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01-05-2014, 07:54 PM | #1 |
formerly known as 'Kenneth Latrans'
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[Magic] Resurrection
The spell costs 300 energy to cast. I have a hard time seeing how it's supposed to be done.
Powerstones mostly stop being viable around 20 thaums and my market expectations put them around 10 thaums. A wizard isn't likely to have more than 20 FP+ER at anything less than epic power levels, from what I can tell (IQ and Magery eat up lots of points and wizards -do- tend to have traits that don't directly bolster their magical potency like DX, academic skills, and combat skills). Ceremonial casting can get you another 100 thaums from spectators, unless they are themselves mages who can then contribute 3 each (unlikely unless you've got a village full of elves). Apparently the Power Item rules from DF allow you to make a temple-sized house of healing into a Power Item worth about 160 thaums. So I guess there's the totals: 160 from a one-time charging of the temple, 40 from the lead healer's FP, ER, and personal Powerstone (letting him do this roughly once a month), and 100 from assistants/churchgoers if it's a Divine spell rather than my usual assumption of Arcane magic. Or 300 FP from having 100 elves/non-elf NPCs around who happen to have Magery 0 or better. Powerstones and Power Items aren't supposed to coexist to my knowledge though. And if you're dipping into DF might as well make a Charged Scroll of Resurrection. The spell's other limitations, such as its casting time and the penalties for casting it somewhere other than the person's death location, further limit this already nigh-uncastable spell. So what am I missing here? Aside from the fact that a spell this mind-bendingly rarely known (tail-end of a very long prerequisite chain) and difficult to cast spell should cost a huge sum of money to cast. Also, why is there no enchantment for making an item to cast this?
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01-05-2014, 09:14 PM | #2 |
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Re: [Magic] Resurrection
Any time the spell description says something about rumors of items, that means it becomes a setting decision.
Also, recovering from death is supposed to be hard. |
01-05-2014, 09:27 PM | #3 |
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Re: [Magic] Resurrection
To start with, any mage in the group who knows the spell at 15+ can contribute as much energy as he wants, which will include 1 powerstone for each. The limit of 3 only applies to mages who know the spell but not at 15, and they don't count towards the spectator limit of 100, either. So it can be done, but it's not easy so the spell should cost a ton per casting.
A Charged Scroll, a la Dungeon Fantasy, would do the trick nicely, too. |
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That I can agree with, at least. Better this than a revolving door afterlife I guess. Quote:
[/QUOTE] Well now it suddenly sounds doable. Crazy difficult, but possible for groups that aren't elves/unicorns/pixies.
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01-06-2014, 12:29 AM | #5 |
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Re: [Magic] Resurrection
There's a Jewish hospital in Tredroy that does Resurrrections in this way, and for princely sums, too.
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01-06-2014, 02:00 AM | #6 |
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01-06-2014, 03:09 AM | #7 |
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Re: [Magic] Resurrection
There's also meditative magic (GURPS Fantasy). A hermit on the mountain might meditate for years and then, when called up, descend from the mountain to raise the worthy dead back to life. And there's points-for-energy from GURPS Thaumatology, where the caster sacrifices something from himself to make the magic work. Resurrection is a bargain, there, for a mere 12 points. Personally, I think Resurrection should cost 600 energy, bringing it closer to the 25-point cost of Extra Life.
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01-06-2014, 05:03 AM | #8 |
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Re: [Magic] Resurrection
And also Mass Magic in GT:Urban Magic p.25.
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01-06-2014, 07:04 AM | #9 | |
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And as an aside, spell-casting clerics are one of the D&Disms I wanted to break away from which helped me get into GURPS (more so than class-and-level characters). Your demonstrations work as well for "Archmage" and "Wizard" as they do for "High Priest" and "Priest". I thought Paut was a potion for restoring FP after it has been spent on magic...
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