DFRPG: 3/27/2011 Confrontation with the Husband

[cedyeus]

So, last we left our intrepid heroes, they had just finished casting their tracking spell. The PCs all piled into Alex's Jeep, with Agent Winters following behind a safe hexing distance in his Mercedes of AWESOMENESS!!! We cut to them pulling up outside a warehouse in the Port of Oakland. The Were-raccoon changes into a raccoon, and uses her

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What Could have been better, part two

[cedyeus]

I totally flubbed during the Shellycobb fight. There was a point when Alystria's character wanted to throw stuff at the shellycobb. At the time, I had her make an attack with weapons, which she had a 0, and thus failed.

What I should have done was route her action as a maneuver to attempt to place the DISTRACTED temporary aspect upon the creature.

Since her character is very much not a combat character, I need to let her know the power that maneuvers are in the system, and that she isn't useless in the slightest in physical confrontations.

Brain Fade: What Rocked Part 2

[cedyeus]

we're utilizing the Hunger System to represent Venus' need to draw upon the belief of her followers to generate her power.

Using the rules as presented in the book seem too easy to defeat. After rereading the section a dozen times, I zeroed in on the sentence "This manifests as an ATTACK with a strength equal to the total refresh cost of the abilities you used."
So, When Venus cast a channeled spell, at the end of the scene I had her roll disciple vs 2+dice. This led to her actually taking hunger stress, which I've never seen a feeding dependent character take in Dresden to date.

I think this is going to work well mechanically, especially since between her high concept and her aspect FED BY BELIEF, she has two aspects lined up ready to be tagged if she rolls particularly poorly.

Blah! BRAINSSSS

[cedyeus]

Ok... another thing that rocked that I forgot. The modified soul gaze mechanic.

When a soul gaze is done, you still do the Conviction vs Discipline "attack". Each character automatically learning the High Concept Aspect of the character they are soul gazing with. For each shift you succeed by, you learn one aspect of the opposing character, with the last aspect learned is their trouble aspect.
Also, if you choose to invoke an aspect to get either a better result or defend against such a result, your opponent learns the aspect you tag in order to gain your +2 bonus (so you're effectively showing one aspect to protect another one).

So far it worked really well. The wizard learned 4 aspects from Agent Winters, 3 aspects from Riley, and 3 from Venus.

I feel that's a pretty decent set of mechanics for a once in a lifetime event!

Re: Blah! BRAINSSSS

[cedyeus]

Also, both sides roll a conviction attack vs disciple defense, so that they have an equal chance of learning an aspect from the soul gazing wizard. Additionally, the aspects the wizard learned were above and beyond each character's high concept.
As well, Venus learned two additional aspects of the Wizard... Compel fodder all around!

[elisandra]

I thought you only used one favor, too. There was originally discussion of using them all, but then with what Elena did, it ended up being only one.

[cedyeus]

It was my understanding that you used one favor for Alex and Felix, and one favor for Simon and his Wife. Hence the additional negotiation about him not tracking you down and killing you in the mortal realm, now that there was nothing compelling him from reaping his vengeance upon Alex.

If that wasn't what you had intended, we can work on figuring out how best to handle it to make sense

[elisandra]

PS these updates are helpful and brilliant.