Fear As An Attack

[Arcteryx]

So, looking at a supernatural beastie which radiates fear - is Incite Emotion (Fear) the way to simulate this? Is it an active attack action (it reads that way) and if so, is there a mechanism to make it 'always on' (add refresh cost?)

[CMEast]

I'd personally do it like this:
[-1]Incite Emotion - Fear
plus: [-1]At Range
       [-1]Zone wide (same zone only) - House rule

This would allow the demon to use this as a manoeuvre on a everyone him all at once. If you want it to be an attack you can add on lasting or potent emotion, but this would still not be 'always on' and that should really cost another refresh to do zone wide (IMO).

This is a house rule though, others may do it differently.

[Doc Nova]

That's about how I went about stating out an "insanity aura" for some Outsiders that are best not named for my game.  On paper (since they have yet to demolish the PCs...hehehe) it seems to resonate well.

[Deadmanwalking]

       [-1]Zone wide (same zone only) - House rule

Personally, I'd have it cost -2, but explicitly not effect the user.

[Arcteryx]

Personally, I'd have it cost -2, but explicitly not effect the user.

Isn't it implied that it explicitly does not effect the user if the user is the beastie who's radiating it? I'm not missing some subtlety in reading the power description am I? I do like the zone idea, that seems to make sense to me.

[finnmckool]

I think that's actually exactly how you do that in the book.

[Deadmanwalking]

Isn't it implied that it explicitly does not effect the user if the user is the beastie who's radiating it? I'm not missing some subtlety in reading the power description am I? I do like the zone idea, that seems to make sense to me.

Well, the only Zone Wide effects in the book are spells, which DO in fact, effect the user if he's in the Zone in question, so it seems worth noting.

Also, it's a 2 shift effect, and quite a powerful one, so it costing a full -2 makes more sense to me.