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Re: Custom Power List
« Reply #735 on: May 28, 2012, 07:14:06 AM »
A re-roll is one of the standard effects of an Aspect Invocation. This power expands that effect, making it more useful. You can get a re-roll with any Aspect that is, in the estimation of the GM, applicable.

Does that answer your question?

actually now that I have gotten farther in my book, I am more confused about this. I would like to preffice all of my future questions(and especially this one) though, with the fact that I am only in the middle of my first read threw of the Your Story book; and that also, I have not yet read the How To Play The Game chapter.

Now then my question is, if re-roles are a basic effect of invocatoins, then why do I need this power to do them?
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Re: Custom Power List
« Reply #736 on: May 28, 2012, 07:43:54 AM »
You don't.

This power lets you fuel non-free re-rolls with debt instead of with Fate Points. And it makes re-rolls more advantageous to you.

It also lets you make other people re-roll, which is not normally possible.

But you can re-roll without it.

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Re: Custom Power List
« Reply #737 on: May 28, 2012, 05:12:33 PM »
Urban Magic [-4]
Description: Cities are living growing things, power runs through cities like blood and a Urban Magician has the ability to tap into this power.
Sponsor: The veins of a city (roads, trains, power cables, telephone lines) and the rituals of a city (commuting, rubbish collecting, regulars at a bar etc).
Agenda: An Urban Mage mostly just taps into overflowing power of a city but if a city had a motive it would be the continuations of the rituals of a city.
Evocation: Mainly Electricity (from the power cables), fire (if a gas pipe is available) and smoke (if traffic is nearby).
Thaumaturgy: Mainly divination; your mind can float through the veins of a city, you can also summon urban spirit and demons.
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Re: Custom Power List
« Reply #738 on: May 29, 2012, 05:21:28 AM »
Interesting idea, but needs more juice. Most Sponsored Magics include some evothaum and an extra benefit worth roughly 1 Refresh.

What does this provide, beyond basic spellcasting?

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Re: Custom Power List
« Reply #739 on: May 29, 2012, 09:56:27 PM »
You don't.

This power lets you fuel non-free re-rolls with debt instead of with Fate Points. And it makes re-rolls more advantageous to you.

It also lets you make other people re-roll, which is not normally possible.

But you can re-roll without it.

Ho great, thank you Very much. I think my first character will have this power! :-)
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Re: Custom Power List
« Reply #740 on: May 30, 2012, 04:32:15 AM »
Interesting idea, but needs more juice. Most Sponsored Magics include some evothaum and an extra benefit worth roughly 1 Refresh.

What does this provide, beyond basic spellcasting?
My first thought is that, where most magic hexes technology or at best ignores it, Urban Magic will interact rather effectively with most large machines.  It won't be particularly useful for hacking a cell phone, but cars and power grids are innate parts of a city, and can be manipulated in far more interesting ways by Urban Magic than they could be by mortal wizardry.  The most obvious evothaum would be transportation effects; by arranging coincidences in the transport grid, an urban sorcerer can move at surprising speed over both short distances (e.g., catch a passing vehicle for extra shifts of movement or dart through a hitherto-unnoticed gap in a zone boundary) or long (e.g., cross twenty miles of city in twenty minutes despite traffic, poorly arranged roads, and even active attempts at interdiction).

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Re: Custom Power List
« Reply #741 on: May 31, 2012, 01:14:47 AM »
@Thugorp: You're very welcome.

@Vargo Teras: Good idea. So that's the evothaum sorted. What should the extra benefit be like?

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Re: Custom Power List
« Reply #742 on: May 31, 2012, 02:16:58 AM »
@Thugorp: You're very welcome.

@Vargo Teras: Good idea. So that's the evothaum sorted. What should the extra benefit be like?

For an Extra Benefit a Urban Magic gives the bearer the advantages of Marked by Power when dealing with the Faces of the City.

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Re: Custom Power List
« Reply #743 on: May 31, 2012, 02:29:31 AM »
That could work, but I'd hate to prevent an Emissary Of The City from taking normal Marked By Power.

Maybe just +2 to Presence within the city? Or maybe a Contacts boost?

I like the idea of something social, at least.

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Re: Custom Power List
« Reply #744 on: May 31, 2012, 02:32:45 AM »
How about a +1 to alertness or lore for detecting things that are out of place in your city because of your connection to it?
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Re: Custom Power List
« Reply #745 on: May 31, 2012, 02:33:22 AM »
Or maybe a Supernatural Sense?

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Re: Custom Power List
« Reply #746 on: May 31, 2012, 02:44:33 AM »
Or maybe a Supernatural Sense?

Or perhaps the idea of an additional +1 gained when tagging any Aspect having to do with the City. This is based on memories of the Spirit movie.

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Re: Custom Power List
« Reply #747 on: May 31, 2012, 02:45:25 AM »
Or maybe a Supernatural Sense?

That would work, the ability to 'feel the city' would make sense from the description. 
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Re: Custom Power List
« Reply #748 on: May 31, 2012, 04:25:13 AM »
Okay, we now have lots of good ideas.

ways and means, as the power's writer it's your right to choose which one to go with.

So what will it be?

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Re: Custom Power List
« Reply #749 on: June 03, 2012, 03:54:57 AM »
I'd like to update the Sponsored Magic list tomorrow, so I'd appreciate it if you could pick an effect now.