Question: We, the players of our group, have banded together to make an Emotions purview. At current, we like the idea of it being specialised, like Animal (e.g., taking it in love, rage, fear etc.). Do you have any idea what gods might have it (and with what emotion?), or any tips for purview writing?
Sounds like you need to be pointed in the direction of Brent Not Broken's Emotion purview! His set of powers works pretty much exactly the same way you're proposing, with the purview specialized into a single emotion, and he includes a list of gods that he associates with it. While we don't use this, we know the guy and we can confidently say he is a baller when it comes to writing good stuff.
If you'd like some general purview-writing advice, we also have an old post of our own back here that might be helpful. Good luck!
Now I need to make a Son of {insert Aesir, Teotl, or Theoi parent here} modeled after the title character of the Diablo franchise.
ReplyDeleteLets see here, Emotion (Fear) without a doubt...Epic Appearance (horrifying) is a must. Fire and Thunder for his main Diablo 2 attack. Epic Strength (his punches hurt!) and Epic Stamina (seriously, the guy dies in every game in the franchise yet he keeps coming back for another sequel). Perhaps Darkness, and maybe Death...but perhaps 6 is enough for the stuff he'll eventually pass on to his poor, poor children upon hitting godhood
You could probably make that character already with the JSR system - just give him hefty loads of Negative Epic Appearance instead of Emotion (Fear), and the 'Aura of Dread' line. Coupled with Darkness for stunting (and straight up 'Afraid of the Dark') and you have a God of Terror.
DeleteWhile there are not a lot of emotion gods around, the Emotion purview is amazing fuel for countless awesome character concepts!
ReplyDeleteHallelujah! We don't have to work! Thank you, oh random internet person.
ReplyDeleteBelieve me, if there were actually a 'Love' purview I wouldn't be able to resist getting it because I can't imagine anything more subtle and soul destroying than filling people with strong emotions and then crushing them. Also 'Love Lasers' sound like the weapon of every heroine from cartoons for little girls in the 80s. The problem I have with the Brent system (not that it isn't well written) is that it kind of advances like disciplines from Vampire instead of being boons, and there's not too much variety and would not integrate easily into your system.
ReplyDelete...wow, I just remembered that that is how they were in the books, too, right? I've been so spoiled by the 20-30 boons that I completely forgot that.
It is heartwarming to see another as in love with the Love Purview as I am :)
DeleteI am pretty unfamiliar with Vampire (either version) so I don't exactly get what 'advances like Disciplines' means though.
As for the variety bit...well, that's always been the problem with a Love Purview hasn't it? It was the same with the concept of a Music Purview...we had to literally combine it with the Forge Purview before we got it to something usable in the awesomeness of Artistry. And I can't see how we could do that to Love? Unless we really did take human fertility out of Health...hmm...
Hmm...
You, know, could we do that? Put Love and Lust into Health? Make the entire process of human fertility, mental and physical, into one Purview? And for chrissakes rename the Fertility Purview into Plants or something?
Disciplines in Requiem, I don't know about Masquerade, advance with a one dot power, then a two dot power, etc. getting increasingly more powerful and building on the last one. It works well enough, but John and Anne's system of multiple boons at different tiers has spoiled me.
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