Dresdenverse Aspects Compelathon

[Papa Gruff]

Just the combination of preparedness and opportunity.

The owner of this Aspect tries to be prepared for any occasion.

Invoke: Can be invoked for effect to make a declare that something useful has been prepared for a given opportune situation. Can be invoked for +2 shifts in basically any situation to state that the owner tends to be always prepared

Compel: Can be compelled to stop the owner from doing something he is unlikely to be prepared for (you simply can't be prepared for everything right?).

Master of useless knowledge

[skakid]

Master of useless knowledge

You know a lot about nothing

Invoke: Can be invoked to declare rarely known fact about location or person.  May provide +2 to some rolls where knowing obscure and mostly useless facts could be valuable

Compel: You had to have learned this stuff somewhere, may cause a character to stop and stare at things as he/she is easily distracted by some interesting, but ultimately useless

Enter the Sandman

[swordsman]

Enter the Sandman

There's something about you that gives people pause. Children might have nightmares about you.

Invoke: Any situation involving interrogation or intimidation.
Compel: You just have a hard time convincing people you're on the level, simply put, they don't trust you. Also, Cops pull you over constantly just to check up on you.

Alternatively:

You are so bland and boring you cause bouts of narcolepsy. Please, don't talk to anyone operating heavy machinery.
Invoke: People nod at whatever you're saying just to get you to shut up NOW! Invoke in a social interaction so long as you're not trying to bully or intimidate someone.
Compel:Contacts just don't want to deal with you. Chicks constantly receive 'phone calls' in the middle of a conversation and walk away.

Who watches the Wardens?

[Tallyrand]

Who watches the Wardens?

Your paranoia led you to keep constant tabs on threats in the magical community.

Invoke: Compel a personal or habitual aspect on a member of the magical community, especially those in authority.
Compel: While your paranoia has served you well your aspect can prevent you from trusting even the most earnest offers of help.

Omnia Dicta Fortiora si Dicta Latina

[Papa Gruff]

Omnia Dicta Fortiora si Dicta Latina

Translation: "everything sounds more impressive when said in Latin"

The Aspect suggests, that its owner is fluent in Latin and is able to make any kind of conversation in it. As we all know Latin is a dead language, so this is useful only in very few situations.

Invoke: The language might be dead, yet in some situations it is still useful. For example a Wizard with this Aspect has very little trouble during a council meeting. In a social conflict it might be invoked to buff a presence or intimidation roll when you want to come of as this really wise wizard that knows everything and has tremendous power at his command. It also could be invoked for a scholarship or lore roll when trying to decipher ancient texts.

Compel: You tent to be a little bit insufferable when it comes to your fines in Latin. At times you just babble along and everybody around you looks at you as if you are some kind of weirdo. The GM will compel this whenever it is possible to make a fool out of yourself or over complicate a situation by speaking only in Latin.

Note: Can we please not get into the habit of posting Aspects in languages that most people can't understand?

Clasp my hand, dear friend, I'm dieing.

[Arcteryx]

Every soul should have the chance to repent - and enemies are no different. I will be their dying comfort in their last moments on this earth.

Invoke:declare to hear revealing confessions, dying wishes and earth-shattering secrets that could destroy the world - and give you the key to save it

Compel: you have to keep promises made to the dying, that bad guy might just have a booby trap and he's taking you with him, a demon escapes on the last breath and enters the closest living vessel

Why Does Trouble Always Come In Threes?

As an addendum, I'd love to see more suggested situational aspects with invokes or compels; I seem to do OK coming up with story ones, but things that can be used in singularily dramatic moment are harder for me...

[Ophidimancer]

Why Does Trouble Always Come In Threes?

Oh I love Aspects like these because they allow Invoking for effect:

Invoke: Let's the player declare what the next trouble is and details about how it comes about, as long as it follows a pattern from two other events.

Compel: Same, but allows the DM to do so.

King of the Freezer Aisle

[Arcteryx]

An urban combat/weapons specialist whose claim to fame is his/her participation in a high-risk hostage rescue at a major supermarket location

Invoke: tight quarters/urban combat, something similar to that SoTC stunt that allows characters to use any nearby small object as a weapon
Compel: the high body count from that event still haunts him - even though the part he played was very successful - and he can freeze (sorry!) at inopportune moments, the villians from that even have him in their black books, or he's recognized on the street from the highly controversial court case that found him not gulity, won't participate in fights in public areas like that, will try to draw the fight into an area with less casualty potential, or simply give up to save those around him

Look'Em In The Eye!

[Bruce Coulson]

A close-combat specialist; alternatively, a skilled interrogator.

Invoke: clinches, short-range gun combat, facing up to horrific scenes.  Or, to see through Deceit attempts and efforst to evade questions.

Compel: to force the character into close combat, to weaken them in situations where they can't see the opponent (or it has no 'eyes').  Or, to get the character close to another in social situations, invading other's personal space and commiting social faux pas in doing so.

Beholden to No Man

[Ophidimancer]

Beholden to No Man

You hail from a militant feminist community and are a stranger to "man's world."

Invoke: You can rebuff social attacks from men, as you have been warned of man's treachery your whole life.

Compel: This makes it hard to get along out in "man's world" or anywhere that approaches gender egalitarianism.

Faded Photo of Me and My Love

[Arcteryx]

Faded Photo of Me and My Love

This is a great storyline Aspect, and its so evocative. It lends itself easily to a lot of angst, self-loathing and drama... she or he is either missing, dead or perhaps nobody knows, but the photo goes with the protaganist everywhere. I'd imagine there's great compel potential from adversaries who use the information they have about where this 'love' to force concessions and favours from the hero. Similarily, the hope or lure of this 'love' would pull them forward and perhaps bring them from the brink of a meeting with fate...

[cetra02]

Since the last post did not have an aspect, how about a few choices:

So you want to be a Wizard
Double Act
Man with No Name

[Myrddhin]

Man with No Name

You have no records, no proper ID, in short - You're so far off the grid you'd make a hermit blush.

Invoke to gain bonuses when being anonymous would be useful (like say dealing black-ops level secrets).

Compel Picked up by the cops, hilarity ensues.

Something I've been working on for a semi-psychotic psychomancer...
I've Lost My Mind... Do You Have It?

[Arcteryx]

You have no records, no proper ID, in short - You're so far off the grid you'd make a hermit blush.

Invoke to gain bonuses when being anonymous would be useful (like say dealing black-ops level secrets).

Compel Picked up by the cops, hilarity ensues.

Something I've been working on for a semi-psychotic psychomancer...
I've Lost My Mind... Do You Have It?

And what if you were a man with no True Name? Maybe you resonate different on the magical level and you attract a lot of undue attention... it would be a pretty awesome premise for a game!

So you want to be a Wizard

Character is a budding apprentice to a Wizard of the White Council

"I'm sorry Master, I know I'm a clumsy oaf..."
"Worse! You're a clumsy oaf with access to unstable chemicals!"

Invoke: connecting with other apprentices, knowledge of the inner workings of the White Council from the ground up, bonuses to Lore from having access to a Master's library of references...

Compel: responsibilities (gah, homework!), tiresome duties (I have to clean the skull again?!), all of which lead to stories of their own. Attract the attention of not-so-friendly apprentices from other not-so-friendly masters, Master using you for his own ends & machinations, you witness and hear things that you weren't supposed to (Is he really supposed to summon that... that thing?!) because you're just a mere apprentice. Loses control of magic... often. Spills dangerous liquids... often. Potions boil over... often. Things go boom... y'know. Often. Spells go off with unexpected strengths and effects. Makes rookie mistakes. Summoned things escape.

Lots to happen to a hapless apprentice.... and perhaps an even more fun Aspect could be, My Master Is A Bumbling Fool. So I'll provide that and another that I'm working on...

The Queen's Last Pathfinder

[Ophidimancer]

The Queen's Last Pathfinder

You are part of a secret arcane organization that serves Her Majesty, the Queen of England.  Specifically part of an elite squad of scouts versed in the Ways of the Nevernever.  That is until the Queen's Pathfinders were ambushed and killed in {PLOT DRIVEN CONFLICT} leaving you as the last.

Invoke:  Helps you find Ways through the Nevernever, also use it to fuel your rage against whoever killed all your friends, or intimidate people with your dark and brooding nature.

Compel:  Fuel your obsession with finding out who killed the Pathfinders, hinders your social rolls when your dark and brooding nature puts people off, compel you to obey the Queen's orders.

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