House Rules

House Rules

This page is the home of all House Rules on Fate's Harvest. For sanity's sake, and concision's sake, where the HR is written on another page, this page will link to that rather than duplicate the information.

A House Rule is, by definition, up to the opinion of staff to create. Many HRs have been formed as workarounds to blend the current Changeling: the Lost game with the requirements of GMC, and many of these are already extant within the game itself via the news command, +psyroll and others.

It is safe to say that if something is not mentioned here, it operates per standard book rules. If you have a question, or believe staff has made an oopsident and forgotten something which SHOULD be here, please send up a +request!

Changeling

Clarity

This information is also written in 'news clarity'

As is made very clear in the books, Clarity is not morality. Clarity is a measure of how well a changeling balances being caught between two worlds. Acts of capricious passion and violence are considered threatening to Clarity not because they are morally wrong, but because they harken back to the horrors and sublime egocentrism of the Keepers.

Changeling 2.0 isn't out yet (and we will not be switching to it), but GMC is, which means the old hierarchy of Clarity "sins" does not mesh with our mortal players.

To streamline Becomings and keep our game consistent, staff has decided on a compromise for Breaking Points.

The old "sins" will be kept as so-called "standard" Breaking Points. They still apply to every character, and apply penalties as per the chart below, depending on which level the break is for. (See news clarity sins)

The points you choose during chargen are in addition to these, to flesh out your character's personality.

You don't need to roll if:

- Your Clarity is lower than a "standard" Breaking Point's former "sin" level.

You do need to roll if:

- Your Clarity is equal to or higher than a "standard" BP's former "sin" level.
- You hit a personal Breaking Point. Your personal points are up to you (or your ST) to judge.

If you go through a Becoming, you will have a chance to edit your Breaking Points to reflect changes in what would still damage your psyche after your Keeper's tender mercies.

Plus or minus any situational modifiers, as with Integrity, rolling to preserve/lose Clarity after a Breaking Point will be a Resolve + Composure roll with a base bonus/penalty determined by your current Clarity. See the chart below.

 10     9      8      7      6      5      4      3      2      1      0
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 +3    +2     +2     +1     +1      0     -1     -1     -2     -2     -3

"Why, characters at Clarity 0 can't be played! Why have it on the scale?" you might ask. Fate's Harvest is designed for the end-game. If you want to end your character's PC story by becoming a True Fae, the books offer some lovely tips, and Clarity 0 WILL be a thing. Briefly. In your final moments of glory, before staff relegates you to NPC status.

(Note that this affects the Lucidity Contract, Changelings.)

Example:

Damian the Darkling has Clarity 4.

He's having a fine old time in his sports car, and runs over a kid.

That's a standard Breaking Point. Manslaughter, especially of a kid, is not good.

But wait! Damian lost a son when he was Taken.

One of his personal Breaking Points is causing children to be harmed.

He decides that, to be fair, joyriding and carelessly killing a kid would deeply affect Damian's state of mind. It's just too much like what his Keeper used to do. He gives himself a -2 (or his ST does) penalty on the roll.

Damian rolls: +roll resolve+composure-1-2 to a +job.

--> He is at -1 to start with because his Clarity is 4. He has slipped far enough already that it's harder for him to retain clarity than it would be for someone with higher clarity.)

--> He has a -2 penalty because he chose to apply a second breaking point to the roll.

Note that if he hadn't chosen to apply the -2 Breaking Point, his penalty would have been -1, to reflect the level 4 "sin" of manslaughter.

In a case where a Clarity break could reflect multiple Breaking Points, always choose the option with the higher penalty.

If he passes, good, he's all set. He keeps his current Clarity level.

If he fails... he loses a Clarity level.

On top of that, he rolls his new Clarity as a dice pool to determine whether or not he acquires a derangement to go with it.

Example:

Lucinda the Beast has Clarity 7.

She's at a party, and does some very excellent drugs. What a trip!

...except it stops being great when she realises her Keeper's realm was awfully similar...

This is a standard Breaking Point at level 7.

Lucinda rolls: +roll resolve+composure+1-1 to a +job.

--> She is at +1 to start with because her Clarity is 7.

--> She has a -1 penalty because that is the penalty for level 7 "sins."

"Standard" Breaking Points

The following is a list of the standard Changeling breaking points.

By nature of the bonuses and penalties involved in streamlining to better match GMC and mortal Integrity, Clarity rolls are somewhat more forgiving than they would be in standard CtL.

Add the modifier below to any rolls based on the listed breaking points at that level.

Clarity Sins - "Standard" Breaking Points
CLARITY	MOD	BREAKING POINTS
10	0	Entering the Hedge. Dreamwalking. Using magic to accomplish a task when it could be achieved just as well without. Minor unexpected life changes.
9	0	Using tokens or other mystical items. Going a day without human contact. Minor selfish acts.
8	0	Breaking mundane promises or commitments, especially to attend to faerie matters. Changing Courts. Injury to another (accidental or otherwise).
7	-1	Taking psychotropic drugs. Serious unexpected life changes. Petty theft.
6	-1	Revealing your true form to unensorcelled mortals. Going a week without human contact. Obvious displays of magic in front of witnesses. Grand theft (burglary).
5	-1	Killing another changeling. Killing a fetch.
4	-1	Breaking formal oaths or pledges. Extreme unexpected life changes (pregnancy, losing a loved one, etc.). Impassioned or impulsive serious crimes (manslaughter).
3	-2	Actively harming a mortal by ravaging their dreams. Going a month without human contact. Kidnapping. Developing a derangement.*
2	-2	Killing a human. Casual/callous crime against other supernaturals (serial murder).
1	-2	Spending time in Arcadia. Prolonged or intimate contact with the True Fae. Mortal identity is suddenly and unexpectedly destroyed, totally abandoned or otherwise fundamentally changed. Heinous acts of torture, depravity or perversion.

* Does not include derangements brought on by failed Clarity degeneration rolls.

Kiths

• Darkling Nightsinger blessing: the book says to roll "Performance + Wyrd" but there is no Performance stat. Expression has been substituted.
• Wizened Pamarindo blessing: Original kith bonus used Iron Stomach, but Hardy replaced that merit in GMC. Gain 1-dot Hardy merit instead.

Merits

As Merits have their own page on the wiki, and HRs to merits are listed beside the merit entry, specific HRs are not listed here. Rather, this page is a list of all merits for which a HR has been made.

If a merit has (HR) after its name, it was created for Fate's Harvest, and is not found in any book.

Psychic Merits

• Aura Reading
• Biokinesis
• Clairvoyance
• Death Sight
• Dream Travel
• Mental Blast
• Mind Breaker
• Psychic Empathy
• Psychic Illusions
• Psychic Invisibility
• Psychokinesis
• Psychokinetic Immunity (HR)
• Psychokinetic Shaping (HR)
• Telepathic Communication
• Telepathic Rapport
• Telepathy

Thaumaturge Merits

• Dream Travel
• Familiar

Universal Merits

• Psychic Resistance