Lost in Dreams II (OCC)

[the_matrix_walker]

Originally Posted by ericthered

Yeah, I was excited when I rolled for you to go to Yrth. Interesting that you have spent most of your time with homeliners.

They were the ones who could get him out if he couldn't do it himself! they were also the ones with somewhere to go.

Either that or I waived the prereq for Peter. Yes, I suppose you can take it if you find someone to teach it and it will give the defaults... If you've seen the spell.

Given the way he's described his study of the guts of magic and always comparing and integrating them, I was kind of already hoping to have a head start on that. Then he tried to broach the guts of magic in the lesson he had, to your frustration! Peter's always trying to look into the engineering of magic.

Magery 0 is fine and Peter has it/is substituting his much more robust general magic ability. Between "You can cast this magic" and "Detect", its pretty well covered.

I don't mind "Spell casting talent", I mind it as a prerequisite for casting more powerful spells.



So you can take a 10 point spell-casting talent, sure thing. It just doesn't satisfy prereqs or cap energy per turn or anything. And people on Yrth will call it "talent" or "aptitude", not "magery" or "power"


Hopefully that makes sense.

Makes sense! I just always kind of presumed there was Magery or another hidden Cosmic talent in there. Having talent speeds learning and grants disproportionate skill, which is how dreamers behave.

Spellcasting talents are generally by flavor... I think if Peter is going to have a talent we would need to go for a broader 15 point Cosmic Dreamer Talent to match the UB so it would be portable... But for this model, just buying flat skill is probably best for now. Looking at PU3 Talents, there are a few that include Thaumaturgy and Ritual Magic even in 5 point talents...

Spoiler:  

You had mentioned before the feeling that +3 energy gave more of a feeling of power than +1 skill... I disagree. +1 skill is a significant bit of whether your spell goes off at all or is resisted. A few more energy is pretty negligible. Not much point in getting one more spell off if it fails. And if that skill bonus makes the difference to a base skill of 15, reducing your energy costs, that can be a much bigger force multiplier to your energy.

Thanks. Lets call a "few" three more days.

then they arrived in the evening of day 8 and Peter will wake up after his meeting with Ink Thur on the morning of day 9 on Yrth which would be January 7th back home. They made very good time!