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DFRPG / Re: Soulfire Question for PP
« on: May 14, 2015, 12:11:35 AM »
I have a separate stress track on my sheet. When I fail a discipline roll I shunt it to my soul stress track if I cant afford it on my mental track.

On the flip side I can see how it would seem that you have take a soul  stress everyone time you cast. Its ambiguous and confusing.

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DFRPG / Re: Soulfire Question for PP
« on: May 12, 2015, 03:59:03 AM »
This is our solution: my GM let's me use it for free and if in an instance I would take sponsor debt, I use the stress track instead.

Does that sound right to you?

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DFRPG / Re: Soulfire Question for PP
« on: May 12, 2015, 03:50:04 AM »
Quote from: Sanctaphrax on May 12, 2015, 03:30:56 AM
You do not have to take soul stress when using soulfire. There's nothing in the writeup that suggests that the other bonuses depend on the use of the soul stress track.
It says somewhere about the stress track that "You must choose to use it to enhance your spells." So it wasn't 100% obvious to me us if it was allowed to use without taking Soul stress immediately.

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DFRPG / Re: Soulfire Question for PP
« on: May 12, 2015, 02:51:10 AM »
Quote from: Sanctaphrax on May 12, 2015, 12:36:08 AM
There are three effects of Soulfire that I think you could describe as "supercharging" evocation.

First, it provides +1 power to "creative" evocations.

Second, it makes your magic more effective against Toughness.

Third, it lets you cast from the soul stress track.

Is that what you're after, zoellert?

Kind of, my main question is do you have to take soul stress when using Soulfire?

For instance: Can you supercharge an evocation to downgrade a creature's toughness for "free" like you can with other sponsors? Or must you pay a soul stress to use it?

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DFRPG / Re: Soulfire Question for PP
« on: May 11, 2015, 05:00:53 PM »
Quote from: Haru on May 11, 2015, 01:45:41 PM
I haven't read the Paranet Papers yet. In the old version, you can take sponsor debt to do all kinds of things. You could take a point of sponsor debt to increase your roll by 2. You could take a point of sponsor debt to put an aspect on your spell that might change how it behaves. So instead of a fireball you might conjure up a butterfly made of flames that can fly around a corner to hit a target.

yes, i get that, but PP replaced debt with a stress track for Soulfire now so it seems you could only supercharge a spell if you take a stress on the Soul track but since it wasn't clear we weren't sure.

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DFRPG / Soulfire Question for PP
« on: May 11, 2015, 12:30:36 PM »
Since the release of the Paranet Papers and the changes to Soulfire, I have a question for everyone here's interpretation.

According to YS288 it says

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In addition, if you already practice evocation, you may use a sponsored power source to “supercharge” an element you've already specialized in.

but in PP under The Mechanic of Soulfire it doesn't say anything about being able to supercharge spells. I don't know what to do any my GM is stuck as well. What does the board think it means?

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