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Correct, before we had a crop of teenage boys, we had a crop of College Aged Women (I'd say girls, but having just referred to Julian and Peter, they feel like women at the moment). They all used those two disadvantages... though I'd say Tereza is more iconic than Chandra (both had long runs. Tereza ended up basically finishing her story though).



It feels barebones, but its solid, and I can't say there is anything obvious that I would add to it. I take it she's from the UK?

She is approved. Give me a day to stick her in a world. This is a very pleasant surprise!

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Amy's life has yet to take shape. I can elaborate on any specifics that you're curious about. But you can probably guess most of it from her advantages, disadvantages and skills. This is one of those times when the sheet does most of the talking.

Yes.

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Sometimes I wonder about where Goliath's points are, or if he has a sheet or a stat list or he's all hand-wavy...

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I have a sheet. Its halfway between a stat sheet and a proper character sheet and I often forget it exists, and its technically incomplete. But he has, for example, brawling 15, tracking 14 (before the smell bonus) and intimidation 13. It does point accounting, though I don't think I've spent all of the points. He's listed at 81 points right now, with 19 unspent points for when I need to add things.


With the points Peter has picked up, he's probably due for some upgrades.

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Peter is a 305 point character now (well, 300 with 5 unspent)... but I presume you're not including the 153 point Dreamer package.


Yeah. With No Magery and the basic skill being a VH, skill levels are dangerously low. Cast that in a low mana area and critical failure hits on a 13. Regular spells are at -1 skill per yard to the target and that adds up fast. This is the hardest and most dangerous magic Peter has encountered. It can summon demons if you screw it up badly. It's super reckless to teach him. This guy looked at his aura, and saw he had something like a dimensional storm and giant energy battery, access to the power but weirdly with no talent and he taught him anyway... They should both be thrown in wizard-jail for everyone's protection.

It is tempting to just take it 'because Peter is awesome at magic' but getting energy back in an hour vs two is really not that useful in the grand scheme, especially when you have an energy reserve. Recover Energy is a great deal when a point or two in a MH spell gets you a 15, but pricey at 5... And I'm going to need the points. I'll need to put 20 points into a college skill to cast a Magery 2 spell at 12, so if I do want Peter to study this magic it will be really expensive to make it safe and reliable. (Hubris for hoping to skip some prerequisites to cherry pick or have a modular dial-a-spell I guess.)

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Wait, you've picked up 42 points? nice.



I've boosted a bunch of his stats, added luck and night vision, and some survival skills and athletic skills. I also found some errors, like forgetting NFM on his Strength, and not adding his traits. That brings him up to... 106 points. He is a really good dog at this point, rocking around 17 on hearing checks, 18 on smell or tracking, and can probably keep you fed himself.


If that's the way it works... no promises.


on the other hand, specific spells are techniques, so raising one or two favorites might be doable.

Yeah, its not an automatic grab at 5 points, especially given that a lot of his magic doesn't use FP, but its not a bad option. Which means its probably priced about right.

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He's picked up 47 points. Peter has jumped on his own 23 times, been through 3 Panachronic conveyor rides, Passed through 7 interdimensional portals and been to 15 worlds now, so quite a bit of slow growth adding up to get there.
Cool. He is Peter's highest point value advantage, he can do more "Lassie-stuff" to pull his weight! lol He's great tho, I've never regretted taking him as an ally.

He really never should have been a 100% value. but I did that with the idea he would need the dreamer package (And maybe his own magical attributes).

I may have presumed to much. I kind of assumed the basic Magic rules were in place and that Gregory would have informed him... is that not the case?
Do crit fails not lie to you or otherwise blow up in your face?

By the book Ritual Magic with College skills usually are boosted by Magery and there is usually no penalty for the Magery requirements for the spell... So this model results in a much lower base skill than the assumptions for either of the published treatments, raising the frequency of crit fails, hence the concern.

Agree to disagree I guess. I think it is a bad option. I'm massively predisposed to taking it on general principle, despite it being pretty much worthless, but I am holding strong.

Recover ST (Oh wait, it's recover Energy now) is something you've always just thrown a point into. If you decide to make it a perk, I'd take it, but I think it's barely of any value over color. The whole of my impulse to take it is the feeling that Peter should have it by default as the littlest godling of magic. For 5 points I'd expect the performance of recover energy 20 and get them back in 2 min.

Double-timing your "resting quietly" recovery is great when you don't have an energy reserve, when you do, it regenerates whatever you're doing. And generally, if you can spare 30 minutes to rest, you can usually spare 60 and you either have time to rest or you don't.

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Peter has warped the way I describe vegetation. He gets so much context from looking at the plants.



Matrix, if you want to drop the % value on Goliath and throw those points somewhere, that's good with me. Or you can hold out for the ability to talk to animals and teach goliath skills beyond what dogs can ordinarily learn.



Yeah, crit fails on knowledge are going to lie to you. Or strain your ability in some way (you can't get the ER back for three days). The exact response is probably going to vary by the world you're on. Its also going to vary by the nature of the spell and the circumstances in which it was cast. Detect water is probably never going to cause you direct damage. But knowledge spells are kind of safe that way.


That's pretty true

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"Be Prepared!"

What do you think his proper value should currently be?

Just considering the number of disadvantages a doggie has, getting to 90 points is really impressive. I would not want to meet an angry Goliath.

Another option that just now occurred to me on reading this would be, given the current setting, to update him to be Peter's "Familiar".
If it sends him the wrong way when he really needs water, that can be damaging enough all on its own.

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Amy is completely ignorant about this kind of thing. I'm fully expecting her to stumble into an easily avoidable peril, that would have been obvious to anyone with even basic training.