[Afraid, a bit of DitV too] Possession

[Valvorik]

i]Exorcist<

[lumpley]

I wouldn't do a single thing mechanically to accomodate possession and exorcism; the rules cover them fully already.

I've run one zillion attempted possessions of PCs, some successful, and one zillion attempted exorcisms, some successful, in Dogs, using just exactly the rules in the book. Ceremony is a very minor mechanical effect - it only changes the size of fallout dice, it doesn't do anything else - so doing away with it, as Afraid does, won't matter.

Here's how you run an exorcism or a possession: say what's at stake. Set the stage. Name the opening arena. Roll dice. Make raises and sees. Escalate. Give. Roll Fallout. Play forward from there as the inviolate inner logic of the game's fiction requires.

Same as always.

-Vincent

[Valvorik]

Thanks.

[lumpley]

Don't be sore! Try it, you'll see.

-Vincent

[Valvorik]

[lumpley]

ExACTly. Well said.

-Vincent