(slight) preview of possible new traits

[Holz]

I was thinking, if the Psi warrior is really powerful, must take careful that we don´t end with a Total Party Killer (TPK).

I guess, you should spend more wyrd to become powerful for just a few minutes (if not seconds).
Did anyone read Mistborn from Brandon Sanderson? (great book btw )
(might have spoilers)-> In the book "magic" is based on "burning" metals that you drink, but they are consumed. So you need to do things fast (like in 5 minutes or less) depending on the metal. If they don´t, they might die of metal poisoning!

The warrior/dervishe/psi can be a badass, but he needs one thing to be the badass and that is Wyrd.
My point is, I don´t want to give players a character that will rip a BB in half, storm the castle and save the princess with it being too easy. I want them to plan when to do stuff.
Other than Wyrd, the character can have a huge backlash on their stigma. Making it weak or more suceptible to certain things his stigma gives him, like hangover feelings, nausea, cramps, muscle pain, you name it.

Sorry for spamming.

[Angelman]

Actually, I am not sure the Psychic Warrior is too powerful. The cost to 'get there' is really quite high, and your average psychic will have 4-6Wyrd to play around with - perhaps 8-9 if he's really powerful. With Wyrd recovery being quite slow, Wyrd conservation will be a major issue, requiering great planning. If you compare your high-cost Psychic Warrior to a run-of-the-mill soldier with a cool gun, the gun weilder is still going to kick arse. That said, we could always do more optional rules sidebars to suggest ways in which to adapt the power levels.

[Bertjammin]

I agree - I think that fuelling Psychic Warrior with Wyrd points balances it well as it becomes a "resource management" issue for the player. Hopefully we'll see how it works when we play on Wednesday.

I think that the slow recovery of Wyrd took all my players by surprise.

[Angelman]

Yes, I had forgotten about that. I think we slowed down Wyrd recovery in FSR, didn't we? I like that

[Bertjammin]

Not got the books to hand (for once.....) but I *think* it's 1 point per night of rest (lately the PCs have been pulling "all nighters... bwah ha ha ha...), regaining some via meditation (based 1 for 1 on VP IIRC) and then special gains through occult or relic artefacts and ceremonies.

[Angelman]

Yeah, that's it. In FS2 it was 1 Wyrd per hour of sleep, but now it is per full 8 hours. That dramatically changes the dynamic of occultism, allowing us to explore greater powers and more versatile uses, while preventing occultism becoming overpowered. I think it makes occultism a lot more interesting as instead!

[Bertjammin]

I'm finding that it also tempers the eagerness of non-occultists to take re-rolls. There was more than one occasion in our last session when a player kept a failing dice roll after um'ing & ah'ing over whether to spend a Wyrd.

[Angelman]

If anything, I think it might restrict Occult use overmuch, although I think even that might promote more interesting play as, a) it makes meditation (Faith/Will + Self Control to recover VP Wyrd) more important, and b) encourages astological/religious events in occult stories. (In FS2, you might have asked, "why should I botter chasign religious events or calculating astrological events when I can just sleep for an hour to gain the same benefit?". Incidently, it makes Eskatonics more powerful theurgists than most, as they can use Astrological Events to charge their Wyrd in addition to Religious Events. Come to think about it, I think I shal modify the Eskatonic rite Celestical Alignment so that the can foresee astrological events, granting them one sure AV in the next week on an ordinary success and an immediate AV on a critical success.

[Holz]

Hum... that changes the picture.
I will adapt that in m FS2 table... as I slowly move to FSR!