Hmmm... to make this a more powerful school...

Sig Charge: To gain a significant charge, you would need to be the cause of a divorce. You gain the charge when the divorce papers are actually signed.

as for what the significant formulae are, I haven't a clue... :p

Perhaps powers opposite of Pornomancy, as that school is about attraction, while this school focuses on taking relationships apart...


anyway, that's my .02
What do you think, sirs?

Moko, that'd be a perfect means of charge generation.

I'd been intentionally doing only minor charges and formulas, because I've been digging on this "minor school" idea for a while.

As a full school, that'd be the right way to go. If it were me, I'd probably add more formulas that relate to short-term emotional release. Maybe something that causes someone to have whatever emotions you want for the next hour. Maybe something that makes all parties in a contract agree that it's no longer valid. A significant blast like the minor. Maybe something that lets you alter the mood of a whole crowd temporarily. And, I dunno, something that causes someone to act like a suicidally brave daredevil for the next hour, with a big bonus to their activities but a recklessness that'd get 'em killed.

Something like that, maybe.

Sweet, sweet Lotharios and Casonovas.

Nice going, Ted.

Cheers,

Chris.

Ted:

That does sound good. I do like your "minor" schools, some will definatly be making cameos in my game. However, this one just struck a chord, and could really make a very insideous school... perhaps one growing out of the 60's-70's Free Love subculture, and really finding it's heyday in the Disco era.

Thanks, Moko!

I'm always curious to hear how schools I write work in actual play. Love to hear player reactions.

Yes, it's definitely got like a "dark-side-of-free-love" thing going.

Imagine the charge it would generate if the wronged spouse went OJ Simpson on the person who the Homewrecker did the deed with.

I guess that would be the Major charge, getting the Cuckolded person to try and actively kill you, since you have succeeded in "destroying" their sense of what's right and wrong.

What do you think, sirs?

Hmm. That's probably not enough, in my opinion. Typically, one person dying is worth a significant charge (see Thanatomancy significant charge). For a major charge, it's got to be a much bigger effect.

Hmmm.... a Major charge could be gained by breaking up a very high-profile couple. A random celebrity coulpe would be worth maybe an extra sig, but causing the break up of a Head of State for a 1st world country, or a marriage that is seen as the the pinnacle of marriage vows, like Paul and Linda McCartney (that's the first one off the top of my head)

Cause the murder-suicide of a celebrity couple.

That's a major charge.

C.

OOOOoooo.... I like that. :)

I love any school that makes the PC seriously consider ending another persons life, for a brief bit of power.

But then, I'm a bastard like that.

How about, for a major charge, "Break up a marriage in a way that leads to the death of someone you sincerely and deeply love."

(Following the lead of Entropomancy.)

You sir, an an evil evil man.

I love it. :)

Not to double-post, but the sheer screwed -up-ness of that situation is amazing.

Once the Adept found out what the Major Charge was, he/she'd have to deliberatly find someone to fall madly in love with, knowing all along that they planned on causing their death. I can just imagine one of these guys leaving a trail of dead bodies, getting more and more frustrated that he wasn't "really" in love with them.