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11-24-2020, 10:10 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Dec 2007
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The Food College Bothers Me
It has one effective attack spell, Thirst. I would kind of prefer it if it had a better Hunger spell. Doing one point of Fatigue per second just doesn't do it for me. Maybe a leveled Hunger spell? Hunger can be really debilitating.
Apart from that, the Food College is just so...utilitarian. When I think of magic chefs I think of Circe who could transform men into animals with the food she served, or that movie about the chef who could put her emotions into her food, or the Wicked Queen's "poison" apple that puts Snow White into hibernation. |
11-24-2020, 11:18 PM | #2 |
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Re: The Food College Bothers Me
The Food College was probably developed to deal with the problem of adventures running out of provisions. As for 'attack' spells, there are actually four of them. You have Poison Food, Hunger, Thirst, and Foul Water. Hunger is annoying, Poison Food and Foul Water are quite nasty, and Thirst is absolute horrible (4 FP and 1 HP, with two or more castings making the target unable to speak).
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11-24-2020, 11:24 PM | #3 |
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Re: The Food College Bothers Me
Not all colleges have to be combat useful. I loved the utilitarian spells in that book. Makes sense in a high magic world that spells would be used for more than adventuring.
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11-25-2020, 03:52 AM | #4 |
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Re: The Food College Bothers Me
Note that Create Food allows you to eat through dungeon walls, shackles, etc.
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11-25-2020, 09:35 AM | #5 |
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Re: The Food College Bothers Me
I've never liked the idea that you can turn a portion of a larger object into food to wear it down. A entire single chain link, fine. The wall? Unless you have the mana to turn the entire wall, and thus the entire dungeon, into food at one go I'm not allowing it.
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11-25-2020, 04:59 PM | #6 | |
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Re: The Food College Bothers Me
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11-25-2020, 09:50 PM | #7 | |
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Re: The Food College Bothers Me
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IIRC, GURPS Technomancer had a spell called Guns To Butter that might have been faster. *goes looking* Yeah, page 22, it takes two seconds to cast; prerequisites are Create Food and Reshape, so it's got a prereq count of, um... 16 (Ouch!). Good justification for it being so much faster than Create Food, which has a prereq count of 5. Another thing to do with Create Food is to develop a version that can transform part of an object, either as a new spell, or a perk-plus-technique of the old one. For anyone able to use the Earth college, though, it would probably be much easier to just learn a few Earth spells if you think you might need to tunnel out of a dungeon one day.
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11-30-2020, 08:07 AM | #8 |
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Re: The Food College Bothers Me
How the GM handles the setting's metaphysics matters quite a bit here as well. In The Stormlight Archives, the military has slaves gather stones from the surrounding environment to transmute into food, rather than just making it from the ground (or breaking up chunks of the ground and using those). This is because how large an object is identified as (initially by people, but they gain their own identity over time) dictates how hard it is to transmute. A stone considers itself a distinct entity, while a chunk of broken-off ground will still identify as part of the ground, at least for a while. Similarly, in such a setting, individual bricks from a brick wall are likely to be nearly as difficult to transmute as a similar-sized part of a solid wall, as it will largely identify as being the wall, rather than an independent part of it.
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11-25-2020, 10:22 AM | #9 |
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Re: The Food College Bothers Me
The spells in themselves don't bother me. Utilitarian magic certainly has it's place. it's the college that bothers me. I find myself wanting to either see it expanded with more fantastic spells or incorporated into a more expansive college.
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11-25-2020, 11:40 AM | #10 |
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Re: The Food College Bothers Me
Something like Heroes' Feast from D&D?
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