Oh, but those are so much fun. My campaign is currently in the middle of a Groundhog Day-esque time loop (I'm having a lot of fun dramatically killing people off repeatedly).

Oh I'm sure they are, for the players. My group is such a devilish bunch that even normal time continuums get me off guard every time. So just to keep that little bit of sanity intact, I'll do my best to avoid time slips. 

My character idea is timetraveling sue come to find out who messed with her bones.

 

No time-bending elements in my games, thank you very much.

The thing is, at the moment, for practical purposes, Beast Change already does cost more, and is modular, by the simple expedient of including other powers if you pay for them, and only if you pay for them. Any additions to that are likely to be either unbalancingly overpowered or utterly pointless.

The first is actually true, but the feeling within our group was that it felt too expensive that you need to buy all the bits and bobs separately. And where do you draw the line? Do you need to buy Claws for a wereraven in order to actually have them even though you are a bird, etc. Or a beak. Or a trunk for were-elephant (ok that's a joke but you get the meaning I hope). I can see the balance-issue being the most pressing one, but luckily I have awesome players so we can handle that on the fly (pun intended).

I acknowledge that I'm on a thin ice here as a total DFRPG newbie, but this bit about werecreatures just didn't feel "logical" to any of us. Or maybe it's the baggage how more familiar systems approach werecreatures..

Anyways, thanks for your input.

 

I have a few character-related issues boggling my mind at the moment. I'm also a complete DFRPG newbie (but seasoned veteran otherwise).

1) One of my player wants to do a focused practitioner focused on crafting magic items. Basically having Rituals:Crafting as the only magical skill (we are playing up to your waist, mind). Based on my reading of the rules, this is not really possible as he could only craft items that help you.. well, craft items. This of course sounds logical as I think one should have the magic knowledge for the type of items/potions he's trying to craft. But then again I'm not keen on thwarting the character idea completely as there's good bit of backstory invented before I started thinking about the mechanics. I think if he takes Channeling as well, then he could craft items based on a particular element/strand of magic. Am I correct so far?

I was also considering bending the rules a bit and suggesting that he could have a thaumaturgy skill only, making him a sort of a broken/half-made wizard-in-training (fits the backstory too), but let me know if this is a bad idea (other than bending the rules from the go).

2) Another character is a were-creature, a were-crow to be more precise. This is luckily more straight forward, but one thing doesn't sit well with me: the rules suggest that he should pick for example wings and diminutive size as powers for the were raven. But then again the beast change power already changes you to a bird, which is a small, flying creature (= diminutive with wings). To me this feels like you have to pay twice (or thrice) for this particular creature. I already house ruled that beast change covers the wings and size issue, but let me know if I have misunderstood something.

Thanks in advance for any help.

new user here.. I'm interested in all the vast resources of the DFRPG section, but the search function seems to be quite useless. Or I might just fail at interwebs... (not the first time). Is there a way to see more than 25 results for example?