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Old 03-03-2016, 11:29 AM   #641
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Even if you could make a quartz crystal, no one wants a power stone that is one yard long on a side!
Umm, I want one. Actually, make it bigger. It takes a LOT to hit every unicorn in the forest with a corrupting spell that makes them into undead beasts serving Hell, and fit for a demon horde to ride into battle...
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Old 03-03-2016, 11:35 AM   #642
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400. My Earth mage may not support himself financially by making cubic yards worth of gold with Earth to Stone.
400a. Aluminum and Titanium are also off limits.
400b. Just because a metal is composed of a single element does not mean I can call it a "simple metal".
400c. You can't make quartz because one of its variations (amethyst) is a gemstone. Even if you could make a quartz crystal, no one wants a power stone that is one yard long on a side!
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Umm, I want one. Actually, make it bigger. It takes a LOT to hit every unicorn in the forest with a corrupting spell that makes them into undead beasts serving Hell, and fit for a demon horde to ride into battle...
Can you shape it like a pyramid? and can you do 50 feet tall?
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Old 03-04-2016, 08:44 AM   #643
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400c. You can't make quartz because one of its variations (amethyst) is a gemstone. Even if you could make a quartz crystal, no one wants a power stone that is one yard long on a side!
For those of you wondering, one cubic yard of quartz is about 10 million carats.
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Old 03-11-2016, 10:14 AM   #644
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399. I may not continue arguing that our GURPS Call of Cthulhu game should use 3d24 as “the closest human approximation to rolling three hypercubes that does not cause sanity damage”.
You can get customised d8 from Chessex. Number them 0, 6, 12, ... 42, roll them with a d6 and add. Or just use a d12 and a d4. Either way, d48 gives you the numbers of the 2D faces of a hypercube. No sanity damage, honestly.
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Old 03-12-2016, 06:25 PM   #645
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Can you shape it like a pyramid? and can you do 50 feet tall?
In a word, no.

For a right rectangular pyramid, we are talking of a volume of Bh/3, where B is the area of the base. I'm going to assume a base are of (50 ft)^2 = 2500 ft^2. So the volume is ~42,000 ft^3. Or ~1544 yd^3.

The energy cost for the Earth to Stone spell would be 3*1544 = ~4630 FP!
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Old 03-13-2016, 12:32 PM   #646
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401. Call the Charisma potion a "potion of peeling". My GM does not like puns. :(
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Old 03-17-2016, 07:34 PM   #647
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401. Call the Charisma potion a "potion of peeling". My GM does not like puns. :(
Maybe he didn't notice the pun. I'm not sure what the pun is myself. Could you please explain that to me?
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Old 03-17-2016, 09:12 PM   #648
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Maybe he didn't notice the pun. I'm not sure what the pun is myself. Could you please explain that to me?
It makes other people peel their clothes off?
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Old 03-18-2016, 06:25 AM   #649
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Maybe he didn't notice the pun. I'm not sure what the pun is myself. Could you please explain that to me?
Maybe a play on appealing?
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Old 03-18-2016, 06:37 AM   #650
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Maybe a play on appealing?
This was my conclusion as well.
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