Monday, April 22, 2013

SA 2.0 Dev Blog #15: New Bad Things for Bad People, and some more good.

We wanted to share some of the new powers that we'll be rolling out for characters interested in things like Wyrm Powers, Dark Thaumatergy, and Dark Arcanoi. We felt the need to increase the offering of evil of to increase it's draw to a wider range of characters. This allows us to make sure that some of the primary canon powers were well represented in the game.

As a note we aren't happy with some of the names of the powers but haven't gotten to the stage of rewriting the names yet. We're still focused on making sure the powers work as intended. Again, I'm not posting the trees that things come from but if you do some canon research you may be able to figure it out. We'll start out with the treats for bad people (not exclusive to NPCs) and then share a few more of the great new powers available for conventional starting characters.

Some new stuff for bad people.


HELLBORN INVESTITURE (Passive)
Cost: None
Call: None
This power removes fire as a form of aggravated damage from the character.

HIDDEN TAINT (Passive)
Cost: None
Call: “No Effect” to Wyrm’s Voice and Sanctuary
A character with this power will answer “No” to any use of Sense Taint power on them. Additionally, he is immune to the Wyrm's Voice and Sanctuary powers.

LEECH OF FEAR (Passive)
Cost: None
Call: None
Each time you use the Dreamshape power on a target, your maximum energy is increased by one for the remainder of the event. This bonus can only be received once per target per event.

VULNERABLE (Status)
Cost: 1 energy
Call: “Vulnerable”
Any damage the target takes is aggravated damage.

WYRM’S HERALD (Passive)
Cost: None
Call: “No Effect” to Sanctuary
You are immune to the Sanctuary power and you may spend willpower to break from the Wyrm’s Voice power even if permanently tainted.

WYRM’S VOICE (Mental)
Cost: 1 Energy
Call: “Wyrm’s Voice”
A target that is tainted must follow all commands given by the caster to the best of his ability. A character who is permanently tainted may not break this power with willpower. Targets that are not tainted are immune and state “no effect”.
 

Some new stuff for good people (who might want to do bad things)


DECAY (Damage)
Cost: 1 Energy
Call: “Decay”, “Agg 1”
The caster touches a target with her hand.  Every 10 seconds, the caster causes one aggravated damage to the target. A character who is dead that suffers damage in this way immediately becomes decaying and turns to ash (goes out of game). This power ends immediately if the caster is no longer touching the target or moves his feet.

RELEASE SPIRIT – (Touch)
Cost: None
Call: “Release Spirit”
After 10 seconds of honoring a spirit you may activate this power and the spirit will immediately become Decaying and turn to ash (go out of game). The caster then gains 1 willpower up to their maximum willpower.

SENSE SPIRIT (Sensory)
Cost: None
Call: “Sense Spirit”
This power may be activated after staring intently at a target for 10 seconds. The target must state OOG their spirit power level. Targets that are not spirits respond “No Effect”.

SONG OF RAGE (Mental)
Cost: 1 Energy
Call: “Song of Rage”
After the caster shouts out a war cry he may activate this power. While under the effects of this power the target may choose to frenzy without losing virtue. While in frenzy provoked from this power the target gains Augment 1.

CRAVING (Touch [Condition])
Cost: 1 Energy
Call: “Craving <single word>”
After speaking with the target for one minute the caster may activate this power. The word mentioned becomes the target’s primary desire.

Coming Soon


In the next post I'll be talking about some of the new merits and character creation rules we're looking at in order to open up some concepts that are currently prohibited by the character knowledge rules (ungifted kinfolk). This will be my last Dev Blog post, as we will release our in process document of the rules after the May event. Then there's not much left to spoil to you.

2 comments:

  1. There's some interesting concepts here, looking like they are designed to flesh out some Garou/Spirit things that aren't terribly clear in the current system.

    I like the idea behind Song of Rage - it gets Galliards doin' what Galliards do...
    ... but I am concerned that having the ability to just do a bunch of damage with minimal or no cost will overwhelm the use or need of defensive powers (as they will simply be too expensive to reasonably or reliably use more than once or twice in a fight).
    I am concerned that 'Lots of Augment' will become a strategy that will be very difficult to counter, especially if it's someone who is good at fighting and/or landing blows.

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    Ohh - Merits Next?

    Please consider adding a Merit that has you always read as human to sensory powers (or if not, I'd be interested on hearing your thoughts on why not).

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    1. http://teacher-gamer.blogspot.com/2013/04/sa-20-dev-blog-post-16-new-merits-last.html

      We've had Pale Aura in since we started writing up Merit ideas.

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