The Owl Shaman started the Banishing with 9 dice (6 Magic + 1 Banishing + 2 Owl bonus) and I added 6 dice (Magic rating) for the Coyote Shaman helping and 6 dice (Force) for the Air Spirit helping for a total of 21 dice. I thought it was only appropriate for them to try something non-standard since both of their characters have never banished a spirit before. I let them do an impromptu ritual (they both only had Banishing at rating 1). It rolled Force(9) and got 5 hits (insanely good roll). Since the game's Banishing rules want the number of services I used Force instead. Because it still could have conceivably dodged them if it was Force 9 that's what I ended up going with.Īround the middle of the first turn my two shamans decided to team up (with a Force 6 Air Spirit they had) and try to Banish the Manticore spirit. I started combat with the Spirit's Force set at 12, but after it dodged 2 Indirect Combat spells without even trying I realized that I needed to tone it down.
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The Free Spirit is a "Perfect Form" (aka semi-naturally occurring) of an uncommon Paranormal Critter native to the area, so I thought its Perfect Form Free Spirit would be mid-range power and wouldn't probably Edge tests unless the PCs were particularly cruel to the Manticores of the area (which they weren't).
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(Exemple, a spirit whisperer tried summoning a Force12(+1) spirit in a dire situation, the drain killed him outright but the spirit came. Considering it would have LOG1, INT1 and CHA1, you can assume it would be a really shitty, unpleasant, dumb ghost worse than Slimer.įorce 13 unbound spirit would have 3 dice. Alternatively, without edging, the weakest a spirit could be if lucky and having 3 successes on three dice.įorce 1 bound spirit that spent memorable time with humanity would have 3 dice.Mechanically it doesn't affect anything for them since they get a flat 1 edge after breaking free anyway. The minimums for these would be.įorce 6 bound spirit that spent memorable time among metahumanity using edge to reroll failed dice rolls could semi-reliably get 3 hitsįorce 7 bound spirit that spent memorable time among metahuminty edging the test would have (((4-1)+4+2) 9 diceįorce 13 unbound spirit edging has 10 diceĪny spirit could Smackdown to succeed the test. This means for statistical success, a spirit need 9 dice. I assume this is a spirit that wishes to be free so he'd edge the test. This assume that the spirit became free the most common way: A mage lost control of his Spirit (probably happened at death). A spirit has an edge rating equal to it's Force/2 (which then turns to a rating of 1 after freebirth). A free spirit can be enslaved rather easily if your assensing is high enough)įor the Force rating of free spirits, I either decide on how smart I want it to be (Force=Mental stats, so you can't put a powerful spirit abd expect it to be an idiot) or follow this rule here on p.202 under "Born Free". Are they mostly immune to non-magical weapons when materialized or just when Astral?īanishing free spirits (and why it's kind of useless) is in SG p.204 (it also explain a danger of adding free spirits if a player knows the advanced binding rules.Can they dematerialize quickly/instantly?.Any pointers on running combat against a materialized Free Spirit?.Do these seem like appropriate uses of Free Spirits?.I have a few questions and would love to hear what kind of Free Spirit NPCs (aside from Buttercup) some of you might use in your games. I realize as a GM I have a lot of leeway with Free Spirits at this point in SR 'history', but my only use of one so far was as the proprietor of a Mage Bar in Tucson who more or less appears as the Cheshire Cat.
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Another PC has a similar, but more deadly flaw, "Trouble Magnet". Side Note: I let one of my PCs take a custom flaw "Spirit Magnet" where spirits pay a little more attention to her than they usually do awakened creatures. I thought it would be interesting to have a Free Spirit who is the "Perfect Form" of a Manticore (Mantichoras) overseeing the land where the prides roam and protecting them from harm (sporadically). I am halfway into running my group through a paranormal critter reagent hunt given to them by a local talismonger who didn't want to get his hands dirty. "Watch your back, shoot straight, conserve ammo, and never, ever, cut a deal with a dragon." Living Community (Where you can play online) Subreddits
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