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Shoug · 05-23-2019, 02:51 AM

I've been toying with ideas for fairly high costed talents that a character can take that gives them unique fundamental relationships with magic. A talent that represents a unique ability or source from which your magical powers swell. I wanna share a few and see if anybody is doing anything similar:

Sorcerous Bloodline (3): A wizard with this talent may fatigue his intellect by 1 at any time in order to charge/recharge his Manastaff with 1 Mana. Intellect fatigue lasts for half a day, and can alter what spells you are able to cast.

Spellsong Bardic School (2): A character with this talent can choose the option "SONG" which, on a successful Dex check, grants everybody within 2 megahex's 1 Fatigue and 1 Mana recharge. A bard/master bard that chooses this option with an instrument (2 handed) in hand will recharge 2/3 Mana instead, and give everybody +1/+2 Dex until the end of your next turn.

Power (4): A character may have only 1 Power per 20 total attribute points. A power represents an ability that produces a magical effect by some natural or abstract ability of the character. The power is actually a wizard spell that may have two of these advantages:
[A]The strength costs of that spell may be reduced by half.
[B]It's durations may be doubled.
[C]It's rolled for at +2 Dex.
[D] It can be cast as a bonus action. You may choose which action is preformed first, and which will be preformed at -4 Dex

A jedi-esque fighter might take blur with this to represent the effect his prescience has on his fighting skills, or a super tricky ranger might take teleport with this to represent his Batman-eque ability to maneuver the battlefield. A dragon based lizard man could take fireball with this to represent his fire breath ability, or a ninja could take 3 hex shadow to represent his Shadow Weave Jutsu.

The character must meet the IQ requirement of the spell to take it as a power, and GM should feel welcome to increase the IQ cost of the whole Power talent depending on exactly how powerful the option looks.

Is this something you guys think about?

05-23-2019, 02:51 AM	#1
Shoug Join Date: May 2019	Sorcerous Talents I've been toying with ideas for fairly high costed talents that a character can take that gives them unique fundamental relationships with magic. A talent that represents a unique ability or source from which your magical powers swell. I wanna share a few and see if anybody is doing anything similar: Sorcerous Bloodline (3): A wizard with this talent may fatigue his intellect by 1 at any time in order to charge/recharge his Manastaff with 1 Mana. Intellect fatigue lasts for half a day, and can alter what spells you are able to cast. Spellsong Bardic School (2): A character with this talent can choose the option "SONG" which, on a successful Dex check, grants everybody within 2 megahex's 1 Fatigue and 1 Mana recharge. A bard/master bard that chooses this option with an instrument (2 handed) in hand will recharge 2/3 Mana instead, and give everybody +1/+2 Dex until the end of your next turn. Power (4): A character may have only 1 Power per 20 total attribute points. A power represents an ability that produces a magical effect by some natural or abstract ability of the character. The power is actually a wizard spell that may have two of these advantages: [A]The strength costs of that spell may be reduced by half. [B]It's durations may be doubled. [C]It's rolled for at +2 Dex. [D] It can be cast as a bonus action. You may choose which action is preformed first, and which will be preformed at -4 Dex A jedi-esque fighter might take blur with this to represent the effect his prescience has on his fighting skills, or a super tricky ranger might take teleport with this to represent his Batman-eque ability to maneuver the battlefield. A dragon based lizard man could take fireball with this to represent his fire breath ability, or a ninja could take 3 hex shadow to represent his Shadow Weave Jutsu. The character must meet the IQ requirement of the spell to take it as a power, and GM should feel welcome to increase the IQ cost of the whole Power talent depending on exactly how powerful the option looks. Is this something you guys think about?