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DeclaredYuppie posted:The relatively high chance that they will die? This, pretty much. Entropomancers are the adepts who die the most since getting charges involves deliberately risking their own lives for juice. Even a 99% of living means that you'll eventually hit that 1% of dying horribly. Think of a crazed adrenaline junkie who eventually goes so nuts that they skydive without a parachute or any means of slowing their fall, just banking on sheer complete dumb luck to save them. That's an entropomancer who's gone round the bend.
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Baby Babbeh posted:And let's not forget the utility of obsession skills. Since Adepts have to take their school as their obsession skill, they're really good at magic but lose out in situations where its not time to seal shut someones mouth or hit them in the face with a levitated brick. Someone with an obsession skill in sweet talk or something is probably going to be a lot more useful in most situations, and an obsessed martial artist is going to be just as much of a combat beast as your average adept. The most useful character is a character with Psychotherapy as their obsession skill, because the party WILL be completely apeshit insane given enough time without people to help stall the acquisition of failed and hardened notches.
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Gr3y posted:Please tell me that a character with that as their obsession gets to help the party maintain their sanity at the cost of their own well being. Not really, but considering that you can't use Psychotherapy to cure yourself, if that party member was the only source of therapy and never went to a therapist himself, he'd slowly go crazy while the party was just fine, and eventually people would be learning how to stay sane from someone who is more than a bit nuts. However, blowing a gauge would still make you pretty much unplayable, and getting too many hardened notches and becoming sociopathic would probably disqualify you as a viable therapist.
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Squidster posted:Seriously? That's so... highschool. You just summed up nVampire and oVampire politics in a single sentence.
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Squidster posted:Hbwuh? I have not heard of this thing! Tell me more. Grant Morrison is a wonderfully insane Scottish comic writer that you should probably look into if you like UA, because the dude's a straight up occultist. The Invisibles and his run of Doom Patrol are probably best to start with if you're coming off UA, but stuff like his Animal Man and Batman runs are pretty great too. To give you an idea of what he likes to do, he had a conversation with Animal Man inside the comic itself, and during his runs of Batman continued the old undercurrent that says Gotham is a living entity, and also dropped a few hints that it's sexually attracted to Nightwing. Yes, really.
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