tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683000898257688571.post6426746552459615847..comments2023-10-24T19:57:38.680-04:00Comments on KOTN Actual Play Podcast: Episode #100 - DFRPG Wrap Up Discussionmikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653869216502479830noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683000898257688571.post-44832328535328053902016-06-12T16:02:10.492-04:002016-06-12T16:02:10.492-04:00So guys as much as I would love to go over everyth...So guys as much as I would love to go over everything from 86 and on-wards in greater detail. Thunderstorm and lost the original post so yeah short version here we go!<br /><br />Donovan seems to have only broke the first law and only if those guys were human.<br />The thing with going into peoples heads has the same rules as the first law so the ghoul thing doesn't count.<br />And if they were not then he never broke any laws so yeah he would have probably only deserved a reprimand, not an execution.<br />Just something you could play with Tom if you wanted.<br /><br />Mana Static/Hexing.<br />Can be directed at a single target but, think of it this way your just focusing you natural ability to short out magic as a wizard.<br />Your taking an pulse that radiates 360 degrees around you and narrowing it.<br /><br />Also because I am a jerk here is the big problem with this story.<br />Black Courts are based on the novel, and they follow all those rules.<br />That means, Dracula and all Black Courts can go out in sunlight.<br />Yeah...<br />They lose all powers(and since most look, smell and in most other ways are a corpse), but can freely go outside into the sun. And now that I have destroyed I shall move on, to the next story arc!Diploraptorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603393620272899537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683000898257688571.post-54939859635755824402016-05-27T12:58:33.691-04:002016-05-27T12:58:33.691-04:00Whelp Firefox crashed well I was doing the write u...Whelp Firefox crashed well I was doing the write up to questions and confusions from episode 62 to 73...<br />So abbreviated version go!<br /><br />You don't break the 5th law of magic if say you bind a ghost, to interrogate it etc. But you do if you bind the ghost and enslave it. You also break the 5th law if you empower the ectoplasm shell a ghost can make(but not the kind a spirit makes, difference in working with the dead and all that)<br /><br />Focus Items Work Like This<br /><br />We make a staff out of 4 focus item slots as example<br />+2 Fire Evocation Offensive : Control & Power<br />or<br />+1 Fire Evocation Offensive & Defensive : Control & Power<br />or<br />+4 Fire Evocation Offensive Control<br />or<br />+1 Fire & Earth Evocation : Offensive & Defensive : Control<br />or<br />+1 Fire & Earth Evocation : Offensive : Control & Power<br />or other variations and variants<br /><br />A focus item cannot just give a +1 to Control or Power,for Evocations. Nor can it just give +1 to Complexity or Power in Thaumaturgy it has to be in a specific field.<br />For Thaumaturgy purposes that could be Wards, Divination, Ectomancy what have you.<br /><br />London mentions looking back on the past events, this is something he would know he has to be careful about because its close to breaking the 6th law.<br />Simply put its up to Tom on this how far London can push it before he breaks the law.<br />I'd go with getting a post-cognition based vision, and a set amount of details, but pushing to much could create a ripple changing the past or twisting what was there future.<br />Its all up to Tom on how he wishes to handle it<br /><br />The game notes that you only get the Lawbreaker bonus when you use magic towards violating the law again.<br />Though is specific circumstances I would allow its use/benefit without it breaching the law.<br />Such as having Lawbreaker Second and using your magic to shape-shift yourself. As this does not break the second law but the intrinsic damage done to your soul for breaking the law would let you have greater control.<br />This has nothing to do with the game I mentioned it because its how I'm going with it in my Dresden game. And hoping my friend who is thinking of running there own will agree so I can play Eve. Poor girl has issues, but really when your plan is to play a character who is starting with 2 Lawbreaker abilities what can you expect?<br />Will finish up this story arc and answer further questions, give my opinions etc. but will take a bit longer then I planned.Diploraptorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603393620272899537noreply@blogger.com