If you enjoy the Dresden Files RPG or resolutions this is the place for you. · 6:58pm Jan 6th, 2016
This year I've decided that my New Year's resolution is to publish at least one chapter of a story (Gregor McAwesome doesn't count) each month of 2016. Last year was the first time I ever set a serious resolution for myself and I managed to met it, so I'd like to see if I can have as much success in my second as I did with my first. And speaking of Gregor, well, I think we have enough data to agree that that experiment was not a success. I'll probably still update it every now and again when the mood grips me, but that's part of experimenting: seeing what works and what doesn't.
Just for fun, when I was planning exactly what the Mane 6 and Spike would be able to do in their human forms I stat'ed them out using the system from the Dresden Files RPG.
Rainbow Dash
* Skills (35)
+5 Athletics, Fists
+4 Endurance, Alertness
+3 Stealth, Intimidation
+2 Might, Investigation, Discipline
+1 Conviction, Presence, Rapport, Deceit, Performance (singing)
* Powers/Stunts (9/10)
-4 Supernatural Speed: +4 sprinting (Athletics), +2 all Athletics, etc
-1 Acrobat: +1 Athletics for surviving falls, +1 dodging (Athletics) ranged attacks
-1 What Gravity?[custom]: +2 Jumping/leaping (Athletics)
-1 No pain, no gain: +1 mild physical consequence
-1 Corner of my eye: +2 shifts when using Alertness to unconsciously pick up details
-1 Infuriate: +2 Intimidation to make someone angry
Fluttershy
* Skills (35)
+5 Survival
+4 Stealth, Empathy
+3 Conviction, Rapport, Performance (singing)
+2 Discipline, Scholarship, Alertness, Lore
+1 Endurance, Presence, Conviction, Deceit, Investigation
* Powers/Stunts (8/10)
-3 The Stare [custom]: Fluttershy can initiate a mental grapple with an opponent by making eye contact. This grapple is will vs will (Conviction) and Fluttershy gets a +3 bonus to her Conviction while maintaining it. This grapple is only ended if Fluttershy is attacked, the opponent gains control of the grapple, or line of sight between Fluttershy and the opponent is broken. This ability can only be used once per scene.
-2 Friend to Animals [custom]: +2 Survival when dealing with any type of mundane animal.
-1 Read the Surface: Your first attempt to read a person with Empathy takes less than a minute
-1 Scholar: +1 Scholarship (Zoology), +2 Scholarship (Pet care/training)
-1 World Champ of the Quiet Game [custom]: -2 difficulty to any sound based penalties when using Stealth
Pinkie Pie
* Skills (35)
+5 Performance (being Pinkie)
+4 Rapport, Weapons
+3 Endurance, Presence, Guns (Cannons)
+2 Alertness, Athletics, Empathy, Investigation
+1 Conviction, Discipline, Might, Deceit, lore
* Powers/Stunts (9/10)
-2 Rule of Funny [custom]: If the description of any action Pinkie plans to undertake makes the Game Master (GM) laugh, gain +2 to the roll.
-2 Pinkie Sense [Supernatural Sense]: At the beginning of the session flip a coin. If heads her Pinkie Sense is active for the session, if tails it is not. While active Pinkie's Alertness is +4 and modifies her dodge rolls, but she takes -1 to all social rolls. If her Pinkie sense is not active for the session you may activate it for the duration of one scene for in exchange for 2 fate points.
-2 Hammer Space [custom]: Pinkie may store any number of non-living items, so long as the item is not bigger or heavier than herself. The GM must keep a list of what you have in hammer space, and you must notify the GM anytime you wish to add or take out an item. This ability cannot be discussed with other party members, nor can they see the list of what is in hammer space.
-2 Off-screen Teleport [custom]: So long as her departure point is unseen, Pinkie may treat any border values as zero and pass through zones unseen. However, this uses her entire turn and she must be visible at the end of it.
-1 Leadership: +1 Presence for directing a group and their actions occur one time increment faster.
Applejack
* Skills
+5 Endurance, Fists
+4 Investigation, Athletics
+3 Conviction, Might
+2 Alertness, Rapport, Discipline
+1 Presence, Empathy, Survival, Intimidation, Performance (singing)
*Powers/Stunts (9/10)
-4 Supernatural Strength: +4 stress to any attack using muscular force, +6 lifting/breaking (Might), etc
-4 Supernatural Toughness: Armor2 against all physical stress, 4 additional boxes of physical stress.
+2 The Catch: Any non-corporeal attack (fire, electricity, magic/magically enchanted objects, etc)
-1 Killer Blow: You may add 3 stress to a successful Fists attack for a Fate point
-1 No pain, no gain: You can take 1 additional mild physical consequence
-1 Looking for Truth [custom]: Use Investigation instead of Empathy to detect lies
Rarity
* Skills (35)
+5 Craftsmanship (fashion)
+4 Rapport, Deceit, Empathy
+3 Conviction, Discipline, Presence
+2 Fists, Resources, Performance (singing)
+1 Alertness, Endurance, Athletics
* Powers/Stunts (9/10)
-2 Channeling [Spirit]: Use one element of Evocation
-2 Ritual [Crafting]: Use one specialty of Thaumaturgy
-1 Focused Magic [custom]: Any spell involving clothing or another component of fashion is modified by Rarity's craftsmanship
-1 Read the Surface: Your first attempt to read a person with Empathy takes less than a minute
-1 Best Foot Forward: +1 Rapport for first impressions and failing that roll can't result in a negative outcome
-1 Teflon Persona: Social Armor1
-1 Personal Magnetism: +2 Presence to establish a passive reaction (Charisma)
Twilight 'OP' Sparkle
* Skills (40)
+5 Conviction, Discipline
+4 Lore, Scholarship, Rapport
+3 Presence, Intimidation, Investigation
+2 Alertness, Athletics, Empathy
+1 Endurance, Deceit, Performance (singing)
*Powers/Stunts (11/12)
-3 Evocation: Instantaneous magic
Specialization: +1 power (spirit) +1 control (spirit)
-3 Thaumaturgy: Lasting magic
Specialization: +1 complexity (enchanting) +1 control (enchanting)
-2 Inhuman Mental Toughness: Mental Armor1 (does not apply to self-inflicted stress), +2 boxes of Mental stress capacity
-1 Arcane Researcher: Any attempts to research Lore or Scholarship occur 1 time increment faster
-2 Refinements: +1 power (wind) +1 control (wind), +1 power (spirit), +1 control (spirit)
Spike
* Skills (30)
+4 Endurance
+3 Scholarship, Fists, Lore, Discipline
+2 Conviction, Alertness, Athletics, Deceit
+1 Investigation, Rapport, Presence, Might, Empathy, Survival
*Powers/Stunts (7/8)
-4 Supernatural Toughness: Armor2 against all physical stress, 4 additional boxes of physical stress.
+2 The Catch: Any non-corporeal attack (electricity, magic/magically enchanted objects, etc)
-8 Physical Immunity: You cannot be harmed
+6 The Catch: Non-fire (you are only immune to fire)
-1 Claws: treat Fists as Weapon2
-2 Breath Weapon [Fire]: Roll Fists to generate a Weapon2 attack. This attack may travel up to one zone away.
+5 Pinkie:Being Pinkie.
Ahh, that brings back memories of good times on tabletops.
A monthly basis is good, as you can spend one of the free days a weekend or so, first one to set out the story base for the chapter, second and third to write down the story, working out which ideas should be pulled in or put back in the morgue, fourth weekend for editing and cleaning up? Of course, depends how fast you go, and how much the universe doesnt want you do proceed.
Is Dresden RPG fully self contained or does it use a well established core such as PF,D20?
Ahh good ol DFRPG, where the easiest way to stat 'immune to fire' is 'immune to all damage, except for damage that isn't fire.'
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I got to say that you made interesting stats for the Mane 6 and Spike. BTW, are you going to make a chapter for January for Firefly and then a chapter for Dresden in February? Or will the next chapter be on February since you already published a chapter in January?
Pinkie's entire sheet is great.
Of course, now that you've posted everyone's stats, people will be able to crosscheck it with story events, and then call you out if something seems to conflict. Hopefully that never gets annoying.
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It is part of the FATE system, but the Dresden books for it are self-contained. You don't require any regular FATE books.
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If this were an actual character sheet I'd have shorthanded it to -2 Physical Immunity: Fire, but the full details never hurt.
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Dresden Fillies counts as the January chapter.
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Thanks, I had a lot of fun making those. If anybody does I can always justify with 'they rolled high/low'
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In fact, IIRC, Evil Hat Productions tinkered with the rules for the original version of FATE to make the system work better for DFRPG.
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Or "they spent Fate Points".
Unfortunately for me, the only game of DFRPG I've been a part of was a kind of hybridized Dresden Files/Atomic Robo mix (AR using a later version of the FATE system than DFRPG). The game basically ended up being Fullmetal Alchemist set in New Orleans.
Of course, the final battle of the campaign got kind of hilarious. We were on a platform surrounded by a bottomless pit, and my character was a kinetomancer. I took out half of the bad guys on my own just by force pushing them off a ledge.
At last we have the settings magic system revealed.
I suppose it wouldn't be possible for Spike to have stats more suited to an actual Dresden verse dragon -- they're pretty much physical gods.
Ahh the Dresden Files Rpg... one of these days I need to actually learn the system instead of laughing at the notes in the margins.
Lmao at world champ of the quiet game, rule of funny, and Twilight 'OP' Sparkle.
Anyway if you think you can do monthly chapters more power to you.
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I really enjoyed this blog post, it started me working on a write up for Sunset Shimmer (which I might post at some point), I do have a question though. How do you consider the Lawbreaker powers for those who it applies to? Obviously Twilight is the primary culprit here but multiple characters could be argued to have done it.
It's funny to think about but Twilight has broken the majority of the Laws at one point or another and would be a Lawbreaker: Second Law (multiple counts), Third Law (multiple counts), Fourth Law, and Sixth Law (multiple counts). In most cases it was for heroic reasons or with consent but that doesn't matter in the Dresden Universe much. Do you just ignore them because she's from another universe/isn't human or would you include them if you were doing a more full write up? Man those would be some crippling Refresh Penalties (-9 from the Lawbreaker penalties alone?)...
Shouldn't RD, as the bearer of Loyalty have a higher Conviction, or some sort of Stunt to make up for it being so low?
August 2023 edit: Much less important but with Winter wraps up and her character arc going into rulership, maybe Twilight could be argued to have Leadership?