Re: Corco's Villa
 

Fantasy creature templates for gurps are generally redundant and contradictory.


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Remember we're handwaving ST point costs on templates.



The template looks good, I think.

Re: Corco's Villa
 

Sorry I took so long to reply to this point...

I don't remember that being mentioned actually. Vassarious' dragon ST is in the template, which is the basis for the template limit for Morph, so that's a pretty big deal.

Re: Corco's Villa
 

From the second post:

You'll also notice that the cost for the dragon ST is [0]

Re: Corco's Villa
 

You never specified an amount for the discount, so I figured you'd mention it if it became relevant.

The personal ST is properly listed on the character sheet as zero points, as it does not vary from the template. It is listed everywhere I see the template, with the character point cost listed with a discount for no fine manipulators.

Edit: Discounted for Size, not NFM

Re: Corco's Villa
 

ahh, I see! you are correct.



Its not being counted against the 150 point powerset target, and you shouldn't count it towards the value of templates, but you also shouldn't count the ST of templates against them.



The ST of an assumed template is determined by its size, physical, and metaphysical properties. Usually, we'll find an existing template and base it off that (MH and DF being our most common sources).



You can assume mystical forms up to SM+3 without issue, and we said SM+4 and SM+5 are fine as long as you are copying "boring" forms (which is to say Mammoths, Sea Serpents, and so forth).



Does that help?

Re: Corco's Villa
 

Tough Skin and HP are fine as part of a racial template, Enhanced Dodge and Extra Attack are not, at least not while looking like a nondescript human. They'd need morphology changes to explain them, and it would take a very particular alternate form to justify extra attack...

Re: Corco's Villa
 

The description for extra attack in the basic set specifies a normal human can take one level simulating great coordination. Enhanced dodge is cinematic, but... What kind of morphology would you say is required for being slightly quicker? Is it different morphology than adding +1 to Basic speed?

Frankly, I find the DF templates terrible. They are tuned to being DF allies and at a cost of being good representations of the concepts IMO.

If the ST is not counted and other attributes can't be modified, I cannot do even a small Air elemental form from DF, which does not have infiltration. Can I go back to a Body of Air model?

Re: Corco's Villa
 

Its a different morphology than adding +1 to Basic Speed. An extra head and set of arms is the most obvious one I can think of.



for basic speed, looking like a star athlete is probably enough.


If you don't count the 100 points gotten back from Body of air, can you afford that?


Well, most official templates have ruthlessly broad capabilities and aren't built anywhere near what an experienced player will build. I do like to use them when shapeshifting because they're easy to verify and look over.



If you want to switch to a body of air model, that should be fine. HP will be linked to Size.

Re: Corco's Villa
 

I'm going to respond by PM

Re: Corco's Villa
 

I believe V's current form is :


Genesis form removing appearance [15], wings [30] and enhanced move [20] with Extra Attack [25], DR 5 (Tough Skin) [15] and +5 HP [10], and resembling a silver haired old lady.