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Doubt it was a deliberate nerf. DP probably just made a mistake and it wasn't pointed out to him before he turned in for the night.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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- Crossover Fantasy
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- United States
I think its time to get the anti-possession sorcery. better to have it early and not need it for a while than need it and not have it.
Yeah, that's what it currently looks like.
Your math is wrong.
We have 23 XP to spend. You're spending 27XP.
And I dont know what you are spending 1xp on Lydia in Molly's list for. Might be another error.
I dont like it, but thats just my two cents.
Will shut up now.
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Yzarc
The Spark of Madness
Fixed. Thanks
Cant afford it yet.
Not without cutting Molly's charm buys to the bone.
The aim is to have it before we meet Mab; that means buying it at the end of September or in October.
Point of order:
I forgot to mention this: I also want All Things Betray before we meet Justine, which we are going to do soon.
Just in case she's already Nemesis infected. It and Hellscry Chakra are the only things I know that will help.
As for the rest:
1)Skinwalkers like to fight under veils or in disguise. Thats why Dresden needed to bind Demonreach as a sanctum to fight it; he couldnt even see it otherwise. Perception is ESSENTIAL when fighting naagloshi.
2)We dont really need help to fight a pack of malks. Not before, and not now we have Steelskin to supplement VLE.
3)And if someone tried to kite us with a truck we'd fly straight up and follow them.
People have trouble shooting at maneuvering flying targets.
4) Remember the fight underwater against Rhys the Ragged and the Fomor?
Where we were struck blind by a smokescreen and couldnt see the people attacking us?
Even in combat, Perception matters.
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As another argument in favor of All Things Betray and my plan in general?
This is what happened when we couldnt see, back in Arc 3:
Arc 3 Post 24 and 25
Our surprise negator worked allowing us to respond to attacks.
But we couldnt see our attacker(s), making us resort to blindfighting, and couldnt coordinate with our then allies.
We took wounds as a result. Not very serious, but enough to notice.
Perception matters, in combat and out of it.
As does being able to compensate for enemy Perception debuffs.
This is what happened when we couldnt see, back in Arc 3:
Arc 3 Post 24 and 25
Our surprise negator worked allowing us to respond to attacks.
But we couldnt see our attacker(s), making us resort to blindfighting, and couldnt coordinate with our then allies.
We took wounds as a result. Not very serious, but enough to notice.
Perception matters, in combat and out of it.
As does being able to compensate for enemy Perception debuffs.
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[X] Plan Distributed Exp
-[X] Lydia XP: All companions get a separate pool of XP earning at 1/4 of the total XP earned, rounded down. Molly can transfer XP from her main pool to Lydia but not the other way round. Companion pool does NOT reduce what Molly earns.
-[X] Molly: 23xp
—[X] Rendered Villain Dispersal 4xp
—[X] Wind Borne Stride 8xp
—[X] Qiao 1: Steel Skin 3xp
—[X] Running to Forever 4xp
—[X] Empathy 4 3xp
—[X] Lydia 1 xp
-[X] Lydia 5 xp
—[X] Ox-Body 3xp
—[X] Background: Familiar 1: Raven 3xp
Mostly voting for this for the XP distribution method, but I also like the picks.
-[X] Lydia XP: All companions get a separate pool of XP earning at 1/4 of the total XP earned, rounded down. Molly can transfer XP from her main pool to Lydia but not the other way round. Companion pool does NOT reduce what Molly earns.
-[X] Molly: 23xp
—[X] Rendered Villain Dispersal 4xp
—[X] Wind Borne Stride 8xp
—[X] Qiao 1: Steel Skin 3xp
—[X] Running to Forever 4xp
—[X] Empathy 4 3xp
—[X] Lydia 1 xp
-[X] Lydia 5 xp
—[X] Ox-Body 3xp
—[X] Background: Familiar 1: Raven 3xp
Mostly voting for this for the XP distribution method, but I also like the picks.
Math is still off:
We have 23XP to spend.
You're spending Molly(4+8+3+4+3+1) + Lydia (3+3) = 23 + 6 = 29.
You need to redo the math and drop some charms.
Yzarc
The Spark of Madness
Two pools. Main pool of 23 xp and Lydia pool of 1/4 xp of main pool. i.e 5xp. We can transfer from Molly to Lydia but not the other way around.
So we can spend 23 on molly and 5 on Lydia.
Or, 22 on Molly and 6 on Lydia.
This way multiple companions are not a xp drain.
A quarter of the main pool would mean Molly would have 17XP to spend.
Because the total xp gained this Arc was 23 xp.
If you want to split it 3:1 , give Molly 17 and give Lydia 6.
17:6 split
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This was a method that was conditionally approved before as a potential future method by the QM around the time of the last spending vote. It's just that he didn't allow it at the time because he didn't want to change things after the voting already started. Should I dig up the quotes?
Yes please
I would be quite grateful.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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[X] Plan Ballroom Blitz
-[X] Molly: 17xp
—[X] Rendered Villain Dispersal 4xp
—[X] Wind Borne Stride 8xp
—[X] Qiao 1: Steel Skin 3xp
—[X] Touch of Frost 2xp
-[X] Lydia 6 xp
—[X] Ox-Body 3xp
—[X] Background: Familiar 1: Raven 3xp
[X] Lydia XP: All companions get 1/4 of the total XP spent on Molly, rounded down. Molly can spend XP on companions but not the other way round. The 1/4 does NOT reduce what Molly earns.
[X] Agree to meet with the Librarian
[X] Plan Ballroom Blitz Willpower
-[X] Molly: 17xp
—[X] Rendered Villain Dispersal 4xp
—[X] Wind Borne Stride 8xp
—[X] Qiao 1: Steel Skin 3xp
—[X] Touch of Frost 2xp
-[X] Lydia 6 xp
—[X] Willpower 6 6 xp
Willpower is what Lydia needs the most.
-[X] Molly: 17xp
—[X] Rendered Villain Dispersal 4xp
—[X] Wind Borne Stride 8xp
—[X] Qiao 1: Steel Skin 3xp
—[X] Touch of Frost 2xp
-[X] Lydia 6 xp
—[X] Ox-Body 3xp
—[X] Background: Familiar 1: Raven 3xp
[X] Lydia XP: All companions get 1/4 of the total XP spent on Molly, rounded down. Molly can spend XP on companions but not the other way round. The 1/4 does NOT reduce what Molly earns.
[X] Agree to meet with the Librarian
[X] Plan Ballroom Blitz Willpower
-[X] Molly: 17xp
—[X] Rendered Villain Dispersal 4xp
—[X] Wind Borne Stride 8xp
—[X] Qiao 1: Steel Skin 3xp
—[X] Touch of Frost 2xp
-[X] Lydia 6 xp
—[X] Willpower 6 6 xp
Willpower is what Lydia needs the most.
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@uju32, here's every relevant post I could find on the discussion.
Really, the main problem I have is that forcing us to give up a portion of our XP incentivizes us to not gain companions or circlemates, which is the kind of perverse incentives that makes for unfun questing. If we give up a quarter of our XP to our companions, then if we ever get 4 companions (which used to be a decent-sized circle), Molly ends up with 0 XP. That means we fundamentally need a solution where we don't lose XP to our companions if DP ever wants us to even consider expanding, because as-is, we'll never vote to gain another companion if it means losing out on more XP.
Yzarc
The Spark of Madness
Not sure how I can make it cleaner.
It is NOT a split. There is total xp earned. Say, 20. Molly gets this, full 20. Companions get 1/4 of that without reducing the amount. So 5xp.
So Molly gets 20 and companions get 5. There is NO split.
1) She has good socials and good knowledge skills. Perception could be better, but in terms of figuring out what the details are she is solid.
To a certain extent she can work around it.
2) Based on what? If we have the ability we can start using it for stuff. Your desire not to isn't the same as it not being a viable option.
3) This was clearly her innocence flaw, any occult at all should have told her allowing herself to be possessed was a bad idea. That she did it anyway indicates that her flaw was exploited by an experienced manipulator.
This is warping our build around her; they can be used for other stuff, but with months of exp devoted to certain ways of doing things there will be consequences for our optimal investment choices.
Perception isn't the same kind of information as you're talking about. Wizards play with strategic information, which we're already good at.
The charm has its uses, but since you have to spend for it ATB is limited to cases where we know we need to be paranoid and competes with our essence economy.
I know it's reflective, but we have precedent that reflexive isn't the same as instant and immediate in response to relevant stimuli.
See this:
Gorfel could have used mind magic to make us forget we needed to activate a perfect mental defense, ergo it's possible for a reflexive response to happen after something it could be relevant for.
We can't identify snipers with it (or similar stuff) unless we already suspect they're around and have it up.
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Why would that be necessary, or even particularly helpful?
The little folk are ditzy, but no fey is just going to make a deal like that at the drop of a hat.
Paying them the normal way seems like a better plan.
Nemesis can hide from Uriel when it wants to, I doubt ATB is going to cut it here.
Fair point on the veil, but super speed is a significantly more common ability than veils are. In that regard a skinwalker wasn't the best example for me to choose.
A truck moving faster than we can fly would be a problem without the speed booster.
To the last point; I'm not saying perception is useless, I'm just prioritizing reaction speed and mobility above it.
Especially since one is always on and the other must compete with our limited essence reserves.
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GM gave the example of them wishing for background 1dot endless pizza. Endless perpetual payment.
Not to mention VEE would solve our money issues just have the Goules start a company and every month have one of them wish it bigger, and more successful. in 10 month we own the largest company in the world.
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Yzarc
The Spark of Madness
Made some clarifications as to how the xp sharing works as ghere was some confusion.
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