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Old 10-19-2017, 02:14 PM   #1
Drakyrias
 
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Default Increasing Magery and retoractively applying its bonuses?

I'm allowing one of my players to progressively increase his magery rating if they achieve certain qualifying events in a supers game.

The question is, should the increase retroactively apply to spells they already know?
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Old 10-19-2017, 02:15 PM   #2
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Default Re: Increasing Magery and retoractively applying its bonuses?

Yes. Increasing a talent or magery always increases the bonus applied to already known skills.
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Old 10-19-2017, 02:19 PM   #3
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Default Re: Increasing Magery and retoractively applying its bonuses?

It wouldn't apply retroactively to spells they'd already cast, but that's usually a very marginal case.
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Old 10-19-2017, 02:40 PM   #4
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Default Re: Increasing Magery and retoractively applying its bonuses?

Well that was clarifying lol.
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Old 10-19-2017, 04:31 PM   #5
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Default Re: Increasing Magery and retoractively applying its bonuses?

Yes it applies. Magery is a Talent, so it acts a modifier to the Basic Attribute when determining skill levels. Raising a Basic Attribute increases all skills that hang off that, increasing a Talent increases the modifier.

It would be pretty rough to increase DX and then not be any better at your primary weapon skill.
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Old 10-19-2017, 05:20 PM   #6
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Default Re: Increasing Magery and retoractively applying its bonuses?

As mr beer's description suggests, there's not really anything retroactive about it either.

You never buy absolute skill levels.
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Old 10-19-2017, 05:32 PM   #7
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Default Re: Increasing Magery and retoractively applying its bonuses?

Retroactive would be "I cast a spell and then raised my magery, and thus the skill level of the spell I had already cast increased". Which doesn't happen, but other than enchantments you don't generally have any spells that last long enough for that to matter.
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