From another thread, broken out into its own:
Are there any rules about how many and which Styles must be powered when generating a character by hand? Can I have 5 Styles with no powered Styles, or ALL powered styles, or anywhere in between?
Quote from: Sindyr on March 31, 2006, 02:19:38 PM
From another thread, broken out into its own:
Are there any rules about how many and which Styles must be powered when generating a character by hand? Can I have 5 Styles with no powered Styles, or ALL powered styles, or anywhere in between?
Well, going from the rulebook, we know that anywhere from 1-3 powered styles is OK, and from 0-2 nonpowered styles, because you can create any combination of those using the click&locks.
J
Yes, but that is based on inference. I ask two questions (to start):
Is having 5 powered syles ok?
Is having 5 non-powered styles ok?
I guess I am really asking if there are any rules prohibiting either of the above if one eschews the click and locks and instead goes freeform?
There are no rules forbidding it.
Perhaps Sydney will weigh in on his personal experiences with playing a character who has four powered styles.
So... much... debt....
But, y'know, Debt is a resource. Accept that you're going to have an overdrawn Drive a lot of the time, spend a Story Token to introduce an "ablative" second character that's all check-offs and no powers (like "The Sword Excalibur!" or "Ambush!" or "Monumentally Bad Decision!"), and then use your Power-heavy character to stake Debt & introduce Conflicts while relying on your secondary character to do most of the die-rolling. This is a "high investment, high return" technique but it's pretty workable.