This is the thread for discussion of the Dresden Files Accelerated RPG, its rules, questions pertaining to DFRPG, or its setting.

Dresden Files Accelerated is Dresden Files done in a variation of Fate Accelerated.  I know it hasn't been released to the public yet... but the PDF is available...

Among other things, there's a new system mechanics approach to doing rituals.

Has anyone taken a stab at defining how to create multiple-use "rechargeable" enchanted items in Dresden Files Accelerated?

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/pr...en-Files-Accelerated
This message was last edited by the GM at 11:01, Wed 12 July 2017.

I'm confused about the relation between Indebted and ritual cost. More specifically how the Stuns like Winter Favor are supposed to be "discount" in that regard.

The cost for an unaligned mortal is four or five boxes, the cost for someone with Favor is two boxes. What's confusing about that?

I'd read "Winter's Favor" to be just precisely how it reads.   Someone in the Winter Court has taken a liking to this guy.   Giving him what he needs will likely also curry favor with whoever it is that he's associated with.  Not a transfer of debt, but still a sort of currying favor, socially.

Everyone has an Indebted Condition track.  The perceived value of the favor is scaled to the usefulness of the negotiator...

A simple, plain, but well-researched mortal can get crucial information from that high-society debutante he knows is a winter court duchess...  But boy will it cost him (full track, 5 boxes)!   But another guy, one with "Winter's Favor" will be looked upon more kindly (might only cost him 2 boxes)...  He could probably get a little more help, too, if he really needed it.  Because, after all, he's on someone's good side.

In reply to Alyse (msg # 5):

I think the issue is in the wording. X's Favor takes up a Stunt slot (sort of, it's weird with DFA), but both Spend Resources and Mystical Cheating suggest that you might need only 2 boxes of Indebted even without having Favor. Which means someone who gets the opportunity to spend a Refresh to take Favor might pass it by, since it may give no benefit depending on how the table feels about the character's relationship with a patron.

The situation isn't really as clear as it may seem at a glance, and delves a lot into how the GM and players see a given situation. That might make Favor stunts less attractive, and certainly makes Indebted more confusing.

In reply to Nintaku (msg # 7):

That. My confusion is really about how both someone with Favors vs someone else without (but not a pure mortal) all need only 2 boxes of Indebted to paid for one cost of ritual.

The Favors are all core stunts of their respective mantle and they do more than provide cost for ritual, you also get them for "free" when you choose that mantle. I don't know if evil hat intended the core stunts to be purchasable by other mantle (like how stunts from other mantle could be purchase at Significant Milestone, not sure at Major), but they mention that they are more powerful than normal stunts on page 114.

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In reply to Jait(msg # 6):

I don't think that Winter Favors (and the others) are with someone specific.
I see it as the benefit of being part of a large group that operate on a favor economy. The drawback is that the more you ask the group for help, the more you will be stock with errands (technically safe but challenging task, to regain 1 Indebted) or, if you are really annoying, a quest that will put you in mortal danger (to regain all of it).

Another example of the book treating Favors as being part of an large organization can be found in the Pack Influence stunt:

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The more I think about it, the more I think that Favors are mostly about being a shortcut: you already get a Sponsor willing to help you, you don't really need to bargain (you already got the best price possible), it probably don't take too much game time to call upon them.