Power at a price

contractor are a good power at a price thing, like the guy in the 1st episode had to break his fingers.

>>51961892
>What are some of your favorite examples of this in action?
Safest example: classic Glass Cannon.
Dangerous Example: The Deck of Many Things

Unknown Armies. You'd have to be crazy to use magick, literally to use magic you have to be a special kind of crazy to bend the universe to your will.

>>51961942
Darker than Black contractors or is this from something else?

The power is incredibly strong/useful but also literally addicting to use.
The power has to be something that is highly inconvenient if turned on at all times for this to actually be a downside.

It could be something highly destructive like being able to turn yourself into a walking inferno that spreads itself out over time or the ability to view far into the future, in either case if the user becomes addicted and unwilling to turn it off they could become the fire that threatens to consume an entire country or on a more personal level a comatose vegetable that has to be fed through a tube because they just don't want to see the present again.

I'm sure there's an anti-drug PSA in here.

>>51961892
I ssen someone post about magic leading to hubris once, it was interesting. It was more than simply being overconfident, magic itself affected your mind as if bringing a mental syndrome with it.

A player I know once reflected on a third, murderhobo, player, and considered poor-impulse control as a side-effect of magic wanting to manifest.

The original vancian magic is also interesting:
>“The tomes which held Turjan’s sorcery lay on the long table of black steel or were thrust helter-skelter into shelves. These were volumes compiled by many wizards of the past, untidy folios collected by the Sage, leather-bound librams setting forth the syllables of a hundred powerful spells, so cogent that Turjan’s brain could know but four at a time.

>Turjan found a musty portfolio, turned the heavy pages to the spell the Sage had shown him, the Call to the Violent Cloud. He stared down at the characters and they burned with an urgent power, pressing off the page as if frantic to leave the dark solitude of the book.

>Turjan closed the book, forcing the spell back into oblivion. He robed himself with a short cape, tucked a blade into his belt, fitted the amulet holding Laccodel’s Rune to his wrist. Then he sat down and from a journal chose the spells he would take with him. What dangers he might meet he could not know, so he selected three spells of general application: the Excellent Prismatic Spray, Phandal’s Mantle of Stealth, and the Spell of the Slow Hour.”
>-“Turjan of Miir”, Jack Vance

> It was not structured into "levels," and it was possible for anyone to attempt to use it, although with the possibility of backfiring. Spells that killed people instantly (such as The Excellent Prismatic Spray) were quite common and every wizard knew them.