Solo vlog flight! Today, clearing out a bunch of older questions that have just been waiting for their turn in the sun! Talkin' 'bout associated powers, Appearance knacks, character concepts and the checkered history of African civilization.
Question: What do you think about people using Unusual Alteration to turn themselves into trees or animals? How would that function differently from Animal Form or other shapeshifting boons?
Question: Brahma seems so powerful, yet he has so few associated purviews and Epics. What's up with that? How do you reconcile what the gods can do and how important they are with how they are mechanically represented in Scion?
Question: What would you think of a character - a Japanese Scion or other - trying to model themselves off an anime character?
Question: What does The Sentinel going rampant look like? If a god with the Avatar of the Guardian purview gets killed, I somehow can't imagine the consequences.
Question: Code of Heaven says the Orisha are against slavery, and yet Shango has slaves. Can you explain?
Question: Do the social sciences belong in the Science ability?
Question: May I use the name Ian Jupiter (not the character, just the name) for my story? He's going to be the name of a reincarnated Zeus.
Back into the Industry/boons/Atua/Seamus mines with me!
About Unusual Alteration and Animal Form, if we're going with your homebrew, the cost is also a consideration. It's 1L with Animal Form to transform between your human and animal form and, gods know how much you'll need with Unusual Alteration since it's 2L per feature. Not considering mass, I assume feature means bone structure, fur/hair color, tail, eye color & shape, etc.
ReplyDeleteThat's true - there are also different cost concerns!
DeleteFeature should probably be broken down into Head, Chest, Left Arm, Right Arm, Left Leg, and Right Leg.
DeleteAny smaller alteration would cost just as much as changing the entire section. So altering your eyes would have the same price as altering your entire head.
Things like wings and a tail would probably count as separate limbs as well (one for each wing, and one for a tail).
Changing your head's probably the trickiest considering how much feature you can change so most of the cost would probably go there. Nose, teeth, lips, eyes, eyebrows, forehead, cheekbones, hair, ears. This probably would be up to a ST's discretion.
DeleteWhile I don't think that breakdown is quite what we're after - it looks a little restrictive to my eye, and we'd rather be able to rule on features a Scion comes up with as they come rather than create a system that might disqualify something neat on a technicality - we definitely have been talking about revisiting the cost-per-feature model on Unusual Alteration versus Undeniable Resemblance. There's a little weirdness there and we probably need to take a look and make sure it's not unevenly costed.
DeleteSo, rewatched this and it made me think of something...
ReplyDeleteLet's say I want to look or be really big. Is there any way to do that without being Aesir? There's Colossus Armor, but is there another way? Could I turn into a whale and then use Epic Appearance to appear human (or treelike if I wanna be a sequoia)?
"I want to look...."
DeleteI'd imagine adequate use of Illusion would cover anything that follows this line.
"... or BE..."
DeleteDecided to capitalize that just to make sure it's noticeable. Let's say, instead of just looking the part, I want to actually stomp through a major city as a Sequoia-themed Godzilla, wrestling giants and causing collateral damage with each step? Colossus Armor is one way. Jotunblut is another. Is there a way for the non-Aesir, non-War gods to do it?
We were actually just talking today about that! At the moment, technically there is no way to be giant in the game other than using Jotunblut or Colossus Armor (or doing weird cheats, like using Animal Form [Blue Whale] and then Appearanceing to look human or something). While we love Jotunblut's (and the Aesir's) ability to be The Giants in a way most others aren't, it is weird that no other gods can get more than eight feet tall or so without crazy gymnastics.
DeleteWe're actually talking about maybe instituting a tree of Appearance knacks having to do with size/shape - it seems like the best place to put the idea as a general power everyone can enjoy.