So, the Beauty’s innate power says “You may attempt a Feat of Scale when you roll to influence a character using your beauty, appearance, and body language.”
This has lead to a lengthy debate at my table about how this should be interpreted.
On the one hand, this seems to imply that you can spend a legend and gain (legend / 2 rounded up) scale on an action to influence someone, just like you would use your legendary title. However, this seems very expensive—especially compared to all the other things you could spend your legend on. And there is a concern that the player would never use the Beauty’s innate power, since they always had better things to spend legend points on.
Also, the other innate powers seem to just give you an ability that always applies—like being able to see and talk to the dead. This would make Beauty the only “innate” power you had to pay for.
On the other hand, this could just mean you’re granted scale on every interaction where beauty, appearance, and body language applies. In this interpretation, Feat of Scale just means you get to add scale (legend / 2 rounded up) to the action. For your legendary title, you pay a legend to add a Feat of Scale. This ability just adds the Feat of Scale for free.
This would be similar to how the Epic Strength’s innate power gives you +1 scale for lifting, breaking, or carrying large objects. The issue here, is things that grant scale for free typically say you “have scale” or it “grants scale” and Feat of Scale seems to only be used for the pay-legend-to-buy-scale thing. Also, in anything but a pure combat game, getting scale on most social interactions is very powerful. Much more powerful than most of the other innate abilities.
So, anyone know what the real rules are?
This has lead to a lengthy debate at my table about how this should be interpreted.
On the one hand, this seems to imply that you can spend a legend and gain (legend / 2 rounded up) scale on an action to influence someone, just like you would use your legendary title. However, this seems very expensive—especially compared to all the other things you could spend your legend on. And there is a concern that the player would never use the Beauty’s innate power, since they always had better things to spend legend points on.
Also, the other innate powers seem to just give you an ability that always applies—like being able to see and talk to the dead. This would make Beauty the only “innate” power you had to pay for.
On the other hand, this could just mean you’re granted scale on every interaction where beauty, appearance, and body language applies. In this interpretation, Feat of Scale just means you get to add scale (legend / 2 rounded up) to the action. For your legendary title, you pay a legend to add a Feat of Scale. This ability just adds the Feat of Scale for free.
This would be similar to how the Epic Strength’s innate power gives you +1 scale for lifting, breaking, or carrying large objects. The issue here, is things that grant scale for free typically say you “have scale” or it “grants scale” and Feat of Scale seems to only be used for the pay-legend-to-buy-scale thing. Also, in anything but a pure combat game, getting scale on most social interactions is very powerful. Much more powerful than most of the other innate abilities.
So, anyone know what the real rules are?
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