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If I am correctly recalling the events of the Red Court ball (and more importantly, the intended events which thankfully never came to pass), I do not believe this hypothetical WCV would be affected at all.

Sounds like that should have been a simple Contest, possibly a Consequential and/or Extended Contest at most.

Like how a small fire can go wildly out of control if you're not careful.

Fire...or a strain of virus or bacteria.

What of that post, then, were you using for the basis of your conclusion that Ferrovax is stronger than the whole of the Council?

I think this qualifies more as an 'intention' than an 'interpretation'.  It pretty clearly isn't what was actually written, and as you say, the writer admits to not having properly understood what actually made it into the book.

Effectively, then, this becomes little more than a Houserule Endorsed by the Writer.

'Weapon Rating' in DFrpg is just a special name for '+shifts on a success' in a particular circumstance (attacks).


In DFrpg, when you make an attack, you inflict stress equal to the number of shifts by which your attack surpassed the target's defense + your weapon rating.

In DFA, when you make an attack, you inflict stress equal to the number of shifts by which your attack surpassed the target's defense + a number of shifts you may be awarded on a successful attack from various sources - such as from one of the benefits of Scale (pg183), or from the Natural Weapon stunt available to Fae (pg158).

One is just a much more succinct way of saying largely the same thing as the other.