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tanksoldier · 02-12-2018, 08:58 PM

I just had an interesting idea from a player in a campaign I'm getting started.

In the basic set it mentions delusions being true. What if a character's delusion "the old gods have returned" is true... for HIM?

Would it be unbalancing in a modern day TL-8 campaign for a character to be able to "pray" for minor spell effects, and have it work?

I'm thinking Delusion because everybody ELSE will assume it's a delusion and react with penalties... at least, until they watch him actually Minor Heal somebody... plus Power Investiture and Blessed.

This was sparked by a short story on Imagur about aliens invading, and the old gods returning to fight them off.

02-12-2018, 08:58 PM	#1
tanksoldier Join Date: Feb 2005	Game Balance: Clerical Magic in a non-magic world I just had an interesting idea from a player in a campaign I'm getting started. In the basic set it mentions delusions being true. What if a character's delusion "the old gods have returned" is true... for HIM? Would it be unbalancing in a modern day TL-8 campaign for a character to be able to "pray" for minor spell effects, and have it work? I'm thinking Delusion because everybody ELSE will assume it's a delusion and react with penalties... at least, until they watch him actually Minor Heal somebody... plus Power Investiture and Blessed. This was sparked by a short story on Imagur about aliens invading, and the old gods returning to fight them off. Last edited by tanksoldier; 02-12-2018 at 09:03 PM.