[DF] Wizards: FP or ER

[vitruvian]

Originally Posted by Nymdok

Sorcers CANNOT use external sorces, no Powerstoones, Paut or ER.

How would an ER be considered external, unless perhaps you bought it with Gadget limitations? It's an advantage integral to the character, otherwise, I would think...

[NorphTehDwarf]

What I'm wondering is how else sorcerers, mages, and wizards are differentiated, because with the information Nymdok's given us it seems every caster would want to be a mage.

[Nymdok]

Originally Posted by vitruvian

How would an ER be considered external, unless perhaps you bought it with Gadget limitations? It's an advantage integral to the character, otherwise, I would think...

Sorry, a better way to phrase that would have been FP and HP only.

Originally Posted by NorphTehDwarf

What I'm wondering is how else sorcerers, mages, and wizards are differentiated, because with the information Nymdok's given us it seems every caster would want to be a mage.

Well I meant to post those as an example of differentiability in power sources, not as a segway to a thread-jack.

The sorcery is here. Ill post the Wizardry later.
http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=62573

The wizardry is Vancian, book studied, IQ driven and dirt Cheap (Wizardry 3 is 7 points). It requires external Power, a Staff and a Grimoir to study out of and Spell slots. Which balances it out.

The Sorcery is Ritual, Limited to 3 colleges, Based on the Avg of IQ and will (to encourage will purchase) and is 'on the fly' flexible. Its a lot broader, a lot more flexible, but 3 colleges is very limiting.

Nymdok

[roguebfl]

Originally Posted by vitruvian

How would an ER be considered external, unless perhaps you bought it with Gadget limitations? It's an advantage integral to the character, otherwise, I would think...

This is how:

Regeneration (Very Fast) (Magic, -10%; ER Only, -10%; Requires Concentrate, -15%; Recharge at Talent/sec, +X%)

And ER (Special Recharge, -80% )

Basically you have to Concentrate to Gather the Mana then use it or lose it.

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by roguebfl

This is how:

Regeneration (Very Fast) (Magic, -10%; ER Only, -10%; Requires Concentrate, -15%; Recharge at Talent/sec, +X%)

And ER (Special Recharge, -80% )

Basically you have to Concentrate to Gather the Mana then use it or lose it.

Wow. I'm going to have to go over that at some point with books, but it looks like the at least a partial solution to a modeling problem I'd been having.