Is it feasible to homebrew a 5th Agenda that is conceptually distinct?

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Sorry. I thought that maybe 16 days of difference would be enough passage of time to ask a different question, but I can see how it'd be annoying regardless. I will stop now....

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I noticed that you have Actual Plays in the original post, and I did ST a one-shot Chronicle using my God-Machine Genius Template, and will ST a second one-shot like that relatively soon. Would that matter for the purposes of including my Genius Template in the original post, since both of my one-shot Chronicles do take place in Demon's setting, albeit slightly different to accommodate the existence of Genii?

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What was this project even about, though? A sample city for the ChroD? What gamelines is it focused on?

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Probably. I did point that out as a strong possibility. Do you suppose these Assimilators could be more interesting as an Agency that has a lot of Tempters and Inquisitors with similar methods and goals? How would such an Agency function in terms of their missions and enemies? Maybe it's not a specific Agency, but a recurring category of Agencies, like Compromised, Free, Insurgent and Temporal?...

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Could Forces Perfecting turn this kind of mundane Equipment into something that deals Aggravated Damage with +1 Reach and 1 Mana? Or at least give it a Lethal Damage Bonus equal to Potency? The spell itself is upgrading a pre-existing weapon that definitely deals Lethal Damage, which is an indirect method. That means you don't need Forces 4 for directly causing Aggravated Damage, in theory....

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Maybe Assimilators are closer to Integrators + Inquisitors? The temptation tactics are kinda incidental, but you need to know how an aspect of occult-physics works in order to reliably replicate it and iterate on its functionality.

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This is all I really managed to write in this regard, but it doesn't really feel meaningfully different from a specific combination of Integrator + Tempter. Is this concept for a 5th Agenda worth expanding, and if yes, how could it be done?

ASSIMILATORS

"I am better than God, and it is my divine birthright to inherit his cosmos that he left unfinished. I will evolve and metamorphose into my own deity, and I will exorcise and reincarnate the scripture-algorithms and machine-temples of God! My new pantheon of servitors-saints and automaton-avatars will assimilate...

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For Danse Macabre, how about these affinities:

Fairest: The corpse regains an appearance of living and healthy person, and will register to mundane and supernatural examination as being alive. They also gain the ability to make Social rolls, using the Changeling's Skills but the corpse's own Attributes. However, without an Exceptional Success, such Social rolls cannot be more complex than a sentence or two, and concepts like metaphors and euphemisms are impossible for the corpse to use.

Wizened: The corpse's form can be altered to give it tools, armor and weapons. Distribute...

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Making a new post only to avoid the malfunctioning spam-detection bots.

I guess a nebulously defined, highly personal "inherent bad taste" is enough of a pretext to discourage a civil, respectful and productive discussion between people approaching the topic in good faith and willing to learn new things that reaffirm their mutual humanity.

But I'm a layman, don't mind me. We'll see how it works out.

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Monstrosity is subjective. I don't know about Xianxia's tenets, but "we cannot borrow aesthetics and tropes due to cultural sensitivity issues" is a ship that sailed a VERY long time ago in both OWOD and ChroD. Seems like a defeatist attitude to me, especially considering that even monsters can have a moral compass as you yourself often talk about. Why can't a Mage have Xianxia as a magical style? What if he is descended from the original practitioners due to being part of a Proximus Dynasty, and this is just part of his people's mystical heritage?

And even if he is not...

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Maybe our good old friend Christopher Pierre Bacon is conceptually closer to a Sacrosanct, complete with the mirror-symbolism?...

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Arc, have you considered that each Forswearing might have its own Birthrights based on those of the Families, but perhaps modified to represent the Hero's absolutist rejection of the corresponding type of fear? Could these Birthrights be named Rejections, or would they just be a function of spending 3 Satiety to manifest a new Gift for the scene? For example: what if a Victorious had the ability to make a physical barrier or obstacle become immune to destruction via mundane means, and trigger a Clash Of Wills against supernatural means? This would be an inversion of the Birthright of the Anakim...

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I am reminded of a Praetorian of mine who was literally born into servitude of his Ministry, and as an in vitro human as well. He was trained in warfare by robots, experimented on with pseudo-scientific and Left-Handed methods, and generally tortured in body, mind and soul soon after his artificial birth to test out a theory related to an Obsession of a higher-ranked Praetorian, which I based on a sidebar of flavor text from Nobilis 3ed.



And yet, he was innocent in the sense that an ichneumon wasp, cancerous organ or nuclear warhead is innocent. And in fact, he was the...

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Cauthon Isator Levi KaiserAfini orathaic Teatime Thanks to you folks as well, your feedback has really opened my eyes and removed some mental roadblocks that made it significantly hard for me to conceptualize what Seers actually DO in a professional-tyrant sense. I'm writing all of this feedback down on a Word file for my Mage folder, and will use it to expand and adjust some vague concepts for Seer NPCs I have stored away.

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(Watches the channel's other videos)

Huh. Unfortunate.

Have these videos as substitutes, then, if that is a point of contention.

I actually had an idea for a similar scene that I never got to use.



Thank you, these are good points, especially when it comes to genre conventions and the indirect, interpretive "communication" between Seers and Exarchs....

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Yo Arc, is this video a valid example of an Invincible or maybe a Sacrosanct with a Heroic Hunger for Secrets? He even buries his realization about himself because it scares him way too much.

If the bots eat the video on this post, look up "Cringe Detective" by James Lee on Youtube.

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BTW I'm not actually furious, just doing comedic hyperbolic, and turns out other users can see my hyperlinks, and so can I but only when logged off? Weird.

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ALL MY HYPERLINKS IN POSTS FROM BEFORE THE BIG FORUMS OVERHAUL HAVE BEEN RETROACTIVELY BLASTED

(Posting this complaint here lest I dare start a new thread and get my fucking fingers deleted too, anything's possible at this point)

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FUCKING HELL

DID IT DEADASS ERASE MY HYPERLINK?

OoOoOoOOoOoOO, NOTHING SCARIER THAN A YOUTUBE VIDEO

Fine, fuck it. Just search "Changeling The Lost" playlist, it's the one under the "Jabir Eloquentia" channel.

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Click here to hear it. Do tell me if you have other songs to recommend!