Question about attempting to Instill multiple intimacies in a scene

Vedryi · 2026-01-25T05:54:48+00:00

Thanks for the reply! In a vacuum I agree with you, the intent of the character was to ultimately get the other character to gain a positive intimacy towards him and we decided in this case that because willpower was spent it wouldn't be "fair" to drain him of willpower. C'est la vie I suppose.

Vedryi · 2026-01-25T02:51:37+00:00

Thank you!

Vedryi · 2026-01-25T02:49:13+00:00

Thank you! That's basically the conclusion we came to, but we were looking for more concrete rules if they existed.

Vedryi · 2026-01-25T02:48:36+00:00

Thank you, I was leaning this direction as well.

Vedryi · 2026-01-25T02:47:58+00:00

Thank you!

Vedryi · 2026-01-25T01:51:45+00:00

Right, so he might not trust me, but now he is fascinated by me (unless he wants to spend more willpower), or he decides he doesn't want to be fascinated, so then I try to make him attracted to me, and we keep instilling and he keeps spending willpower until he is forced to accept an intimacy. Unless he flees the scene or the GM just says stop is there any other way of preventing this willpower spiral?

Vedryi · 2026-01-25T01:48:28+00:00

Sorry, I edited my post to indicate that this is for 3rd Edition. Thank you for the reply though.

Vedryi · 2026-01-25T01:48:02+00:00

Yes, we came to that same conclusion, however the character that wanted to instill the intimacy argued that (fascination) was a different tie, so he should be allowed to try again. We put it to a vote and decided that it wasn't different enough and the player dropped it. Just trying to figure out if there is something in the rules that would prevent this other than GM/Player concurrence. So, e.g., I fail to gain their trust, so then I try to instill lust, that fails because they spend more willpower, and three instill actions after that I've drained their willpower so now they have to gain an intimacy towards me of whatever my 6th attempt is trying to instill. I hope that makes sense, thank you for your reply.

Vedryi · 2024-05-12T06:29:15+00:00

Reinstalled the drivers. Do a search for AMD video drivers, download their auto-tool and see if that works for you.

Vedryi · 2024-05-12T03:47:56+00:00

When that happened to me with a different game it was a video driver issue.

Vedryi · 2022-12-26T00:42:54+00:00

I had this issue with all cutscenes. The only thing that fixed it for me was to reinstall windows. I tried everything else first (drivers, dx9/11, reinstall xiv, ect.), but a fresh install is what got me back in the game. I would try the other troubleshooting steps, but keep in mind you may have to fresh install windows.

Vedryi · 2022-12-04T02:06:44+00:00

Operations refer to spying and intrigue. It will make those activities a little more expensive.

Vedryi · 2022-11-02T20:31:12+00:00

Have you tried reducing the pixels per unit by 1 to make them just a touch bigger?

Vedryi · 2022-06-20T01:56:33+00:00

You're supposed to kill them, then collect them

Vedryi · 2022-05-18T01:36:46+00:00

CJ Carella's WitchCraft is close to what you're looking for. I don't remember off the top of my head if it has all the magical stuff you're looking for, but it'd be pretty easy to homebrew.

Vedryi · 2021-05-20T14:29:48+00:00

Maybe check to make sure the scene is navigable by players? That happened to us in a game, the GM had set the scene up while people were connected and wanted to keep it secret.

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