QUOTE (Sir_Psycho @ Aug 6 2008, 10:15 AM)

That's interesting. Do you have any page references I can look up that back that up?
Also, do spirits move at astral speed or do they have a more mortal movement modifier? Because if they materialize and then can only run/fly at "physical" speed, then that would actually make a spirit chase quite fun. You run in and out of rooms, and they either have to take actions smashing doors down, or using complex actions to switch back to astral to find you and then materialize again to intercept. That would appease me, greatly.
Also, do Petit Brume grenades restrict materialized spirits, or just astral. Do they have physical sight when materialized, or are they still astrally perceiving?
Just look up the spirits stats. They have "move" listed for each one the same as all other critters. Some fly fast more than fast enough to run down any PC. Others plod along on the ground once material. THerefore you could certainly have an exciting chase scene if you pick the right spirit.
Remember it can always spend another complex action to go astral again and move at high speeds. So the chance might have a bit of a scooby doo feel as just when they think they've escaped they realize the spirit is in the closet with them (though again it can't act that pass as it just spent its complex action to materialize). So the players scream and start running again.
The only way to escape is crossing wards, crossing something else astrally active, getting into some background count, or going someplace where the spirit just can't track you.
Actually if I was making it into a movie scene I might have the hero pull out their streetline special, fire a bunch of rounds that miss, the spirit laughs for a moment at the punny mortal, and then the raw industrial earth violating radioactive sludge bursts from the pipe above them, the background count spikes ,and the spirit disapates.
On that note if you wanted to bring domains back a little via a semi RAW method you could be a bit selective in applying background count based on spirit type. While generally more about not being so affected by a background count the idea that background counts affect people differently is in there.
In the X rated version the hero manges to ditch the spirit temporarily in a crowd, but it'll use it's powers to find them. So now they've got only a few minutes with three women, a midget, and a shapershifter to get the background count up due to intense emotions and/or freaky stuff. Can they do it?
Oh and who is Boyle? Is the nerf to going ghostbusters on spirits published anywhere or is it that one of the catalyst guys said something on these boards?