Magery Enhancement: Longer Range

[Anders]

Magery (Cosmic +100%) - you use the SSR table to determine range penalties for regular and area spells rather than -1/yard.

Obviously you need this on all levels of Magery - you can't just take it for level 0.

This may seem insanely overpowered, but a Magery 3 character is going to pay 35 points for the privilege. That's a lot.

[zoncxs]

Who said you can't take it only on Magery 0?

You can do that. That just means spells that need Magery 1+ are cast regularly instead of using the SSR table.

If anything, as the GM, you can change the cost of things to better suit your game.

[Anthony]

Applying increased range to magery doesn't do anything. Magery is basically a talent plus an unusual background, and you can't modify skills by applying enhancements to a talent.

[Anders]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Applying increased range to magery doesn't do anything. Magery is basically a talent plus an unusual background, and you can't modify skills by applying enhancements to a talent.

But you can! In Thaumatology there are enhancements to Magery that affect all spells, like "Stable Casting". (Which is why I would argue that Magery is not a Talent, although it is Talent-like. It is from the before-times, when there were not Talents.)

Edit: Let's not make this thread into one about whether Magery is a talent or not.

[Stormcrow]

Originally Posted by Anders

But you can! In Thaumatology there are enhancements to Magery that affect all spells, like "Stable Casting".

If you're going to cite GURPS Thaumatology, remember that it also says this: "Magery doesn't generally accept enhancements" (p. 28). Because this is unusual, it recommends requiring an Unusual Background to have enhancements on Magery.

And when your first impression of it is "insanely overpowered," that's the warning bell that you're pretty much doing what Thaumatology tellls you not to do.

[Anders]

Ok, let's focus on that.

Is it insanely overpowered? I would love to see this tried out in actual play.

Like I said, if you want to be good at magic, you'll play a crapton of points.