Yes, but the issue could be quick solved by moving most of the people out of our hell to somewhere with more room. Of course if we took vaste size then the earth wouldn't be big enough.
If Gnosis=Essence for the purpose of bonuses, it would be great for Molly and Lydia, too. In ExWoD, +3-4 Essence points is pretty decent.
Exalted charms typically need adjustment before being ported to ExWoD, and IBoE is no different. +4 sux to everything to everyone in a [Magnitude goes here] sized social unit is some absolutely busted fuckery by ExWoD standards.
An important thing to note in this sort of discussion is what exactly we mean by power.
The white god and his archangels are orders of magnitude stronger than anything else in the setting. Human worship is great an all, but Uriel has been a galaxy buster since before humans crawled out of the mud.
Interesting. I wish I was more well-versed in Werewolf. There are prolly some gifts that would be very interesting on a Solaroid chassis.
We discussed this with DP before; we don't have a definitive mechanic, but he promised that we'll have some way to get at least some minor amount of people out of it before needing additional investment.
That it's pretty screwed up, but I think we should get a firm understanding of what overpopulated actually means in the context before making decisions.
Intellectus might or might not happen, but it would almost certainly be immortal. Bane is, and it's a least god, far lower on the totem pole than a potential god of Chicago.
I am not interested in the type of character that would do this. Molly is right now in the sewers (or near enough) ministering to the weak and impoverished. Making a world like the described one would be very OOC for her subconsciousness.
Not something easily done at all, requires way too many assumptions to be proven true to work, and still basically riles on "yeah, it's going to break, we need to fix it before it does" at the design stage, which I am unwilling to do. Designing Locust Crusade is not a good idea.
To be fair, if we take indian mythology at face value, this isn't actually that outstanding, if I understand correctly.
My Hell proposal takes Overcrowded as a core element.
Cant recall the exact quote at the moment, and a brief look at the WoJ collection isnt turning it up.
I doubt that very much. Just something old come again.
Not dying of natural causes is easy.
^^^
The issue is that it expliciely says that it's not manageable. It says "the ecosystem can't support this". And the difference of opinion and interpretation comes here. I take "ecosystem" to mean "a the current technological and sociological level of development of our hell, the population cannot be sustained". Otherwise it doesn't make sense at all. Since we developed farming, our population wasn't sustainable on "no technology" level. The description only makes sense to me if ecosystem includes technological food production, pollution cleaning, etc.
It does:
Not like this. Not all plot hooks are good, and this is one of the bad ones. You keep telling me "the juice isn't worth the squeeze". I am telling you here - it's not worth it at all.
The point I'm making is that Butcher himself is strongly Christian and the only person he gives a fair shake that way is Catholic god, with various fig leaves and other stuff happening around it.
Citations are:
page 232:
The open borders are "you can escape if you walk out" rule. If Bottleneck is taken, then you can only escape through the Bottleneck. Otherwise, just walking out is fine. It's quite possible that anyone escaping will simply manifest near Molly. Nothing about invading from outside is described at all and will need to be invented (soulgazes are going to be strange).
And we are quite possibly currently heading to a global collapse, yes, with uncertain chances of survival. I don't want that to be Molly's "heart soul and essence" expressed as a world. And the other parts in the description are not something I am willing to take as well. I want a functional and interesting society to interact with.
The ecosystem of a Hell presumably bears little resemblance to that of Earth.
If Watchful Bane's domain is destroyed, it dies. If it gets killed by a spiritkiller, it will die.
I strongly disagree.
One, what made them doesnt matter.
And if Artius tor was destroyed I doubt Mab would stay immortal either.
Keep in mind that an incarnate spirit of Chicago would be a reflection of all the good and bad of Chicago and humans. So in a lot of ways it could look like a classy female version of Gentleman Johnny Marcone. Oh lord the reactions of harry to that especially if the incarnate decides it likes marcone. And talks like a noir detective movie character.
