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DFRPG / Re: Adjudicating the Discovery of a Catch
« on: April 14, 2016, 07:34:08 PM »White court vampire catches are super secret from how I interpret it. And their catch is +0 for how easy it is to research. Didn't Harry learn the Raith Catch from Thomas himself?
I don't have my books but they have base requirements for discovering catches and isn't 'intimate knowledge' a basis for a +0 catch?
If that's the case, then I don't think a random Lore roll would fit the bill unless you have an aspect to represent that kind of knowledge.
I suppose you could set a base difficulty, like legendary and each +1 on the catch represents an aspect (or a -2 to the difficulty)
I'd put BCV around +2 since that knowledge is available on the internet and I think they rate the internet at Fair. (Once again, I don't have my books). It's probably also available as a scholarship roll as well as a lore roll given stokers Dracula is everywhere.
That's definitely true for White Court Vampires. Hrmmm. So maybe like a +5 Lore just to know that they feed on emotions in general, but much higher (if Lore at all) for determining what type of emotion they feed off of (and thus their Catch). I'm curious how you'd learn it then? Perhaps a pretty difficult Contacts roll? You know a guy who knows a guy? If you succeed you find out The Catch of a particular White Court Family, if you fail you don't. Or better yet you find out the WRONG Catch. :-P
I also like the idea of stuff like low Scholarship rolls for stuff you can easily find on the Internet. We've actually done Google searches ourselves to see how deep you have to dig before when dealing with stuff like, say, a Rakshasa.