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  1. I like when a player adds to the campaign world. If that's in the form of NPCs I'm cool with that. But yes, it's possible for someone to oversaturate the campaign with their NPCs. I don't think there's a hard and fast rule as to how many is too many. But I'll know it when I see it. I do think there's a difference between Hunteds and DNPCs on the one hand, and general supporting cast on the other. All characters should have supporting cast. These are the NPCs who ground them in the game world. They are the depth and richness that comes from having known and (somewhat) developed characters in the game world. I wouldn't want to see more than 1 DNPC per character. I mean, I could be talked into allowing it, but generally 1 is enough. That one may be a group, say the orphans of St. Mary's, but they always come as a single group. Hunteds can come in larger numbers. But if a player chooses to have a bunch of hunteds they have to accept that sometimes this will lead to a Sinister 6 scenario - all the hunteds showing up at once. Other times I'll skip a hunted showing up if a single character's background has been coming up more than others. All the players should get equal chance to have their time in the limelight.
  2. Would Suppress do the job? (Is Suppress still a thing in 6th ed?) Also, I suppose you'd need "affects desol" on the suppress desol.
  3. I've gotten rid of CON in my house rules. I'm just using BOD wherever it says CON. I'm only a few sessions into my campaign but no problems so far.
  4. I cover maintenance and such as part of the background play. Costs are part of the general cost of living and field maintenance is what people do in the evenings while sitting around the camp fire. So I acknowledge it in the narrative but don't make it a big thing.
  5. Absolutely, that's the canon. And I admit my maunderings on Imaginal V'hans do contradict what is written in canon.
  6. Somewhat. Beings of the parterres are created (or possibly moulded) by the beliefs of the people of a world. Given that V'han holds such a huge slice of the communal consciousness in any place she rules she is in danger of causing parterres versions of herself to come into being. To counteract this her media machine plays at 1984 with the hope that the constantly changing stories make it impossible for parterres to form versions of her. Not that anyone in the media machine necessarily knows why they do what they do. In fact it would work better if they don't. In fact V'han probably had anyone who knew about the real reasons for this policy killed long, long ago. But this doesn't explain why she has no dimensional doubles in the parallel dimensions. Which is why I suggested maybe it's because she's a Brialic being. If this is the case then she has no parallel selves because she originates in a place where there are no parallel dimensions. I hope that makes sense.
  7. I agree, her media machine would probably say many things across different worlds and/or dimensions as needed. Few of the stories would be true and many of them contradictory. Which could lead to some interesting versions of her (yes, I'm well outside of canon now.) And given V'han's rather, um, strong and definite ego, she would NOT take well to her different selves. And they in turn would probably not like her. Maybe, in order to prevent Imaginal V'hans, she has set up a Ministry of Truth a la 1984. The constant revision of history is the way she stops imaginal V'hans from forming in the first place.
  8. And yet another random thought on V'han. Is she just Urizen's plant? An agent he is using to "bring order" to the lower realms? Or maybe an avatar instead of a truly separate being. It would explain her being "dimensionally unique" or what ever the phrase is.
  9. I am away from my books at the moment so I'm going from memory. Also , I could be talking out of turn here given the man who literally wrote the book is posting in this thread... That said... officially each planet in this dimension has it's own parterres.* Each parterre reflect the beliefs (spiritual, ethical, scientific, etc.) of the beings who inhabit those worlds. So the worlds in this dimension each have their own parterres that are unrelated to the parterres of Earth. This suggests to me that, as each other-dimension parallel will have it's own unique each planet with it's own unique history, evolution, etc, each unique other-dimension world also has it's own unique parterres. That's my interpretation of official Champions sources. Personally, as I said in my previous post, I like the idea that the parterres are connected cross-dimensionally. By cross-dimension I mean across parallel realities. *These other-world parterres may or may not reflect the four way tensions of the higher (Brialic?) realities in a manner that is is similar to how Earth's parterres reflect the higher realities. So, does anyone think that, given that the imaginal realms reflect beliefs, is it possible for there to be imaginal V'hans that exist in the many (or not so many, see my above post) parterres of the worlds? Not the real V'han anymore than Zeus is the real Urizen; but pop-culture V'hans that are influenced by the popular media culture that the real V'han creates around herself. Or am I just disappearing up my own backside at this point?
  10. Off topic a bit but... I like the idea that the parterres of different dimensions are connected. Those connections may be quite round-about and difficult to use but they're there.
  11. I assume it would only be continuing spells. You could make it a limitation on magic in your campaign. A sorcerer must make a skill vs. skill roll to take over another's spell. Maybe you could only try to take over a spell you know; or maybe in the same school of magic, if you're doing schools of magic.
  12. The Praetor is... impressive. Good luck to your heroes.
  13. Yeah, this is a good idea. The question is how modern should the elves be? I think some should be pretty well acculturated, others less so. Yet others who think they're acculturated but aren't.
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