It is viable, but not in a way you think. While technically Prince is only rank 8 XD, it is too abstract to fight in any conventional sense. What it would be doing is infecting Fate timeline, generating anomalies and lostbelts.
VII is the "brokenly powerful NPC-only splatbook" IIRC, so it would make sense for it to be the more powerful interpretation.
Reminds me of the broken Temporis/Celerity combos. And I am not talking about stacking extra actions, that's just cliche baby use.
rereading VTR's rules. The potence and fortitude equivalents add dice to relevant skills meanwhile Celerity...just doesn't. It raises the defense roll and gives penalties to firearms attacks if you would be denied a defense roll. Praestantia effectively acts as celerity did in previous editions when it comes to raising dex rolls, while also no being allowed to use it for non stealth non combat maneuvers unlike VTM Celerity. The Takebacks ability seems to be...an attempt at balancing it for what was taken away and fact that you need to raise the celerity skill for the speed aspect.
I had thought there was a rule that you can't have celerity and true celerity at the same time.Reminds me of the broken Temporis/Celerity combos. And I am not talking about stacking extra actions, that's just cliche baby use.
It happens when you realize nothing stops you from Celerity and Temporis at the same time. (Hell, True Brujah can have their own special True Celerity* alongside Temporis)
You see, you can't stack extra actions from Celerity and Temporis because game balance said so. But Celerity gives you +Celerity to all Dexterity pools as long as you aren't actively using them for Extra Actions. These extra passive bonuses was balanced around losing them if you use Extra Actions.
Meaning you can get your Extra Actions from Temporis but also have the passive Dexterity bonus from Celerity. Lastly, technically nothing but ST is stopping you from having Temporis, True Celerity and Celerity at the same time. Which leads to you having a +10 to all Dexterity pools from Celerity and True Celerity and extra actions from Temporis.
This lore wise even makes sense. Normal Celerity speeds you up physically. True Celerity slows down time around you. Temporis literally gives you extra time. Combine all of that and you will have the fastest vampire alive.
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There is a rule in Revised Storyteller's Handbook about how you can't have any Celerity at all alongside Temporis but that's optional. (They really, really wanted to nerf Temporis even more.)
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so magic can definitely effect twilight entities without the appropriate schools, if it is applicable.
You're right about Death sorry, I was thinking of Ghost Mages. But Psychic Projection (mind 4) opening paragraph before the description has:
which implies to my reading that like a ghost in Twilight, the psychic projection should be able to use magic on the material world.
Wow, I missed that. *facepalm*
BreaKeys were a Wyrm plot
The thing about Mages is that they really don't tend to question their worldview.
Article: The great flaw of the Awakened is hubris, the certainty that their obsessions are an end worth any means, and the pride in their own abilities that comes before a terrible fall.
Article: The Guardians consider it their duty to undermine charismatic leaders, expose the faults of wise sages, and force mages to doubt one another to remind them that their primary mission is to struggle with their own souls.
That's part of it, but there's also the question of what happens if the Guardians' little house of cards gets given a shove. If the Ladder were to find out about the Guardians' obstruction of a Grand Convocation, they'd flip from being the Guardians' only real defenders to wanting all their heads on pikes, and with the Mysterium and Free Council already hating their guts that's enough to get a pogrom going. And hence, well, if the Guardian's loyal, that's PvP bait.
You forgot the bit where IIRC they specifically target and murder anyone that they think might be the Hieromagus.
Not precisely what you meant, but these are the subfactions listed for the Guardians of the Veil in Tome of the Pentacle:
There's no mention of deliberately sabotaging the Pentacle's cohesion there, at least not outside of the whole punishing others for hubris thing. That said, at the same time there's not really any groups that seem particularly invested in supporting the Pentacle outside of what's useful for keeping the Labyrinth running/furthering their own goals. Also, the Redeemers are nuts.
There was an old discussion on SV that pointed out it's kind of poetic that the main qualifier to prove your the Hireomagus is having the overwhelming power needed to survive that constant assassination attempts to prove you aren't.