When next chapter on our game starts I would love to play character based on Marvel comics Daredevil. Has anyone done anything similar or knows how I could produce similar feel? The Agility and Fighting part can be secondary (maybe Great and Good skills for those) and I can skip the club and costume - maybe name aspect for that for example. The supersenses are the hard part. Basic radar might work as aspect, and mybe [-2] Refresh cost Enchanted power suite for permission to do stuff with Alertness, with a Stunt that lets him use Alertness instead of Empathy on some assessments... I frankly have nothing coherent...

(Base Refresh 8, Skills 27 point and Cap in Great. )

Help is appreciated.

True, on the "close to the Law Breaking" side, it has quite nice potential for character development.

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I’m designing a new Focused Practitioner, aiming at him becoming a full blown Wizard later on. The issue I’m looking help on here is his paradigm. I started the idea with police detective, French one from Paris that can see lies as dark spots in people’s words. It grow to become something like supernatural crime scene investigation. I started with psychomancy, but after some though and cautioning words from another player I steered a bit from that, trying not to break any laws up front. So I’m now moving from “Ectomancy” side but thinking more on the echo side; word is full of emotional echoes, ghosts being only the most direct ones. This matter of spirit and emotion is the stuff my character is supposed to control and mold by channeling his will into it or disturbing structures inside formed ones. The base effect would be conjuring past emotions and “observations” back, sensing emotional stains on objects, making the ectoplasm (need better name for my character to use) more tangible and bending light itself with it or releasing light trapped inside ectoplasm and therefore producing ghost light and so forth.

So how would this paradigm work and how should I narrate the belief the character has on his ability?
What would the character, detective from police force, call his ability as he has had no contact with White Council?
Is it viable base for interesting magic effects and what affects would you see it producing?
How would this paradigm grow when I can upgrade rituals to thaumaturgy and channeling into evocation?

Thanks for your help
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Character so far.


le commissaire Jean-Vérité Larosiére
Skills:
Great (+4) Discipline
Good (+3) Conviction Investigation Presence
Fair (+2) Intimidation Rapport Scholarship
Average (+1) Alertness Athletics Contacts Empathy Lore Resources
Stress: Physical: (2) OO Mental: (4) OOOO Social: (4) OOOO
Template: Focused Practitioner
Must and Options [-5 Refresh]: Channeling (Spirit), Ritual (Ectomancy/Referomancy), Sight (Sense Lies).
Focus Item(s): The Rings of Nicolas Flamel: +1 for offensive power, offensive control and defensive power and defensive control to Spirit Evocation. (2 x 2 Focus item slots)
High Concept Aspect: Le Commissaire Empathique
Trouble: Lies are “the Black” I “see”.
Background Aspect: Off the Record… the World is Rotten
Rising Conflict: All I wanted to do was to save them…
The Story:
Guest Star:
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Extremely inspiring reading, thank you guys for sharing!

Could you think to materialize a pdf Dresden add-on for Korean mystical background? Would be nice for globetrotting campaign background to have few places to focus, maybe something like Seoul - San Francisco - Baltimore - München - (Some tiny tiny place in Finland )... One can hope.

Thanks again

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-Tonpa

All the core rules are gonna be in the first book, but the 150-page chapter on (nearly) every character in the first 10 books, all the monster writeups, the discussion of political factions, and Kenneth Hite's chapter on real-world Occult Chicago will land in the second.  If we're lucky enough to get a little vignette story from Jim, that'll be in book 2 as well, I suspect. So there's plenty of incentive to get both I'd say, while still saying, "Hey, don't worry, the core *game* itself is over in this first one."

I'm really, really happy if you go to the two books aproach, as then the core rules could be more portable to game sessions, which is a big thing for me these days. I like Starbalzers, but the book is huge to carry around. Diaspora is perfect sized, but I can do something bigger if need to.

Good Work guys!

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-Tonpa

I’m waiting the most some were-forms with connection to falcons and birds, lycanthrophy side at-least, but maybe even shape changer type. Other thing, also from player concept, is something for the taboos that have sympathy with the supernatural effect, from the school of though from karma; if you don’t take wealth in then need can’t touch you. Specifically if you don’t take money to your possession then you always have enough for your needs. Both can be done with aspects, but I hope there are some specific systems.

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-Tonpa

Keeping hopes up. Could be nice one to testrun in ropecon.