11-26-2020, 09:36 AM | #31 |
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Body of Food (Other) would be a devastating spell.
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11-26-2020, 04:06 PM | #32 |
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11-27-2020, 02:07 AM | #34 |
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As long as they aren't sailing through a no-mana area (and aren't more afraid of magic than they are of starvation or illness), a master Food mage would be in massive demand among ship crews. Also vital for an army to have enough Food mages, and for a town under siege to have at least a few. One of my plot points that I sometimes plop into fantasy settings is a historical siege that lasted decades, due to both sides having good support mages and a lot of stubbornness. I sort of wonder what sort of cultural effects that would have afterward, whether it was really one continuous siege, or a series of several mostly-inconclusive sieges.
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11-27-2020, 02:29 AM | #35 |
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Quite a lot of their body is edible, but that varies according to who's doing the eating and how much preparation is required. Body of Pasta or Body of Chocolate would make them entirely edible immediately.
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11-27-2020, 02:39 AM | #36 | |
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11-27-2020, 07:48 AM | #38 |
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Well if reality is any precedent, the besieged side slowly decays and refocuses its energies on spells of mass destruction, while the sieging side undergoes an economic boom, a mass increase in communication spells, and invents K-Pop. The siegers no longer have any desire to conquer the besieged (in part because conquest would be disastrous to both sides), but must maintain the siege out of fear of what the besieged would do.
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11-27-2020, 01:56 PM | #39 |
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Not to be disgusting, but Create Food can safely transform human/animal waste into food for a cost of 2 FP/meal (safely disposing of a potential disease vectors while creating rather strangely palatable food). A single mage with Create Food-15 with 99 nonmage participants can create 50 meals every 15 minutes (5 minutes for the ceremonial casting and 10 minutes for everyone to recover 1 FP), meaning that they could create 1200 meals in six hours. Since children could participate in such a ceremonial casting, it would be a good way to keep children active during a siege (since the participants are consuming 300 meals per day, you are only netting 900 meals a day).
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