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That works, but again I pretty-well insist that dealing with spirits costs an Edge. Possibly - because the celestial hierarchy is adversarial to you, it costs you an edge to talk to spirits. Your pro-spirit enemies can do it for free. The rationale is basically this: [*] There are some players who w...

Because if there is a mother-may-I step in that process then the summoner is going to ask his mother-may-I questions every fucking scene . So you can incarnate a gravity fairy any time there is a falling object. And it incarnates at a power level proportionate to the power you pump into it, not its...

I've made him a medical doctor, rather than an engineer. Taysir Bukhari Strigoi Universal Disciplines Fortitude (+4 physical resistance) Patience of the Mountains Revive the Flesh Restoration Indomitability Clout (+1 strength) Vigor Authority (n/a) Mes...

Frank, that's silly. That's like saying - if there are heavily armed mercenaries in some rooms, there have to be heavily armed mercenaries in all the rooms, or the players will bog down the plot asking the MC if there are heavily armed mercenaries. Bob: I slip in the room, trying to move silently. M...

I'm not that keen on Yu Yu Hakusho police, or at least, I'm not keen on the Technocracy thinking that is their job. Instead, the spirits all think your job is to be the guys from Yu Yu Hakusho, except your life is much more difficult because the spirits are politically opposed to the Technocracy, so...

Well, in a horror setting, everything is awful, and there is fear and there is horror and there are monsters. In a heroic fantasy setting, you can have just as many monsters. The black riders from Lord of the Rings are plenty scary; do they drink life force? They can totally drink life force, if the...

This was always an issue with the Technocracy - they had magic, they were supposed to be scientists, but they insisted that magic wasn't real. This isn't what you would conclude from the scientific method, of course. There was a lot of flotsam around this in various sources but it's pretty much core...

I'm confused. How is this game going to actually be run? Did you guys decide on that? I'm interested in playing as long as it's over IRC or something rather than using some kind of java client. Taysir Bukhari is an Uzbek immigrant in his late 30s, with an advanced degree in engineering but forced to...

The Hidden World This is a mage/werewolf/changeling/hunter reboot. That is, it is a reboot of all the components of WOD/nWOD which do *not* belong in a horror setting, but which are not lame. Mostly that is the Technocracy, which is awesome (except for the bits which suck.) Most of the mechanics are...

So no-one has fixed skills? Let's rattle out some more enemies: Plus = System Failure Hex = Mafia Diamond = Vory Circle = Yakuza Triangle = Triad Star = Corp. Sec. Square = Gang War Slash = Astral Rift Crescent = Other Wage Mage <b>Elusive</b>,<b>Ambush</b> While Wage Mage is in play, all <b>Spirits...

Have you picked fixed posessions/special powers for everyone yet (in which case post them)? Do you have a fixed $ amount that you're targeting for each runner, or is it going to vary somewhat with total attribute points + focus (I forget which standard Arkham Horror goes for.) Also, someone should h...

--- It would be nice if no combination of runners ever took every copy of anything as fixed equipment. So, if an item is frequency 3, it shouldn't show up on more than 2 different runners. Let's try to hand out the base stuff, and see how we land. We'll worry about variable equipment and stats later...

I worry that isn't enough magicians or hackers. There are a big crate of cards that only mages or hackers can use - if most people get a random skill, you'll get an extra mage or hacker occasionally , but I figure that a typical six-player game you're gonna have 2 magicians *and* 2 hackers, and it l...

Data Jack <b>+1 Logic</b> Exhaust to reroll one die when Running a Program. You are considered a <i>Hacker</i>. 5$ -Username17 Um.... what? Is that rerolling a die on a hacking check, or on any check that gets bonus dice when running a program, or what? Okay, for the 21 runners, we want 6 Mages, 6 ...

Question isn't - should there be a threat that's blood magic. Of course there should. There should also be a threat that's terrorists - but it should be given a cool name ("winternight") rather than a boring one ("terrorists".) "The Corrupted" (who are another legit, es...

The Threat List is: Blood Magic The Daieng Probang Dr. Tanis Ghost Cartel The Hive Mamon Strain New Revolution Poisoners The Vampires Winternight Yggdrasil Zombie Uprising -Username17 "Blood Magic" and "The Vampires" are both boring names. I suggest: "Satanic Ritualists&quo...