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Not a Very Good Viking
I Can't Find "Mana" on the Periodic Table.
Dean Koontz Fanboy
Red Court Courtesan
i was confused by the example in the book (YS.251) because, harry got a +4 on his dicipline roll that he suplimented by invoking his aspects, and the vampire also got a +4 on his block. also under "HOW to do it" nothing is mentioned about adding the dicipline roll into the total shifts. it was confusing to me and my brain
...thankyouThis is the thing that I find exciting about the game. You can build up to an action by using complimentary aspects. This makes taking on the supernatural a little less frightening for pure mortals and explains why the supernatural world really does fear being outed...enough pitchforks will take down a monster.
In our second fight with the Big Bad Wolves, one of them had a shotgun and was trying to shoot us while his buddy tried to take off Poe's head with his claws. Poe got the drop on the wolf with the gun and used a maneuver to silhouette him with the flashlight on the bottom of his own shotgun and add the tag "Silhouetted" to him. On my turn I dropped my glamoured invisibility to make a deceit-based maneuver with my Glamour power to deceive the wolf with the shotgun into believing that his buddy was one of us (my logic being that in the instant Poe shined the flashlight at him he was blind which gave me an opportunity to mess with his perception of the actors in the environment), and we were his reinforcements tagging him with the aspect "Messed Up IFF".
One of us then compeled that aspect to have him shoot his buddy on his turn instead of us, and the shot ended up taking the other wolf out.
Um, no. The damage of an attack is always based on how well you hit + Weapon rating. The power put into the spell determines Weapon rating, not full damage in and of itself, so if he hits by 4 shifts...he will indeed do Weapon Rating + 4 damage (since he hit them in a vulnerable area, or something like that). Splitting the attack is also impossible with a Rote, they are set in what they do, a multiple target spell would be a separate Rote. And Rotes are always the same amount of power and thus stress.
First, concerning rote spells. If Harry were to cast his Fuego rote he does not have to roll to control the power but still rolls his Discipline (+3) with a +1 from his rod for a attack roll. Doesn't matter if roll isn't good enough to control because that has already been established. This roll is opposed by the target. If Harry got a +6 and the target got a +2, Harry's Fuego rote could do 8 shifts and it would cost him 1 box on the mental stress chart. Is this correct?
