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DFRPG / Kemmlerian Sponsored Magic
« on: May 10, 2010, 03:22:15 AM »
My question about the Kemmlerites, and like abstract ideas of sponsored magic, is how do you adjudicate the 'Agenda' of the 'Sponsor' for debt compel purposes?

Right now, to me, the scariest part of the whole Kemmlerite thing is this simple question.  If your patron is Death Itself, how do you pay back... Death?

What are you going to have to do, to make Death 'Happy' and feel like He/It/Whatever isn't getting short shrift in bargaining/sponsoring you etc?

Is this a literal personified manifestation of death?  Or is this more abstract like, say, they know they just need massive ammounts of necromantic death energy to fuel their necromancy, and debt points reflect a need to 'refuel' their necromancy by doing 'Bad Stuff'tm?  It is left a bit nebulous as to how this would function.

It begs the question how to the translate this more abstract envisionment of 'Sponsored Magic' into other types of similar traditions. ( See my Sponsored Magic: Summoner post. )

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DFRPG / Sponsored Magic: Summoner
« on: May 10, 2010, 03:16:17 AM »
After looking at the Kemmlerian Necromancy Sponsored Magic entry I felt like you could use the same setup to reflect other types of magical traditions/lineages with similar packages for people who are already wizards to buy.  As I am an avid fan of summoner style characters, my first impulse was to take that towards a summoner tradition.

Depending on how you want to include such characters in a given campgain you could fill them out story-wise in different manners, for now however I'm just focusing on the mechanical aspects of the build.

Summoner ( -2 Refresh ): Provides a +1 Control +1 Complexity specialization in Summoning/Binding magic, stacking with other specializations.  Can cast Summoning/Binding style spells with evocation speed/methods, using their Thaumaturgy control score.  ( Don't forget that 'Binding' a person is a Law Violation... )  If a point of debt is incurred for the casting they can use their Summoning/Binding Control score with other elements/methods of evocation, to reflect a rapid if expensive pact/bargain with some sort of summoned entity to provide the effect they throw in the spell.

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