Kinda sorta not really. Alchemy 4 (with discount) would allow us to make intelligence and perception improving potions. Fortune 3 would give us difficulty modifiers (and even a -1 difficulty adjustment is strong).
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
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I'd say the equipment would grant a -1 DC to any job to apply makeup, but not X5 speed because you are not crafting anything.
Crafting a specific image? Also, would body building using ttc training machines get x5 time discount? "Your body is machine, improve it" and all that.
This line of argument fails to see crucial distinction between lottery and other more common games of chance. In the casino or underground gambling examples, you are either playing directly against the casino, or against other players who, crucially, agreed that they are all here to try to win to the maximum extent of their natural abilities.
The lotteries specifically prohibits any deviation from the pure chance based on any abilities of the participants, as evidenced by all the lottery regulations ensuring randomness of draws and legal decisions making methods of subverting randomness for positive EV illegal.
Using a natural ability to win against a casino or gamblers who agreed to a game with ability component is not cheating, using a natural ability to rig the lottery is cheating other participants who did not agree to any possibility of any abilities playing role in the lottery outcome. And lottery rigging has no effect on lottery organizers' income at all, you can't even say you are righteously profiting from the thieves.
Why go with the morally and legally dubious lottery rigging unless we absolutely have to? What is this specific pressing need to get 10s or 100s of millions of dollars in one go in the near future? If for whatever reason we would like to get money specifically from gambling, we could play high-stakes blackjack or sweep underground gambling parlors, it would get us millions. Or better yet, don't gamble, just produce and sell valuable goods, we are not lacking in abilities to do so now and certainly won't be in the future.
[X] A Nest for Porter
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- Germany
Is that just my impression, or could it be that the White Court vamps are on the average much younger than the Red and Blacks?
I mean, Lord Raith himself is old for sure, but Lara is supposed to be his oldest living child and she seems to be a few centuries at best and we don't know any other seriously old members, most we see appear to be genuinly American even, which is a sign of young age for sure.
The Reds have these ancient monsters in Southern America and their direct minions are still sometimes former aztecs or conquistadors.
And the Blacks have people like Vlad and Mavra as medival members.
I mean, Lord Raith himself is old for sure, but Lara is supposed to be his oldest living child and she seems to be a few centuries at best and we don't know any other seriously old members, most we see appear to be genuinly American even, which is a sign of young age for sure.
The Reds have these ancient monsters in Southern America and their direct minions are still sometimes former aztecs or conquistadors.
And the Blacks have people like Vlad and Mavra as medival members.
Alchemy is not really worth the xp, enchanting can do the same with permanent effects. Enchanting can also make wonders that allow people to become mages.
I don't think TTC is a charm inclined towards constructing abstract stuff; just because it works out lingually doesn't mean it actually fits the concepts of the ability.
The body improvement stuff would probably only come into play if we went from apply cosmetics to cosmetic surgery if it ever did.
I think that's because white vamps technically have a lifespan even if it's absurdly long, while red and black ones are basically ageless.
Their method of predation probably has something to do with it as well. It's worth noting that the old monsters eventually struggle to keep up with the times, and for white vamps that's a weakness.
Even if they're technically as powerful as ever when that starts to happen, giving the appearance of weakness by messing something up with the mortals would encourage their rivals to start picking at them more heavily.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Industrial Revolution set the conditions for a massive sea change in white court internal politics that culminated with Lara's hostile takeover rather than her success being a one off thing.
It works out linguistically but the basic fuction of the thing you are making is still to be art, hence expression
Things stack. Everything in ExWoD stacks.
Difficulty adjustment could b achieved at 2. It gets better and more convenient at higher levels, though.
They do, but that does not justify spending a ton of xp on Alchemy, when Enchanting does the same only better, as alchemy is temp effects generally, while enchanting is permanent. And that is a basic level, wonder crafting gets pretty bonkers, like infinite perfectly untraceable credit cards, Spy drones etc.
X3 per current dot isn't really unreasonable even before discounts. There will be discounts.
Wonder crafting is not going to be allowed in this. Alas. Holden is entirely correct that Wonder-crafting isn't merely strong, like Enchanting or Alchemy, but genuinely busted. Shame that his substitute crafting system is an overcomplicated mess.
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The Authentic Fake
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[X]Plan Diamonds Are Forever
This feels like the most balanced plan. Expanding our diamond selling is more an excuse to get set up with lawyers and accountants IMO than us really needing the spending money.
Similarly, I want to keep going on martial arts and make a start on sorcerous disciplines. I also don't want to leave the Rose thread hanging.
This feels like the most balanced plan. Expanding our diamond selling is more an excuse to get set up with lawyers and accountants IMO than us really needing the spending money.
Similarly, I want to keep going on martial arts and make a start on sorcerous disciplines. I also don't want to leave the Rose thread hanging.
It's almost a shame Marcone has a 'no kids' rule, because this would otherwise be very very funny.
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- Germany
Every "no kids" rule has limits.
Molly is activly playing, not just an innocent kid that gets tangled up with supernatural or criminal events.
At some point the older "live by the sword, die by the sword" rule outweights all others.
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It's still a victimless crime though.
One person who might have won the jackpot won't win it.
But he will never know, he will never suffer for the loss. He will just loose the lottery like he did the hundred before and the hundred afterwards.
Nobody plays lotto with the serious expectation of winning big, unless they are a moron, so nobody is hurt by not winning big.
I'd actually say at the poker-table we'd hurt a lot more people by being supernaturally good, since those people came with the genuine expectation that their own skill would give them a good chance at winning, only to find out that the odds are actually stacked much higher against them than any casino would in a regular game.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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Also we are almost 18 any no kids rule has to have a cut off point.
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I know this is an OOC question so technically this could count as a minor spoiler but I will say this much, Morcone is not a robot with an interdiction on killing anyone under 18 which magically goes away on their eighteenth birthday, He has an intimacy that among other things gets triggered by those who kill children, where that tern is broadly defined to be about age yes, but also about innocence. If one of his guys force addicted a nineteen year old to crack or something equally heinous that person would be in deep trouble, but if on the other hand one of his underlings shot back at an opposing gang during a shoot out and the person they shot was 17 and six months Marcone is unlikely to punish them, though he might take special note of a gang that intentionally recruits very young and show them his displeasure.
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fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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Well to anyone with any sort of supernatural sense Molly does not detect as 'innocent'.
As anyone given thought to want we want our final relationship with Marconi to look like?
We ignore each out
Business relationship
We put him in jail
We kill him
He becomes our minion
Ect.
As anyone given thought to want we want our final relationship with Marconi to look like?
We ignore each out
Business relationship
We put him in jail
We kill him
He becomes our minion
Ect.
OctarineShrike
Avatar of Mandos
The way I see it with Porter, the time limit on renovating the nest is when Porter feels like chastising us for not fulfilling our obligations. I don't know if he can pull fae level shenanigans and don't want to find out, which is why I want to establish a good faith effort to get started as soon as possible. Him not being Fae means the spirit of the agreement can be a thing. I don't know the rules which is why I want to deal with this as soon as reasonably possible. Porter may be an Earth Spirit with a slow sense of time but that is no reason to treat it like there is no time limit.
Also for all we know investing enough Action Points in it will let us get the supplies from Cleaveland. @DragonParadox do you feel like weighing in on what level of return we can expect for a given AP investment in more detail??
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Also for all we know investing enough Action Points in it will let us get the supplies from Cleaveland. @DragonParadox do you feel like weighing in on what level of return we can expect for a given AP investment in more detail??
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files) Crossover - Fantasy
Porter's Passage 22st of July 2006 A.D. Maybe it's just paranoia, but the memory of just how well that specter had played the part of Lydia sticks to you: "We need to check that thing isn't around anymore..." What you would not give to have Harry's Sight right about now. "She would struggle...
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Macaroni.
Or whatever doesn't end up with a competent denarian residing in our city on a permanent basis. Ally, underling, whatever.
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[X] A Rose and a Porter
-[X] Dreaming True, Rosie is going to need help, training to manage her gift eventually, look around for information, books or ideally a teacher
-[X] The Bridges of the Spirit, continue your training with Brother Divsimar in the perilous, powerful arts of his order
-[X] Look into the Minor Talents of Chicago, so far you have been isolated from the supernatural scene of Chicago, now that you can get in touch with them without necessarily having your dad with you all the time the time has come to change that... though given how both Mouse and McCoy thought you were bad news at first maybe you should bring dad or Harry along to some of them just as an introduction
--[X] A Rose's Tale: Follow up on Rose of Autumn, you are sure she will be happy to learn what became of the Pathfinders in Cleveland
-[X] Restoring the Last Station (x3): You promised Porter that you will help restore the Last Station to its former glory, a task what will not be easy or quick even with all your talents, though you are sure it will be rewarding in the end (0/8)
-[X] Dreaming True, Rosie is going to need help, training to manage her gift eventually, look around for information, books or ideally a teacher
-[X] The Bridges of the Spirit, continue your training with Brother Divsimar in the perilous, powerful arts of his order
-[X] Look into the Minor Talents of Chicago, so far you have been isolated from the supernatural scene of Chicago, now that you can get in touch with them without necessarily having your dad with you all the time the time has come to change that... though given how both Mouse and McCoy thought you were bad news at first maybe you should bring dad or Harry along to some of them just as an introduction
--[X] A Rose's Tale: Follow up on Rose of Autumn, you are sure she will be happy to learn what became of the Pathfinders in Cleveland
-[X] Restoring the Last Station (x3): You promised Porter that you will help restore the Last Station to its former glory, a task what will not be easy or quick even with all your talents, though you are sure it will be rewarding in the end (0/8)
I think Mollys contacts, as in Dresden and being the daughter of a Knight of the Cross will play a larger factor in his decision as to how far to escalate.
Those aren't enemies you make lightly.
Molly isn't an enemy you make over trivialities.
Those aren't enemies you make lightly.
Molly isn't an enemy you make over trivialities.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
If we take VEE there is a wish that Macaroni would sell himself for.