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Hi all!

Hi all! I’m hoping to run game of US soon, and I had a quick question about the Wizard Archetype’s spell Hex. In the “Notes on Your Moves” section, the book says, “Only one Hex can be cast on a target at a time. Additional hexes do not inflict additional harm.”

What does this mean precisely?

I’m assuming it is saying that a Wizard can’t use 3 hold to cast a single 3 Harm Hex on a single target, but would that same Wizard be able to wait a moment to cast 3 separate 1 Harm Hexes on that same target (and presumably have 3 samples of the target’s DNA)?

Or that a single Channeling roll, no matter how much hold you get, only lets a Wizard cast Hex once for 1 Harm on a single target?

Or that no matter how often you Channel, you can only ever harm a target once for 1 Harm?

Or that a significant amount of time must pass before you can re-cast the Hex?

Thanks for any clarification you can give me!

Kyle, thanks for your answer to my previous question!

Kyle, thanks for your answer to my previous question! I have a few more questions about Bonds, if that’s okay? They’re all kind of inter-related…

Are there any hard limits on a single Bonds total (I’m mostly thinking about negative Bonds)? Could I conceivably have a Bond rating of -6 or lower?

And, related to that question; can I burn negative Bonds? Clearly you can burn a Bond at 0 to -1, but can I keep burning that Bond after it is negative? In the fiction, this makes sense, as the relationship keeps gets worse, but after a point might seem mechanically abusive. As an EiC, of course, you might say that the deteriorating nature of the relationship means they cut all ties with you and that Bond simply goes away… planning, of course, to turn that person into a new Villain, since their hatred of the hero has become so all consuming!

How do negative Bonds affect the Bond Threshold? For instance, if my Bond Threshold is 5, and my negative Bonds total -3, then could my positive Bonds total 8? Or is the limit on my positive bonds, so that no matter how negative my Bonds, I still can’t have more positive Bonds than my Threshold?

Sorry to bombard you with questions! I’m excited about the game, it does a lot of the things I’ve always felt superpower games should do!

Hi!

Hi! Enjoying my read-through of WiP, but I had one rules question regarding the Last Chance move. Since you don’t make it until you have your maximum number of Conditions, does that mean you are always making the Last Chance move at -2 or -3? It does not seem from the text that any Stat is ever added to the move, so there’s no way other than Bonds to mitigate that penalty. Is that correct?