[UA] Avatars and Godwalkers

[Cassady Toles]

On Sat, 05 May 2001 10:05:40 -0400, ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:

  
  Like, if it's based on what reality knows to be dangerous, do they get a
  charge by doing something dangerous without knowing it?  (Crossing a
  sniper's field of fire, insulting Eponymous, plotting to take down someone
  who's actually a Duke, &c...)
  
  
This is just like the example of the pornomancer puking off the naked
goddess's porch in the main book.  No, you have to have intent to do magic. 
You have to believe in what you're doing.  It also has to be what you're
doing.  Something done for a charge has to be done for the charge.  Getting
in a car chase because the cops are looking for you on a murder rap you
can't escape won't give you a charge.  Stealing one of the last 1263 shelby
cobras, running a red in front of a cop and doing a merry chase the wrong
way down I-5 in the middle of LA rush hour, is a series of significant
charges.  If your apprentice is in the car with you it is a series of
significant charges and at least one major one.  

I believe you normally get one charge per action, but if you can "crank it
up," everything changes.  The high speed car chase in town cranks it up. 
Taking it to the freeway cranks it up, jumping the center divide of that
freeway cranks it up, etc.

The rules also seem to imply the GM should be tracking charges not the
player, so a player doesn't always know if he got a charge or not, but I
don't know anyone who plays it that way (more shit to track--pardon my
french).

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