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Old 07-19-2011, 01:00 PM   #1
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Im GM'ing a MH game. I'm a little unclear as to the building & pricing of rituals.

Lets say a witch wants to make & cast a fireball (thrown with innate attack). Whitch of the two options below is correct?

Greater destroy energy (5), 300 lbs (3), 4d+2 brn dam (2) = 30 energy
or
Greater destroy energy (5), 300 lbs (3), Range: 20 yds (6), 4d+2 brn dam (2) = 48 energy

Thanks for the help.

Damage Note: 2en is 1d+2 *3 for attack type (visible, non-explosive, ect...)
which is 3d+6. Dice adds rule converts this to 4d+2.
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Old 07-19-2011, 01:45 PM   #2
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Im GM'ing a MH game. I'm a little unclear as to the building & pricing of rituals.

Lets say a witch wants to make & cast a fireball (thrown with innate attack). Whitch of the two options below is correct?

Greater destroy energy (5), 300 lbs (3), 4d+2 brn dam (2) = 30 energy
or
Greater destroy energy (5), 300 lbs (3), Range: 20 yds (6), 4d+2 brn dam (2) = 48 energy

Thanks for the help.

Damage Note: 2en is 1d+2 *3 for attack type (visible, non-explosive, ect...)
which is 3d+6. Dice adds rule converts this to 4d+2.
Neither is correct. A fireball requires Create Energy; it is not affecting any subject directly; and its range is 0 because it appears in the caster's hand.

Greater Create Energy [6], 3d+6 (4d+2) damage [2], one Greater effect [x3] = 24 total energy.
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Old 07-19-2011, 03:47 PM   #3
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If a fireball just appears in the caster's hand and has no range component, then how do I as the GM determine 1/2d and Acc for the attack? Does the player just to declare that it has a range of 1000 yds, an Acc of 7+3, and I'm supposed to nod? Or do I assign some kind of weight to the fireball and look up the results on the throwing chart?

Alternately, what if instead of using a fireball, the caster wanted to create a laser beam?
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Old 07-19-2011, 04:01 PM   #4
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Champion p35:
For a visible, blatant, external attack, which must be
delivered by touch or thrown (using Innate Attack skill with
standard range penalties) and can be dodged,...

characters p61 :
By default, this is a ranged attack
with 1/2D 10, Max 100, Acc 3, RoF 1,
Shots N/A, and Recoil 1

Hope this help

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Old 07-25-2011, 03:22 PM   #5
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Champion p35:
For a visible, blatant, external attack, which must be
delivered by touch or thrown (using Innate Attack skill with
standard range penalties) and can be dodged,...

characters p61 :
By default, this is a ranged attack
with 1/2D 10, Max 100, Acc 3, RoF 1,
Shots N/A, and Recoil 1

Hope this help

celjabba

That's the Innate Attack advantage. Which has nothing to do with this - the skill "Innate Attack" (confusingly the same name) doesn't determine range and ACC and ROF, the source of the attack does. That source can be a spell in the standard magic system, an advantage (not just Innate Attack, but also an Affliction, or various other things with the Weaponized limitation), or a ritual from the MH ritual magic system.

So the basic assumptions of the Innate Attack advantage (while reasonable) aren't actually part of this.
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Old 07-25-2011, 04:23 PM   #6
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So the basic assumptions of the Innate Attack advantage (while reasonable) aren't actually part of this.
While that's true, RPM does assume the "standard" Innate Attack stats. As I've said before, I hope that interest in RPM grows enough to give me me the future opportunity to expand the system into a book of its own, so that I have the room to spell this sort of thing out in full detail.
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Old 07-20-2011, 07:17 AM   #7
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Neither is correct. A fireball requires Create Energy; it is not affecting any subject directly; and its range is 0 because it appears in the caster's hand.

Greater Create Energy [6], 3d+6 (4d+2) damage [2], one Greater effect [x3] = 24 total energy.
Wow! That was extreamly helpful.

If the spell was a stunning spell how would that work?

Greater Create Energy [6], Stunning [0], one Greater effect [x3] = 18 total energy?

or

Greater Control Mind [5], Stunning [0], one Greater effect [x3] = 15 total energy?

thx in advance!
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Wow! That was extreamly helpful.

If the spell was a stunning spell how would that work?

Greater Create Energy [6], Stunning [0], one Greater effect [x3] = 18 total energy?

or

Greater Control Mind [5], Stunning [0], one Greater effect [x3] = 15 total energy?

thx in advance!
Either Path would work. But actually, if the spell's intent is that you look at the target and now he's stunned, you could use Lesser Create Energy or Lesser Control Mind . . . but you'd also have to add back in the energy cost for Range. (Not for Subject Weight though, as stunning isn't a physical change.) Then it's a resistible spell.

If you wanted to create some sort of "concussion ball" in your hands that you then threw at the target to stun him, you'd avoid the need for Range but would have to use Greater effects. That's not really the best idea, energy-wise, but it might be necessary in some weird situations.
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Old 07-21-2011, 08:37 PM   #9
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So if I wanted to do:

Spontanious Combustion:
Greater Create Energy [6], Range: 10yds [4], 3d+2 burn damage [10], one Greater effect [x3] = 60 total energy.

and

Malediction Energy Drain:
Greater Destroy Energy [5], Range: 10yds [4], 3d+2 fatiuge damage [20], one Greater effect [x3] = 87 total energy.

Or do I have to add subject weights?

thx in advance.
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So if I wanted to do:

Spontanious Combustion:
Greater Create Energy [6], Range: 10yds [4], 3d+2 burn damage [10], one Greater effect [x3] = 60 total energy.

and

Malediction Energy Drain:
Greater Destroy Energy [5], Range: 10yds [4], 3d+2 fatiuge damage [20], one Greater effect [x3] = 87 total energy.

Or do I have to add subject weights?

thx in advance.
Yep. Any spell which causes a direct physical change in a subject (including damage or healing) requires a subject weight addition.
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