Okay, so this is last week's vlog, finally freed from the prison of John's video processing software. Please ignore all the business about the Secret Scion gift exchange, because obviously that was meant to mostly remind people to send us pictures last week. Also please ignore all the empty space above our heads in this video - I don't know what's up lately with all our vlogs being just the tops of our heads, but we promise we'll fix it.
As promised, this vlog is about abilities in a bunch of dimensions - so here we go!
Question: So, Arete. Massive lifting, dodge DV...you'd figure a hellacious Arete: Athletics would help these derived stats, but as written, seems not?
Question: So we know you'd pick Epic Strength and MAYBE Mystery as associated for Herakles. What would you choose for his six associated abilities?
Question: Could you explain the uses of Politics and Integrity (aside from your resistance roll)? I've always had trouble defining those.
Question: Scion is the only WW system not to have Subterfuge. Does this bug y'all? Do you use Empathy for lying to people? I hate that so.
Question: Would art restoration fall under Art, Craft or Science?
Question: Why does Hel have Medicine?
Question: I'm making an NPC scion who as a mortal practiced the martial art capoeira. In this instance, is it justifiable to use either Art (Dancing) or Brawl when making an attack? Or even combining them?
The other post about the Politics ability can be found here!
Apparently, a weird video cut (John was in charge of editing this, I would like to note) accidentally cut off our discussion of how Hel is not actually one of the Aesir and there are a lot of questions about who she is and what she represents, since she's both classified with the monsters but also treated as a goddess or at least an equal to the gods of Asgard, as well as being Loki's daughter. We're sorry about that, but it can always be a topic for another day!
Question Asker for the capoeira one, thank you for clearing that up for me. I am new to the storyteller system (coming from a purely D&D background) so stuff like this still throws me for a loop every now and again.
ReplyDeleteP.S.: It didn't occur to me until watching this that the question could sound munchkiny (new word!), but that was totally not my intention to come across as such
Anne always gives the benefit of the doubt and I always assume its a munchkin. So we hopefully even out :)
DeleteGlad to help though
Did I miss a myth somewhere? Heracles has Mystery???
ReplyDeleteWe tend to give people with well-established mystery cults access to Mystery, since their cults view them as the source of esoteric knowledge. Heracles did have a pretty thriving mystery cult, but he's also pretty un-magical most of the time, which is why we've said he might have it but aren't sold on it. :)
DeleteHmm...what exactly would you count as a Mystery Cult? Shiva and Kali have strong Tantric traditions but they don't have Mystery.
DeleteSomething that has a strong, direct connection to the god as the creator or purveyor of hidden wisdom, usually given only to the members of that mystery cult. It's something we work with the definition of on and off - sometimes it seems like it makes a lot of sense for certain cultures, other times it seems like it might fall into some other association areas.
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