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Re: Of Gods and Demons: A question about high-refresh games
« Reply #30 on: November 08, 2011, 02:25:11 AM »
About the stronger baseline: pretty sure that Superb is too high. But free Inhuman powers sound like a good idea to me.

About maneuvers: Three ideas:

1. All maneuvers more-or-less automatically succeed. Some of them give two aspects.

2. Record the strength of each maneuver. If the strength of a maneuver is more than X less than the roll it would be invoked to boost, it can't be invoked.

3. No navel-gazing maneuvers. All maneuvers are opposed.

About the Faerie Ladies: I really don't think that they're much stronger then the Senior Council, actually. They may even be weaker then them.

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Re: Of Gods and Demons: A question about high-refresh games
« Reply #31 on: November 08, 2011, 05:04:20 PM »
3. Self-Sponsored Magic.
4. The ability to take (lots of) Sponsor debt for all kinds of different things.

I'm playing a (baby, relatively) god in a superhero game with the Fate system, I was wondering how exactly you would stat those two?

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Re: Of Gods and Demons: A question about high-refresh games
« Reply #32 on: November 08, 2011, 05:52:50 PM »
3. It's just Sponsored Magic, but the compels come from an internal force instead of an external one. I figure that you could use standard Sponsored Magic mechanics without any trouble.

4. Any time you could spend a FP, you can take a point of debt instead for the same effect. Would probably carry thematic limitations; maybe it'd only work on High Concept invocations. Not sure how much it should cost.

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Re: Of Gods and Demons: A question about high-refresh games
« Reply #33 on: November 08, 2011, 06:42:10 PM »
3. It's just Sponsored Magic, but the compels come from an internal force instead of an external one. I figure that you could use standard Sponsored Magic mechanics without any trouble.

4. Any time you could spend a FP, you can take a point of debt instead for the same effect. Would probably carry thematic limitations; maybe it'd only work on High Concept invocations. Not sure how much it should cost.

3: agreed.  Got a PC using this in my game, and it works just fine.  (Edit: though I'll admit that part of the reason it works is that the player has discovered that I have no qualms about doing horrible things with compels, and is thus suitably wary of racking up too much sponsor debt...)

4: Hm.  No more than -1 cost, I'd think; it's really just an alternative version of demonic co-pilot.  Possibly -0; I mean, it's not like you're getting a free lunch anywhere - and there are a number of other examples where a PC is allowed to "borrow" fate points that they don't have.  (The two examples that spring to mind are: temporary powers when you're out of fate points, and boosting the power of a potion.)
I could easily see this as being rolled in as part of a Sponsored Magic, actually; a number of the more narrow ones seem to offer extra bonuses of some kind, and this sort of thing could fit right in.
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Re: Of Gods and Demons: A question about high-refresh games
« Reply #34 on: November 08, 2011, 07:28:54 PM »
The GM seems okay with me taking it as a -1 increase to Sponsored Magic. Thank you both.