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Good evening everybody!
I’m playing Fallen Empires with few friends and having a Mesmerast and a Mystic in the first session I came out with the question “what is magic to you?” so players defined according to their characters’ idea: that thing that allows them to do their “tricks”.
Now, the Mystic acts as a magician, so whenever she needs to she inserts magic and enchantments in the description of her moves’ outcome. Absolutely no problem with this, even when she declares an enchantment as her action: if this activate a move, go forth and roll that. But yesterday evening the Mystic wanted to carry with her some children she rescued from a sacrifice and who were taken away by their parents. So she said: “I perform a magic that will take the children from their parents, no matter what.”
Now, in first edition I would have had no doubt and I had her roll “Seize something by force”, but in this case – being it a battle move and being not the Mystic in battle – I didn’t know what to do. An idea could have been “Go into danger”, but there was no sudden threat. So we stopped for a while and talked about it and – even if I don’t like to do so – I suggested the player to change description and she agreed to describe how she forced the kids’ parents to leave the children and let them come to her. It was clearly a manipulate, so we resolved like this.
What would you have done instead? Thanks everybody who will answer.
