…inside the mind and books of CJ Moseley
Sway Table
Posted on Thursday, February 9th, 2017 at 17:30
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Target
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Action
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Wyrd Tarot / Yarn Card Effect
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Modifiers
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Area
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No. of Targets
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Extend Duration
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Limit Duration
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Yarn / Twists
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Chi
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Sway / Diff
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| Self | Wait | Play | None |
Self
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Self
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Instant
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Forever
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+0
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+0
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+0
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| A Proficiency / Dice Roll (Facet) / An Umbral or nimbed effect |
Save (Chronolith) / Keep / Reroll / Record
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Haze / 1 point of RT |
A target
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1
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An Action / Ordeal Phase
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A century
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+1/2
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+1
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+2
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Skill (Annex/Descendant)/ Nuisance (Extra) / Distract Wound (Ordeal Card of 2-4) / Card in play / Scale of 1 |
Gather / Find / Draw from top of Deck / Tremble Possession/ Trivial task (make a cuppa)
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“Friend”/ “Crisis” | Lighting conditions / Emotional |
Part of a Room
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<5
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Seconds / Ordeal Stage
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A year
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+1
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+2
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+4
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| Any ongoing action / Card in Play (one atop a pile) |
Replace / Mundane activity (make a sandwich)
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“Proficiency” / “Jam/ Parry/ Dodge” | Light Weather | Ordeal Round |
+1
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+3
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+6
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| A just completed event / Card atop the discard pile | “Rally” / “Fast Talk” | Higher ground | A moment / up to 3 Ordeal Rounds |
+1
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+4
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+8
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| Talent (Annex/Descendant) / Chorus (Extras) / Flesh Wound (Ordeal Card of 5-7) / Scale of 2 / |
Tug Possession / Simple task (cook a meal)
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“Clue” / “Surprise” / A Low Stakes Ordeal | 1 point of GRT / Bad Weather |
A Room
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<14
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Minutes (A short Scene /A quick Ordeal)
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6 months
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+2
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+5
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+10
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| Memories (Key Proficiencies | Remember | “History” / “Stalemate” | Mild Retcon |
+2
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+6
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+12
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| Power (Annex/Descendant)/ An Ordeal card / An unchronolithed moment / |
Read (Examine) / Simple Magic : Affect your own mind.
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“Prop” / “Failure” | Equipment |
=Pips Reduced (+1-+4)/+2
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+Pips of Ordeal Card/ Boon Reduced / +7
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+Pips x2 / +14
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| Grunt / Trophy / Chronolith / Maiming Wound (Ordeal card of 8/9) / Bulmäs (Calf / Cub) / Scale of 3 |
Reload (Chronolith) / Puppet Possession / Easy Magic: “Conjuring” tricks, affect another’s mind
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“Chi” / “Psst” / A Small Gain | Secretive |
A Floor
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<52
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<8 hours (A long Scene)
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3 months
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+3
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+8
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+16
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| “Safe Passage” /”Distract (Unsoakable)” | Focus |
+3
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+9
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+18
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| Crippling Wound (Ordeal card of 10/J)/ Force of Nature (Extra) |
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“Miracle” / “(Aggravate/Reduce) Wound” | First Time |
+3
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+10
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+20
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| “Double Bluff” / “Charm” / “Handicap” / “Gun” |
+3
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+11
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+22
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| Super-skill (Annex/Descendant) / Goblin (Lesser Dæmon) / Mortal Wound (Ordeal card of Q/K) / Mercari / Monolith / Location / Bulmäs Adult (Herd / Hunter) / Scale of 4 / |
Rough Possession / Medium Magic: Affect your physical form
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“Smith” / “Plan” / “Double Score” / “Spot Hidden” / A Revelation |
Terrible Weather |
A building
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<100
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Until Sunrise, sunset, noon or midnight (8-24 hrs)
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6 weeks
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+4
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+12
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+24
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| Any part of the game based on a single Boon e.g. An Annex, A Handicap, Some Extras, etc | “Heal Wounds” / “Mage” / “Escape” / “Fear” | In the dark / unable to hear / Handicap triggered |
+Boon Reduced/ +4
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+Boon / +13
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+Boon Doubled / +26
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| Carnage Wound (Ordeal card of A/Joker) |
Complex Task (Astrogation, Goumet cookery)
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“Ignore Wounds” / “Trap” / “Success” / “Death” | Luck |
+4
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+14
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+28
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| Demon / Pact Descendant / Real Estate / Lesser Fæ / Bulmäs (Broccen) / Scale of 5 / |
Finesse Possession / Hard magic: Affect another’s form
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Warp or Weft | Minor Narrative Issues |
A large building
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<500
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A weekend, until moon changes phase.
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3 Weeks
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+5
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+16
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+32
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Solo / Grand Mercari / Province / Artefact / Bulmäs (Vermis) / Inactive Personality (or Unconscious mind) / Scale of 6 / |
Full Possession / Tricky Task (Learn a new language/ survive in a hostile environment)
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A Moderate Gain | Hostile Environment |
A street / field /copse
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<1,000
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Up to 7 days
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10 days
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+6 / Personality Boon Reduced
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+21 / Personality Boon
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+42 /Personality Boon Doubled
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| Dæmonlord / Greater Fæ / Bulmäs (Labyrinthion) / An active Personality (a conscious mind) / Scale of 7 | Eldritch Possession (Add Twisted Facet Skill Annex and Handicap) | A Medium Stakes Ordeal | Lost or significant problem |
A city block / village / small wood
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<2,000
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Until next full / new / gibbous / crescent moon (<28 days)
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5 days
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+7 / Personality Boon Reduced
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+26 / Personality Boon
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+52 / Personality Boon Doubled
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| Scale of 8 | Preternatural Possession (Add 2 Twisted Facet Skills and Handicaps) | A Weft | Deadly Danger |
A small town or hill
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<4,000
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A season
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2 days
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+8
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+32
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+64
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| Scale of 9 | Supernatural Possession (Add 2 Twisted Facet Skills, 1 Twisted Facet Talent, and 3 Handicaps) | An Important Revelation | Narrative Issues |
A medium town or hill
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<7,000
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Half a year
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24 hours
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+9
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+38
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+76
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| Scale of 10 |
Really Hard Magic: Requires Low budget Special Effects in a movie (e.g. Wires, Double Exposure, Poor model shots, Static Illusions, etc)
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A Large Gain |
A large town or wood
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<10,000
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A year and a day
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15 hours
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+10
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+45
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+90
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| Scale of 11 |
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A High Stakes Ordeal |
Valley or Mountain
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<25,000
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<3 years
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8 hours
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+11
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+51
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+102
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| Scale of 12 |
Legendary Magic: Requires good budget special effects in a movie (In camera effects, Good model shots, Believable Illusions)
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A Sub-plot Hook | Hellish conditions |
Small city
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<100,000
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<6 years
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4 hours
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+12
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+59
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+118
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| Scale of 13 | A Finale + Completion |
Long road, gorge, bay area
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<300,000
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<12 years (decade)
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2 hours
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+13
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+66
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+132
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| Most Characters regardless of Type or Scale | A Plot Hook |
Medium city or forest
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<500,000
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<30 yrs (a generation)
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60 mins
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+14
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+74
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+148
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Large city or constituency
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<1,000,000 (one million)
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<60 yrs (a revolution)
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30 mins
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+15
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+83
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+166
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Epic Magic: Requires CGI effects and a huge budget
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Small metropolis or county
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<2,000,000 (two million)
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A lifetime
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15 mins
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+16
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+92
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+184
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| Major Narrative Issues |
Medium metropolis or small country
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<5,000,000 (five million)
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<200 yrs
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7 mins
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+17
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+101
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+202
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Large metropolis, state or colony
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<50,000,000 (fifty million)
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<500 yrs(a social epoch)
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3.5 mins
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+18
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+111
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+222
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| Lesser Divinities |
Miraculous Magic: Summoning Eldritch Gods etc. Climax of a Blockbuster
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Country, large island or state.
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<100,000,000 (one hundred million)
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A millenium
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2 mins
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+19
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+121
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+242
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Continent
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<1,000,000,000 (one thousand million/ one billion)
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An era
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60 secs
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+20
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+131
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+262
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| Femite Technology | Extreme Technology |
A planet or moon
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<5,000,000,000 (five thousand million/ five billion)
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An age (~500,000 yrs)
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30 secs
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+21
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+142
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+284
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| No No No No |
A ringworld or mini-system (Jovian moons)
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<20,000,000,000 (twenty thousand million/ twenty billion)
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~1,000,000 yrs
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15 secs
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+22
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+153
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+306
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| Scene Dæmon | Impossible Magic: Impossible to replicate even with CGI | Unfathomly complex |
A Dyson sphere or solar system.
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<100,000,000,000 (one hundred thousand million/ one hundred billion)
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~5,000,000
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7 secs
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+23
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+165
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+330
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| Act Dæmon |
Multiple solar systems
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<1,000,000,000,000 (one billion / one trillion)
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A geological age (~37,000,000 yrs)
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2 secs
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+24
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+177
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+354
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| Story Dæmon | Extreme Narrative Issues |
Interstellar Empire
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<1,000,000,000,000,000
(one thousand billion/ one quadrillion)
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A galactic revolution (~230,000,000 yrs)
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1 sec / 2 actions
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+25
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+190
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+380
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| Arc Dæmon |
Improbably Impossible magic: Cannot even be accurately described
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Galaxy
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1,000,000,000,000,000+
(one trillion / one quintillion)
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A billion years
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1 action
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+26
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+203
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+406
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| Volume Dæmon |
Intergalactic
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Almost all
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Billions of years
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Half Action
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+27
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+216
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+432
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| Gods / Epic Dæmon |
God-like powers / Nullites
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Extreme Retcon |
Galactic cluster
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All bar one
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More
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Instantaneous
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+28
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+230
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+460
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| The Universe / Cycle Dæmon | Rules Lawyer |
Universe
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All
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Eternity
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–
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+29
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+244
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+488
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| Patron Dæmons (Wyrd/Blakk) |
Even Gods Would Dream
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Temporal Paradox |
Multiverse
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All and all their alternates
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All Alternate Histories and Futures
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–
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+30
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+259
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+518
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| The Ref / Prime Anomaly |
Nope
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The Worst |
Omniverse
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Everything
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All Times
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–
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+203
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+11932
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+23864
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Using The Table
Costs, and difficulties can be calculated from the effect required. In general you use the largest potential cost as the cost/Diff if there’s any doubt, but as always the Referee decides.
For example:
- To Force a reroll of a Mercari’s dice roll… Diceroll (+1), Mercari (+12) Reroll (+1)- So that costs 14 Chi or is diff 28
- Increase your Awe facet boon (assume Boon 13) by 1 (will also reduce the Anti-Facet Jeer Boon by one) Self (+0), Facet (+13) Chi cost =13 or Diff 26
- Save the game (creating a Chronolith event) for yourself. Self (+0), Save (+1) Chi cost = 1 or Diff 2
- Loading the Game (returning to a Chronolith event earlier this scene) Self (+0), Reload (+8), A few minutes ago (+5) = 13 Chi or Diff 26 (it should be noted that everyone else also returns to that Chronolith. Mercari etc also pay if they want to keep their memories of the reload.
- Save for the Party. save(+1) Pact (+16) Cost 17 Chi Diff 34
- Reload the Party’s last Chronolith. Reload (+8) Pact (+16) A couple of days(+12) Cost 36 Chi Diff 72
- Learn a Proficiency. Proficiency (+1) Self (+0) Cost 1 Chi Diff 2
- Flashback: Instantly learn a Proficiency (in the Past). Flashback (+6) Self(+0) Cost 6 Chi Diff 12
- Replace a Skill Descendant. Boon (+Boon) Skill (+2) Replace (+3) Cost 5+Boon Diff 2x Boon+10
- Summon an Nuisance Extra for hours. Boon (+Boon) Nuisance (+2) <8 Hours (+8) Cost 10+Boon Diff 2x Boon +20
- Alter own Power. Boon (+Boon) Power(+7) Self(+0) Cost 7+Boon Diff 2x Boon+14
- Create Mortal Wound at 30 metres. Mortal Wound(+12) 30 Metres Range (+30/+7/+2) Cost +42/+19/+14 Diff 84/38/28
- Puppet Possession of a Skill Descendant for a Scene. Skill(+2), Puppet (+8) Scene(+5) Cost 15 Chi Diff 30
It should be noted that Creating and Summoning Descendants and Characters may have additional costs