Summon Ship in Gurps Fantasy 3e

marcusbaer99 · 04-15-2015, 04:57 PM

Hi, Another question?

I am trying to create a spell to Summon a full size mist ship for one of the characters in my Fantasy Campaign. I am not sure where to look for the building blocks for this in gurps 3e. Is there a suggestion or two available?

Thanks!

David Johnston2 · 04-15-2015, 05:05 PM

Building blocks? We don't need no steekin' building blocks. Just give it a long cast time and a fatigue cost of something like ten.

marcusbaer99 · 04-15-2015, 05:46 PM

I had not considered that. Thank you.

Fred Brackin · 04-15-2015, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by marcusbaer99

Hi, Another question?

I am trying to create a spell to Summon a full size mist ship for one of the characters in my Fantasy Campaign. I am not sure where to look for the building blocks for this in gurps 3e. Is there a suggestion or two available?

Thanks!

If you're actually "Summoning" an existing ship from elsewhere it's a specific version of Planar Summons.

If you're "Creating" a ship out of mist or something it's an impossibly expensive version of Create Object.

Stripe · 04-15-2015, 08:17 PM

Like Fourth Edition, unfortunately, the "building block" rules for the spells in Magic are rather too vague and ambiguous for my personal taste, but see Inventing New Spells, p. M14.

However, Kromm wrote some very good guidelines in Death Magic for those spells and for Pyramid 3/76 Rice wrote some pretty good rules for creating more powerful spells as well. I'd like to have seen them a bit tighter, a bit more like Kromm's, but they are a damn sight better than those found in Magic.

Note that the magic systems between Third and Fourth changed almost none at all. Of course, therein lies some of the issues people have with it, but in your case, it's great. I'd check out 3/76.

Otherwise, Fred's advice seems reasonable for this specific case.

marcusbaer99 · 04-17-2015, 12:14 PM

Thank you for the advice!

David Johansen · 04-17-2015, 08:25 PM

Create Wood, Engineer (Shipwright)/3, and a very good power stone should do it.

starslayer · 04-17-2015, 10:52 PM

What's the end effect?

To provide group transportation over water/air?

Look at 'Create Mount', multiply cost by some applicable amount for how much better/more awesome it is to have a ship that can transport multiple people and cargo then it is to have a mount, perhaps give it one or two more multipliers and make the duration 'weeks' so that its useful for sea travel for mages that need to sleep.

04-15-2015, 04:57 PM	#1
marcusbaer99 Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: The great Northeast of North America	Summon Ship in Gurps Fantasy 3e Hi, Another question? I am trying to create a spell to Summon a full size mist ship for one of the characters in my Fantasy Campaign. I am not sure where to look for the building blocks for this in gurps 3e. Is there a suggestion or two available? Thanks!

04-15-2015, 05:05 PM	#2
David Johnston2 Join Date: Dec 2007	Re: Summon Ship in Gurps Fantasy 3e Building blocks? We don't need no steekin' building blocks. Just give it a long cast time and a fatigue cost of something like ten.

04-15-2015, 05:46 PM	#3
marcusbaer99 Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: The great Northeast of North America	Re: Summon Ship in Gurps Fantasy 3e I had not considered that. Thank you.

04-15-2015, 08:17 PM	#5
Stripe Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Midwest, USA	Re: Summon Ship in Gurps Fantasy 3e Like Fourth Edition, unfortunately, the "building block" rules for the spells in *Magic* are rather too vague and ambiguous for my personal taste, but see Inventing New Spells, p. M14. However, Kromm wrote some very good guidelines in *Death Magic* for those spells and for *Pyramid 3/76* Rice wrote some pretty good rules for creating more powerful spells as well. I'd like to have seen them a bit tighter, a bit more like Kromm's, but they are a damn sight better than those found in *Magic. Note that the magic systems between Third and Fourth changed almost none* at all. Of course, therein lies some of the issues people have with it, but in your case, it's great. I'd check out 3/76. Otherwise, Fred's advice seems reasonable for this specific case. __________________ . "How the heck am I supposed to justify that whatever I feel like doing at any particular moment is 'in character' if I can't say 'I'm chaotic evil!'"? —Jeff Freeman

04-17-2015, 12:14 PM	#6
marcusbaer99 Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: The great Northeast of North America	Re: Summon Ship in Gurps Fantasy 3e Thank you for the advice!

04-17-2015, 08:25 PM	#7
David Johansen Join Date: Dec 2005	Re: Summon Ship in Gurps Fantasy 3e Create Wood, Engineer (Shipwright)/3, and a very good power stone should do it. __________________ http://www.neutralgroundgames.com

04-17-2015, 10:52 PM	#8
starslayer Join Date: Dec 2006	Re: Summon Ship in Gurps Fantasy 3e What's the end effect? To provide group transportation over water/air? Look at 'Create Mount', multiply cost by some applicable amount for how much better/more awesome it is to have a ship that can transport multiple people and cargo then it is to have a mount, perhaps give it one or two more multipliers and make the duration 'weeks' so that its useful for sea travel for mages that need to sleep.