Observed.
Closed some long-running cases, talked to New Boss T about training budget.
Played (Changeling the Lost): Berkeley 94:
Lacking leads in the material world, Thessaly decides to scry for
the Lost Queen of Winter’s box under the cypress trees, using a
crystal pendulum and a map. Since Longfingers, Everett, and Theophania
all have jobs (in fact, Everett is busy with work for this entire
session), they are easily able to obtain these things.
After a moment’s thought, it is realized that the best place to perform
this divination would be the Winter Queen’s old grotto. This means
sneaking back through the upstairs of the bookstore next to the old
department store, which means Siddy feels her obligation to return the
bag of weed she swiped some time ago. Fortunately the budget will
stretch to a few boxes of brownie mix.
When Thess tries to divine the location of the box (technically, the
lock to which the key they have belongs) in the Berkeley Hills, the
pendulum refuses to give a location. When she lets it swing freely,
though, it settles on a street in south Berkeley that she knows very
well, because it’s where Sean lives.
No one can think of a good reason for Sean to have that particular box,
and Thess refuses to believe it could be coincidence, so in a fit of
unchangelinglike reasonableness, they decide to go ask him about it. On
the way out, Siddy drops off the special brownies for the bookstore
guys, but then in a rookie mistake she sticks around to harvest some
Glamour from them.
With the now completely baked Siddy, the group make their way to
the apartment where Sean lives and was having a pretty good day
until a gang of weirdos showed up to give him shit and ask about
his sordid romantic past. It turns out he knows exactly the house
with cypress trees everyone is looking for, because he had a brief
affair with James, the (once and future?) Prince of Spring.
James is probably not the kind of person they can just walk up to and
ask about Secret Changeling Monarchy Stuff, so they spend the rest of
the afternoon chilling at Sean’s while Siddy braids Theophania’s hair
like a particularly stoned spider weaving a web.
Read (graphic novel): Princess at Midnight (Andi Watson): A small girl’s dream picnics with dragons and pretty dresses are interrupted by Military Adventurism.
Written (game design): 363:
There were a lot of maybes in all that waffle, let’s try to sort some
out.
I had put the cost of 1d6 damage at 2 partly because I wanted to leave
the option of buying 1/2d6, but if we do go with ranks, then is one rank
of Blast going to give 1/2d6? That makes the standard 10d6 superheroic
attack 20 ranks, which is a lot. I think increments of 1d6 are fine,
even if I did initially buy my Kaiju Academy character 1 1/2d6 Str. Does
that mean a rank of Blast costs 1 point? That might be too chonky even
for me, but we can leave the decision until we figure out whether
there’s anything that costs half as much per rank as Blast.
Do we even really want ranks instead of active points? It makes
adjustment a lot easier, but you can’t really put a -1/4 limitation on
the 2 point cost of a rank without going back into fractional points.
Either the limitation has to be on the total cost, in which case it’s
not that different from active points, or we have to add/subtract the
cost per rank, which is a lot like having only +1 advantages and -1
limitations (though not exactly).
Do we need +1/4 advantages and -1/4 limitations? Maybe that
can be swept under the skirts of special effect, but +1/2 or -1/2
(armor-piercing, costs End) is big enough that it should be accounted
for. Even if we put the modifiers on the whole cost, identifying ranks
as the units to be adjusted is still worthwhile, though, right?
What about powers like Barrier, which in 6E have multiple attributes to buy
(size, Body, Def)? Does one rank get you X, Y, and Z of the different
attributes, and if you want less than that, take a limitation? That’s
pretty much how Entangle already is in 6E, so sure.
Gavel emoji. Buy powers in ranks, apply modifiers to the overall cost.
(What do you mean, “what about adders?”?)