Actually, my instinct was to build them using a variant of Ghostspeaker along with Marked by Power.  Most of their actual abilities would come from variants of Mimic Power and Item of Power.  A Shamans gets power by going to a spirit.  That's another important distinction between them and wizards.  Wizards summon beings.  Shamans go to those beings with whom they interact.  So, a Shaman goes to an old oak tree and talks to the spirit within it.  The spirit gives the shaman an acorn fetish that contains part of the spirit's essence, in this case Inhuman Strength and Toughness (The Catch being axes or saws).  The Shaman can break the acorn to release the power into himself for a scene or two.  Meanwhile, he has given the oak spirit some of his hair or blood so that it has its own fetish for him.  The oak spirit can then use that fetish to Compel the shaman to keep whatever promise his made (perhaps to prevent loggers from cutting the tree down).

The Fetishes would be +1 Items of Power with the following modifications: They are not indestructible.  Also each Fetish keeps the +1 modifier for being an external Item.  The fetishes would essentially have Mimic Power up to a Shaman's level.  So, a Shaman with six levels of Mimic could put the Oak powers in the Acorn fetish costing two of his six levels (Item discount plus The Catch for Supernatural Toughness).  He could then speak to a Fire spirit in a blast furnace to get  Physical Immunity (Fire) and Breath Weapon (Fire) perhaps in exchange for dropping some high grade metal for it to melt.  That said, a Shaman can only have one fetish active at a time.  So, our oak/fire shaman here couldn't be Strong and Tough while also being Immune to Fire and able to use Breath Weapon.  My overall idea is to make getting (and paying for) power part of the adventure for the Shaman.  That all said, Shaman's mostly can't "borrow" from mortals current or past.  Ghosts are off-limits to them unless they specifically take the Ghostspeaker power.

As I said in my first post, Shamans are social beings.  A Shaman should have a tribe.  This tribe is a group of people with whom he commonly associates and to whom he is a figure of significance.  This tribe can be as small as an RPG gaming group or as large as a company of soldiers.  Generally five to a hundred or so.  The main idea of the tribe is that they share common bonds and interests and that they all personally know the shaman.  I'd like there to be some game advantage in them regarding magic or Contacts.  Most likely the Tribe will be part of the Shaman's Aspects like Girl in Company C or Founder of the Miami Spiderman Fan Club.  The Shaman can tag the Aspect to get aid on a Contacts roll or some other situation ("Oh, what about Steve, in the Fan Club, he works on the Bomb Squad").  And the GM can Compel this aspect to send the Shaman to help out a Tribe member in trouble.

Next post I'll do something with the history of shamans and their place in the supernatural world.

johntfs, the Dragonborn looks pretty good except for the copypasta Sponsored Magic at the end.

Though I would hesitate to allow people to take both Claws and Breath Weapon. It's such a bad idea...

I was borrowing from another Template and the Storm stuff got stuck on the end.  I've deleted it.  As for Claws and Breath Weapon, a normal mortal gets the same effects for 0 Refresh if she has a knife and a pistol.  Plus, Breath Weapon is Feeding Dependent and both of them are "form dependent."

I'm thinking of adding a new potential ability called "cannibal" which gives a +1 to attempts to kill and eat sentient beings.  Essentially this would be a "Lawbreaker" ability for the Dragonborn and would stack with each "cannibalism" incident.

Just so we're all clear on what we're talking about, this is a Hob:


Take that in for a second.  Then remember that in order to have a "Hob changeling" some human person had to have sex with that thing.  I'm not saying don't do it.  I'm just saying that if you do do it, the changeling should have some really interesting, really unpleasant aspects on his sheet like Daddy's In a Rubber Room.  I Ate My Mommy at Birth.  Something like that.

Alrighty then. Because I do math like fish do bicycles, I may have messed up the interaction between Human Form and Limitation. Constructive criticism is welcome. First, the Vesuvian.

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VESUVIAN

Vulcanomancy [-5]
Human Form [+2], affecting
   Supernatural Strength [-4]*
   Breath Weapon [-2] (Throw lava balls)
   Supernatural Toughness [-4]*
   Inhuman Recovery [-2]*
   Limitation [+6] None of the asterisk-marked powers work unless they are near a large
source of open flame. (Most of them solve this by setting the place on fire. Mechanically, they have to tag a sticky aspect that involves On Fire for 2 exchanges before these powers kick in.
Total Refresh Cost: -9

Okay, I'm sorry, but by Supernatural Sense: Bullshit Detection is going off a little bit here.  Your "Limitation" is that he can't use his Strength, Toughness and Recovery unless he's near a large, open flame.  And as an "Oh, by the way" he also has at least two super-quick methods (Vulcanomancy and Breath Weapon) to create said large, open flame.  Yeah.  No.  Maybe if you pegged his Vulcanomancy and his Breath Weapon to the Limitation, that might work.  Otherwise, no, I don't see this as a viable template.

Honestly, I don't like your rules.

Partly because I'm not sure I understand them. Partly because their damaging effect is mixed in with a Power-disabling effect. Partly because the process through which they inflict damage seems oddly convoluted. And partly because their costing method seems complicated and sloppy to me.

Yeah, it was kind of complicated and sloppy.  My idea was to simulate various types of damage and power loss effects.  A Power loss Bane might be running water for wizards and other magic-users.  It doesn't really a wizard to be in running water (aside from the chance of catching a cold) but it prevents them from using their magic.  A damaging Bane might be sunlight or holy water for vampires.  Meanwhile Krytonite would be a Bane inflicting both damage and power loss.

I'd go with something like:[/quote]

BANE [+varies]
Description: There exists something that hurts you. Maybe you're a vampire that can't stand the sun or something.
Musts: If you have a Toughness Power, you must have a Catch or Limitation that prevents that Power from working against the effects of this Power.
Skills Affected: Endurance.
Effects:
Bane. Pick a thing. Then pick a number X. You get a Refresh rebate according to a formula that takes into account X and how often you will face that thing.
Increased Damage. Any physical attack that makes use of your bane adds X to its weapon rating. An attack which uses it especially strongly add 2X to its weapon rating instead, while an attack which uses it especially weakly adds X/2 to its weapon rating instead.
Hostile Environment. When you are exposed to an environment which contains a small amount of your bane, you face an accuracy X weapon 0 physical attack against your Endurance each exchange. Environments which contain moderate amounts of your bane and large amounts of your bane inflict accuracy 2X and 3X attacks respectively. Being totally immersed in your bane inflicts an accuracy 4X attack.
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Under Musts, I'd note that a Catch is essentially a Bane where X is 0.  By definition all Catches are Banes.  I'd also note that the modifiers for ease of acquisition and secrecy that are applied to Catches should also be available for Banes.

Finally, just as a general thing, I'd point out that Banes are one of the few, if any, Refresh cost break modifiers that should be available to Pure Mortals.  A Bane could be used to simulate a person who has allergies to certain foods or insect venom.  Or a Bane could represent a person with some other health issue that places them at greater risk.  A person running into a burning, smoke-filled building to save a child is at risk.  If that person has emphysema, cystic fibrosous or other lung disease, that risk is far greater.

Plus, you can take it the other direction, too.  Suppose the Warden is genuinely corrupt and begins pushing your Aeromancer into doing darker favors.  The bad guy is a Warden, so figure the White Council will believe him over the Aeromancer, which means that the Aeromancer (and his friends) will need to assemble proof.  Assuming they succeed in this, the Aeromancer might end up getting trained in the way of the Council and become a full wizard.  Perhaps even a Warden himself. 

Hmm.  Well, in that case switch Recovery and Toughness between the Courts.  Yang will have Supernatural Toughness while Yin will have Supernatural Recovery.

Still, I figure the male/female ratio will remain as I said.  Yang vampires, tending to be more driven and passionate are more likely to recruit a female based on desire or beauty.  Yin vampires tend to be far more cool and rational.  That said, the Jade Court is old, having been around since the beginning of Chinese civilization at least.  As Harry has noted, old things tend to get set in their ways.  It's also highly patriarchal and at least a little racist, tending to disdain the capabilities of females and non-Chinese.

Which means that if your characters do run into, say, a black female Jade Court Yin vampire, it's best to be extremely polite or fast on your feet, because she's probably one of the more lethal opponents you could fear to encounter.