Tokens/Examples

Examples of Token Power Levels

Especially if you're new to playing Changeling, picking the dot-level of the super cool new Token you want to buy for your alt can be challenging. This page is here to outline some basic guidelines and give you some insight into what staff will, and won't, accept for powers at specific dot levels.

The books themselves have many very helpful examples. Check them out.

Rules of Thumb

• As a rule of thumb, if you want your token to do something powerful, but want it to have lower dot level, slap some extremely nasty drawbacks on it. If the thing has negatives which almost (or do) outweigh the positives, you can get away with 'discounts' much more feasibly.
• Tokens tend to "balance out" their blessings with their drawbacks. Something which gives you an extreme physical bonus might give you a crippling mental handicap, for example. Something which lets you benefit somebody else might render you incapable of helping yourself, etc.
• If the token exactly duplicates a Kith blessing, it is 2 dots.
• If the token exactly duplicates the effects of a Contract, it is 1 dot less than the dot-level of the clause being duplicated. Minimum 1-dot. (i.e. a 2-dot token can duplicate a 3-dot clause)

1-dot Tokens

• These don't tend to give more than a +1 or +2 bonus, tops, or something equivalent to that.

2-dot Tokens

• These don't tend to give more than a +2 or +3 bonus, or two +1 bonuses, etc.

3-dot Tokens

• These don't tend to give more than a +3 or +4 bonus, or multiple lesser bonuses, etc.

4-dot Tokens

• These don't tend to give more than a +4 bonus.

5-dot Tokens

• These can get ridiculous.

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