syys
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I finished reading Graceful Wicked Masques. I like the book, though it's less polished than other 2E hardbacks. It has interesting concepts, but the implementation is often wanting. (Questing, for example, seems like it should be fun, but the level of abstraction reduces it to a couple of dice rolls.)
And I'm wondering about some things.
Are motes spent on Assumption charms committed? I would assume so, since (one throwaway mention notwithstanding) I didn't spot an explicit rule that they would not be. But since raksha have only (Essencex10) motes, even just one Assumption charm plus one effect on top of that (like a Bedlam-influencing charm, say) leaves the character with very little motes to spend.
If a raksha targets a Creation-born in the Wyld, then -absent magical protection against shaping- there seems to be nothing that the Creation-born can do. The raksha can simply stay a couple of waypoints ahead of the Creation-born and keep attacking them with shaping until she gets through. Can they do anything, short of keeping advancing on the raksha until she runs into something more dangerous than the Creation-born and cannot flee anymore?
I am also not quite sure how the Creation-born perceive Shaping attacks in the Wyld, or how I should run them for my players (whose characters are not raksha). If the group enters the Wyld, and they see a (say) Mutant Warleader coming at them (i.e. a Sword shaping attack), their natural reaction would of course be to a) engage with combat charms or b) social-fu the poor mutant. But neither of these reactions interacts in any way with the shaping attack, and if it gets enough successes, the Mutant elopes with the characters' favourite Daiklave (say). How do I play this out?
And I'm wondering about some things.
Are motes spent on Assumption charms committed? I would assume so, since (one throwaway mention notwithstanding) I didn't spot an explicit rule that they would not be. But since raksha have only (Essencex10) motes, even just one Assumption charm plus one effect on top of that (like a Bedlam-influencing charm, say) leaves the character with very little motes to spend.
If a raksha targets a Creation-born in the Wyld, then -absent magical protection against shaping- there seems to be nothing that the Creation-born can do. The raksha can simply stay a couple of waypoints ahead of the Creation-born and keep attacking them with shaping until she gets through. Can they do anything, short of keeping advancing on the raksha until she runs into something more dangerous than the Creation-born and cannot flee anymore?
I am also not quite sure how the Creation-born perceive Shaping attacks in the Wyld, or how I should run them for my players (whose characters are not raksha). If the group enters the Wyld, and they see a (say) Mutant Warleader coming at them (i.e. a Sword shaping attack), their natural reaction would of course be to a) engage with combat charms or b) social-fu the poor mutant. But neither of these reactions interacts in any way with the shaping attack, and if it gets enough successes, the Mutant elopes with the characters' favourite Daiklave (say). How do I play this out?