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DFRPG / Re: Greed-eating White Court feeding - what's it look like?
« on: January 04, 2011, 04:00:41 AM »
That makes sense, Busc - especially as, as Dresden once said, Money is usually just a path for power in any case.
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DFRPG / Greed-eating White Court feeding - what's it look like?
« on: January 03, 2011, 03:09:34 AM »
We know that the White Court feed while the victim is in the throes of a certain negative emotion (fear, despair, and lust, from what we have seen). Wrath has also been given as a potential White Court emotion.
We know from some things Thomas has said that White Court feedings involve a certain amount of intimacy and trust, a lowering of mental defenses. Lustpires, obviously, feed during the intimacy of sex. Fear and Despair-eaters eat during strong bouts of terror and depression, both things that can A) be indulged in privacy and B) would tend to weaken the mind's defenses.
What form might a deep feeding from a Greed-eating White Courtier take? Some interaction that involves physical contact, a certain amount of intimacy, and enough privacy that the initial deadly feeding wouldn't be immediately followed by a witch hunt?
We know from some things Thomas has said that White Court feedings involve a certain amount of intimacy and trust, a lowering of mental defenses. Lustpires, obviously, feed during the intimacy of sex. Fear and Despair-eaters eat during strong bouts of terror and depression, both things that can A) be indulged in privacy and B) would tend to weaken the mind's defenses.
What form might a deep feeding from a Greed-eating White Courtier take? Some interaction that involves physical contact, a certain amount of intimacy, and enough privacy that the initial deadly feeding wouldn't be immediately followed by a witch hunt?
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DFRPG / Re: A dresdenfiles LARP?
« on: January 02, 2011, 07:06:28 AM »
It would be very hard - the high degree of custimizability means that there also needs to be a large degree of GM oversight, especially regarding Aspect compells and invocations. Simple enough to do in tabletop, not in LARP
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DFRPG / Re: Artificial, Temporal Thresholds (Weekends, Months, Years, etc)
« on: January 01, 2011, 06:45:23 PM »
I agree, Mij, but therein lies a chicken-and-the-egg paradox. Does Halloween weaken the border between the Nevernever and the human world because folks have labeled it a creepy day and attached occult significance, or have folks attached occult significance to the day because that's a day when the barriers are thin and things tend to leak through?
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DFRPG / Re: Artificial, Temporal Thresholds (Weekends, Months, Years, etc)
« on: January 01, 2011, 08:24:07 AM »
It's certainly likely, with the amount of belief folks invested into the end of the Millennium, that there was some in-world effect. Not sure if it would act as a Threshold, but it might.
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DFRPG / Re: Catch Ideas
« on: December 28, 2010, 12:54:50 AM »
I thought he used barbed wire to summon the erlking.
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DFRPG / Re: Catch Ideas
« on: December 26, 2010, 04:44:47 AM »
I played a character once, drawing on the myths of the children of Gaea in greek myth, whose toughness and resilience lasted as long as he touched the ground.
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DFRPG / Re: The Autumn Court
« on: December 25, 2010, 07:13:45 AM »
It's possible. It's also possible that these Autumnal powers also passed to Summer/Winter when the respective Queens fell or changed Court.
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DFRPG / Re: Nevernever Locale: The Iron Spires
« on: December 25, 2010, 05:37:45 AM »
an Item of Power granting Demesne over the Iron Spires themselves and control over the Monster (as well as some other critters).
also, probably a Macguffin.
also, probably a Macguffin.
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DFRPG / Re: Nevernever Locale: The Iron Spires
« on: December 25, 2010, 04:55:02 AM »
Yikes. that's a horrible and wonderful place - sounds quite a bit like one of the realms of the True Fae in white-wolf's Changeling: the Lost.
Also a wonderful location to throw the characters to see 'em squirm. *evil grin.*
Does a character need to have spent a full day in the area of the Iron Spires before they are mentally attacked, or does the attack occur at some other point, and every day thereafter?
Also a wonderful location to throw the characters to see 'em squirm. *evil grin.*
Does a character need to have spent a full day in the area of the Iron Spires before they are mentally attacked, or does the attack occur at some other point, and every day thereafter?
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DFRPG / Re: Collecting power to use later
« on: December 24, 2010, 02:16:50 AM »
Okay, then. A Discipline or Conviction roll that acts as a block on the Threshold effect preventing spellcasting?
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DFRPG / Re: Nevernever Locale: The Library
« on: December 23, 2010, 08:41:17 PM »
Please tell me that at least some of the Librarians take corporeal forms of some shape or other - and that at least one take the form of an orangutan!
This definitely has a place in the Nevernever. Well done!
This definitely has a place in the Nevernever. Well done!
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DFRPG / Re: Collecting power to use later
« on: December 23, 2010, 08:04:05 PM »
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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DFRPG / Re: Physical appearence of a Changeling
« on: December 23, 2010, 07:35:31 AM »
Personally, I think it'd be more fun to have the players come up with alternate ways to hide their supernatural side. Horns? Grow long hair, or wear a hat all the time. Hooves? Long pants and fake shoes. Green hair? You dyed it. Grew wings? fold 'em up in a backpack, or something.
That's closest to what we see of the four Changelings in White Knight, anyway. None of them have the mystical ability to hide their form.
That's closest to what we see of the four Changelings in White Knight, anyway. None of them have the mystical ability to hide their form.
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DFRPG / Re: DFRPG Player's Guide (Rough Draft)
« on: December 23, 2010, 07:02:05 AM »
Regarding multiple Aspects with one maneuver, I've seen it done while using the Overflow rules - so, if someone achieved 7 shifts on a Fists maneuver, they could place the Sticky aspect of "Off balance," costing 4 shifts, and have 3 shifts of effect left over with which to place the unsticky aspect of "stumbling"