Gifts in the "New" System

[morg]

New is in the quotation marks thingy because it's pre-"Fate ran away and hid for months."

Anyway, as I understand it, we now pick three Gifts, more or less, and that's what our character gets? and/or we end up picking less than that, should we so choose. My question involves those Gifts that were designed to evolve into other Gifts.

For example, Morgan right now has Eidetic Memory. The only reason she has that is because when we revamped the Gift evolution thing, we had it so that Adoptive Muscle Memory got Eidetic Memory as a stage II. Which meant that you could have four Gifts, even higher if you opted for another that morphed instead of just evolving. Does this mean that if I wanted to keep Eidetic Memory, I have to forsake another in favor of keeping just three? Or do I keep that one, and add more?

I'm planning on refiguring Morgan's profile to try and set things up, explain her situation (mebbe Kennedy's) and get her Gifts right. Before I pick I kinda want to know what's open.

Which I suppose would lead to this follow up question: am I beholden to what I had beforehand? I'm mostly looking at Kinetic manipulation, which it says Morgan has but i haven't had her use since I got back. I'm not certain I want to keep that or not, and I'm kinda wondering where the ruling is on that...

[Skye Malizia]

I suppose I should post this here. I don't really want Skye to have Telepathy, at least the reception bit. I just want her to have Projection. As for other gifts, I don't think she really needs any. I'm happy with just one half of telepathy, and she'd probably go insane if she developed the second half.

[Kirien Melantha]

Sorry, Matt, it's three gifts only. We're getting rid of the gifts developing other gifts thing, pretty sure. Any other changes we make shouldn't be (as?) hard to work with. You can keep/drop/switch whatever you like, but if you're losing something you've used a lot, like Adoptive Muscle Memory, it could be awkward explaining how things happened in previous posts, getting other characters to play along with it, etc.

Skye, you can still have telepathy (projection). You don't ever have to worry about developing the other half, or other gifts, if you don't want them. :D

[morg]

Sept 6, 2009 18:28:33 GMT -5 Kirien Melantha said:

Sorry, Matt, it's three gifts only. We're getting rid of the gifts developing other gifts thing, pretty sure. Any other changes we make shouldn't be (as?) hard to work with. You can keep/drop/switch whatever you like, but if you're losing something you've used a lot, like Adoptive Muscle Memory, it could be awkward explaining how things happened in previous posts, getting other characters to play along with it, etc.

Skye, you can still have telepathy (projection). You don't ever have to worry about developing the other half, or other gifts, if you don't want them. :D

oh Morgan's definitely keeping her adoptive Gift, that pretty much is Morgan, even stretching back to WoM, when it was weird. I'm still waffling on the other bits though.

I can tell you that she's probably not going to go for Eidetic, though it would be interesting to see what kind of weird combination I could rig up from that :P

I'll be redoing her profile soon; I'll sort it all out by then and reregister. Just wanted to put all the ducks in a row first.