderate consequences (Cuts and contusions)
7 shift total
3-shift maneuver to numb pain
4-shift maneuver to begin the healing process

Splint
Heal moderate consequences (broken bones)
10 shift total
3-shift maneuver to numb the pain
3-shift maneuver to support the broken bone (like numbing the pain, this is meant to counter a compel while it heals)
4-shift maneuver to begin the healing process

Surgery
Healing Severe consequences
14-shift total
5-shift maneuver to induce deep sleep
6-shift maneuver to accelerate the healing process once everything's put back in (should it be higher?)
3-shift maneuver to act as a "cast" or bandage, and protect wounds from further infection/reopening/rebreaking (countering a compel)

I'm unsure on the costs and whether they're appropriate -- I figure some of the 'numbing pain' ones may have multiples, or extended durations.

Also curious, would making an incision to start surgery be counted as inducing a mild physical consequence to help cover the cost of a spell?

General thoughts and ideas welcome and encouraged.

Looking at the mechanics, the Uber Ghouls' write-up doesn't quite match up to what we see in the books. Specifically, I'm referring to their recovery abilities. In White Night, they get blown to pieces, then start literally pulling themselves together moments later. Even Mythic Recovery doesn't let you do that in the middle of a fight, even if all the injuries you take short of Extreme are gone at the end of the scene.

So I'm thinking of a couple ways to handle this:

1. Instead of them taking consequences, they're simply taken out by massive damage but, owing to their nigh-unkillability, any kill that doesn't destroy their mass (like Ramirez' shield liquifies them, or burning them) means they can come back into the fray a turn or two later.

2. Replacing Mythic Recovery with outright Physical Immunity, and doing the 'limbs blown off and reattaching' bit as flavor. So, short of those attacks that disintegrate, you can't truly take them out, only maneuver them long enough to set something up or get away.

Thoughts?

Should doing a Full Defense add the +2 to defensive blocks? Or should it just be defensive rolls?

So, recent events in my game have brought up a question. I know, according to the game book, that picking up powers mid-session means you have to spend fate points equivalent to what you're picking up.

But what about removing powers? One of my players was, up to last night, playing a Knight of the Blackened Denarius, before a reality check hit him in the face, and he dumped the coin (right as he's about to fight -another- Denarian).

He'll be dropping Hellfire, a strength power, and a recovery power.

Just out of curiosity, as I just started running a game with live people rather than online, what do you guys use for props? What I mean is, how do you represent fate points? Drawing out maps? Do you use miniatures for the characters?

I've taken to using poker chips for fate points, cards to sort of represent the characters (face up: In character; face down: Out of character), and I've picked up a dry erase board so I can draw out maps and such quickly.

So I need a little help putting together a couple sponsored magics that two of my players want to look into.

First one, his character has a bond with a Valkyrie (long story short, the wizard was supposed to die, the Valkyrie started going through the soul-collecting motions, and the wizard woke up mid-way through), and he wants to look into using that bond to get Rune Magic. Partly to keep from duplicating a niche, and partly because the player wants to do something like Winter Ice or Soulfire that can be used to modify spells on the fly, I don't want to just use the Rune Magic write-up I helped make here.

So here's what I'm thinking: Lose the extra item slots, keep the ability to create runic items as in that write up, and have the rune magic create some structure/permanence to evocation spells (represented by a +1 to control of runic constructs). As for Evothaum, I'm not sure what kind of spells would be appropriate, besides wards. Thoughts?

The other player's a little trickier--he's looking to get his reckless young mage some kind of Outsider sponsored magic, preferably without breaking the laws of magic (so getting it will probably be somewhat involuntary). I figure the sponsor debt can more or less replace the aspect the character would get from the lawbreaker stunt. As for effects, probably a +1 in power to destroy, and some kind of bonus when used against magical defenses, either reducing toughness powers of certain creatures by a step, or a +2 to get through evocation blocks. I'm not sure what kind of evothaum there'd be (opening ways and destruction/transformation spring to mind).