SevenCs

Hi all,

Our group is coming up on our ninth session of Cortex Prime, and it's going great! One thing in particular has tripped me up a couple of times, though: when a player rolls a hitch, sometimes the most delicious complication I can think of isn't one that's really tied to the player who rolled the hitch. Sometimes I can sort of adjust the fictional framing of things in order to fit the unwelcome development as a complication attached to just one character, but I don't know what to do with an example like "in a duel at night, due to a hitch, our hero knocks a lantern over which starts a small blaze." It feels kind of weird to put a d6 Untimely Fire complication just on one character

We're using Action Order (action/reaction timing) as a mod for our game. When a player wants to use a Limit like "Exhausted" or "Gear" to shut their power down and gain a PP, how is that intended to fit into the action order? Is it an action (and therefore it takes up their turn, and they say who goes next after shutting the power down)? Is it something that they can do between actions? It feels like there's a substantial difference between "use your turn to shut down your power in exchange for a PP" and "shut down your power in exchange for a PP, but take your turn normally."

I'm trying to put together a Cortex Prime game directly inspired by (or 'borrowing liberally from,' if you prefer) the .hack// series of games. For those unfamiliar, the premise is a near-future setting where the characters are people playing a fictional VR MMORPG, and in between exploring what it means to socialize and form relationships in the context of playing an online game together, the characters are also working to solve a sci-fi mystery at the heart of the MMO they're playing (in the .hack// games, it starts with "what is causing the game to send some players into a real-world coma, and how is this mysterious avatar named Aura connected?") The action takes place within the VR MMO

Blood Magic (from the Codex) consists of two methods: torture, and sacrifice. The Codex states that the result of a failed sacrifice test (vs. victim's Forte) is the victim escaping, cursing the sorcerer, or warping the spell that the sacrifice is intended to power. However, I can't seem to find the recommended result of a failed test to torture a victim. Any suggestions or recommendations?

Also, the Torture test deals a single wound (which the sorcerer hopes will be sufficient to garner eldritch power from). In our most recent game session, the blood-priest gained 1D of power from dealing a Light wound through Torture. Is there anything stopping him from attempting another Torture te

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In our current game, we're really digging into the Resources mechanics. We've used them at a fairly cursory level before, but now we're getting into the weeds a bit, and finding the game is really benefiting from exploring that space. However, we've hit a small snag and are trying to figure out how the mechanics map to the fiction.

I understand that loans are just cash or funds with strings attached, and I understand how cash and funds work. What I'm confused about is the difference between debt-free loans and... non-debt-free loans? The language of the paragraph under *Debt* (p. 375) is a little murky. If I'm reading it correctly, "debt" here refers solely to interest? The phrase "

I did 2p all morning, but this afternoon when our buddy tried to join in, we couldn't get a Downfall to launch. It seems to hang on "Finding session 0/3" and even canceling doesn't do anything. It's like it's stuck.

Is this happening to anyone else?

The lowest price of Summoning is a mark. The Codex says, "For lesser orders like the dead or minor spirits, the mark comes in the form of a symbol worn on the person." How long are such marks expected to last/be worn? Much as I'm all for a powerful summoner adorned with a plethora of charms and symbols, at some point it crosses the threshold into silliness: "so he wears all fifty of these things even when he's bathing? At some point the charms will outweigh the summoner!"

I suppose a middle ground would be to say something like "wear my symbol until the dawn of the New Year" or some similar festival of beginnings or cleansing, but I'm curious to know what the intent was.

The Death Art section of the Codex details the Death of the Spirit technique and how to create a slave to the power of death. It then mentions "the death artist may perform the Death of the Spirit ritual upon himself." How's that work, though? Mechanically, I mean. If you're going to ritually torture and murder yourself - presumably to leverage penalties in order to get your Will and Forte obs low enough that you can accrue enough extra successes to preserve your Gifted trait after death - your Death Art skill is likewise going to drop too, right? Trying Death Art versus your full Will and Forte likewise seems like a real tall order. Is that the way to go? Help me figure out how this

Now that Tactician is at Uncommon, I've been trying to use the discard package (Tactician, Reflex, Acrobatics, Prepared, Sneaky Strike, Concentrate) to see what I can make work. In particular, I've been trying to see if I can't use a combination of Acrobatics/Expertise and Concentrate, but I never seem to get those cards together. Notably, it feels like either I get dealt the cards I need early in Act 1, or by the time I get into Act 2 my deck is too weak and underpowered to perform while I wait for those cards.

What tricks or uses of these cards am I overlooking? What neat edge cases have you found that made one of these cards actually useful?

Is there a specific order you have to follow when using fate artha and call on trait rerolls? Can you explode 6s with fate, then use the call on to reroll all failures (including the additional dice), and then keep exploding 6s? (Seems excessive...)

In our current game, two spirit binders seem set to clash head-to-head in the near future. Assuming that they're both bound to a domain, what's the best way to handle it when they're fighting over spirits? How should we resolve it when one says, "I want to bind the storm to harm my enemy" and the other says "I bind the storm so it won't harm me then!" or "No, I bind the storm to harm my enemy"?

I couldn't get my phone to pair with the board for weeks. I had Bluetooth enabled, I had Location services turned on, I tried everything in the "connection troubleshooting" suggestions in the app (reset the board, hold the Dropmix button down to forget pairings, etc.). I followed every recommendation I found online. Nothing worked.

I had a case open with Hasbro support for weeks. Finally, they figured out what the problem was:

It appears as if updating the app caused a set of permissions to get silently turned off. Specifically, the location services permission. If you could please go into your android settings (Settings> Applications> DropMix> Permissions) and see if wheth

A magician wants to cloak himself in a glamour that makes him appear as a soldier (task) so that he can move about a military camp unimpeded and unsuspected (intent). Looking at the breadth obs, who is the magician affecting?

1. Self, because the illusion is only changing his own guise

2. Many others - potentially the whole camp - because his magic is affecting the perceptions of anyone in the camp who lays eyes on him

I honestly can't get a sense for what the intention of the rules is.