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The Dresden Files => DFRPG => Topic started by: ducere1315 on December 23, 2010, 02:04:11 PM
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Given some situations that Harry got himself into, he collected magic energy into himself to use after a trapping circle cut off the ambient supply. Any thoughts on how to do this in the game?
And I had a secondary question: Harry fighting uberghouls and he's pretty much tapped out. Then asks "someone specific" to kiss him to get that extra boost of emotion to invigorate him to cast a really powerful shield spell. How would you explain that one mechanically in the game? Scene change perhaps?
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First one is a bit difficult as we don't have the mechanical analogy. What I'd do is have Harry declare how much magical energy he's going to use in advance. I.e. he declares "I am going to use all my mental stress boxes, my mild consequences and my moderate consequence". This has the following effects;
a) In that scene, once he uses up everything he declared he would use, he no longer has any energy. I.e. he can't use his serious consequence by pushing himself - there's no more energy to channel.
b) Once the scene ends, if he has declared mental stress he did not use during the fight, those consequences/stress boxes are still filled up. He had used them to summon up that much magical power - he had just been holding it inside unused during the fight but he can no longer hold it.
Second is very easy. Mechanically, Harry asked Lara to use her Incite Emotion on him to apply aspects - one of the standard uses of that Power. Then he tagged those aspects, increasing his spellcasting rolls. It would be the same thing if Lara had applied those aspects on a soldier fighting for her and then the soldier tagging the aspects to boost his combat effectiveness due to improved morale and/or willingness to fight.
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I'd use gathering energy as a navel-gazing Maneuver to grant a "brimming with power" aspect to yourself, which (per my understanding of the rules) could be tagged and invoked to improve your Conviction for power-summoning purposes.
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But the point isn't to summon extra power to improve spellcasting rolls. The point is to summon power in advance so you can use it in places where there is no power available - like within a circle.
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Okay, then. A Discipline or Conviction roll that acts as a block on the Threshold effect preventing spellcasting?
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First one is a bit difficult as we don't have the mechanical analogy. What I'd do is have Harry declare how much magical energy he's going to use in advance. I.e. he declares "I am going to use all my mental stress boxes, my mild consequences and my moderate consequence". This has the following effects;
a) In that scene, once he uses up everything he declared he would use, he no longer has any energy. I.e. he can't use his serious consequence by pushing himself - there's no more energy to channel.
b) Once the scene ends, if he has declared mental stress he did not use during the fight, those consequences/stress boxes are still filled up. He had used them to summon up that much magical power - he had just been holding it inside unused during the fight but he can no longer hold it.
Second is very easy. Mechanically, Harry asked Lara to use her Incite Emotion on him to apply aspects - one of the standard uses of that Power. Then he tagged those aspects, increasing his spellcasting rolls. It would be the same thing if Lara had applied those aspects on a soldier fighting for her and then the soldier tagging the aspects to boost his combat effectiveness due to improved morale and/or willingness to fight.
that makes plenty sense to me