There's a lot of well-done art in the firm, the employees you *can* see are consistently 8s and 9s out of 10s, the employees you don't see seem to be perfectly willing to work for nothing if they were asked, the firm sponsors many museums and art galleries, there's a lot of office politics about earning the boss's favor...
I don't have any idea were that came from... Toreador tend to be horrible (as do all other vampires).
Children of Osiris maybe count too? Mostly because of their discipline, that requires high humanity instead of lower generation to unlock 6-9 dots
| Discipline | Equivalent of dots in said discipline |
| Auspex | six |
| Presence | six |
| Celerity |
six |
| Fortitude |
Six |
| Animalism |
One |
| Necromancy |
One |
| Vicissitude |
One |
| Dominate |
One |
Dude don't bold and increase the font
You'd probably want an info dump in the index to explain more but it sounds fun
Pretty sure the Wisdom 1 sin here is the "sacrificing of humans" and not the summoning in itself. In general they need a "corrupted" space to be summoned, so if you can get that without losing Wisdom you are "fine" on that end.
Which Sourcebook that from? Can't say I remember it.
Not really, Banisher Spells aren't "normal" spells so while they have ratings like Mind 2 (most likely for mechanics reason) or something a Mages Mind rating wouldn't help them cast the spell, that said while a Mage may not learn from Banishers they may be able to "invent" spells with similar affects. So I personally would allow a player to gain a Banisher Spell iff there is a RP aspect behind it of them trying to develop something over multiple sessions.
I don't have my 1E Rulebook here as I don't own it as a PDF so I will have to look up the exact texts later, so take everything I say with a grain of salt as it's mostly from memory (so chances are some is 2E stuff I got confused about).
Yeah, that's exactly the same as what my gut feel was (since antinomian spells are Wisdom 3). It's just that there's no actual mention that I can find.
MtAw corebook. Phantasmal Weapon is a Prime 4 spell that makes, well, phantasm weapons (and armour).
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A lot of them are fine and even good (Call Eidolon in particular is a spell that should be available), but some of them are just lolworthy like Trojan Horse (imbue Sleeper with Thunderbolt, next person who casts anything near said Sleeper gets zapped, "The spell released in this way from a Sleeper requires no roll to hit. Damage caused by the spell is equal to the caster's Gnosis + 3"), Confuse Language (removes target's ability to use language, but is resisted instead of contested and has full effect on one success), Pierce Magical Shield (Prolonged self-buff that gives "I ignore all Shielding"; this makes the arms race break decisively in favour of rocket tag), and Desiccate (transfers dots of Physical Attributes and Health from a target to you, stacks with itself, no duration listed).
It's not a spell, it's the ability Unfettered at Fate 4 that lets you reflexively counterspell. But yes, I hadn't noticed that it worked on mind control. There is also True Love, which is Fate 5 and amounts to "no mind control if the lovers are together" (because their dice pools to resist are added together, and you're not beating that). Neither works on Psychic Assault/Sword, though.
You do.
I mean, that's one way of looking at it (the other way is that it adds extra stuff blocked to a Ward, which can be overcome with X successes), although that gets even sillier in terms of "you need Space/Prime to pass" hardstop. (The ultimate example is probably the "Ban one dude from one side of a motorway" trick where he gets squished against the Ban by his car's momentum, but there are a ton of other applications e.g. "Ban someone from an area that encircles him and now he's stuck with no ability to resist".) It is probably Life 4 to Ban people, though (not actually spelled out for some reason), so that's something.
Sure, but if X and Y arcana are better than others, then the Path that pays less for them is advantaged (Mastigos also don't pay 1 Mana for using Psychic Assault/Sword without the rote, and their spammability due to being Covert is the whole issue).
There are two possible interpretation here:
To me it's less about how strong (or silly) a spell is and more about what "Banisher" Spells are supposed to be
I always took that as those are "no traditional" spells so if a PC wants to learn them he has to create them via a similar Trial and Error process. It also means if someone wants to learn Banisher Spells he would have to come up to me as the ST and we would figure out how the process goes, which gives me a way to look them over and be like "Yeah that one is okay" or "Sorry, I don't think that would work for a PC the spell is a bit to silly, maybe if we modify it like this..." Not like people come up that often wanting to learn Banisher Spells, it happend once.Banisher Book said:
Was thinking of "Warding Gesture" which is a Fate 2 spell in 2E
Okay let's assume that you could get the scrying going (because for some reason you have a low penalty, maybe you are betraying someone and are familiar with their place) and you get it timed in such a way that the person you are scrying on doesn't notice and counter spells you instantly, than you could send a bomb through via Apportation. And after that you can use your scrying to interact with it and make it explode (you probably wouldn't want to have it rigged to explode beforehand, as you would have a bomb about to explode next to you in case you fail the scrying, also would allow you to bring over multiple explosive before alerting everyone (cause once bombs are starting to go up people will notice and start getting turns). Of course the "enemy" should get a chance to notice after every cast of Apportation as it's very vulgar magic cast "near" them.
You could do that, if you also have a high enough life rating (4 or 5 I guess depends how you want read it, probably is easier to stop a part of the car and have him crash because of it), I would argue that if Ban is used in that it would become vulgar meaning that at this point you could just have create an actual wall in front of the car.
Yeah but it's not like X and Y arcana are supreme it's more like X and Y arcana are better for some tasks. E.g. average Mastigos wouldn't win a direct fight against a average Obrimos. So the Mastigos would try to not get in a direct fight most likely while the Obrimos wants to do so, at this point it becomes a game where they try to set up a scenario in which they have the upper hand.
I mean punching someone in the face is also spammable (and with one cast of "Kinetic Blow" a Force 2 spell you can even have it cause lethal damage)
I'm very confused by your #1. Is that something from 2e? Because nothing ever works like that in 1e extended casting.
I mean, yes, that's the sensible way to rule it, as I said to begin with. It's not at all obvious that this is the case from the spell, though.
I'd dispute the "wouldn't win in a direct fight". Forces and Prime have few combat-relevant buffs (Magic Shield being the big one), and Supernal Dispellation isn't a very good combat buff-remover because it has to beat Potency and the Potency of extended-cast buffs is usually too large for an instant-cast dispel to win (this is the best thing about Eyes of Ain Soph - they have a no-roll Supernal Dispellation as third attainment, so they can remove buffs mid-combat). So the Obrimos has Magic Shield giving -Prime to all the Mastigos' direct magic attacks, but the Mastigos has +Mind to any that are rotes (because Supreme Augmentation) and doesn't drop until full agg (because Euphoria) and gets better boosts from Willpower (because Supreme Augmentation raising capacity to 10 and Zeal giving +5 dice/+3 resistance per point). Mana for attack spells is a wash; the Obrimos has All Of The Mana and can recover it in-combat, but the Mastigos' Psychic Assault, Psychic Sword and Psychic Domination are covert/costless. Thunderbolt is very good, though (at least, in the lethal form which ignores Defence), so I don't think the Mastigos would outright have an advantage.