08-12-2020, 08:57 AM | #71 |
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Re: [Magic] New IQ/A Spells
Since it is an IQ/A spell, perhaps it is only accurate to the year and month rather than the exact age? You could then just reduce the cost to 1 energy.
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08-12-2020, 09:09 AM | #72 |
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Re: [Magic] New IQ/A Spells
Hmm, how does this version of Age Check sound?
Age Check Regular Spell, Knowledge College Casting Time: 1 second Range: Touch Cost: 1 to 5 Duration: Instantaneous On casting the spellcaster must touch the target and gets either the subjective age or chronological age of the target, chosen at the time of casting. The target can resist normally. Accuracy is based on the energy spent. For 1 energy, accurate to the year; for 2 energy it's accurate to the month, for 3 energy its accurate to the day, for 4 energy its accurate to the hour, for 5 energy its accurate to the best time keeping device available at the casters TL. Creatures with strange origins may give confusing responses!
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08-12-2020, 09:20 AM | #73 | |
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Re: [Magic] New IQ/A Spells
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It'd be really cool to age test things like musical instruments, statuary, and fossils. |
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08-12-2020, 09:33 AM | #74 |
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Re: [Magic] New IQ/A Spells
I don't see why not. It would be a great place for supporting skills. Make an Archeology roll before you test an old statue, otherwise the spell may tell you when the stone of the statue was first formed out of magma instead of carved. Artificial items can have a lot of potential creation dates, depending on what you are looking for. When you test the table, when the tree was planted, when the board was milled and when the last piece attached are all potential creation dates.
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08-13-2020, 05:29 AM | #75 |
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Re: [Magic] New IQ/A Spells
Identify Book
By touching a book and casting this spell, you get a general sense of what the book is about - the same amount of information you'd get from reading the blurb on the back. Useful for identifying books without a blurb, especially those where your brain would turn to mush if you opened them and looked at the pictures. Cost: 1 Time to Cast: 1 second.
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08-13-2020, 08:19 AM | #76 |
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Re: [Magic] New IQ/A Spells
Enticing lure
Cost: 3 Time to cast: 1 minute Duration: 8 hours Murmur a chant of good luck over a small-game snare or fishing hooks to enhance their attractiveness to their targets. Gain a +2 to the appropriate fishing or trapping roll. Expires after 8 hours or the first creature caught, whichever comes first. |
08-23-2020, 09:38 AM | #77 |
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Re: [Magic] New IQ/A Spells
Two new spells invented for a frontier school teacher.
Clean Chalkboard Regular Spell, Making and Breaking College Casting Time: 1 second Range: Touch Cost: 1 per chalkboard Duration: Instantaneous Completely cleans all chalk off a chalkboard, but not other stains or marks. The chalk will either fall to the floor or collect in a container touching the board. Recycle Chalk Regular Spell, Making and Breaking College and Earth College Casting Time: 10 seconds Cost: 1 per pound of chalk scrap Duration: Instantaneous The spell condenses chalk dust, shards and pieces back into usable chalk sticks. Any non-chalk materials will be left out. The chalk is of basic quality, good quality on a success of 5+, fine on a critical success.
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08-23-2020, 11:51 AM | #78 | |
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Re: [Magic] New IQ/A Spells
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EDIT: Or is chalk recycling actually something one can traditionally do with minimal tools? It seems like it might be feasible since (apparently, I didn't know this previously) stick chalk is basically molded from wet powdered chalk and baked at fairly low temperatures.
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08-23-2020, 12:03 PM | #79 | |
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08-23-2020, 12:21 PM | #80 |
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Re: [Magic] New IQ/A Spells
Ah! Recycle Chalk inspires me!
Mold Soap Regular Spell, Making and Breaking Casting Time: 10 seconds Cost: 1 per lb of soap scraps Duraction:Instantaneous This spell takes fragments of soap bars due either to breaking or wear and molds them together to make one larger bar. Can also rehape soap bars that have become oddly-shaped. It does not create soap so you may need many remnant bars to make one effectively new bar. There ought to be another spell for Recycling Wax from various LT sources such as impressed seals or higher TL ones such as packaged cheese or just leftover candle stubs. If you want to make the recycled wax into a new candle you'll need to provide the new wick.
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