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DFRPG / Re: How do White Court Vampires procreate?
« on: December 04, 2012, 05:51:04 AM »
Jim has said that, if he was remembering correctly, Thomas has nine sisters including Lara. One of which is the equivalent of a crazy lady locked in the attic.

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DFRPG / Re: All Powers Should be Balanced ?
« on: June 03, 2012, 02:41:46 AM »
Yes, powers should be at least roughly even with each other on a refresh cost. Powers seem to me that they are just things you can use to give rules to back up character and creature traits, with templates just being guide lines to give people ideas on what their character can be and how the system works.

A fair bit of effort seems to have gone into explaining what makes a balanced stunt and how to create new ones. Logic seems to follow that powers should be the same way. Refresh spent on stunts and powers is also how the GM section tells you to balance encounters and threats.

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DFRPG / Re: Favorate Home Rules
« on: April 22, 2012, 08:11:54 PM »
That one seems fairly straight forward to me. Do you have any power that's not a stunt? If yes, then you loose the pure mortal bonus.

I agree with templates being a good guideline but mostly should be viewed as example characters, possible ways that you could combine the powers in the book to create different character types.

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DFRPG / Re: DFRPG Character Manager v2 beta
« on: March 13, 2012, 04:34:41 AM »
I'd love to help. It's been a few years sense I've played around with .Net and it would be nice to get back into it, even if it's only on the testing and debugging side.

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DFRPG / Re: Angel PC template?
« on: February 16, 2012, 01:38:58 AM »
Unless you redefine what constitutes an angel, I don't think this is something you can really play in Dresden, let alone as a PC. Angles have basically been shown to be terrifyingly powerful.
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But what limits their power is they can never go against God's edict of not interfering with free will. I think we need a bit more information on what you see for this character before we can help flush it out.

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DFRPG / Re: Roleplaying Fae NPCs
« on: February 14, 2012, 10:47:41 PM »
I think it's only the Sidhe that are restricted to telling the truth. Doesn't Harry in Summer Knight have to make the Malk in Undertown repeat something three times to make sure it's the truth or something?

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DFRPG / Re: GameMaster Utilities
« on: December 09, 2011, 09:49:29 PM »
Digital Resources:
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I was totally all "What the hell, the link won't work...Oh...OH! Yeah!"

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DFRPG / Re: GameMaster Utilities
« on: December 08, 2011, 06:48:47 PM »
I'm of the opinion that a white board is invaluable. I never used to use one but once I did they rapidly got bigger and bigger from a little one just to track initiative on, to a 2x3 one to one I likewise raided from a school that was surplussed. Now it takes up all the space over my mantel and I still want another one. Very useful, very addictive.

For Dresden I love being able to quickly sketch up zones, attach aspects to areas, and track NPC stress and aspects. I'm not sure if most boards will do it but mine is magnetic so I can use colored magnet circles to track all the characters involved very easily.

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DFRPG / Re: Poison and Ectoplasm
« on: December 05, 2011, 09:16:57 PM »
I could easily see it going two ways. It goes away as soon as you force what ever it is back to the Nevernever, draw a circle around yourself to cut the magic tie or what ever else you can thing of for that. Alternatively though, I think you could easily explain that not working with some kind of "feeding off your energy" type of explanation and make an antidote the solution. Depends on what you're going for, I suppose. Definitely could go ether ways.

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DFRPG / Re: Faerie Court's Soup Kitchen
« on: December 02, 2011, 12:50:20 PM »
It would have to be fae food for that to apply, which I imagine is blatantly not anything near our level of food. A banquet from a PB&J sort of deal, maybe. And they're giving it to homeless people? I can see it more for the minor group that you're discriminating, they may not be as discerning as normal fae nobility. Assuming that they have a theoretically limited resource in fae food and they could do much better say, as a catering group doing a pro bono gig for a charity dinner consisting of all the rich and famous in the city. You may have to set it up a bit specifically to make sure that it's clear that the person is receiving the food from them specifically to generate a debut to them, but I think it could work. It makes me wonder though if you need to know that you're receiving something from a fae to be indebted to them or not.

Also, it doesn't seem very in keeping with the fae to deal with the homeless. I could see some kind of thing where the fae go to those homeless who are truly down on their luck so to speak but have done great things or have the potential to be great if they were given a chance to get their life together.

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DFRPG / Re: Focused Practitioners- What are their Limits?
« on: December 02, 2011, 12:36:08 PM »
For most of the books, Harry can't pull of a decent veil to save his own ass.  That still doesn't mean that spirit evocations are incapable of creating veils, which is a question more comparable to the content of this debate.
He also doesn't use air to move things around, even though that's one of it's strong suits. That's not how his training has air working for him, not how he conceptualizes it. He uses spirit. Further, where veils are something that Harry is just not good at, he has specifically that healing is extremely difficult and delicate. Even Elaine, who is quite a bit better at delicate magic than Harry, can only heal minor injuries and that's with a ritual/thamaturgy application, not evocation.

Devonapple, I really like the black box description.

With the Aspect discussion, where do you draw the line though between someone not being able to generate an effect though and simply something that you're a lot better at because you have an Aspect that you can Invoke? I can definitely see the benefits of requiring an Aspect, and having one would definitely help solve a debate on it. On the other hand it also seems like something that with a character with thought about heritage for your spellcasting framework would really not need an Aspect.

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DFRPG / Re: Focused Practitioners- What are their Limits?
« on: December 01, 2011, 08:58:12 PM »
We didn't get to hear his justification for healing, but warming seems a bit out there. I imagine he wanted to be a pyromancer so he can throw fireballs. Seems like a downside of his decision. If it's just warming like you said I could see it. But bruses, cuts and broken bones. Beyond that healing has been shown to be extremity difficult and requiring special focus. Enough that Harry didn't even want to try it out because he was afraid he may screw it up. I can definitely see heat redirection. There's a good example of that in White Knight where fire magic is used to freeze water.

I like the phoenix idea though. The player is overstepping their focus a bit but it's still something that vaguely fits thematically. Tack in some greater spirit that they have had contact with or know how to invoke and can build up some kind of debut with. Sounds like a great solution to me, giving the player what they want with a good explanation while adding story hooks and complications. 

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