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Re: Making Bank with Earth to Stone
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Re: Making Bank with Earth to Stone
A handy list of spells which are most likely to create issues and how to fix them is the Unofficial GURPS Magic Errata http://personal.jargon-file.org/Unof...agicErrata.pdf
Of course, for some settings it is just fine to have most stone and metal made by journeyman mages ... that lets you have prisons with floor-to-ceiling iron bars, castles of bronze, ridiculously gigantic bridges to duel on, and other cool things. It means no mines-with-improbably-wide-straight-corridors-in-every-mountain, but not all fantasy is dungeon fantasy.
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IMO the hardest part of the job of producing iron (or copper, or whatever) using the RAW would be carving these huge blocks of metal into more useable sizes and shapes. I'm sure that would be doable though, and the resulting supply would be so cheap compared to historical supplies it's not funny. Even if mages were terribly rare, and the cost of summoned iron ran equal to mined and refined iron, the drop in demand for charcoal would change the rural landscape of Western Europe substantially.
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04-13-2018, 09:30 AM | #24 | |
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04-13-2018, 11:08 AM | #27 |
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It doesn't actually take all that much disappearing to render you dead. Which is why you shouldn't eat anything in faerieland.
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04-13-2018, 11:36 AM | #28 |
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04-13-2018, 11:42 AM | #29 | |
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As far as manufacturing, adulterating, and alloying: I’d say it’s viral unless it’s an organic process (Xorns, etc). Anything alloyed will be subject to being destroyed when the magical metal turns to dirt. If a wizard is selling you a block of pure iron, beware combining it with anything else. |
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04-13-2018, 01:02 PM | #30 |
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Note that Counterspell is specifically noted as being unable to affect permanent effects like Zombie. Zombie is given as an example of a permanent spell. Thus is can't affect Earth to Stone.
However, that sort of thing is mere quibbling compared to another problem - Magic uses 'permanent' a lot when it probably shouldn't. As a result, this ruling that y'all seem comfortable with - that no amount of dilution, etc., will stop the spell being reversible, means that breathing the results from Earth to Air is a bad, bad idea. Likewise Purify Earth, and just about anything from the Food college. That 'organic process' is a nice dodge, but the interaction of these 'permanent' objects and rusting and combustion is still a problem. There are many other spells listed as permanent that really shouldn't be, too - Plane Shift, Final Rest, Share Vitality, Stop Bleeding, Neutralise Poison, Restoration, Regeneration, Resurrection, Disintegrate...
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