[Torg] Reality Storms (was metapower vs advancement, reconsolidation)

[Dominick Riesland]

We've had a few try it. Here are a few of the more interesting results:
* One had a storm so large it ended up on the national weather reports.
* Another derailed the train they were on.
* A third managed to escape with just enough Possibilties to survive
the adventure.
* One hit the jackpot on one storm only to be transformed on the next.
* Yet another one got caught in someone else's storm and transformed
from werewolf to wererabbit.

With a little bit of creativity, you can achieve the desired effect of
an Invoked Reality Storm. In my case that desired effect is that using
this tool was seen as an act of desperation, usable only when no other
option is likely to succeed.

Dominick Riesland, aka Rabbitball
Creator of the Cosmversal Grimoire
"There are always possibilities, my sergeant told me. But he never had
his possibilities torn away like wings from a fly."



2009/3/12 Steve Crow <crow_steve at hotmail.com>:
>
> I'm not sure if it relates to the original topic. If it doesn't, just ignore
> that part and feel free to respond to my core point.
>
> Is it just us, or do invoked reality storms (IRS) tend to throw the whole
> metapower/advancement into the toilet?
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> By invoking (or having one invoked upon oneself) a reality storm, it is
> almost inevitable that you will gain possibilities. Maelstrom/transforms
> aren't that hard to obtain.
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> By gaining possibilities via a IRS, you are in essence gaining experience
> points. This seems a rather powerful, and seemingly imbalanced, use of IRSs.
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> Further, once a maelstrom is created, you can choose to either drain or
> gain. You can choose to gain possibilities/experience pretty much
> indefinitely. Simply choose to keep gaining, rather than drain. The only
> thing stopping a player intent on getting experience points is boredom.
>
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> Yes, there are circumstances which a GM can manipulate to make IRSs
> unappealing. Lots of civilians, relatively delicate surroundings, and so on.
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> But given that reality-rated opponents constitute the vast majority of
> opposition, a GM can't make invoked reality storms undesireable all the
> time. And even if a GM could... wouldn't it be simpler either to modify the
> IRS rules, or not allow them?
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> Or is there something we're missing?
>
> --- Steve Crow "Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority." Check
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