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The Dresden Files => DFRPG => Topic started by: JackGiv on June 04, 2018, 02:45:34 PM
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Torchbearer of Liberty
You are the mortal agent of the american spirit of freedom, liberty and progress. You assist Lady Liberty/Libertas/Marianne to strengthen mortal belief in progress, freedom and emancipation, as well as overthrowing tyrants and despots.
Unique Conditions
Flame of Liberty (Fleeting): [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] Check one of this condition’s five boxes to use the well of power granted to you by your mantle, as described in your stunts. Recover fully at the end of any scene in which Liberty Power is unused. This condition may also be utilized to create an approach; Liberty with a bonus equal to the number of unchecked boxes usable toward any action. The GM, however, will exacerbate your self-described actions according to the character of the mantle: Liberty is is about overthrowing oppressors, breaking chains and emancipating. If the impact of allowing the mantle to control your action is sufficiently complicating, the GM may also treat it as a compel and award you a fate point.
Disfavor (lasting): [ ] This condition is mandated if your character has disobeyed
a direct command from Lady Liberty. Until your atonement, all stunts and conditions
associated with this mantle are inaccessible other than recovery actions if one
is marked.
Core Stunts
Still mulling over what stunts this mantle would have. I don't know whether i should base this more on (un)seelie Knight/huntman, or my like knight of the cross/Kringle senechal
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The whole "conditions" thing seems kind of clunky. Why not just use compels and aspects?
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Something in the theme of the statue's Plaque:
New Colossus
statue of liberty poem
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
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The whole "conditions" thing seems kind of clunky. Why not just use compels and aspects?
This is for DFA; conditions are a core mechanic for that game.
Anyway, I don't know DFA that well so I'm hesitant to suggest stunt effects for it. But here goes anyway:
-An inverted form of the Knight of the Cross's ability to show up at the right time; people who need your help can always find you at the right time.
-A specific bonus against tyrants, either to denounce them socially or to beat them down physically.
-The ability to rebirth people, letting them set aside their old lives and create new ones.
-Resistance to, and the ability to counteract, magical mind control.
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You could run with the "American Spirit" side of your character description and go for some Inspirational abilities. Or maybe the ability to Emanate a sort of Chi field that makes everyone in the effect more energetic, focused, and/or productive.
OOOOR (and this is just something that would make me laugh):
Bootstrap Paradox: You can help people "Pull Themselves up by their own bootstraps" by imposing a Chronomantic effect that locks them into a self-fulfilling prophesy to "ensure" (within the mechanical game limits) that their goal comes to pass. DM would then get to decide how much to subvert the Desire when it actually comes to pass.
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This is for DFA; conditions are a core mechanic for that game.
Ah, my mistake then. Carry on.
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Just wondering but...anyone know how to convert things like this FROM DFA to DFRPG? I'm not a fan of the Accelerated system and continue to run the original DFRPG with a little Core thrown in
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Righteousness and Guide My Hand and/or Sponsored Magic (plus Marked By Power for being an Emissary) seem to cover most of what this particular Mantle gives in the post above.
More general conversion guidelines don't really exist. You just need to look at what it does and find the nearest equivalents.