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Prince Charon · 02-22-2023, 05:28 AM

So, thing that I was thinking of including but kept being tired and forgetting to mention it: While any fairly simple power technique used with this sort of equipment is going to have the same penalty whether you use the main skill (Polearm Art in this case) or Mental Strength, any technique which requires finesse is going to have a worse penalty to Mental Strength, because just brute-force shoving your Will at something is going to have limitations. So, while moving the wall or creating an updraft or downdraft is skill-4 for either skill, shaping a whirlwind might be -6 for Polearm Art, but -8 for mental Strength, or something like that.

Does that seem like it should work?

02-22-2023, 05:28 AM	#484
Prince Charon Join Date: Dec 2012	Re: [Space/Thaumatology] Stargate: Fantasy - Worldbuilding thread So, thing that I was thinking of including but kept being tired and forgetting to mention it: While any fairly simple power technique used with this sort of equipment is going to have the same penalty whether you use the main skill (Polearm Art in this case) or Mental Strength, any technique which requires finesse is going to have a worse penalty to Mental Strength, because just brute-force shoving your Will at something is going to have limitations. So, while moving the wall or creating an updraft or downdraft is skill-4 for either skill, shaping a whirlwind might be -6 for Polearm Art, but -8 for mental Strength, or something like that. Does that seem like it should work? __________________ Warning, I have the Distractible and Imaginative quirks in real life. "The more corrupt a government, the more it legislates." -- Tacitus Five Earths, All in a Row. Updated 12/17/2022: Apocrypha: Bridges out of Time, Part I has been posted.