Question: I noticed that in your Alihah writeup Whedh has no favoured or banned Purviews. Is that a typo, or a deliberate decision, considering what Whedh is the Titanrealm of?
Oh, damn, no! That's a mistake and the realm's associated and banned purviews should have been listed at the beginning like those of all other Titans. Allah's writeup and the Henosic template offer some clues, but I apologize for not including the official rulings.
Whedh's favored purviews are Chaos, Justice, Mystery and Psychopomp. Chaos and Psychopomp are the two purviews that break down barriers and encourage the chaotic recombination of everything and anything, which is of course Whedh's ultimate goal. Mystery does the same for knowledge, causing anyone to be able to learn anything regardless of experience or division, and Justice works for Whedh's uncompromising belief in unification and the ultimate order that it brings.
Whedh's banned purviews are Guardian and Magic. Guardian is all about placing boundaries and blocking things from going where and when they wish, anathema to Whedh's desire to destroy such restrictions, and Magic, as the purview that controls the restricting bonds and activities of Fate, does the same thing in the realm of the occult.
And speaking of mistakes, the Henosic template states that creatures using it suffer piercing damage from attacks against them made with the Justice and Magic purviews. This is incorrect; replace Justice with Guardian.
Gah, I hate it when mistakes make it into the PDFs. Sorry, everybody!
Thanks for the clarification. I have one little question though...how in the three Worlds is anyone supposed to attack ANYTHING with the Guardian Purview?
ReplyDeleteAlso, the Pantheon Poll's gone haywire again.
Yeah, technically there is no way to make an attack with a Guardian boon; by definition, the purview can't be used offensively, and even if it could there's nothing in it that can hurt others. It's not the only one; other purviews that have no direct offense powers include Animal, Chaos, Darkness, Death, Illusion, Justice, Magic, Moon Mystery, Prophecy and Psychopomp all lack any boons that deal damage to enemies. But we figure that restricting boons that can oppose Titan templates to elementals + Health and War would be pretty lame, especially when others might make so much more sense, so we'd suggest being creative with it. The template's vulnerable to those powers because they are fundamentally opposed to the realm, so we'd encourage Storytellers to roll with good stunted "attacks" that use them - a Titanspawn opposed to Chaos might take more damage from people who are under the influence of stuff like Bacchanalia or Insanity than they normally would, or one opposed to Illusion might actually take damage from illusory weapons, that kind of thing.
DeleteFor Guardian, the easiest fix is probably to declare that Titanspawn who run into Guardian protection hurt themselves by bouncing off of it - give the Unseen Shield a certain number of damage dice to apply to any minion of Whedh that accidentally runs into it to illustrate that barriers like that are anathema to them. Or similar.
(That's all for those running by the RAW... we do a house rule thing where we'll allow Scions to simply pay a Legend and roll dice = boons in the opposed purview to try to hurt enemies who are violently allergic to it, but that's so not in the original books.)
Is this houserule somewhere on your page? Or planned to be put on it in the near future? :)
ReplyDeleteIts one we've had for a long time that we should probably write up and put some where....but there are many of those.
DeleteAnd I would be more than happy to read all of them. ;)
ReplyDeleteWill you be posting an updated PDF, with the errata fixed?
ReplyDeleteI may be able to do that this weekend while John's out at a show.
DeleteAnd updated. :)
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