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Edit: just saw ES's post on the previous page. Yes, if you allow the player to make up infinity Charms on the spot, then it's unbalanced. Obviously.
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Edit: just saw ES's post on the previous page. Yes, if you allow the player to make up infinity Charms on the spot, then it's unbalanced. Obviously.
Aleph
Princess of Stabbity
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Kerisgame 34. In which @EarthScorpion! You dastardly devious dickhead! I'll destroy you for this!
Some after-action stuff:
And yes, that "oh fuck" just after they start looking for the control room is when I realised what ES was going to do. The dick.
Some after-action stuff:
Bonus points to anyone who can spot/guess the two things that didn't occur to me until the session was over, and which aren't going to catch up to Keris until halfway through the conversation, allowing her to go "wait, hang on. Did you just say..." twice.
And yes, that "oh fuck" just after they start looking for the control room is when I realised what ES was going to do. The dick.
Aleph
Princess of Stabbity
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
At least I was still capable of speech after this one. >_>
... largely because I saw it coming and you didn't just end the session after blindsiding me with catastrophe.
Ahaha, now you have to deal with soul-shenanigans too, Sasi!
Looking forward to them meeting, or perhaps actually leaving the soul-world and having crazy adventures of their own.
Aleph
Princess of Stabbity
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
The Lawgiver and Haneyl are going to be terrible together. Though the Lawgiver and Echo have more amusing conversations, because the Lawgiver can't speak without her words becoming Law (and thus uses subtitles of floating blue glass), and Echo can't speak unless it's Calibration (and so uses supernaturally eloquent miming).
I think the best part of this is the fact that Keris has an entire style for calming down Sasi.
Oh, and Salina is out and about. Past Lives can be a bitch.
Aleph
Princess of Stabbity
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
She doesn't, but that would totally be the first dot bonus if she did.
greensun
You shall all burn beneath my light!!!
So how capable would Salina be? I mean she's not in a Solar body anymore, and Solar and Infernal Charms are very different so I doubt she'd be able to effectively fight anyone, but at the same end she is still the fragments of a first age Solar, and as such she probably has some measure of ability, even if it's just the usual stabby kind.
Salina had a decent enough Melee score for an Essence 7 Solar (Melee 6), but a middling Martial Arts rating (3) and no dots in Thrown or Archery at all.
Aleph
Princess of Stabbity
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Salina has absolutely no chance of getting out of here past Keris. Literally the only Charm that could get her out of the door Keris is guarding is Skulking Shadow Shintai, and by turning the ship on she just flooded the room with Solar Essence that will make every second in that form agony. Salina was a sorcerer-theorist and a politician rather than a fighter, while Keris is combat-optimised, stronger than her, faster than her, fully bad-touch equipped, has six extra limbs and quicker reactions, and isn't freaking the fuck out or inhibited by pregnancy.
Keris isn't worried about Salina attacking her or trying to escape. She's worried about her hurting the baby.
Edit: Oh, and I'm pretty sure Salina is also unarmed, because I don't think she can access Sasi's Domain. While Keris, should she need them, has as many weapons as she can hold [1].
[1] And she can hold a lot.
Keris isn't worried about Salina attacking her or trying to escape. She's worried about her hurting the baby.
Edit: Oh, and I'm pretty sure Salina is also unarmed, because I don't think she can access Sasi's Domain. While Keris, should she need them, has as many weapons as she can hold [1].
[1] And she can hold a lot.
I fall over laughing at the idea that I might use any of the stat blocks from Lords of Creation.
Also, I note that Kerisgame operates with the Enlightenment system and stats are capped at 5. And there exists an as-yet-unmechanised system for trait decay over time. Put bluntly, your elder Exalt will forget how to use skills they don't use frequently (this probably involves "committing" XP earned in expended periods of downtime to retaining skills, so there's a point where your XP gain hits an asymptote where your skill decay basically cancels out the gain).
Many First Age Solars went soft. Merela didn't, because she was the sort of person who woke at dawn and then spent four hours practising. Other elder Solars spent those four hours doing things like "shoring up their position in the Deliberative", "politicking", "continuing the orgy which started last night", and other more useful [1], more productive for your role as a leading figure in the Deliberative [2] and more enjoyable [3] things.
[1] Unless your underlings decide to try to murder you.
[2] Unless your underlings decide to try to murder you.
[3] Merela: "Excuse me! I enjoy training!"
*shrugs*
Fair enough, since you are using your own system.
The punchline of this joke is 'lawl Dreams of the First age mechanics'.
They're awful. I like some of the fluff of Dreams, but the mechanics are awful.
The joke is "Dreams of the First Age mechanics".
Even if I wasn't using my extensive hacks, I still wouldn't use the stat blocks from Lords of Creation. Lords of Creation was a bad book, full of massively overstatted NPCs - and, perhaps even worse, they listed the Charms in alphabetical order.
Yes. Not by Ability. They listed the charms on people's statblocks in alphabetical order. Which is utterly fucking useless.
That was stupid, yes.
Finally, something we agree on!
Walker of the Yellow Path
Ho There!
- Location
- The Land of Memes
Question about Loom Snarling Deception.
In the text of the charm, it says that the disguise is "perfectly immune to mundane scrutiny".
So lets say Infernal A uses Loom Snarling Deception to become a Famous Celebrities Illegitimate Daughter. Since this disguise resists all mundane scrutiny, would taking a blood test to confirm who her parent is or is not give a positive?
In the text of the charm, it says that the disguise is "perfectly immune to mundane scrutiny".
So lets say Infernal A uses Loom Snarling Deception to become a Famous Celebrities Illegitimate Daughter. Since this disguise resists all mundane scrutiny, would taking a blood test to confirm who her parent is or is not give a positive?
I'd say yes.
greensun
You shall all burn beneath my light!!!
Here's some Ebon Dragon Stealth charms that I've been working on.
One-With Shadow Prana
Cost: —
Mins: Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Witness To Darkness
The Ebon Dragon is at his most comfortable when he is within himself, moving unseen through the shadows.
This charm grants an Infernal automatic success to equal to (Essence) all rolls to stay hidden and do actions by stealth that take place outside of direct illumination; this includes Larceny rolls to pick someone's pocket while they walk past, trying avoid the alerted guards man and in contested rolls for sneak attacks or attempts to reestablish Stealth within an area outside of direct illumination.
Glare-Smother Glum
Cost: 1m (3m, 1w)
Mins: Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Shaping
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: One-With Shadow Prana
The shadow of all things hates light in all it's forms, and while he is incapable of strangling the light of Ligier or the King of King's bastard sun, he is more than capable of snuffing out lesser glows with but a flicker of his immense power.
By spending 1m an Infernal can snuff out a light no bigger than a street lamp that they can see and that is within (Manipulation x 10) Yards as a Shaping Effect. This is natural to all how previce it, as they believe that the candle as blown out or that the gas-lamp has malfunctioned for some reason. Artifact lights, such as those used in the First Age, can be targeted, but only if the Infernal wins a contested roll against the Light's artifact rating using a dice poll of Manipulation + Awareness.
A repurchase at Essence 3 allow the Prince to upgrade it's scope, allow the Infernal to target all of the applicable lights within her area of effect and smother them all for the cost of 3m and 1w. While this effect is still not overtly magic, a canny person will notice when every single source of light in a given area dies. If there are multiple Artifact lights in an area, the Infernal must roll against the highest rated one in the area.
One-With Shadow Prana
Cost: —
Mins: Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Witness To Darkness
The Ebon Dragon is at his most comfortable when he is within himself, moving unseen through the shadows.
This charm grants an Infernal automatic success to equal to (Essence) all rolls to stay hidden and do actions by stealth that take place outside of direct illumination; this includes Larceny rolls to pick someone's pocket while they walk past, trying avoid the alerted guards man and in contested rolls for sneak attacks or attempts to reestablish Stealth within an area outside of direct illumination.
Glare-Smother Glum
Cost: 1m (3m, 1w)
Mins: Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Shaping
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: One-With Shadow Prana
The shadow of all things hates light in all it's forms, and while he is incapable of strangling the light of Ligier or the King of King's bastard sun, he is more than capable of snuffing out lesser glows with but a flicker of his immense power.
By spending 1m an Infernal can snuff out a light no bigger than a street lamp that they can see and that is within (Manipulation x 10) Yards as a Shaping Effect. This is natural to all how previce it, as they believe that the candle as blown out or that the gas-lamp has malfunctioned for some reason. Artifact lights, such as those used in the First Age, can be targeted, but only if the Infernal wins a contested roll against the Light's artifact rating using a dice poll of Manipulation + Awareness.
A repurchase at Essence 3 allow the Prince to upgrade it's scope, allow the Infernal to target all of the applicable lights within her area of effect and smother them all for the cost of 3m and 1w. While this effect is still not overtly magic, a canny person will notice when every single source of light in a given area dies. If there are multiple Artifact lights in an area, the Infernal must roll against the highest rated one in the area.
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greensun
You shall all burn beneath my light!!!
You're right, my fault for using a template. Anyhow, it's been changed to Instant duration the reflexive.
Broken. Success-adder which ignores dice caps and which provides direct tactical utility. End result - you just win all attempts to re-establish surprise in shadow. Given how powerful surprise attacks are, this is free licence to murder everyone who doesn't have a surprise negator. Undesirable.
Moreover, boring Charm. Doesn't actually incentivise interesting behaviour, since everyone who wants to remain hidden will tend to lurk outside of direct illumination. Which is to say, it's a "do what I was going to do anyway" Charm.
Too niche. Not worth the XP.