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Re: Dance Limitation on Magery
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Re: Dance Limitation on Magery
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09-19-2017, 06:30 PM | #13 |
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Re: Dance Limitation on Magery
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Magery Limitation: Dancing -40% You don't the dance skill to do magic but if you are going to maintain spells with Dancing Only Magery AND execute a DX based skill Then your DX skill will be capped to the lower of your Dance Skill or DX Skill. This is only a factor the turn you have to expend fatigue to maintain the spell. At which point you need to do a dance for that turn. To do this during flight you will need to learn a Dance (Air) technique which default to Dance -4. It is an Average Technique. If you cast or maintain a spell you will need at least the majority of the six surrounding hexes clear (4 out of the 6). Or you will need to make a dancing roll to keep on dancing. |
09-20-2017, 10:18 AM | #14 |
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Re: Dance Limitation on Magery
Personally, I always assumed that the limitation values on Magery were more generous than those for other advantages (compare Day/Night-Aspected at -40% to the standard -20% for an accessibility limitation applying roughly half the time) to compensate for the fact that all the spells you buy are similarly limited but receive no direct discount in point cost.
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09-29-2017, 11:00 PM | #15 |
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Re: Dance Limitation on Magery
I really like this limitation for bringing an Avatar: The Last Airbender feel to magery.
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09-30-2017, 04:32 AM | #16 |
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Re: Dance Limitation on Magery
I'd never allow that. Dances are stylized, they aren't just "I'm moving around", they're "I'm moving around in a predefined pattern". If you are dancing, you can't be using a melee skill *at all*, or anything else that requires moving your body. I might be inclined to allow enough flexibility for "move in a particular direction", but that's about it, and you certainly couldn't claim the sprint bonus.
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09-30-2017, 04:54 AM | #17 |
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Re: Dance Limitation on Magery
A possible exception to that: a Capoeira stylist in a cinematic martial-arts campaign (Martial Arts p.152-153).
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09-30-2017, 10:28 AM | #18 | |
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Also Capoeira is a martial art that is taught as a 'dance'. And do not forget there's an entire trope for it. |
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09-30-2017, 12:05 PM | #19 | |
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A little more seriously, many dances are lower-body only - you may be holding on to your dance partner with your upper body, but the only convention for that is usually "around the hand, shoulder, or waist regions". Some dances are "jumping up and down rhythmically". "Dance" is just as broad a category of art as any other.
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09-30-2017, 12:45 PM | #20 |
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Re: Dance Limitation on Magery
Eh, if it's genuinely art, it's either stylized, or completely scripted. If there isn't something artificial about it, it's not "art".
Somewhat more on point, if you are getting a -40% price break on spellcasting for it, it better be a *limitation*. Being able to cast spells with the same moves you are using to fight in melee isn't a Magery limitation, it's a major advantage starting from Compartmentalized Mind or Altered Time Rate.
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