The Food College Bothers Me

[Prince Charon]

Originally Posted by transmetahuman

Why in the world would someone who regularly gets into fights specialize exclusively in the food college? Well, someone with the bad luck to be born with One College Magery: Food College and a frankly insane stubborn refusal to just focus on weapon skills instead, I guess. I'm sure there was someone like that born somewhere in the infinite multiverse - but I doubt he found adventuring companions.

OK, now you're tempting me to write up a specialist mage like that, possibly focusing mainly on Thirst, or inventing a new Starvation spell that has Hunger as a prerequisite and does more damage. I'm not sure that I'm going to, I have other things to work on, but the idea is in my head, now.

Originally Posted by Anders

Too bad Create Food has 30 seconds casting time or you could use it on your foe's weapons and armor.

IIRC, GURPS Technomancer had a spell called Guns To Butter that might have been faster. *goes looking* Yeah, page 22, it takes two seconds to cast; prerequisites are Create Food and Reshape, so it's got a prereq count of, um... 16 (Ouch!). Good justification for it being so much faster than Create Food, which has a prereq count of 5. Another thing to do with Create Food is to develop a version that can transform part of an object, either as a new spell, or a perk-plus-technique of the old one. For anyone able to use the Earth college, though, it would probably be much easier to just learn a few Earth spells if you think you might need to tunnel out of a dungeon one day.