What if Gate of Babylon's extra benefit was giving you a variable abilities list that represented the treasures and their powers, and giving you form points equal to your Resources, with the Limitation of having to cast a spell equal to the amount of form points you want to access, and it only lasts one scene? It'd still be a [-5] or [-6] Magic.


Edit: Changed it to Resources. Ritual complexity is too easy to pump. Here's the revised version.


Gate of Babylon [-5]
Description: You have access to the infinite treasures contained in the vault of Gilgamesh the God-King, allowing you to call forth legendary objects from throughout history.
Sponsor:Gilgamesh.
Agenda: Gilgamesh’s agenda. Rulership. Kingly pride. The collection of more treasures.
Evocation: Gate of Babylon evocations typically involve calling forth a treasure from the vault.
Thaumaturgy: Gate of Babylon rituals typically involve displays of wealth, summoning treasures, kingship, and pride.
Evothaum: You can employ Gate of Babylon rituals that summon treasures with Evocation’s speed and methods.
Extra Benefit: You can use Gate of Babylon rituals to summon Items of Power. You can summon Items of Power of a Refresh cost up to your Resources skill by casting a Gate of Babylon evocation of complexity equal to that item’s Refresh. You may spend additional Refresh on this Sponsored Magic to increase the Refresh cap for you summoned treasures on a 1:1 basis.

If it was priced at like [-8] and limited to only one treasure at a time, would you be okay with it? The character it's designed for can afford the Refresh hit and it's basically only for this character.



Do you feel like you should still have to pay for the false High Concept if you're granting yourself powers that fit your actual High Concept? I feel like you shouldn't.

Well, I'm back, so back to doing what I do best.

GATE OF BABYLON[-5]
Description: You have access to the infinite treasures contained in the vault of Gilgamesh the God-King, allowing you to call forth legendary objects from throughout history.
Sponsor: Gilgamesh.
Agenda: Gilgamesh’s agenda. Rulership. Kingly pride. The collection of more treasures.
Evocation: Gate of Babylon evocations typically involve calling forth a treasure from the vault.
Thaumaturgy: Gate of Babylon rituals typically involve displays of wealth, summoning treasures, kingship, and pride.
Evothaum: You can employ Gate of Babylon rituals that summon treasures with Evocation’s speed and methods.
Extra Benefit: You can use Gate of Babylon rituals to summon Items of Power, mechanically represented as you gaining the IoP for one scene by casting a spell. For every two shifts invested into the spell, the IoP gains 1 more Refresh. These items never provide any Refresh rebate.

I wrote this one while making a Dresdenverse version of Gilgamesh based on his Fate/stay night incarnation, and I think it works fairly well. It covers both his "shoot magic swords at it until it dies" stuff with offensive Evocations, and his "summon some ridiculously overpowered weapon" stuff with Evothaum and the Extra Benefit. The Extra Benefit basically just streamlines the Paranet Papers rules for granting yourself powers with magic.

The OUAT version of Pan is amazing.

Actually, the OUAT version of pretty much everyone is amazing. I have a writeup of the Sorcerer's Apprentice who came about after I saw the show's version of that.

...there's a fan license?

I think the Law Talk thread sort of died.

Control is only straight-up better when you're using attacks, which certainly isn't the only thing you can do with evocation. Otherwise, power is usually about equally as good. However, it's usually worth getting a +4 Control foci if you can afford the Refinements. Never blowing an evocation roll at your base power is handy.

I'm hacking together custom Furycrafting powers, and I could post an example of the basic rule structure along with, say, Windcrafting, but, well, they're sort of terrible. And they're absolutely not balanced against all the other Powers, because I built them specifically for a Codex Alera game.

Should I post them?