Influence Newsletter Archive

[Brendan]

This thread will serve as an archive for all Influence newsletters put out by the staff. Whether you need to find an old issue, or you're a new player trying to catch up, it's all here. These are meant to break down rule explanations in layman's terms.

[Brendan]

DEDICATE

This rarely used feature of the influence system can really come in handy in a pinch. Most times, influences cannot be used immediately, but there's an exception for the well-prepared. If you set an influence to DEDICATE, you can react immediately!

With most actions, you have to wait a number of weeks, and then the effect happens, and that's that. This is great for loans, acquiring vehicles, or other actions that are not time sensitive.

But what about when Billy Brujah breaches the masquerade in a big way? Killing a local story (Media) isn't very helpful five weeks after the fact. What you can do instead is DEDICATE your Media 5 to kill a local story. It's the same level 5 action, but now, it's ready to go whenever you need it instead of right when the action finishes.

The trade off for this is that it isn't very versatile. If you have your Media 5 dedicated to killing a local story, and instead want to start a small story, you have to spend a week taking your influence off of DEDICATE before doing the level 3 action.

The alternative to this is Contacts and Allies, which always act immediately, but tend to want something in return... and are much more fragile.

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