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Originally Posted by Ghostdancer
So I talk about necromantic RPM here on my blog and about becoming a lich here.
In general, if you want a permanent effect in RPM you can use Conditional Termination ( GURPS Thaumatology Ritual Path Magic, p. 18) and declare "Until dispelled" as a condition worth 18 energy. |
Wow. Nice; great stuff.
I especially like the methods to become a lich. I presume a spell to become a vampire, or just *undead* with no other special abilities would follow the same process, but with the template values substituted, yeah?
What about making unintelligent/animal intelligence undead, that still aren't controlled? I'm thinking about D&D style ghouls. On the one hand, yeah, you're applying a template to a corpse. On the other hand they don't keep any special abilities or skills, basically just using their physical characteristics as a starting point.
How different is it if you're applying the template to a corpse?
How different is it if you remove the chance of death?
The lich post doesn't fully brake down the math, and I'm a little fuzzy on where the -150% modifier is coming from. I'm also a little fuzzy on how you can be applying a -150% leaving you with a positive number.
I apologize if these are rookie questions, I'm new to GURPS, and I've noticed there are a lot of formulas (discussed by people or sometimes in templates) seem to be presented assuming I understand where the numbers are coming from, when I unfortunately do not.
One additional question: How do you achieve an instantaneous result that's not a transformation? Say, growing an oak tree (perhaps from a seed, or just straight up created) in an instant? After the spell is cast, it's just a regular mundane oak tree.