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[mordicai]

Freyja's day I couldn't do anything besides whimper & pass out. Saturn's day the most I could accomplish was a few blog posts & some movie watching. Today I was a lot better, but I still canceled my game on account of, well, if I had some bad situation go down, I'd rather it was here & not elsewhere. I'd been sleeping on the air mattress (so my

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[primroseport]

So how do you deal with "powers" and supernatural abilities in your NWOD homebrew game? I'm going to run one soon, using NWOD, but in the whole The Fall/The Cell/Dark Tower-style setting that we both fancy. And I'm being real generous about what kind of characters they can be (namely, anything). But Now I'm not sure how to handle anything that isn't basic traits. What kinds of powers do you PCs have and how do they work? In general

[mordicai]

Basically I say: You get a Potency & an Essence. Like Primal Urge/Blood Potency/Gnosis/whatever & Blood/Rage/Whatever. Then I let 'em buy anything from any of the books that are roughly balanced-- Promethean, Vampire, Werewolf, mostly. & I let 'em skip around. If you want Obfuscate 4 to be a doppleganger without invisibility...sure, okay, if that is your concept.

[mordicai]

& I think Potency/Essence is even unnecessary-- you can just say things that cost a point of blood or whatever cost a point of willpower.

[primroseport]

Interesting. I already know one guy wants to be a mage (non-WOD mage), so I'm pretty much gonna have him take a simplified Mage template. My other thought was to use the Endowment creation guide system and the Dread Powers from Hunter. They're basic and "skinnable", and in fact the various example descriptions they offer show how broad the powers are. Agonize? Sure, that's /anything/ that cripples your enemy with pain. Mesmerize? Anything that... mesmerizes. Etc. Want a flood of ants to pour out of your orifices and protect you from bashing damage for three rounds? That's 1+3=4 dots, multiplied by five (or whatever) for the total experience to purchase in-game, or just 4 merit or "cool power" points at creation.

Hmmm. I think this will work. And, yeah, fueling using willpower. And I guess if they want technology or artifacts rather than a power, it will have to have some kind of power source or recharge time.

Hmmm.

Thanks

[onatopofthings]

I haven't watched Caprica yet except the DVD which I hated other than the pretty cityscapes. I'm DVRing them but I haven't decided if I'm going to watch them yet.

Glad you're feeling better.

[mordicai]

The first episode is just the pilot. The second isn't any better.