07-08-2018, 08:59 AM | #31 |
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Re: The Problem With Magic
The biggest obstacle to bringing Henry Ford a few TL early by way of magic is probably the critical failure table...
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07-08-2018, 01:43 PM | #32 |
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07-08-2018, 01:48 PM | #33 | |
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This is a great campaign idea! Basically, you've got a caravan which travels along a circuit doing magical stuff at each stop. Due to the presence of the mages, it might attract other professionals, making it a traveling fair. |
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07-08-2018, 02:01 PM | #34 |
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My recollection is that in 3e, an assistant had to genuinely want the ceremony to succeed, and merely wanting to be paid wasn't enough. 4e removed this, and with it one of the main limitations on cheap large-scale ceremonies - in 3e they'd most likely be religious ceremonies for the benefit of the whole congregation, or at least a member of it who was in need. In 4e they're a commercial tool, assuming my memory is correct.
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07-08-2018, 02:22 PM | #35 | |
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More and more it seems to me in our modern society of plenty that economics is much less about productivity and wealth and more about creating hierarchies and control. Even if everyone were highly skilled in the latest demanding technologies, there is a strong need to keep the masses "down" so as to ensure the power of the insecure elites, for better or worse. |
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07-08-2018, 03:43 PM | #37 |
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In the early days of mechanized agriculture and still some today you had the harvesting machinery move along a north-south circuit with harvest time. A similar thing with a Bless Plants and such at planting time would work with magic.
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07-08-2018, 04:10 PM | #38 | |
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* Magic Resistance is the new Disad... also just anyone who is very poor of health. |
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07-08-2018, 04:16 PM | #39 |
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Hm, I wonder how that would be modelled in game? Would it be a Social Stigma? Or would they suffer a reaction penalty equal to their Magical Resistance?
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07-08-2018, 04:30 PM | #40 |
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