05-06-2014, 01:22 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Jan 2012
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Racial Limited Magery
I am creating a mortal race descended from Jinn who are the aristocracy of a magocratic empire. I am having trouble pricing their limited magery however.
Full Magery will be limited to 3 for PCs and mortal NPCs. The idea is that they have magery 0 for only the Fire college. (And a point in three spells from that college, but that's not important here) Single college magery is a -40% limitation, which would place it at 3 points, however they can buy their normal magery up to 3 and have an effective magery (fire) of 4. Should I be concerned that a single college magery (beyond the 0 level) would cost 6 points? I'd like it to work out that the extra level of racial magery floats to the top of the pile and so to become a "maxed out" mage they pay 5 points for Magery 0 and 30 for the other three levels and have magery 4 for the fire college. If they buy no other magery I'm fine with their racial magery not providing a bonus to IQ for learning spells or any of that. Any advice on pricing this properly would be appreciated. |
05-06-2014, 01:39 PM | #2 |
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Re: Racial Limited Magery
I would buy them Magery 1 (Fire only) and just say that if they don't get any real magery it acts as Magery 0 for fire spells only.
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05-06-2014, 01:43 PM | #3 | ||
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05-06-2014, 03:32 PM | #4 | |
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Rochester, MN
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Re: Racial Limited Magery
[QUOTE=Anvil;1758885]I am creating a mortal race descended from Jinn who are the aristocracy of a magocratic empire. I am having trouble pricing their limited magery however.
Full Magery will be limited to 3 for PCs and mortal NPCs. Quote:
If they have unlimted Magery in addition to their racial magery, the Magery 0 (unlimited) would only cost an additional [2] to buy off the fire aspection. unlimited Magery 1-3 would still cost [10/level]. So a maxed out character would be Magery 0 [5] + Magery 3 [30] + Magery (Single College, Fire, -40%) [6] = [41] total. Does that answer your question? |
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05-06-2014, 04:20 PM | #5 |
Join Date: Mar 2013
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Re: Racial Limited Magery
You can't give a race Limited Magery 0, it simply doesn't work. If a member wants to learn more magic, they've got to work with the limitations that Magery comes with, or buy off the limitations
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05-06-2014, 05:20 PM | #6 |
Join Date: Jan 2012
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Re: Racial Limited Magery
What of you want a race that can naturally cast spells from a single college, but without the advantages (and access to more powerful spells) that come from Magery 1, 2, 3, etc.? How else would you do it?
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05-06-2014, 05:37 PM | #7 | |
Join Date: Mar 2013
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The problem with giving a RACE limited Magery 0 it that any actual Mages of that Race will have to buy of limitations on that Magery |
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05-06-2014, 05:39 PM | #8 | |
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Ellicott City, MD
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05-06-2014, 05:50 PM | #9 | |
Join Date: Jan 2012
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As long as the point totals at character creation work out, it should be fine. And I can enforce Magery (single college, fire) as their "top level" fairly easily. |
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05-06-2014, 05:53 PM | #10 |
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Re: Racial Limited Magery
This is a good time for having him be hiding his ancestry from persecutors(Secret), or have the hero not know his ancestry(delusion: I am a muggle).
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