09-30-2015, 08:20 AM | #1 | |
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[Sorcery] The Ghostship spell
How do I do this?
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Statistics: Snatcher (Large Item, +50%; Magic, -10%; Nuisance Effect: Ships clearly look fake, -5%; Only at Sea, -20%; Preparation Required, 8 hours, -60%; Ships only, -50%; Trigger, -40%; Weight Limit, 1 000 000 lbs. +160%) [100]
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09-30-2015, 08:55 AM | #2 |
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Re: [Sorcery] The Ghostship spell
Try looking up The Captains Ship in Pyramid #3/71: Spaceships 2. Basically, the ship is a Patron; the article goes into more details on pricing.
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09-30-2015, 09:04 AM | #3 |
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Re: [Sorcery] The Ghostship spell
I don't have Spaceships 2 and I'm not getting it for this one article. I never play sci-fi game unless I have to.
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09-30-2015, 09:07 AM | #4 |
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Re: [Sorcery] The Ghostship spell
I think it's not one particular ship, but animating the remains of any ship that happens to be nearby.
Snatcher is one of the ways to do "creates". Create + Control is the other, but it's going to be more expensive, not to mention requiring the necromancer to have ship-making skills. Or you could do the vehicle-as-character route to get a point cost. Then add the point cost to the cost of the Ally Group of sailors. (Assuming the sailors are the interchangeable sort that qualify for the mass pricing as opposed to the sum-of-points heterogeneous Ally Group.) |
09-30-2015, 09:13 AM | #5 | |
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Re: [Sorcery] The Ghostship spell
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Having the ship, its crew, and the contents turn to ashes might be a little extreme. I could see someone casting this for its incidental effect to prevent an enemy from being resurrected or to destroy powerful treasure/items that are aboard. Perhaps the spell can raise a projection of the wreck, and this spell cannot be re-cast? |
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09-30-2015, 09:16 AM | #6 |
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Re: [Sorcery] The Ghostship spell
The wreck essentially acts as a trigger. But apparently it doesn't work the way I thought. Bugger. That adds 32 points to the cost. This is going to cost blood.
Anaraxes - yeah, the crew are essentially interchangeable.
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09-30-2015, 09:27 AM | #7 | |
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Re: [Sorcery] The Ghostship spell
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Traditionally ghost ships come about through plot-level curses - deliberately creating one, including re-floating a bottomed wreck - should be a big deal. Simpler shortcut - buy or steal a working ship and create an undead crew to operate it. Note that it would be entirely congruent for a spell that is enslaving the drowned crew of the ship to create undead with ship handling skills - this might be why anyone bothers with the spell at all. Especially if you are animating a specific crew. |
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09-30-2015, 09:32 AM | #8 |
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Re: [Sorcery] The Ghostship spell
While that issue of Pyramid is focused toward Spaceships (it's the second Spaceships-themed issue for Pyramid #3, it isn't specifically focused toward Spaceships 2), there are some bits that may still be of use to you. Vehicle Imbuements can work with anything from an Egyptian chariot to a US Abrams tank to a Rebellion X-Wing Starfighter, and The Captain's Boat has rules for taking a vehicle - any vehicle, although it's obviously intended for spacecraft - as a Patron, based on how much it costs. You don't need any part of the Spaceships series to use those articles, and the second is probably more-or-less what you're looking for.
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09-30-2015, 09:52 AM | #9 | |
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Re: [Sorcery] The Ghostship spell
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I would also add Stunning -10%, since this is going to take a long time anyway, you don't lose much for being stunned right afterwards. I'd evening be willing to try adding an appropriate Backlash effect on a failed IQ roll...something along the lines of the ship is hostile to the summoner / a leviathon wakes up and attacks you... -x? |
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09-30-2015, 10:16 AM | #10 |
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Re: [Sorcery] The Ghostship spell
A final note on the Pyramid article - as an example, let's say you want to raise the 50' brig from LT142. That beast costs 82.5x TL4 Starting Wealth, so you need a [5] Patron. It's going to count as Always Available, at least until the magic wears off, so that's x4 to cost, for [20]. Assuming this is built as a Buff (I don't think there are currently any examples of Sorcery summoning spells), it's something like Affliction (Patron +200%, Fixed Duration +0%, Extended Duration Permanent +150%, Increased 1/2D 10x +15%, Sorcery -15%) [45]. That would be able to awaken any wreck where the base ship was worth up to $200,000, and would last until dispelled (or until it takes enough damage to sink).
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