{"id":1832,"date":"2013-07-12T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2013-07-06T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T14:55:08","slug":"the-evil-eye-a-new-power-for-better-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/2013\/07\/the-evil-eye-a-new-power-for-better-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evil Eye – A New Power for ‘Better Angels’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Better-Angels-cover-v4-front-612px\"<\/a>Written by Greg Stolze, \u00a9 2013<\/em><\/p>\n

The Evil Eye (Cruelty<\/i>)<\/h1>\n

Sometimes, you just want to put a hex on somebody, preferably from a distance and undetectably.\u00a0 That\u2019s a job for the Evil Eye.\u00a0 It has roughly the range of a pistol and when you glare at your foe and mutter something glottal under your breath\u2026 nothing happens.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the beauty of the Evil Eye.\u00a0 Nothing happens<\/i>.<\/p>\n

If that beauty is a little subtle for your tastes, consider that the Evil Eye hangs around.\u00a0 Your accurs\u00e9d victim tries to charm the pants off the UPS guy and nothing happens.\u00a0 She bucks for that promotion at work and nothing happens.\u00a0 She tries to get a search warrant for your lair, to no avail, and then she tries to shoot you and just misses<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The Evil Eye is not infallible, it can\u2019t stop everyone from doing everything, but it can slow down just about anybody.\u00a0 Here\u2019s how it works.<\/p>\n

Make your Cunning Cruelty <\/i>roll and, if you get a set, the target labors under the shackles of misfortune.\u00a0 Specifically, he takes a \u20131d penalty on every dice pool and, worse, if he has access to a Master Die somehow, that\u2019s the die<\/i> that gets removed.\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

The curse lasts for a number of scenes equal the Width+Height of your roll.\u00a0 You can curse someone more than once, but it doesn\u2019t deepen the penalty, it just resets the duration.\u00a0 If you rolled really well with the first curse (say, Width 2 and Height 10 for 12 scenes of impediment), a second curse might actually shorten<\/i> the duration (if it was Width 2 and Height 3, say).\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

GMs, be sure to have lots of pesky unrolled hassles fall upon the cursed also. Stuff like bank errors, car trouble, an embarrassing case of ringworm\u2026\u00a0 GMCs who get the curse should suffer these quotidian dismays as well as more serious setbacks for which you didn\u2019t necessarily roll.\u00a0 Anything you can do to make sure the villainous PC knows the curse seems to be working is good too.<\/p>\n

Written by Greg Stolze, \u00a9 2013<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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