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JesterOC

So I have a few questions regarding todays game.

The players noticed that they where being followed, so a PC with Super human speed, slams on the breaks, hops out of the car, races over the the follower and attempts to intimidate the driver. His description is that he bashes in the windows (also super strong) and demands to know why he is being followed.

I counted it as a straight intimidate check, but the players (who have not read the rules) felt that the actions described deserved a modifier. I suggested that a bash to maneuver an aspect onto the driver would do that, but the PC did not want to let the Driver to be able to react before he rolled the intimidate. Can you guys see a way to let the PC's get the effect they wanted in the time frame they wanted?

Also, do declarations take any time during an exchange? The book says it take no game time, does that mean that the player can keep trying different declarations until one sticks?

Lastly can social combat and physical combat exist in the same conflict, it seems to be able to work OK, but I was wondering If I was messing this rule up?

 

So in Storm Front, Harry used wind to vault himself up to the 2nd (or 3rd) story of the house.  I was thinking of a earth spell variant that used the idea of lowered gravity to do the same.  Would that be done by just putting an aspect "Neutral Buoyancy" on the target?   

Name: Anti-Gravity
Power: 4 (3 for maneuver + 1 for extra exchange)
Duration: 2 Exchanges
Effect: Places "Neutral Buoyancy" on target.

So lets say a conflict arises on top of a building and I am on the ground floor, I would just cast this spell and move to the roof zone? (Normally I would have to enter the building on the lower level and move across several zones either as stairs or elevators.) Could invoke in on my next turn (lets say I powered it for 2 exchanges) to say that I was shooting from a direction that they where not expecting?

I am still having a problem wrapping my head around the concept of aspects. 

When I read the example thaumaturgy spell for the blinding of the Loup-Garou it says the spell adds the blindness aspect onto the target. When looking up the blinded description in the maneuver section, it says the victim MAY be compelled to attack the wrong target etc.. In order to be effective would would the PC need to spend a fate point to compel the target to limit his actions not be able to act against anything.

Or how about the example in resolving maneuvers where Murphy maneuvers to place the "cornered" aspect on the target. Then the victim rolls to escape that aspect. Couldn't the victim just sprint away anyway. I see nothing in the rules that say that an aspect all by itself can restrain the thug, just that if it is not removed, Murphy will get a one time free +2 or re-roll.

In short aspects by themselves seem to be making narrative changes but I only see rules that state compels are the only way to invoke these changes through aspects.

Anyone have book pages that can help me out with this?

Thanks
JesterOC

I've been reading and rereading the rules and I would like some feedback on the following scenario.

A wizard wants to cast a shift 5 evocation using earth as the element (Tossing metal at the target). He has a conviction of 5 so it only costs him mental 1 stress. He then marks the 1st bubble on his sheet. He then rolls to control the spell so he takes his discipline of 4 and rolls a -2 for a total of 2 which is 3 less than he needs to control it.

He decides that he wants the full strength of the spell to come out and so he takes the failure as backlash, Since he is nearly physically beat he decides to take it as mental stress. So he marks the third bubble on his character sheet.

The spell goes off as a  Superb (+5) spell which the enemy must dodge it with athletics. He has fair (+2) athletics and rolls a 0. He has no armor so he takes 5-2=3 physical stress. Since he only can take 2 physical stress he takes a minor consequence of "cut up hands" as he used his hands to defend himself against the attack. And still takes a stress of one.

So how does all that sound? Do the mechanics work?

Follow up questions. The wizard can tag the aspect "Cut up hands" on his next attack to gain a +2. If that fails, the aspect cut up hands can't be used unless a FATE point is used right?

OK thanks in advance to all who have read all of this and commented.

JesterOC