[RPM] Energy Cells

[Engurrand]

I'm getting ready to run a game I'm calling SPACE WIZARDS!!!!

I want to try using RPM with energy reserves based in gadgets. Smaller cells power "blasters" etc, big ones power spaceships which run by opening gates between the stars (probably have to reduce range penalties on gate spells to keep those power levels under control, but I'm still looking at that). I might ban conditional spells altogether, or make them a greater effect, to emphasize powering rituals in the moment from device energy pools.

In this setting, the cell provides the Ritual Energy cost, and the device it's in gives an efficiency bonus for limiting the energy to whatever purpose. So for example, a blaster would be powered by a C cell for, say 40 ER (WAG) and gives it +25% efficiency bonus for only working with fire spells. So you get 50 ER for Fire Rituals only. Design your own ritual. Point and click.

So I'm sitting here with two problems:
1: trying to eyeball how much energy I want to say each Power Cell in ultra tech aught to provide.

2: working out the efficiency bonuses for different brands of limitation.

So to start with, some WAGs.

AA -1
A - 10
B - 20
C - 45
D - 100
E - 240
F - 600

This would sort of give me military grade striker spells at the C-E range, and ground-pounders at the E-F range, based on my eyeballing limited experience with RPM.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

[Christopher R. Rice]

This might be helpful.

[Christopher R. Rice]

Also, this blog post may be of some use.

[Engurrand]

I guess I really should have just PMed you... I should have known you'd done all this work before ;)

Pillar of the community, man.

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by Engurrand

I guess I really should have just PMed you... I should have known you'd done all this work before ;)

Pillar of the community, man.

One does ones best. :-)

(And feel free to PM me whenever. Or email. It might take some time, but I always answer.)