07-11-2018, 07:19 PM | #21 | |
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Location: Yukon, OK
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Re: Decreased Mana Costs as an advantage
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Magery 3 with -9 cost lets you toss a 9d fireball, though it takes several turns to charge up to full. Some Regular spells are pretty expensive as well. But the Area spells are where you can get carried away.
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07-11-2018, 09:23 PM | #22 | |
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: 100 hurricane swamp
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Re: Decreased Mana Costs as an advantage
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There are so few spells at 6+ you're likely to invest individually (though, if you take more than 9* of them (there are 29) Reduced Mana at 40 points/lvl is still the cheaper route). There are seven 7 cost spells. Twenty 8 cost spells. One 9 cost. And seventeen 10 cost. So... honestly? Level 10 unless you want your eight 12 cost spells to be free or... you can see where this goes. * Not completely sure how the progression goes for points in martinl's system. If it's straight at 4 per -1... then... buying up 10 spells individually is the same as buying up Reduced Mana Cost at 40/lvl. |
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07-11-2018, 09:29 PM | #23 |
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Dreamland
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Re: Decreased Mana Costs as an advantage
Those are good points, but I am making the assumption that Wild Mana Generator exists and is a buyable option (it might require Unusual Background, but then Decreased Mana Costs might also require one or the same one, so I'm ignoring UB for the moment). WMG allows completely free spells with downsides. I'm wondering at what cost it would be to remove those downsides. My initial (wrong) thought was that removing all the other benefits of it would balance the downsides. And the upper limit of Super Luck 14 can make all spell rolls free and crits for 1400pts (less if aspected to only magic and only skill rolls).
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07-12-2018, 10:03 AM | #24 | |
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Mana cost reduction is top shelf, sure, but it's not the only thing there. |
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07-12-2018, 10:08 AM | #25 | |
Join Date: Jan 2006
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40 per level for high levels of cost reduction might not seem like a good deal, but I'm actually ok with that. |
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