Thanks folks, those are really useful responses.

I'll have to pick up Dark and Stormy Knights, I haven't read that one yet!

It's not just non-magical morality, but morality period. As Luccio pointed out, the Laws Of Magic aren't primarily about right and wrong, but about control, binding wizards and limiting their danger. The Council stands neutral on matters of right and wrong because it's the only way they know to prevent civil war.

Indeed.

are you all still looking for people/ if not can i read in on the progress thus far?

Hey Lowellwashere, I'll echo what Patch said and say you're very welcome to come over and get involved, either as player or by applying to GM!

Either way, look forward to seeing you over there, thanks for asking about it.

Someone was asking this in the foyer over on the Ragnarok NYC chat yesterday, it sparked some discussion but I thought I'd take it here too and see what you folks think.

The question is: if a person with inhuman toughness is hit by something that fulfils their catch, obvioiusly it bypasses their armor. But does it also bypass their extra stress boxes? Does The Catch make it as if they just don't have Inhuman Toughness on their sheet?

 One person mentioned it might be a bit of a book-keeping pain, as now the player has essentially two physical stress tracks to keep an eye on.

I've been wondering and I see both sides of the question.

What's the thinking on it around here?

Thanks!

Things that break your game's skill cap on attacks are probably a dumb idea. Things that can get you an entire combat's worth of attacks at double your game's skill cap (Oh hi, focus items!) are a super dumb idea.

Be upfront with people about what you're going to let them do with thaumaturgy. The ability to do anything with essentially one skill, especially where one of the explicitly listed uses is 'Do impossible things',  has the potential to get way out of hand. :-)

If your group has a 'that guy', maybe encourage him to not be a wizard.

That's one issue Bedurndurn, out group is going to be a large-scale online chat with a high number of players and multiple GMs, we haven't opened yet and we already have 30-something registered users, that number is only going to grow. I'm inclined to trust everyone but in a group that big you can't keep an eye out for 'that guy' as easily as you can in tabletop.


Thanks for the advice so far everyone, if anyone has more to add please do.

I found that discussion about shifters interesting, their disadvantage of having to shift form really is a nice inbuilt limitation.

Evocation with Focus Items is still one of the biggest worries, yeah. But the more time passes, the more I'm inclined to let things go as they are in the books in most cases and watch how things develop for the first few weeks of the game.

Hey folks,

One thing that comes up from time to time in discussion as we build Ragnarok NYC is: are there any powers etc we need to house rule so they don't break the game?

Things I've heard people be worried about so far:

Evocation
Higher levels of Incite Emotion

And then things like combination of Evocation and Enchanted Items for incredible Defense, stuff like that.


I'm generally pretty easy on this stuff and my default position is to not want to limit whatever's in the book, but I thought I'd invite people here to comment to get the benefit of your experience.

Thanks a lot!

Nice DMS, actually we're actually thinking our setting will probably have a lot of the big hitters like Vadderung out of the picture, with lesser gods taking up the slack. Providing a bit more upward mobility potential for pcs, making the npcs a bit more relatable for a -8 refresh game.

Hey folks,
Thanks for all your posts so far, cold_breaker, thanks for the thoughts, sounds like you're speaking from a lot of experience.

Our forums are now up, you can register and post there if you're interested in getting involved!

We're interested in finding some GMs to volunteer on the site, if that sounds like your cup of tea you could email me or post here or whatever you like.