Yeah, famous last words. Should we wait untill a Lord of Outer Night will turn Molly into the rabbit? Or Yama King will try to influence Molly's world-soul? Also, I would remind you that two enemies already tried to shapeshift Molly (Iku Turso and the Walker), but they weren't very good with it. We can't expect the same from the more terrible monsters.
No matter what he will always be a softer more ideal target. Just like the Akuma attacked our base and killed one of ours he may also see attacks by our enemies if he starts going out looking for trouble. Sure not from all of them but there is a huge gap between all and none. It only takes one opportunistic mofo to take advantage of recklessness.
Lord of outer night is a possibility, but we are rolling wits+Occult (7 dice), and such an attack would likely trigger ccc. That's a non-insignificant amount of dice. On the scale of a month we could boost it with a 1 or 2 dot splendor.
Yes, he will. No solution is perfect. If we brainwash him into accepting his life as a shut-in househusband for Lydia (even assuming they don't break up in this scenario), he still remains a very soft target. If we boost him as much as we can, he could still overestimate himself and/or bite more than he can chew.
I remember when we voted for the Kingdom charm you said that it will help us delegate and give us resources and specialists. You are now implying that the only way to help Daniel is CCoP. Aren't you being intentionally misleading now?
We dont have the time for that now, we are gonna enter a combat situation and we might fight one of the higher ups of the red court. We need the antishaping charm right now.
We are always relying on dice, that's how the game mechanics work. And 7 counter dice with dc adjusters is not "hoping the enemy is not very good at shaping". Shaping effects seem to be rare, and large numbers of dice are also rare.
I am not. Kingdom gives us resources, specialists, help. But we are an Exalt, and mortals can only dream of matching our excellence. The argument is not that we can't give Daniel magical pistols and power armor. It's that he is I portent enough to us that giving him more is valuable, especially if he wants to fight alongside us.
Why? Dresden fought her, and red court in general. Dresden doesn't have anti shaping defenses.
We dont have the time to do that and use crown at the same time to get info or asking Mabs help to get troops, also getting the antishaping charm is always critical you fool. We are gonna get targetted by the fallen, the yama kings, the red court, the walkers... and you think that repairing the only fault in our built with wood instead of Titanium is a good idea. Also when dresden killed her there was a fucking global ritual taking place so it's probable that most of their mages were using so much energy that they didnt have time to curse Harry to death. We are entering a place full of red court mages and they only need to be Lucky once in order to defeat us.
Stop. You are conflating multiple things. Some of them flat wrong too. Let's separate the things:
I'm not saying he's unimportant but he's not a piñata you can beat up for ancient lore, neat powers, or unique resources, either. We have been for a while and are getting more so all the time.
I thought that pool was much smaller, but it's still a mortal pool against variable difficulty and it doesn't grant scene long immunity to repeat attempts.
There are two assertions here:
I'd be willing to wait another month too.
No we only need 13xp because we have left two xp out in order to buy something else later on and we are gonna kill one of the higher ups of the red court by entering her base which is gonna give us a lot of xp
We already allocated our AP for the month, any serious crafting should take at least one.
Where are you getting "by entering her base" from? And even then 13 xp from a single fight is a lot.
We have very different perspectives on crafting, and one of the requirements for wonders is that they are interesting.
Ok. That's more than enough. We can have +2 guaranteed successes for shaping defenses if people are feeling paranoid. And a +1 DC adjuster against hostile glamors.
Agree to disagree as I am with Yog here.
As you have said 13 is quite a lot which means that our 20 xp charm is gonna be even more difficult to buy. If we dont buy it now we will be unprotected for several months
Didn't you have plans for the dream goo we have in stock? What else are we going to make this with on short notice?
So we're supposed to wait to get the defensive charm that matters to an attack we're seeing frequently right now and bank on 20 xp + a buy point before someone we absolutely need it for shows up? We get taken by surprise a lot on a strategic level, why would this be any different?
Why are you completely dismissing non-perfect defenses? A 1 dot splendor guarantees us +2 successes for counter magic, and hits an enemy with a +1 DC if their attack counts as a glamour. A 2 dot splendor also gives us a -2 DC adjustment on those rolls. That's in addition to Molly's base defenses, which she can't botch, and has an excellency for.
On short notice and for a 1 dot splendor? Iron. Or Uranium. Possibly our blood. It's the basest of the simplest of splendors. Maybe the remains of coffee/tea drank by archangel Uriel.
How often are we seeing shaping attacks that we barely scrape by? Honest question, because I don't remember them being as frequent as you seem to recall.
Counterspelling is an opposed roll, the charm requires one success to block shaping regardless of what our opponent rolls.
