Hey

i was wondering how you all handle Vails and Shields in DFA?

with shield we normaly had at a block action in Core. what do you do to create shields in DFA? make it as a advantaage action?

i just can't seem to find it in my books, but.

1. can i cast a ward on "self" and have it follow me. even wards with "mines"

2. with self buffs, how powerfull do you allow the players buff to become with befor paying FP for it.

3. do you limit Ritual casting in anyway, besides of the social aspect  of it. say the players piss of a Necromancer/wizard/evil overlord/heavy metal fan..ect. whats to stop him from just ritual casting "MEGADEATH" (besides a boring story and the social aspect of it) on the players. and lets say he was smart, he could just build a ward beforehand with 9999 shifts build over the years, and he could also hide it.

4. mac-D or burger king? 

in the group, making a 100 shift ward in his base that shoots lazers and plays disco music, he can set it up so he cant fail the rolls after all.  i dont have anyone that wants to do it, but it's really game breaking, would you say, well that is gong to cost refresh mr. wizard. Ritual stuff is game-breaking, but whats to stop a player from going all out(roleplay aside) and making a stronghold like Archangel, in reality he could make a Deathstar from ectoplasm and have it shoot deathrays

Well, we call our city Eden city, Group is a Wizard, pure humen, focused-biomancer/shifter. and a viking-spirit (working for monarch)  a shifter trapped in his mortal ascendens.

they all live in a old abandoned theater owned by 4 white-courts-virgins, doing artzy theater-stuff, and getting fed that way.

Game kicks of by a  invitation to an auction, to the leading superpower in EDEN; a black court vampire, all that is somebody in Eden gets a invitation, and are treated as guests, there is a rumor of a especially powerfull item being sold.  at the auction  they see the local grey wardens, mafia in the know, lesser magic users, a singel frost giant, ect. all kinds of nastys

The auction kicks of, and varies items are sold. after that, the black-court  enters and  he welcomes them, and thanks them for being guests,  he reviels a old dagger and tell them that its the dagger called athama, silance falls over the audience, he then grap the dagger and start on his super-villain speech. (a huge Block is placed on the zone 40ish shifts), and he laughs as he shouts that they are all fools, and he will collect all the serects of Eden now, (the bad guy always tells hes plan and how he did it ect). He goes on and again clap his hands, and the walls go down and reveall 40 renfield  that are ready to eat all the people there alive, the Blackcourt Master laugh, but then stops when he realise that all the refields throtts has been slit, black-court-master eyes widen in shock as the huge magic-block does down, and mayham insue.

 the pcs get away alive, and the blackcourt vamp die, now that there is a power vacum in Eden, and  factions in the city try to grap power, and Athama is lost and the hunt goes on(would be fun for a PC to touch it and all, not saying here for spoilers), so city is all mayham, with over worked wardens, and only the pcs to turn to.

a Evil organisation Khaoz, is getting a foothold, it's a anti-fea cult, kinda like keep mortals pure. One of there biggest moves was the mass-killing of jews, in the 2nd worldwar. according to Khaoz, kabalistic priesthood, was gaining to much power in eastern europe, from the reports thees kabalists had infuced there blood with fea earth magic, making them strong. now remnents of that priesthood, called orpheus(unformed), are hunting Khaoz.   

1 besides that, red-court is planning to do a move on Eden.
2 Spirits are acting up, and no one knows why,
3 a Powerfull drug is hitting the streets called deity forcing humans into the spiritrealm of dreams, and sometimes taking things back with them, unknowingly.

all kinds of fun,

Places, Oak and stone a old auction house run by frost-giants,
a dojo(safehaven) teahouse, (kinda like mac's)
the mines, are a old part of the city that have turned into bars/nigthclubs and feeding grounds, huge place goes really deep,
and all kinds of cults, shops as fronts.

eeerrr  debt? is that in the book 

wanted to make this jew/cabalist using golems pets of all kind, what i would like to know is this, how do you calculate Golem refresses in shifts when making its stats.

and on another note, with ritual magic, would it not be kinda easy to make OP magic weapons/armor/gadgets?, say i wanted to make a Lightsaber, even if it takes 30-40 shifts for duration and power, its not a itemslot, or am i wrong