Comments | seannittner: Actual Play - One step away from Iron Bars (6/20/2011)

seannittner

Actual Play - One step away from Iron Bars (6/20/2011)

Jun 23, 2011 17:23

Players: Steve, Chris and Fattig
GM: Sean Nittner
System: Dresden Files

This game started with a really fun intro. Namely a bunch of cops that Rose and Remington didn’t know finding them in the middle of a blood bath, trying to resuscitate the single survivor of a brutal attack. From the cop’s perspective they found a crime in progress and these ( Read more... )

dresden files, actual play, sfpd

Comments 3

cedyeus August 1 2011, 09:17:43 UTC

I must disagree with you. I think Discipline is a very good skill to test against for a mental stress attack.

It seems to me in Dresden, more than any other FATE variant, that a skill like discipline gets pegged for doing one thing and one thing only, spellcasting. Thus, if you are a spellcaster, you have a high discipline. If you are not a spell caster, you don't.

If someone chose not to put any points into discipline as a skill, it means that there character is essentially a coward. Having a hail of bullets slamming nearby is really going to crank on the "surrender or die!" lever, and it should take a lot of discipline (pardon the pun) to ignore that reaction and keep your wits about you.

Wow, that was a really long way of saying I think you made the right call there skipper.

seannittner August 2 2011, 02:48:15 UTC

Well, thanks for the vote of confidence. Funny you should mention the few uses for Discipline. Our Red Court Infected has a Great [+4] Discipline to resist his hunger, and we have two spellcasters in the group (Winter Knight and a Houngun priest) so we've got high discipline all around.

cedyeus August 3 2011, 06:04:50 UTC

yeah, that is just it.... discipline is not just for spellcasters. It's for getting your butt off the couch and going to the gym, etc.

In fact, right in the book it lists one of the trappings as Mental Defense.

It seems to be more of a fact that mental conflicts come up so infrequently, and the only real mental stress that gets inflicts on characters seems to be self-inflicted spell casting stress, it is seen as a "dump skill" that you can get by without having it as a non-spellcaster.

I like to dissuade my players of that notion from time to time.