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DFRPG / Case Files at cons

« on: November 19, 2011, 07:22:00 PM »

I plan on running one or two DFRPG sessions at a small con in Kalamazoo MI (Marmalade Dog) and would like to know wow do the Case Files work for Cons and a four hour time slot?

Also, any suggestions on how to run them at cons?

Thanks

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DFRPG / Third Law Black Magic

« on: April 05, 2011, 03:50:22 PM »

How would you do Black Magic spells for manipulating people work in DFRPG? Are they placing an aspect that can be freely tagged, similar to the Addictive Venom?

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DFRPG / Telekinetic Wizard

« on: February 11, 2011, 09:30:55 PM »

I have a player that wants to create a Wizard that uses telekinesis to throw weapons. His idea is to carry knives, ball bearings and such to hurl at people using a telekinesis spell. Reading different posts in the forums, I have few possibilities.

1. The throw things spell causes damage based solely on strength of the spell.
2. Use a spell to create a maneuver “Enchanted Throwing weapon” and tag if for free on the next exchange using the Weapon skill to throw.
3. Use magic item slots to create enchanted throwing weapons. This would probably require the Weapon skill to use.
4. Get the supernatural stunt, Breath Weapon. Consider it a spell casting effect that doesn’t require stress to use.

Is there any other way it can be handled?

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DFRPG / Too silly for city faces?

« on: November 30, 2010, 04:58:01 PM »

Little background. My players couldn’t bring themselves to help me create New Orleans for DFRPG beyond two Themes and a Threat. So I created the locations and all the faces. Then at the last minute they threw in two city faces. “The Cult of the Blue Oyster” and “Were-Panther Clan” with no idea what they are beyond the names and a hand wave, ‘the GM can figure it out’. “oh, and GM they want to rock the boat.” Grrrrrr

So, I decided The Cult of the Blue Oyster is an occult Nazi origination from Brazil in direct completion with them to gain all the pieces of a key to open a seal. (the threat). I’m good with occult Nazis. Defiantly bad guys, but all mortals so the spell slingers have to be careful.

But what to do with “Were-panther Clan”? I had planned to introduce them as extremist environmentalists, were-panthers. That could set them up as both good and bad guys to the PC’s. But last night I had a vision of a Were-Panther Ninja Clan. The visuals in my mind are pretty assume. The first few encounters would have standard ninjas working with black panthers, leading the players to believe that the WPNC has animal companions, and are not shapeshifters. Later they would learn the truth the hard way.

However – I still have this shapeshifting environmentalist in the bayou story I was planning for the weekend. So, am I too silly to have them as Extremist Environmentalists, Were-Panther, Ninjas?

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DFRPG / Ritual Limits

« on: October 18, 2010, 07:55:03 PM »

If a character takes Ritual and their one particular application of thaumaturgy is not Crafting, do they still get the two free Focus Item Slots? If so, how do they make them? I am thinking of an NPC that has Ritual Divination and I would like to have a “crystal ball” focus. Is that possible with Ritual?

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DFRPG / Scion lawman

« on: August 26, 2010, 07:17:36 PM »

Would a threshold cause problems for a scion lawman? In the case of a Scion, they are not completely a supernatural being. In this specific case, the High Concept is “Demon Spawn US Marshal” The guy needs to be able to bust in doors to chase after fugitives.

I am sure he would want to have his Inhuman Speed and Supernatural Sense while looking in dark closets and going down creaky basement stairs.

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DFRPG / Compiling City Aspect

« on: May 05, 2010, 08:06:11 PM »

Is the City and Location aspects there for flavor and window dressing, or do they serve a rules mechanical purpose? Can they be compelled? If so, to what result?