Branching Out

Question: Hello, I was just curious, and the "Doing It Your Way" post had partially what I think is an answer. Based on what you said about Demigod and buying new boons, the Scion core rulebook states that Demigods can only use purviews associated with their divine parent without a relic. But in your rules, would you allow a demigod to purchase, let's say for instance, Sky 1 if he/she just wants to spend Legend to never take damage from a fall?

Yes. We kicked that rule out of play long, long ago. Demigods can use any purview without a relic, whether associated with their parent or not; they can only purchase up to a level lower than those who have a relic, and can only use their Epic Attributes up to a level lower than their maximum. That means that a demigod who wants to buy Sky boons at Legend 6 can only buy up to level four Sky, and can only use the successes of four dots of Epic Attributes in its activation rolls, but he can do it.

We don't think the original rule is necessarily the worst thing ever; it was obviously trying to illustrate that children of the gods more easily wield purviews their parents are associated with, the same way that the XP discount does, but in practice we found it a little too restricting. It's fine for Heroes to start with limited purview options, when they're barely more than humans and just feeling out their beginning set of powers, but at the Demigod level we want them to be able to branch out and make new divine identities for themselves apart from their parents. Restricting them to relics only for non-associated purviews all the way through Demigodhood is a little too much of a stricture, in our opinion, so we leave the unassociated penalties in place but allow access to any purview the Scion might want to invest in.