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[Taidragon]

When using the Efficiency embed when you already have Good Time Management, would the ensuing time for the extended action be quartered (the two effects stacking) or would one simply override the other (and thus it remains halved regardless)?

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The limits to the blessing is that you need to be using either tools that you would normally use to work the material you're working with, or something that is analogous to it if you want to be risky. For example, if you were working with wood you'd need chisels and hammers, a handsaw or a jigsaw, and in turn you could make it into something else. If you were doing an existing sword, you could, but it would effectively be reforging a broken weapon into a new one.

However, if you were to make a normally steel sword into flame, you'd have just that - flames. No mention is made of any...

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If your players buys the Cultists merit, don't make the characters who are becoming said cultists deliberately annoying, dismissive and or disbelieving of their new leader(s). This goes double for if the players have gone to significant lengths to help these characters before or during this period.

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Yes, those were specific scenarios. That game upset me pretty badly, in part from one character whose player’s actions grated on me (such as telling me I shouldn’t take particular contracts and starting with Mantle 5) and the ST, who had us doing a quest in the interests of the Winter Queen for a Mage with a club on the moon that would have us doing a massive auction heist that would end in us stealing literal contracts being held in a bastion, all in less than a week in-game...when we’d settled and started the game running a half-way house for escaped Changelings. We spent more game time...

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That said, it looks like an Exploited gadget requiring it to eat up an Aether per use is an appropriate limitation/tparameter for the gadget to make it more potent. I am mostly going off of Interface’s story “Fifth” for this one though, where Carbon’s Deep Pockets and Four Minutes Ago gadgets both required it and are pretty dang potent. As such, it’s entirely plausible that a “transition into Twilight” gadget would work by requiring an Aether per shift from Twilight to mundane and back, and having only five aether in it...though given how hard Aether can be to get, that sounds like...

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83) Hallowed Director
The gadget resembles a blue, transparent gear the size of a satsuma, the inside set with a very thin set of crosshairs. Alone it does nothing, but when set on a device that works with coordinates - a GPS, a cellphone or even a digital readout of a map - it generates a thin layer of crystal to anchor itself to the device. This requires a successful Dexterity + Crafts roll to remove without damaging the device.
Exploit: Four Minutes Ago
Trigger and Activation: The user must have the gear attached to a device that works with coordinates before they turn the...

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While I get where you're coming from, the suggested equipment for the various skills in the Changeling book is pretty liberal in what is considered "equipment", and the items suggested for what a Wizened can make (diamond and straws of gold) aren't exactly what you'd consider "equipment" either. Though some of that equipment does sound like it'd be hard for the average person to build themselves, I don't feel it'd be unreasonable for someone to use a Build Equipment action for those kinds of things.

I'd bring up how Quality Food would be reasonable equipment for...

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This may be a weird question, but in second edition, can Wizened use their Blessing to change a substance into something edible? Use a hammer and anvil to shape metal into gingerbread, or a lathe to turn wood into cheese, or even something like inedible bark into flour using a mortar and pestle?

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Hey guys; was curious how things have gone with the campaign, given that it has been a couple of months with no updates on the status of the game. Has life just been prohibitive towards a new session coming along? Hopefully everyone is doing well, regardless of the circumstances.

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It’s interesting what being in a seat of power will do to people. Like many responsible people, Lori is having to compromise on her morals to protect people quickly, quietly and efficiently, though fortunately here she doesn’t need to sanction anything more than a scare. I like that while she is deliberating on what can be done, she isn’t hesitating or quibbling on it either - Lori is trying to stand on her own decisions, even if mistakes are made, and taking what her motley offers her as candid. It’s a good sign Lori isn’t letting the power get to her head, as is the fact that she’s...