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DFRPG / Re: Nevernever Bypass Wards and Threshold?
« on: December 14, 2010, 06:34:32 PM »
There is actually a specific reference to this in Chapter 23 of White Knight:
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DFRPG / Just a random laugh for the day
« on: December 08, 2010, 09:29:07 PM »
I'm in the car on the way to lunch, where I'm discussing the Dresden Files and DFRPG with my wife. In all fairness, she's a huge Dresden fan too, but the comment was priceless:
Her: "What happened in that book again?"
Me: "It's the one where [X plot] happens."
Her: "Oh, right, with the Delorean guys?"
Me: "..."
Yes, she meant Denarian. She said Delorean. I laughed all the way home, she punched me a couple times. It was worth it.
Her: "What happened in that book again?"
Me: "It's the one where [X plot] happens."
Her: "Oh, right, with the Delorean guys?"
Me: "..."
Yes, she meant Denarian. She said Delorean. I laughed all the way home, she punched me a couple times. It was worth it.
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DFRPG / Re: Wards and the First Law
« on: December 02, 2010, 04:31:57 AM »
I'd argue there's a component of magnitude and a component of free will on the part of the presumably dead party. To make a ridiculously extreme example to illustrate the point:
I create spirit-based force ward that essentially punches someone with a normal punch (1 stress). Some mortal walks up to my door and tries to open it. He gets lightly punched in the nose. He tries again. Gets punched again. Tries again... Several minutes (at least) and consequences later, he tries for the last time, and has essentially gotten himself beaten to death.
Sure, there's such a thing as accidents that would count as unintentionally violating the first law - negligent homicide/manslaughter, to use the analogous US legal terms. But if I put a reinforced steel door on my house and someone beats his head against it until he's dead...yeah, totally not my fault. If Harry used his "Flickum Bicus" spell to light a candle, and some guy with TNT strapped to his chest looked at the candle, pondered for a moment, and then threw himself onto it, I'm pretty sure that wouldn't count as a first law violation either.
I create spirit-based force ward that essentially punches someone with a normal punch (1 stress). Some mortal walks up to my door and tries to open it. He gets lightly punched in the nose. He tries again. Gets punched again. Tries again... Several minutes (at least) and consequences later, he tries for the last time, and has essentially gotten himself beaten to death.
Sure, there's such a thing as accidents that would count as unintentionally violating the first law - negligent homicide/manslaughter, to use the analogous US legal terms. But if I put a reinforced steel door on my house and someone beats his head against it until he's dead...yeah, totally not my fault. If Harry used his "Flickum Bicus" spell to light a candle, and some guy with TNT strapped to his chest looked at the candle, pondered for a moment, and then threw himself onto it, I'm pretty sure that wouldn't count as a first law violation either.
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DFRPG / Re: Any place to find local DFRPG games?
« on: November 19, 2010, 03:58:41 AM »
Awesome website, thanks! I'm in Rhode Island, for what it's worth.
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DFRPG / Re: Any place to find local DFRPG games?
« on: November 19, 2010, 12:29:42 AM »
I'd much rather play - if only because I currently run 2 LARPs and a tabletop game, and I enjoy a chance to just be a player every once in a while. 
That being said, if I have to I'll run it, it's just not my first choice.
That being said, if I have to I'll run it, it's just not my first choice.
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DFRPG / Re: Any place to find local DFRPG games?
« on: November 19, 2010, 12:05:53 AM »
Unfortunately, no one at the two gaming stores that are in my area is playing. I even put up a note on the board. And while the other options could theoretically work, I thought it might make more sense to come to the forums dedicated to the game rather than try to find people. *shrug*
And while the other options could theoretically work, I thought it might make more sense to come to the forums dedicated to the game rather than try to find people. *shrug*
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DFRPG / Any place to find local DFRPG games?
« on: November 18, 2010, 11:27:51 PM »
Hey all,
I tried searching, but I didn't see any post or sub-forum dedicated to helping people find a local DFRPG game. Is anything like that available? Would the mods object to such a thing?
I tried searching, but I didn't see any post or sub-forum dedicated to helping people find a local DFRPG game. Is anything like that available? Would the mods object to such a thing?
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