You are not listening. Weight test (measuring the density of a precious metal object by measuring its mass and volume) is a very simple test that is used to find if the object being sold has hollow cavities in it, or admixtures of different materials (such as, for example, make a lead bar and coating it with a thin layer of gold). It's not about scientific curiosity, it's about checking if you are being swindled.
And objects made of isotopically pure materials will fail it.
No. You arent listening to me.
1)Ultrasound sensing for hollow cavities is easy. Handhelds and machinetop devices abound.
2)Handheld and tabletop machines for determining the purity of a sample of precious metals is essentially something you can expect at the facilities of any major dealer
It's not only our extensive knowledge that allows us to accurately value your items, but also the tools necessary such as the XRF X-Ray Analyzer.
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The work by X-ray flouresence, and they test for purity, not isotopic composition.
3)Of the elements mentioned:
- The most valuable element, rhodium has ONE stable isotope: Rhodium 103. Its being isotopically pure is the norm.
- Ruthenium has 7 stable isotopes and 27 unstable, radioactive isotopes. However, the isotopic composition of a given sample is not fixed, and will vary depending on where it was mined and where it was refined. Hence, they will EXPECT densities to vary within a given range. As for purity, see above; handheld and tabletop testers do that.
4)If for some reason, they tested, say, ruthenium in a sufficiently sensitive spectrometer and it was isotopically pure ruthenium 102 instead of a mixture of isotopes? They STILL wouldnt give a shit, besides maybe attempts to see if they could find your supplier and undercut you.
The history of every mining consortium in the world, from the use of coerced and underpaid labor, to dumping contaminants in water supplies, to suppressing reports of environmental damage and climate change, demonstrates they would cut their own mother's throats for a 5% increase in profits.
Which is an attitude that translates downstream.
While we are unlikely to use magic prophecy granting LSD, magical coffee / energy drink is something easily swingable. Michael drinks coffee, after all.
Yes.
But there is no parent, and no spouse, that will consider it healthy for you to stay awake night after night for a week because you chugged super coffee. A good friend might let it pass once or twice, but will express concern.
The example of the charm where we torture ourselves for stored successes demonstrates that the lack of mechanical consequences in the charm does not preclude roleplaying consequences for pushing those boundaries.
Remember who our PC is.
We will have to agree to disagree here.
Fair.
Sight honestly seems to be better than a whole lot of Infernal supernatural perception charms... I wonder if there are synergies.
On the other hand, we've had it demonstrated that other entities can shut down your Sight.
Dresden's first encounter with a Denarian in Death Masks had Ursiel shut down his sight when he True Gazed the Fallen's host, and in Ghost Story IIRC an angel shut down his Sight as well, allegedly for his own safety.
Charmtech otoh gives no fucks though.
M20 Sorcerer page 18:
Effects: Alchemy doesn't have Aspects; instead, each dot increases the practitioner's power and control. Except for the most potent recipes, they only require a single success to make. Additional successes are split between providing additional doses and keeping those doses potent for one day per success spent.
Thank you for the citation.
Sorcerer Revised has no expiration date on any alchemical potion that scores at least 3 successes during its manufacture.
And Sorcerer Paths of Power has 1 day for a basic 1 sux on a potionmaking roll, all the way to 6 months for 5 sux.
I assume 6 sux or higher would be indefinite.
Good lord, our alchemy rolls were garbage.
Rolled at 6 tho, BSM wasn't active. That would've been +1 sux. Oh well.
Occult is a Key Ability, so once you ignore the 1s, its 8 successes.
Which is about average for 18 dice at DC6.
Hmm... I had forgotten about Fortitude, not the most flashy of vampiric powers but certainly one that is often taken and for this very reason. On the other hand in Dresden Files we do not really see supernaural nasties shrug off their bane and the Dresden Files RPG does not have a mechanism for it other than removing that 'catch' altogether. I'll have to think about this for a bit.
To my recollection, older, stronger Reds are either immune or resistant to sunlight.
As in, their fleshmasks are strong enough to make them daywalkers. Hence you see Arianna Ortega and Pablo Ortega moving around in daylight, and that Baroness in Love Hurts running a carnival in daytime.
I know even less about Vampires from WoD than I do about Exalted, but I don't think much of anything about them should be used in this setting at all. From what I can tell, they were a very distinct species from those in Dresden Files with little if any real overlap beyond the most basic similarities.
IIRC, there is nothing in DF about Vampires being able to ignore or even become resistant to their various banes. With that in mind, introducing WoD Vampire Fortitude just doesn't make any sense. If it was a thing, Harry would have encountered it many times in canon due to his continued interactions with the various Courts.
He did. See above.
Duke Paolo Ortega had a dayjob as a university professor and went on TV shows and the like in daytime.
As for Whites?
I recall Mab specifically telling Harry that if he died that she would offer Thomas the position of Winter Knight, and specifically claiming that she could allow him to touch Justine, negating the bane of the Whites.
Small Favor said:
"Not having it could have gotten me killed, too," I said. "And then you'd have wasted all that time you've put in trying to recruit me to be the next Winter Knight."
"Nonsense," Mab said. "If you died, I would simply recruit your brother. He would be well motivated to seek revenge upon your killers."
A little cold feeling shot through me. I hadn't realized that Mab knew who he was. But I guess it made sense. My godmother, the Leanansidhe, had been tight with my mother, one way or another. If Lea had known, then it might make sense that Mab did, too. "He isn't a mortal," I said quietly. "I thought the Knights had to be mortals."
"He is in love," Grimalkin mrowled for Mab. "That is more than mortal enough for me." She tilted her head. "Though I suppose I might make him an offer, while you yet live. He would give much to hold his love again, would he not?"
I fixed her with a hard gaze and said, "You will stay away from him."
"I will do as I please," she said. "With him—and with you."
And Mab, notably, can mislead or be wrong, but does not lie.
Also, Lea was also able to put the demons empowering half-Reds to sleep, which lends credence to that claim.
So what does steel skin do? I am assuming more soak? Not what I would have picked to spend our XP on next, but we seem to be committed.
Adds an average of +2, and potentially up to +9 to Molly's soak when she has all her defensive charms up.
Potentially matching or exceeding her soak when in Shintai.
You're looking at her going from Soak 8(Base 3 + Ebon Scales 1 + VLE 4) to between Soak 11(Base 5 + Ebon Scales 1 + VLE 5) and Soak 17 (Base 8 + Ebon Scales 1 + VLE 8) with defense charms active.
Basically with it running she's potentially as tanky as her Tier 1 shintai form.
Has there been serious talk about what to pick as our Shintai Signature? They seem to fall into a the camps of
- Allow for extra Shintai activations if certain conditions are met.
- Make bad stuff happen to those around use well in Shintai form some more directed then others.
- Make the charm in question cheaper or even free to use in Shintai form.
And of course other.
Personally?
Key and Kingdom at E3. Splintered Gale Incarnation at E4.
The only real competitor I have atm is one of the aquatic charms that makes assuming Shintai free.
Actually, this is garbage. Mundane clones, naked, without weapons, without charms, are... pretty much worthless. I guess the real use is to set them all to escape combat and pull off Orochimaru later? But non-signature version manages this Just Fine.
My understanding of that Signature is that it gives you (Essence) copies of your normal body. Not your mortal form, but your normal combat body. Which means your charms are up. VLE, Ox Bodies, RR Aspects et cetera.
Its potentially rather overpowered IMO; your own miniboss squad of disposable dopplegangers.
Its essentially Miniboss Squad: The Charm.
The inspiration seems very much from late-game Naruto, when only one body could channel Kyuubijuice and the other clones could do ninja magic but not on the same level.
