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Sherwood

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Here will be the obligatory OOC thread for any comments and questions you have concerning the game. Congrats to all that made the cut and are in the game.
 
Indeed!


Quick mechanics question, I'm grabbing a (lunar) Appearance excellency. Since Appearance's primary use is for comparison when making social attacks, I'm a little unclear on how they work. The first and second seem clear enough (adding 1 effective dot per success for the first and 1 per 2 motes for the second), but I'm unclear on the third. Would it simply double my App? Or multiply it by 1.5? Or be entirely useless?
 
I'm not sure on how that would work. I've never tried that before. Lets throw it out to the group and see what they have to say.
 
New question, since we start in Rathess surrounded by the faded glories of Dragon King Civilization, the charm Dragon-Soul Enligtening Method (Debris from the Fallen Races p 14) which lets me turn Ess 1 Dragon Kings into Ess 2 Dragon kings would be very neat indeed. However, I'm fuzzy on the state of the DKs at the end of the First Age, so does it even make sense to have this charm at the get go?


On a related note, do I have to get 2 Lore Excellencies before taking Harmonious Academic Methodology (and Wyld-Shaping Technique) it seems like a speed bump on a speed bump.
 
I see no problem with having the Dragon King Charm starting out, since the DKs were big time helpers of the Solars in the First Age. As for HAM, I'd have to read the Charm to see what prereqs it has. Probably will need to get them, but with your plethora of Charms starting out, you should be able to afford it.
 
It's the peaceful version of Tiger Warrior Training Technique. Lets me teach people. It really seems as if the writers looked at it and went "oh. Only one prereq. That's not enough. But none of the other charms make any sense. Just add a second excellency, that'll slow down their journey toward awesome with stuff they don't need and will never use."
 
I will use my infinite wisdom and unstoppable power as ST to let you take it with only one prereq. I HAVE SPOKEN! FEAR ME!
 
Well, with an excellency removed as a pre-req, I may have to go after Wyld Shaping after all
 
I've got Wyld-Shaping Covered. Completely covered. You're welcome to join me of course, but don't feel you need to take it.
 
Ah, so you do. I may get it just for the sake of having it, but if you've got it maxed, then I can put it off. ;)
 
Mmm, may I take the Oramus-aspected Hearthstone Sign of Chaos (Ink Monkeys compilation page 119)? It effectively gives me the Raksha Background Style at the same rank as the Hearthstone.
 
Been trying to figure this out definitively with no success.. Does the attack created by Hurricane Hand Gesture (LotFA pg 78) actually do damage?
 
It's a long-range Heaven Thunder Hammer. You shoot out a blast of your element to knock them back, and if they hit something, they take damage.
 
In the errata'd version of Lords of Creation, that's on page 99. And from my reading, no, it doesn't.
 
Should we pay for backgrounds that are useless in the Second Age, but which out characters would have had in the First? Connections, Cult, Reputation and Salary spring to mind.
 
...I'm almost sure that charm does damage in a way similar to heaven thunder hammer. Am I looking at the wrong charm?
 
It does damage iff it sens you crashing into something, it doesn't do damage on its own (unless as specified by the elemental versions).
 
Ah, well considering how a stunt lets you arbitrarily decide that something is there to be smashed in to, I suppose it doesn't matter.
 
I think my backstory is done, but more detail could be added regarding the interaction between Rin and Copper Ryu. Sheet is complete I just need to go through and calculate all the derived stats. I've put up one custom artifact for your consideration Sherwood, and I'm thinking on another one.
 
BTW, it nearly always makes sense to have two Lore Excellencies, which was the reason I believe Holden and co. kept Harmonious Academic Methodology as-is; 1st or 2nd for your big Lore checks that you won't be able to pass without using them, and the 3rd for the piddly easy-appearing Lore checks that you feel aren't worth your Essence until you botch, in which case the 3rd saves your keister :) .


Not that I think it should require two - considering Tiger Warrior Technique doesn't, HAM shouldn't either. Rather, it's the logic for having two that any Lore-monkey who devoted enough to the ability and ended up grabbing HAM should consider. I personally plan on picking up both the 2nd and 3rd War Excellencies with Storm, simply because they're both equally applicable.
 
They're not equally applicable, but I'll agree they're not entirely redundant. Demanding them as prereqs on a charm that does not involve rolling Lore *ever* seems like an excessive speedbump though.
 
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