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No. This is not how you create magic items. See Enchanted Items (GURPS Thauamtology: Ritual Path Magic, p. 33).

Yes. You CAN grant an innate attack/affliction to someone/yourself, but if the caster is constantly doing this instead of casting actual damaging/afflicting spells then the GM should brutally enforce stacking limits, having lots of dispell magic baddies, etc. RPM can be easily abused without GM oversight and this is one of those abuses. Sometimes this is thematically appropriate - but most of the time you should be using spells. If you want to give said power to someone else use Conditional Spells. Now, if the GM wants such things in his campaign - awesome, go for it. I hope he's thought about how it might change game play (because it DOES - I know, I've tried it).

This.

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Well the reason I would have gone Altered Traits on the necklace is its something that's affecting the person under the persons control, as opposed to affecting the object which carries the person as a conveyance

For say a surfboard, magic carpet, broom I'd use control matter on the object since the object is doing the work

An amulet of flight enchanted in the same manner as a flying carpet is a convenient replacement for a gallows

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What an awesome magical trap!

In fact this could be a good way to have non-charm/hanging spell magical weapons that won't take up your personal 'spell slots'.

Portable Gallows
Spell Effects: None.
Inherent Modifiers: None.
Greater Effects: 1 (×3).

Cast this spell on a sturdy necklace or loop of rope.
When someone with hostile intent towards the caster(lesser sense mind), or a target identified by the caster through thought (lesser sense mind), who is not already being targeted by another portable gallows item (lesser sense magic) is within 20m it moves through the air at 7yd/sec attempting to loop around the target's neck (or available limb if no neck presents itself) with casters skill, and lifts them into the air. Holding them airborne until the spell ends or is cancelled.

This Casting: Lesser Sense Mind (2) + Lesser Sense Magic (2) + Greater Control Energy (5) + Subject Weight, 1,000 lbs. (4) + Speed, 7 yds/second (3) + Range, 20 yds (6) + Duration, 1 month (11). 99 energy (33×3).

This spell has some flaws, like if the casters 'friends' occasionally harbor hostile intent towards him or her, or they have lots of enemies in town- but is otherwise a very dramatic and effective way to exert some battlefield control without consuming charm/hanging ritual slots. The month long duration means that the caster does not need to be recasting this constantly. A less skilled or kinder caster can have the object just loop around the targets body, the penalties of being lifted off the ground are going to upset most forms of attack and not get the -7 for targeting the neck.

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Well, since I am now posting in this thread rather than just watching it, here are a couple of my 'make a caster behave not like a caster' spells:

Cocking Grease:
Cast on a crossbow it causes the weapon to cock itself and load a new bolt after every shot. The aforementioned crossbow must be fitted with a magazine in a similar manner to an auto-crossbow, but need not use the lower damage for an auto-crossbow. As well the effective ST of the cocking is caster skill (be sure that the crossbow is built for the higher ST)
This Casting: Lesser Control Matter (5) + Lesser Control Matter (5) + Subject Weight, 10 lbs. (0) + Duration, 1 week (9). 19 energy (19×1).

Spellsword (or bow, or gun, or whatever):
Cast on a weapon this causes the forces of chance to line up with the casters intended target, instead of using whatever skill would be applicable, the caster uses there skill in the lower of path of chance or path of mind.
This Casting: Lesser Control Chance (5) + Lesser Sense Mind (2) + Subject Weight, 100 lbs. (2) + Duration, 2 weeks (10). 19 energy (19×1).

Doom Bolt (or bullet, or other projectile)
Pretty simple, cast a hanging ritual into the impact head of projectile, triggered to go off just AFTER it strikes a target- huge bonus: that will be an INTERNAL explosion if the carrier strike penetrates the target. Downside: Simple nature of triggers means that it won't go off in diffuse targets.
This Casting: Lesser Strengthen Matter (3) + Lesser Control Magic (5) + Damage, External Explosive Crushing 7d+2 (11). 19 energy (19×1).

Warmage's Weapon:
Turns an object weighing 10lbs or less into a force sword like weapon sheathed in energy. The meta-magic is a modifier on the damage itself (adding the +300% permanent modifier) For casters that don't have destiny points/archtype points/super luck to use on making there charms/hanging rituals lowering the damage and duration is a good idea, as the cost reduces rapidly. Variations can change the damage type, but crushing is a reliable form of damage that covers many different types of foes.
Greater Create Energy[6]();
Damage: 13d-1 cr (dodgeable) [13],
Meta-Magic: 39 [39] (Extended duration: permanant),
Duration: 1 week [9],
Subject Weight: 10 lbs. [0] (Sturdy Walking Stick).
Cost: 201


Second chance:
This spell is cast on yourself or someone else as a hanging ritual with the trigger 'subject is dying', it will give them 25 destiny points (for the sole purpose of granting an extra life), which they will then hopefully choose to use to give themselves an extra life in the next ten seconds. This spell only works with the concept that death != immediate removal of 'soul' from the body, but should work just find in any setting where CPR and other life saving measure can bring someone back from 'death', where complete and total brain/body obliteration has taken place than effectiveness of this spell may rely on setting specific things such as 'is there a soul and does it hang around for at least a second before being pulled to whatever comes next'.
Greater Strengthen Body[3](),
Lesser Control Magic[5]();
Altered Traits: 50 [50] (25 Destiny points, extra life only (-60%)),
Subject Weight: 300 lbs. [3].
Cost: 183

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Well, that's a damn interesting idea. I'd use a necklace though as a "trap" or as a method of holding someone hostage. Still - neat.


I don't think you need to fit this with a magazine, this seems like a perfectly reasonable Lesser effect, you'd still need to make a Armoury (Missile Weapons) roll to create the bolt, but it'd be at -0. Consider adding Bestows a Bonus for Armoury so even defaulted rolls get a bonus.

That's a really long duration, otherwise solid. Actually, that's a really cool idea. Kind of like DnD True Strike, but less cheesy.

Looks good.

No, don't use Meta-Magic - just call it "generic" damage from the weapon and modify it from there. In this case add 60 energy. I don't' know why extended duration is doing in there but you cannot make magic permanent in this manner. Of course, if this is for your campaign with its own rules and provisions courtesy of the GM then rock on.


If the Destiny points can only be used for Extra Life just use Extra Life instead. That's too convoluted otherwise.

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I did not even consider the concept of 'will automatically MAKE a bolt once its in place'. Having the magazine is still useful, as the PC keeps one magazine filled with the 'doom bolts' from below, and also keeps some alchemical warheads for other purposes.


I am a big fan of effect shaping, so there's no point in not maxing out the spell to the nearest x9 in cost. Longer durations on an 'I always want this active' spell seems like a good thing.

My thought process:
Spell lasts one week, and then ends. Normally a damage spell is 'spent' on first use.

I want the damaging effect to be available every time I swing the weapon for that 1 week duration, in order to achieve this I need the one time damage effect to be a permanent effect anchored to the weapon.

So the intended goal is that for one full week the staff will be a force-sword like construct that delivers 13d-1 damage with every swing/stab/or other delivery method, rather than just deliver the damage to the first target it hits.

This is basically intended to be the 'weapon made of lightning' // 'flaming sword from nowhere' type effect.


Concept was: If you grant CPs and they get used, they need to be taken/replaced from somewhere before you can use them again, so the recipient would go 25 exp into point debt. Destiny points by comparison are meant to be spent and regenerate naturally over time, so at most you would have a destiny debt that would slowly refill, but ideally no effect at all.

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Ok.


Yeeaahhhh, that's cheesy and the GM shouldn't let you do that. Adding effects to pad things out is gaming the system in my opinion.

You can add Duration to a damage effect, but you must use the direct damage values, not the external ones. This doesn't matter in this regard because you're add +60 energy. Something I wrote will deal with this more whenever it's out.


That's not how you achieve this effect. If you want the magic to come up with the character points, multiply each point by 5. So if this spell grants Extra Life without losing character points, it would add Altered Traits worth 125 points, not 25 points.

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The 'pad things out' bit might have been my fault, I was DMing and I'm the sort of DM whose like 'Hey, your attacking at skill 18? No no! Use Deceptive Attack to lower to 16!' and encourage people towards ST breakpoints etc

I do agree '2 weeks' is a weird time frame, either things should be 1 week or 1 month, and 2 weeks is a weird time frame that seems to have less thaumic significance

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I believe I got an answer somewhere where persistent damaging effects should be modeled as 'bestow a bonus'. PK suggested both applying the +2 OR +1/per dice effect and converting the damage to dice.

EDIT: The thread is here.

Its PK, not kromm (and considering that PK wrote the basics of RPM...)

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This is something I need to meditate on. I don't like the implications at all.

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Yes, that is one way to do it, the other way is to use Duration + the Internal Damage progression. I've talked to PK about both at different times. Do whatever makes most sense for your campaign.

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I'm not actually sure what major effect it has that a given spell has 2 weeks duration vs the more natural seeming duration of 1 week or 1 month


I do generally hold that characters that are supposed to be intelligent thinking individuals of the world they exist in should be aware of their abilities and how they work, so noone should be 'wasting' their ability like not using Deceptive Attack etc, and I also expect (and require) to explain their actions in concrete GURPS specific fashion (no 'I fire a burst at the monster', its 'I fire 4 rounds at the monster') so thus some of that may have (by accident possibly) rubbed off on starslayer who is more of the 'player gives in general terms, DM interprets what player means' sort of DM

(I also believe in giving players/characters all information needed to make an informed decision, 'the monster is SM+1, is 20 yds away, closing at a rate of 6 yds, and its -2 visibility penalty', so the player can know before they even roll the dice what their target number is and how many potential hits theyll land on any given roll)

If I didn't actually hate chargen with such a fiery unbridled passion and such, I'd actually be really interested in running a 'all cards on the table, here is everythings stats' Fire Emblem style GURPS game where the players could see all the monsters sheets etc and operate with near perfect information

I think this is just 'different strokes for different folks' though rather than any cause for alarm, I expect players to play there characters as if there characters understand GURPS rules . . . . and I try to put as much stuff as I can out in the open to facilitate that, I recall you try to make the rules flow more seamlessly into the background (I recall your discussion of for instance concealing HP scores so people could have more descriptive rather than game mechanic senses of how damaged they are)

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Oh, and since I haven't actually posted any rituals, here is a ritual I made based on sheer '100 dice is cool!' rather than any breakpoints or particular analysis of any kind, showing that I often don't actually follow my own advice! Bad Kal! (and the one time my character has actually cast the spell was actually a very poor tactical decision I didn't think through very well, my mind getting sidetracked by 'I wanna use my 100 dice spell!')

Sun's Touch
Spell Effects: Greater Create Energy.
Inherent Modifiers: Damage, External Burning + Bestows A Bonus, To Hit with Me + Range.
Greater Effects: 1 (×3).
Sun's Touch - Calls Forth the Warmth of the Sun!
This Casting: Greater Create Energy (6) + Lesser Control Magic (5) + Damage, External Burning 100d+2 (130) + Bestows A Bonus, +3 to To Hit with Me (4) + Range, 10 yds (4). 447 energy (149×3).

Straight up, here it be, defend or eat raw damage attack spell.

Usually cast as a charm

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There is a different between a rules gap (which is what this is) and seamless play. Again, I need to think more on it as it influences something I've written pretty heavily.

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Well, I think you might be reading to much into my comment . . . it wasn't meant to influence major thoughts or anything.

Its not any different really than a ST 10 character at 12lbs of encumbrance thinking 'Gosh! I could carry 8 more lbs of encumbrance without being slowed down, maybe that bulletproof vest that weighs 2lbs isn't such a bad idea'

Or the 19.9999999 lbs of encumbrance ST 10 character not wanting to pick up the Straw that Slowed the Camel Down

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I think you may have to extend your meditation because this also happens a lot in games where charms are created with the one roll method- spells get padded out to there safe threshold, or 2x safe threshold to make optimum use of the single roll.

With that said- I don't necessarily think it is a bad thing, it can even be thematically appropriate, doubly so with something that is supposed to be as whimsical as magic- the fact that effect shapers always want to round out there energy costs to an x9 could be some sort of 'rule of 3x3'. "Why don't you make the spell last one week or one month Magister?" "Because of the rule of 3x3 boy- your power is wasted on a week and the spirits don't look kindly on someone who does not want to round to the nearest 3x3!'

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Okay, the rule of 3x3 is hilarious, consider that officially adopted into my world lore starslayer

starslayer I think brings up an excellent point about Quick and Dirty RPM, (which is 2 rolls, not one), the very first thing I do when trying to come up with pre prepared spells for Quick and Dirty is to make a note on my character sheet what my various threshholds are and the rolls needed for a spell cast at that level

I didn't mention it before because well, honestly, it never would have occured to me not to think of it. 'What do I have to work with?' is almost always the first question that comes to mind, so for a spell its 'how much energy can I work with?', just like one of the very first steps in GURPS chargen is 'how many points?', or for say some types of DnD 'so what did I roll?'

Designing a spell to budget, much like designing a character to budget, seems something that isn't foreign to my notion of how GURPS works

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The Q&D table is a thing of simplistic beauty that PK and Thomas Weigal made IIRC. The thresholds can lead to some gaming of the system at higher levels, but this seems different for Effect-Shaping. Something that needs to be poked at.

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The Prismatic Blaster spell was a bit of an experiment inspired by a line of D&D spells that inflicts one of seven random effects. If I wanted to be more faithful to the original spells, I'd make it a kind of Transform Magic effect which converts the spell's gathered energy into another effect at random. The random effect would be handled via an "backlash effect" that reduces the final energy cost by half the percentage value of a Limitation like Uncontrollable or Unreliable. The gathered energy for the random effect would have to be enough to fuel an equivalent ritual cast normally.

That is, rather than all effects at once, just one effect chosen randomly.

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Sleep Hex
Spell Effects: Lesser Control Body.
Inherent Modifiers: Affliction, Sleep.
Greater Effects: 0 (x1).

The subject within range must resist, or be rendered asleep until awakened or gets a full night's sleep.

Typical Casting: Subject Weight, 300 lbs. (3) + Range, 10 yards (4) + Affliction, Sleep (+150%) (30) + Lesser Control Body (5). 42 energy (42x1).

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Here are a few:


FIRE RITUALS


Firestorm
Spell Effects: Greater Create Energy.
Inherent Modifiers: area of effect, damage burning
Greater Effects:1 (x3).

This spell creates a storm of fire around you, it deals 2d points of burning damage per second for 3 seconds and has a reach of 3 yards.

Typical Casting: Greater Create Energy (6), Damage, External Burning 6d (4), Area of Effect, 3 yards (2), excluded self (1). 39 energy (13×3)



Sun Light
Spell Effects: Greater Create Energy
Inherent Modifiers: none.
Greater Effects: 1 (x3)

This spell recreates the light from the sun, along with its warmth, that last for 10 minutes.

Typical Casting: Greater Create Energy (6) + Duration, 10 minutes (1). 21 energy (7×3)


Lingering Flame
Spell Effects: Greater Create Energy, lesser sense body, lesser control magic.
Inherent Modifiers: Damage, External Burning explosion, range.
Greater Effects: 1 (x3)

Creates a sphere of flame that floats in the targeted place till someone comes close to it, then it explodes.

Typical casting: Greater Create Energy (6) + lesser sense body (2) + lesser control magic (5) + Area of Effect, 3 yards (2) + Damage, External Burning 3d (2) + Range, 5 yards (2). 57 energy (19×3)


Flame weapon
Spell Effects: Greater create Energy
Inherent Modifiers: bestow a bonus
Greater Effects: 1 (x3)

This spell enchants a weapon that causes extra burning damage.

Typical casting: Greater create energy (6), Bestow a bonus, damage +3 (4), duration 10 minutes (1). 33 energy (11x3)




DIMENSION RITUALS


Destroy door
Spell Effects: Greater Destroy Crossroads
Inherent Modifier: none.
Greater Effects: 1 (x3)

This spell destroys a gate so it can no longer be used.

Typical casting: Greater destroy Crossroads (5). 15 energy (5x3)



UNDEAD RITUALS

Undead Bane
Spell Effects: Greater Destroy Undead
Inherent Modifiers: bestow a bonus
Greater Effects: 1 (x3)

This spell enchants a weapon that causes extra damage against any undead.

Typical casting: Greater Destroy Undead (5), Bestow a bonus, damage +4 (8), duration 10 minutes (1). 42 energy (14x3)


Undead shield
Spell effects: Lesser Control undead
Inherent modifier:bestow a bonus
Greater Effects: 0 (x1)

This spell protects a person from any undead.

Typical casting: lesser control undead (6), duration 3 hours (4) + bestow a bonus +3 To strengthen ward (4). 14 energy (14x1)

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OTHER RITUALS


Air Jet
Spell Effects:Greater Control Matter.
Inherent Modifiers:Damage, External Crushing (Double Knockback; Jet; No Wounding).
Greater Effects:1 (x3).

This spell conjures a jet (p. B106) of air extending from the caster’s hand or an object that he is holding. The target takes 3d crushing damage; this does no actual damage, but it does inflict blunt trauma and is doubled for knockback purposes.

Typical Casting:Greater Create Matter (5) + Damage, External Crushing 3d (Double Knockback, +20%; Jet, +0%; No Wounding, -50%) (1). 18 energy (6×3)





Enhanced durability
Spell Effects:Greater Control Energy.
Inherent Modifiers:Altered Trait, Damage Resistance
Greater Effects:1 (x3).

This spell is usually cast as a conditional spell, often on a coat. Once invoked, the spell protects the wearer for the next 2 weeks as if it had +6 DR – but only if the attack comes from a physical source. Energy, spiritual attacks, etc., ignore this protection.

Typical Casting:Greater Control Energy (5) + Lesser Control Magic (5) + Altered Trait, Damage Resistance 6 (Limited, Physical attacks, -20%) (24) + Duration, 2 weeks (10) + Subject Weight, 30 lbs. (1). 135 energy (45×3)



Bestow luck
Spell Effects: Lesser control chance.
Inherent Modifiers: alter traits (add luck)
Greater Effects:0 (x1).

Usually cast as a charm, when the weilder fails a defense roll for the first time the charm breaks and allows you to re-roll. You know when it worked cause the charm breaks.


Typical Casting: Lesser control chance (5), lesser control magic (5), alter trait luck (15), 25 energy (25x1)

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I'm not sure if this is the right place, but how would one go about sticking an armor divisor on a sword? I can think of a two ways it could be done, but both of them seem to be an attempt to shoe horn something in:

OR

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I would go with the latter approach

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The latter, that's what I've done in the past.

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Treasure Hunt
Spell Effects: Lesser Sense Matter.
Inherent Modifiers: None.
Greater Effects: 0 (x1).

This ritual informs the caster of the locations of all items within 200 yards that he would consider useful or valuable.

Typical Casting: Lesser Sense Matter (2) + Range, 200 yards (0). 2 energy (2x1).

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Remote Firestorm [anyone got a better name for this?]
Spell Effects: Greater Create Energy + Lesser Control Magic + Greater Sense Matter.
Inherent Modifiers: Damage, External Explosive Burning.
Greater Effects: 2 (x5).

This ritual is cast as a charm and creates two tokens - one designated as the trigger and the other designated as ground zero. When the trigger token is crushed in the regular manner of a charm, the other token explodes in a blaze like a bomb. The explosion's damage is 4d burning. Breaking the ground zero token also sets off the explosion.
See B104 and B414 for rules on explosions.

Typical Casting: Greater Create Energy (6) + Damage, External Explosive Burning 4d (4) + Lesser Control Magic (5) + Greater Sense Matter (2). 85 energy (17x5).

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True Resurrection
Spell Effects: Greater Restore Body + Greater Control Spirit.
Inherent Modifiers: Altered Traits, Regrowth, Unkillable 1 and Regeneration (Regular).
Greater Effects: 2 (x5).

This ritual can bring someone back to life, with any permanent damage (lost limbs, for instance) healed, assuming their corpse has not been reduced to -10xHP and is touching the caster. The restoration of the corpse takes 1 hour per point of injury to be healed until the body is at full HP, so adjust the duration accordingly (a full day heals 24 HP). Assume a corpse left to rot in an unsealed environment will lose 2 HP per day, making the ritual that much more harder.

Typical Casting: Altered Traits, Regrowth, Unkillable 1 and Regeneration (Regular) (115) + Duration, 3 days (8) + Subject Weight, 300 lbs. (3) + Greater Restore Body (4) + Greater Control Spirit (5). 675 energy (135x5).

Note: A mostly intact corpse with little damage can be brought back to life with a cheaper ritual that cuts out the Regrowth and Resurrection Altered Traits (and a much shorter Duration), and simply replaces it with lots of Healing (although the rolled healing and any other healing would have to be enough to get the corpse above -1xHP before the Duration runs out or the spell fails). This hypothetical ritual would be different from the one outlined here - let us name it Fight Back From the Grave.

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Live and Let Die
Spell Effects: Greater Destroy Body.
Inherent Modifiers: Affliction, Death.
Greater Effects: 1 (x3).

Plenty of magicians believe that the key to a good death curse is hate.
They think that feeling immense hatred towards a person allows one to channel the proper magical energies into the shape of a killing force and direct it accurately.
That is stupid. Partly because it's actually pretty hard to get hateful enough to sincerely wish death upon someone in the first place. Not to mention the fact that casting this supposed death curse multiple times in a row in timely succession is flatly impossible - can you imagine hating someone enough that you'd not only want to stab them to death, BUT THEN you'd want to slit their throat too, AND THEN you'd still want to smash their skull in, AND THEN...!
You get the picture. Frankly, you don't have it in you to hate someone to death over and over again - you would get bored.
And besides, hatred implies respect, which interferes with the killer instinct. You care about someone enough to want them dead. That's not good enough.
To cast a truly effective Killing Curse, you require the real opposite of love and life - which isn't hate. You require APATHY. Indifference!
You have to completely and utterly not care about the life of your opponent. You're not killing them. You're just not bothering to allow them to live any more.

This death curse ritual is very particular; to successfully cast it, you have to have no particular personal feelings, negative or favourable, toward the subject. So that means no applicable Intolerances. No recently failed self-control rolls for mental disadvantages like Sadism, Bad Temper, Lecherousness, Selfish or Loner. No failed Fright Checks. If the subject is something considered loathsome by the caster - a disgusting Appearance, a hated Social Stigma, an Odious Personal Habit, a Bad Reputation or obnoxious Delusion - it may be enough to spoil the spell, if the caster is aware. Even casting the ritual out of a need to defend yourself can be suspect - a general fear of dying can easily lead to anger and dread directed towards an assassin. Also note that the subject should not be provoking positive emotions in the caster, either - so you can't use this ritual to mercy-kill someone or commit suicide. Typically, a pragmatic motive for murder, like money, works best. The Killjoy disadvantages just by itself or the subject wearing full body covering can help - anything that would limit the emotional investment. The GM may require NPCs to make a reaction roll to the subject, and only allow a successful ritual on a strictly Neutral reaction. PCs casting the ritual may need to roll against Will or their worst self-control number amongst their mental disadvantages - penalties to this roll should be expected if the character role played any strong emotions regarding the subject. A caster with any kind of Pacifism should automatically fail.

The ritual, powered by indifference, is thus slow to kill. The subject will die after failing a resistance roll, but only after 1 week since the failed resistance roll (in which the ritual can be dispelled).

Typical Casting: Range, 10 yards (4) + Affliction, Death (60) + Subject Weight, 300 lbs. (3) + Greater Destroy Body (5). 216 energy (72x3).
Note: The requirement for casting the spell is apathy towards the subject despite the spell's deadliness - effectively a kind of Accessibility limitation - which is just tough enough to arrange that it is worth an -25% energy cost reduction. The delayed effect is a Onset limitation worth an -20% energy reduction. The total energy reduction is -45%, to 119 energy.

[Designer's note: perhaps it would be better if the Onset limitation just reduced the energy cost of the Death Affliction (the full -40% for 1 week Onset converts to -8(?) energy off the Affliction's 60 to 52) instead of being part of a general energy reduction?]

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I just figured out how to build a shield as a power, and so of course now I have to make a spell that gives you a shield as a power. Because I can.

Spectral Shield

Spell Effects: Lesser Control Energy (6)
Inherent Modifiers: Altered Traits : Damage Resistance (Active Defense, -40%, Must be wielded as a shield, -20%, Defense Bonus, +5% per level, max +8)

This spell creates a glowing spectral shield on one of the arms of the subject. This shield provides a defense bonus just like any other shield. Users are advised to remember that an opponent can ignore your defense bonus if they simply resort to stabbing you through the shield.

Typical Casting: Lesser Control Energy (6) + Subject Weight, 300 lbs. (3) + Duration, 10 Minutes (+1) + Altered Traits: Damage Resistance 20 (Active Defense, -40%, Must be wielded as a shield, -20%, Defense Bonus +6, +30%) (70) 80 x 1 = 80

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I'd prefer to see this use long range modifiers and a lesser sense matter. I could see it as a lesser sense magic as well.

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This one's a little strange:

Counterbolt

Spell Effects: Lesser Destroy Magic
Inherent Modifiers: Meta Magic
Greater Effects: 0 (x1)

This counterspell is cast as a missile spell. The caster must succeed on a ranged attack against the spell they are trying to counter before it takes effect. If it's a missile spell in flight, they must hit the missile, otherwise they must hit the caster before the spell is finished. In exchange for this limitation, the caster is exempt from requiring a range on the spell and the meta magic cost for this spell is divided by three. This means that they need only pay 1/3 the energy cost of the spell they seek to counter.

Typical Casting: Lesser Destroy Magic (5) + Meta-Magic 150 (50) 55 Energy (55x1)

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Thought Ink [anyone got a better name?]
Spell Effects: Lesser Transform Matter + Lesser Sense Mind + Lesser Sense Matter.
Inherent Modifiers: None.
Greater Effects: 0 (x1).

This ritual is cast upon an ordinary notebook of blank paper. For the duration of the spell, the paper can be "written on" with a mental command - the ritual transforms the paper into paper that has been written on, according to a mental picture of what the caster wishes to be on the paper (like diagrams, differently coloured inks, page breaks, etc.). The mental commands can also "edit" the paper seamlessly, as if it were the original "writing". The caster will also know the state of the paper, and what has been written on it, just as if he were reading it in his hands. The caster must be within range of the notebook to mentally command the transformations or mentally read the paper. A roll against Artist or Writing might affect the quality of what gets printed on the paper.

Typical Casting: Duration, 1 week (9) + Range, 100 yards (10) + Subject Weight, 10 lbs. (0) + Lesser Sense Mind (2) + Lesser Transform Matter (8) + Lesser Sense Matter (2). 31 energy (31x1).

[Is the Lesser Sense Matter effect needed to read the paper, or does the Lesser Sense Mind effect also cover that?]

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Telepathic Transcription? Telestenography?

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I'd guess that the lesser sense matter effect is not needed unless you want the caster to always know what the paper says even if he's not looking.

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That's included in the description of the spell effect. Basically, it would allow a blind man to know what's on the paper, or, allow you to "write" on paper locked in a secure container.

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Ether Storehouse
Spell Effects: Greater Create Crossroads + Lesser Control Matter.
Inherent Modifiers: None.
Greater Effects: 1 (x3).

This ritual allows the caster to conceal items inside a miniature pocket dimension for the duration - only the caster can put in things or take them out, thus preventing others from finding them in a body search. Each stored item must weigh 30 lbs. or less, and the caster must succeed in a Holdout roll with the usual modifiers (so the caster should wear a big coat during the spell) to conceal it inside the stash. Taking out an item from the stash requires only a Ready manoeuvre to put it in the caster's hands. Items in the stash can only be detected with magic.
When the ritual's duration expires, the items fall out of the pocket dimension directly into the same location of the caster.

Typical Casting: Subject Weight, 30 lbs. (1) + Duration, 1 hour (3) + Greater Create Crossroads (6) + Lesser Control Matter (5). 45 energy (15x3).

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That sounds cool for some cult of blind sorcerer monks. Odin got quite a bit of magic for one eye. Imagine the power for plucking out both.

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Time Stop
Spell Effects: Greater Transform Crossroads.
Inherent Modifiers: Altered Trait, Altered Time Rate 3.5 (1/5 cost for One Use).
Greater Effects: 1 (×3).

The spell modifies the temporal properties of the caster, very briefly accelerating them in time to allow them to act many times quicker than they usually would. This has the affect of allowing the subject 1d4+1 (the ebbs and flows of spacetime make it difficult to predict) extra maneuvers when the spell is activated. If, as a conditional or charm (or some godlike entity manages to cast this as blocking), the spell activates as an active defense, those turns may be immediately taken before the action completes. Despite the great speed awarded to the subject, this does not render them any special benefits beyond what they already have - they are not moving nearly fast enough that people don't still get their active defenses! The ability to walk up to someone, attempt to stab them in the face, fail and change your mind, walk back out of range, draw a gun, aim carefully and shoot them in the face are definitely still great value for energy even without that! This is usually cast as a charm or conditional spell; even potent adepts struggle to cast this without appropriate bonuses from places of power, charm kits and grimoires.

This Casting: Greater Transform Crossroads (8) + Lesser Control Magic (5) + Altered Trait, Altered Time Rate 3.5 (1/5 cost for One Use) (70) + Duration, 10 minutes (1) + Subject Weight, 1,000 lbs. (4). 264 energy (88×3).

A spell very clearly, ahem, inspired by That Other Game. I have no idea if this build is viable, but it seems to cost a lot for an appropriate amount of brokenness? The mention of it being used in response is very tentative - on the one hand, it seems cool, on the other, it seems game-breaking. It is at least appropriate in an initiative/quick-draw scenario, where both people are starting to respond at the same time, but it would be sort of broken in the middle of combat, and of course ATR doesn't normally allow anything of the sort, so there certainly is zero precedent.

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One Use isn't viable in this build.

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...damn. That certainly makes things substantially less affordable - or not at all, in fact. And I suppose using the full, unmodified value is also a little off in the sense that at that point, you are just afflicting someone with ATR for a limited duration, and you might as well take all ten of those minutes of duration, seeing how much you pay for it already.

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That tends to be the problem, yes. You'd have to rejigger the duration chart if you wanted to play with the times...

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I don't see why One Use isn't viable, so long as the GM approves. It is a significant limitation, and it does make a huge diference as to the effect of the spell.

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Because One-Use's reduction to cost is essentially setting aside unspent character points to do one specific thing once. It's like saying "Here, have these character points every time you cast a spell with Altered Traits." You can't do it.

Of course, if the GM rules that's how it works in his game then it does - but I'd never allow that in my campaigns and it's not RAW. It's just too easy to abuse.

Now, if the receipt loses those points after the spell ends from his unspent points, advantages, attributes, etc. then sure. That's balanced. That's essentially how you bring back the dead by adding Altered Traits, Extra Life. You can also multiply the cost of one character point by five to get a spendable "destiny" or "impulse" point, but that's almost the opposite of what this is doing.

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Hmm, perhaps it's be better stated as Limited Use, 1 sec/day, -80% (GM Assigned Value). and sure, if you let players do as they want it can be abused - but thats true for the majority of GURPS. You just need a GM who's not afraid to say no.

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No, that's not exactly correct. It's inherently broken. It has nothing to do with a GM. You'd use something like Maximum Duration here. Since 30 seconds is -75%, I suppose you could add that, but it feels wonky with how Duration works with RPM to begin with.

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Limited Duration, 1 second, is the same thing as spending 0 energy on Duration, so that's the path you would take, rather than spending 1 energy (3 with the multiplier) for a 10 minute duration, then "limiting" it to 1 second to get back 280 energy (840 with the multiplier).

With RPM, you build it as close as you can using the inherent modifiers of RPM, then go the Enhancement/Limitation route only once you've exhausted those.

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Sure, but that has the spell costing a ridiculous amount. If you want the spell to be useful but not unbalanced, you need to cut the cost somehow.

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Pretty much.

This is more an artifact of how Altered Time Rate rather than RPM. Face it, having 2 or more maneuvers a turn is deadly.

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Sure, but having two or more for one turn should not be an 800 point spell. Having those for a whole minute, say, would be pretty crazy and let you dominate a combat, but one second is mostly good for an emergency or a blitz.

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Then arbitrarily reduce the cost for your campaigns to whatever level works for you. :-)

Edit: Or say that Altered Time Rate is a Lesser Effect - not a greater.

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I would absolutely allow 1d6 rounds of Altered Time Rate as a lesser, since its in DF uhm, something as a Martial Artist power up, so it seems a very valid 'things PCs probably should be able to buy'

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I think Altered Time rate probably should be a greater effect - I'd even go so far as to make it a secret effect, that you need to go to significant trouble to learn. As for arbitrary reductions, that was the point of the -80% limitation, though perhaps it should be more clearly stated.

On another note, how would you handle DnD style metamagic with RPM? As in, you take an advantage, and you can add (or remove, if it's already present) a specific effect to any ritual you cast (or a subset) without changing the ritual definitions for the purpose of qualifying for Ritual Masteries and Grimoires. For example, with Metamagic Mastery (Explosive), you could cast any spell you knew that would make sense wth the explosive modifer, while still qualifying to use Ritual Mastery and Grimoires for the base version.

I think it sounds like the Adjustable Spells perk, though perhaps it should cost more. Perhaps [3] or [5] as a baseline?

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Because Altered Traits is usually far more useful if it lasts longer than a second, I could see justification for allowing such traits to get a discount when built with less than a 1 minute duration. For this, don't pay for Duration at all, but you can apply a Limitation to the ritual itself (unless it has additional effects, in which case you'll want to only Limit those related to the Altered Traits). Longer than 30 second duration is not a Limitation at all, and in fact requires you to put at least 1 energy in Duration (for 10 minutes). 30 seconds is -5%. 25 seconds is -10%, 20 seconds is -15%, 15 seconds is -20%, 10 seconds is -25%, 5 seconds is -30%, 1 second is -35%. These are based on Accessibility Limitations, with the percentage of time roughly doubled to account for the fact that the character is in control of when the ability is available. This reduces the price of Time Stop to 714 - still expensive, but not the 1104 it would be to be usable for 10 minutes. It may be worthwhile to limit ATR further and/or use Traditional Trappings to drop the price more.

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I'd personally make those limitations scale more steeply, as they don't seem to give enough of a break to be worthwhile, in my opinion. I'd say something more like:

longer than 30 seconds but less than a minute : -0%, no duration cost required.
30 seconds: -5%.
25 seconds: -10%
20 seconds: -20%
15 seconds: -30%,
10 seconds: -45%,
5 seconds: -60%,
1 second: -80%.

Subject to GM approval, of course.

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I think that's the route to take.

ATR up to say 1 or 2 would be lesser, anything more and you're into Greater effects territory.

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Also here, have a ritual: http://gurpswiki.wikidot.com/rpm:force-skates

Spell Effects: Greater Control Energy, Lesser Create Energy
Inherent Modifiers: Altered Traits: Enhanced Move (Handling Bonus or Penalty: Variable, +/-5%/level)
Greater Effects: 1 (x3)

This spell creates planes of force beneath the users feet, allowing them to skate across the ground at incredible speeds. Beware though, it can be hard to control. Users can use the DX/E skill Force Skating for handling rolls, if it's be better than their default, otherwise they use DX. all handling rolls are modified by 3 +/- handling bonus or penalty

Typical Casting: Greater Control Energy (5) + Lesser Create Energy (6) + Altered Traits: Enhanced Move 3 (Handling Penalty: -5, -25%) (45) + Duration: 10 Minutes (1) + Subject Weight: 300 Lbs (3) 180 energy (60x3).

Edit: Have another ritual.

Implosion

Spell Effects: Greater Destroy Matter
Inherent Modifiers: Damage, Crushing Explosive External, Enhancements: No Wounding, Persistent, Double Knockback, Explosion, Attractive, Damage: Crushing External, Enhancements: Persistent
Greater Effects: 1 (x3)

This spell creates a missile that continuously destroys matter at the it's place of impact, creating an implosive force. This force pulls things towards the point of impact, instead of away from it. It lasts for 10 seconds. Anything that gets dragged into the center takes 6d crushing damage a second until the spell wears off.

Typical Casting: Greater Destroy Matter (5) + + External AOE Crushing Damage 6d (8) + Enhancements: Double Knockback, +20%, Explosion 1 (Covered by damage type), Persistent +40%, Attractive +50%, No Wounding -50% (12) + External Crushing Damage 6d (4) + Enhancements: Persistent (8) 111 Energy (37x3)

Is this second one legal? I made the attractive modifier up. It's expensive, but I think it's worth that much or more. I dunno if explosion + persistent is legal by raw, though.

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The way I look at Knockback, its direction is a +0% modifier if it's fixed at creation. If you can modify the direction or limit the strength on the fly, that's +10%; if you can modify both on the fly, that's +20%. So, your Attractive modifier should be +0%.

Explosive + Persistent probably isn't legal, but it's not gamebreaking either, as Area of Effect is legal to combine with Persistent, and AoE is essentially a better version of Explosive. Persistent without any sort of AoE is not legal, however - you'll need to at least give it a 1 hex area, which is probably +25% or so. As that's more expensive than just making it explosive, however, I'd probably go with that. In fact, don't bother with two different damage sources - just make it 6d Crushing External Explosive (Double Knockback +20%, Reverse Knockback +0%, Persistent +40%). That drops base energy to 25, thus total energy to 75, which is doable with high effective skill (it's within 3x safe threshold for skill 17, within 2x safe threshold for skill 18-20, and is the safe threshold for skill 75).

The concept is a rather clever trick, although at only 6d it probably isn't going to be quite as effective as you're hoping. It does an average of 3.5 damage at 2 hexes out, which isn't enough to knockback anyone with HP above 9. 1 hex out, it does 7 damage, which will do a yard of knockback to anyone with HP 16 or lower, sending them into the center. Damage from persistent occurs on your turn, which means anyone within the main hex that manages to move more than 2 yards on their turn will escape. If you treat External Explosive as exp3 (as has been suggested in the past, simply because exp1 is so lackluster), however, the ability is far more effective - you are able to Knockback HP 10 foes from a distance of 5 yards, which is going to make it a lot harder to get away. Turning exp1 into exp3 would be prohibitively expensive - you'll be best off changing the attack to an Area of Effect. Getting rid of explosive but maintaining 6d saves you 4 energy, and that's enough for a 5-yard area... although you'll still typically need to pay for Range (unless you want to have the edge of the effect be right in front of you).
There's also the question of what happens to the foe at the dead center. They're suffering 12d of knockback (average 42, enough to Knockback an HP 10 character 5 yards), but have nowhere to go. Normally having nowhere to go is the result of something getting in your way, so you suffer collision damage, but here you're not really colliding with anything. Maybe treat it as a collision with yourself?

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I'd much rather use explosion instead of area of effect. I also want to keep No wounding, so that you can have people deperately hanging off of walls, trying not to get sucked in. Thus, keeping no wounding and just having people who reach the center colliding with an immovable object, and take damage from this according to (HPxVelocity)/100 seems reasonable. This also brings the cost down, which makes it more reasonable. Thus, we get:

Implosion

Spell Effects: Greater Destroy Matter
Inherent Modifiers: Damage, Crushing Explosive External, Enhancements: No Wounding, Persistent, Double Knockback, Explosion, Attractive.
Greater Effects: 1 (x3)

This spell creates a missile that continuously destroys matter at the it's place of impact, creating an implosive force. This force pulls things towards the point of impact, instead of away from it. It lasts for 10 seconds. It has two effects in game terms, the first is No Wounding Double Knockback Crushing Damage That pull this toward the center of the blast, instead of away from it. Knockback is equal to Damage doubled for double knockback, divided by the strength of the subject -2. Anything that gets dragged into the center takes damage each second for colliding with an immovable object until the spell ends. This does dice of crushing damage equal to (HPxVelocity)/100.

Typical Casting: Greater Destroy Matter (5) + External AOE Crushing Damage 6d+4 (10) + Enhancements: Double Knockback, +20%, Explosion 3 (+100%), Persistent +40%, Attractive +0%, No Wounding -50% (22) 111 energy (37x3).

Edit: Hmm. Wasn't there advie in Powers or somewhere about taking Double Knockback as a leveled enhancement?

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I've not seen this in any books. The way I'd handle it, I'd simply add on additional damage with No Wounding, No Blunt Trauma, and Double Knockback to whatever I already had. The way that works out is pretty close to "+20% for every +1 to multiplier" (it's actually +25% per +1, but +20% is close enough). So, +20% for 2x, +40% for 3x, +60% for 4x, +80% for 5x, and so forth. That's +4 base energy (+12 final cost) for every 6d+4 knockback added on, although as you get to higher multipliers increasing base damage will work better.

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An edited (improved?) version of a previous entry into this thread, PEACH;
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Remote Firestorm
Spell Effects: Greater Create Energy + Lesser Control Magic + Lesser Sense Matter.
Inherent Modifiers: Damage, External Explosive Burning.
Greater Effects: 1 (x3).

This ritual is cast as a charm and creates two tokens - one designated as the trigger and the other designated as ground zero. When the trigger token is crushed in the regular manner of a charm within range, the other token explodes in a blaze like a bomb. The explosion's damage is 4d burning. Breaking the ground zero token also sets off the explosion.
See B104 and B414 for rules on explosions.

Typical Casting: Greater Create Energy (6) + Damage, External Explosive Burning 4d (4) + Lesser Control Magic (5) + Lesser Sense Matter (2) + Range, 1 mile (2). 57 energy (19x3).

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Mnemonic Enhancer
Spell Effects: Lesser Strengthen Mind.
Inherent Modifiers: Altered Traits, Photographic Memory.
Greater Effects: 0 (x1).

This ritual gives the caster perfect memory for the duration.

Typical Casting: Lesser Strengthen Mind (3) + Duration, 3 days (8) + Altered Traits, Photographic Memory (10). 21 energy (21x1).

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I'm not certain Sense Matter is necessary here. "Strike the target I'm pointing at" is no less complicated than "Strike where your bound token is located," and the former doesn't require Sense Body (to check the orientation of your finger) or Sense Mind (to determine what you're trying to point at).

Aside from that, I'd call it Remote Firebomb. A firestorm would probably have Area of Effect and Persistent (thanks to Angle for reminding me about that modifier).

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So, like this?
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Remote Firebomb
Spell Effects: Greater Create Energy + Lesser Control Magic.
Inherent Modifiers: Damage, External Explosive Burning.
Greater Effects: 1 (x3).

This ritual is cast as a charm and creates two tokens - one designated as the trigger and the other designated as ground zero. When the trigger token is crushed in the regular manner of a charm within range, the other token explodes in a blaze like a bomb. The explosion's damage is 4d burning. Breaking the ground zero token also sets off the explosion.
See B104 and B414 for rules on explosions.

Typical Casting: Greater Create Energy (6) + Damage, External Explosive Burning 4d (4) + Lesser Control Magic (5) + Range, 1 mile (2). 51 energy (17x3).

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Here's one I just thought up:

Poison Thorn

Spell Effects: Greater Create Matter, Lesser Create Matter
Inherent Modifiers: External Piercing Damage, External Toxic Damage, Enhancement: Follow Up +0%, Cyclic, 10 Sec, 50% per cycle, Symptom: Hallucinating, -2/3 health.
Greater Effects: 1 (x3)

This spell shoots a thorn, which inflicts anybody it hits with a rather nasty poison that will have them hallucinating their socks off.

Typical Casting: Greater Create Matter (6) + Lesser Create Matter (6) + External Piercing Damage: 3d (0) + External Toxic Damage 3d (0) + Enhancements: Follow Up +0%, Cyclic 10 Seconds/2 Cycles, +100%, Symptom: Hallucinating, -2/3 health, +50% (30) 126 energy (42x3)

The toxic damage doesn't look right, though - Should I really be taking cyclical damage with the x3 external multiplier? For that matter, should I be starting from 1d for 0 energy for follow up damage? Perhaps That'd be better stated as "Internal Toxic damage 1d (4)", where I start the energy cost for the follow up damage where the energy cost for the initial damage left off.

Edit: Here's another:

Explosive Germination

Spell Effects: Greater Transform Body
Inherent Modifiers: Time, Duration, Subject Weight
Greater Effects: 1 (x3)

This spell is cast on a seed. It causes the seed to sprout, rapidly growing to the size it would reach in the given time. After the given duration, it will turn to dust.

Typical Casting: Greater Transform Body (8) + Time: 9 years (30) + Subject Weight: 10 lbs (0) + Duration (10 Minutes) 117 energy (39x3).

Does this make sense? Should I pay for the subject weight of the full grown plant, instead of the time it takes for the seed to mature into it?

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Sanctioned Hubris/Favour of Yog-Soggoth/Magister's Denial/Thaumaturgic Safety Net
Spell Effects: Lesser Sense Magic + Lesser Control Magic + Lesser Destroy Magic.
Inherent Modifiers: Meta-Magic.
Greater Effects: 0 (x1).

This conditional ritual allows the caster to try dispelling any botch ritual, as a result of a critical failure the caster rolled on a Path skill, before it is "cast". The caster gets told what kind of botch ritual (including energy cost) threatens him, and can choose not to trigger this ritual to dispel it if the threat is bearable or too powerful (not enough energy in this ritual) to dispel. Once this ritual is used against a botch, it's expired regardless of success or failure - there is no Duration. This ritual instantly dispels the botch ritual as per Magic versus Magic (Thaumatology: Ritual Path Magic page 24), but the Path skill roll is unopposed because the target of the spell is a botch ritual.

Typical Casting: Meta-Magic (40) + Lesser Sense Magic (2) + Lesser Control Magic (5) + Lesser Destroy Magic (5). 62 energy (62x1).

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How would people feel if I started putting their rituals on the GURPS Repository? I've been putting mine on it, but that doesn't cover much area.

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Well, try to make sure you only copy the final edit of a ritual where applicable, because not all of the submitted entries were checked over by Mr. Rice to see if they were rules legal.

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Hey, I'm working on a RPM magical style that revolves around the concept of "blood magic, done by ninjas" - ninjas being a general term of "shadowy spies and assassins", not specifically the historical Japanese figures or anything.

Point is, what kind of Rituals should be covered by this style?
So far, I got Weaken Blood, Blood Cipher...a spell to boil someone's blood (Internal Burning damage), a spell to analyse blood, a spell to transform blood into other liquids or other blood (to fool DNA tests, among other things), a spell that changes the caster's body into blood (basically, a variant of Body of Water)...I suppose the style's scope includes spells for cleaning up blood and heimo-kenesis.

Am I missing a good "Blood Magic" spell here? Path of Body and/or Path of Matter effects preferred.

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Transform to make a weapon out of the iron in blood would be fun

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You need a 'large' sewing needle?






The average sewing needle weighs about 1 gram, the human body has about 4 grams of iron, the largest concentration being in hemoglobin.

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Well, it sounded like a neat idea. I guess not so much

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A strengthen body effect could make it viable...
although create matter would just be straight up more canon.

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This is how you'd do it.

Now a ritual to rip the bones from a living enemy and assault another enemy? That I could see working...

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Note, This is magic, so you can just use a transorm matter effect and it should work fine.

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I think you'd need a transform body + transform matter if you're turning stuff in the body that isn't iron into iron. Even if it's just blood...

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This is one of those finicky bits. I think by RAW RPM, blood that's in the body requires Path of Body to affect, while blood that's been shed requires Path of Matter to affect. Shed blood is functionally "dead" for purposes of Path effects, and dead things - like food - are typically the realm of Path of Matter. So, if you want to turn some of your foe's blood into an iron sword within their body, that would be Transform Body + Transform Matter, while making a sword out of the blood they (or you) have lost would simply be Transform Matter.

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Blade of Blood and Bone:
Spell Effects: Greater Transform Body (8) + Lesser Transform Matter (8)+ Lesser Strengthen Matter(3).
Inherent Modifiers: Damage, External Impaling
Greater Effects: 1 (x3).

The user of this spell can reach into a foe's chest and withdraw a sword or knife made of the victim's bones, reinforced with the iron in his blood. The attack is delivered via any unarmed combat skill, and a successful Armory roll is needed to get a usable blade. If no damage penetrates the target's DR, no weapon is created.


Typical Casting: Greater Transform Body (8) + Lesser Transform Matter (8)+ Lesser Strengthen Matter(3) + Damage, External Impaling 3d+3 (2)+ +Duration, 10 Minutes (1)+ Subject Weight, 3 lbs. (0). 66 energy (22x3).

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This needs Duration to be usable beyond initially damaging the foe. 10 minutes for +1 (+3 total) energy should be more than sufficient. It should also use Internal damage, as armor isn't going to get in the way of the weapon forming. Traditionally this would require two Greater Effects (much like Body of Shadow and Petrify) to bridge the gap between two Paths, but I'm personally fine with it only using one, particularly because you augmented it with Lesser Strengthen Matter.

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I went with external damage because I envisioned it as literally punching your hand into someone's chest and pulling it out with a sword in it. I chose lesser Transform matter because it's not changing the nature of what you pull out; it's still bone, just magically hardened bone (hence the Strengthen Matter part).

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I gave it a shot. I might have overthought it. Some of the modifiers I just totally eyeballed because I wasn't sure if there were appropriate modifiers for that out there (i.e. the "uses joint and spine rules" modifier on the crushing attack.) Any input or advice is welcome.

Bone Barrage
Spell Effects: Lesser Destroy Body (for crushing a bone) + Greater Control Body (for firing the bone shards at another person)
Inherent Modifiers:
- Internal Crushing (No Knockback -10%, Uses Joint rules for crippling limbs and spine rules for torso shots +100%)
- Internal Huge Piercing (.5 armor divisor [accessibility, only for penetrating out of the target!, -60%] -12%)
- External Impaling (.5 Armor Divisor -30%, RoF 1*X [with accessibility: limited to the crushing damage dealt or huge piercing damage that penetrates the first targets armor, whichever is lower -30%] where X must be equal to maximum possible crushing damage, Overhead +30%.)
Greater Effects: 1 (x3)

This spell crushes bones within the targets body and then fires them at another nearby target. If the first target fails to resist, roll crushing damage, ignoring DR. The spell cripples limbs as though it targeted a joint, and damage to the torso uses the special rules for targeting the spine! Then, if the first attack succeeds and deals damage, roll a huge piercing attack with the same number of dice. This second attack originates from within the target, but check to see if it over-penetrates!

Once that's been done, roll an impaling attack against the second target with a RoF equal to the lower of the crushing damage dealt or the over-penetrating piercing damage. This attack has a .5 armor divisor.

Typical Casting: Lesser Destroy Body [5] + Greater Control Body [5] + 2d Internal, no knockback, Crushing Damage that uses joint and spine rules [22] + 2d Internal Huge Piercing, with .5 armor divisor [8] + 6d External RoF 12 (limited to crushing damage dealt or hp penetrating damage) AD .5 Overhead Impaling Attack [22] = 62x3 = 186 energy.