“The important thing to remember is that I… was never here. <Avoidance Kata.>” That reminds me about this one Sidereal one-on-one game I ran for a short time which was basically Assassin’s Creed Yu Shan. The entire game was the player planning elaborate infiltration schemes (Underling Invisibility Practice for the win) and then engaging in …
Sidereal College-Based Charms
I’ve been running Sidereals with College-based Charms for years with ease. The trick was I basically turned Colleges into Excellencies. Basically if you had a College you could spend 1m per dot of College. It costs 1m per die, 2m per success which you could add to your own action or the action of anyone in …
On Why the Scarlet Empress Not Being Immortal Could Help the Setting
If the Empress isn’t the immortal, monolithic individual of canon, but merely the first or latest in a line of tyrants, wouldn’t the Sidereals have somewhat greater control over the Dynasty AND have wrested control of the Imperial Manse? – Sunder The Gold Why? No, seriously, why? Keep in mind that, as we are talking …
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On the Sidereal Great Curse
The trick to understand about the Sidereal Great Curse is that it doesn’t make you do stupid things, it makes it so that you stop listening to other people. The way the Sidereal Great Curse works is that the more Sidereals agree with a particular decision, the harder it is to convince any Sidereal not to support that decision. …