07-12-2021, 06:42 AM | #81 | |
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Re: [Sorcery] Michael's daily sorcerous spells thread
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I tried to deduce what category you chose by applying your modifiers to the base cost of the spell. But with net modifiers of +45% that comes out to only 22 points, assuming the highest point cost for Detect was used. How did you arrive at the 31 point full cost for Beast Seeker? |
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07-12-2021, 09:16 AM | #82 | |
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Re: [Sorcery] Michael's daily sorcerous spells thread
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07-12-2021, 07:19 PM | #83 |
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Re: [Sorcery] Michael's daily sorcerous spells thread
This build was heavily influenced by Aspect, from GURPS Psionic Powers p. 61.
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07-14-2021, 11:05 PM | #84 |
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Re: [Sorcery] Michael's daily sorcerous spells thread
Okay, I've been running out of the material I had pre-prepped when I started this thread, and work has been busy. But I dashed this off quick:
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07-15-2021, 10:32 PM | #85 |
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Re: [Sorcery] Michael's daily sorcerous spells thread
For this spell, I decided to go with the Slotted Cosmic Power approach I considered and rejected for Beast Seeker. That's a bit cheaper if I did my math right, but ends up increasing the casting time by 1 second in most cases. Also, writing this spell description made me realize the description of Beast Seeker needed clarification, because my first draft forgot that you could specify a single individual halfway through the write-up. Those edits have been made, hopefully the spell works better now.
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07-17-2021, 09:25 PM | #86 |
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Re: [Sorcery] Michael's daily sorcerous spells thread
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07-18-2021, 08:39 PM | #87 |
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Re: [Sorcery] Michael's daily sorcerous spells thread
Today's spell was relatively straightforward once I realized swarm attacks work a lot like Contact Agents. I had to wing it on the value of a couple modifiers, but given that the base value of the advantage is only 4 points, this is almost totally irrelevant. (Even if I knocked a point or two off the full cost, this would not affect the required level of Sorcerous Empowerment, nor the cost as an Alternative Ability.)
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07-20-2021, 09:04 PM | #88 |
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Re: [Sorcery] Michael's daily sorcerous spells thread
To my surprise, the spell in Magic has very little to say beyond, essentially, "you gain the Morph advantage", though it does say clothing and armor are absorbed (which I changed to "equipment up to Basic Lift").
Great Shapeshift Last edited by Michael Thayne; 07-21-2021 at 08:27 AM. |
07-21-2021, 08:31 AM | #89 |
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Re: [Sorcery] Michael's daily sorcerous spells thread
Added the sentence "Memorized spells stay memorized in-between castings of this spell" to Great Shapeshift. I can imagine someone arguing that if Morph is part of an Alternative Ability array, you forget memorized forms when you switch out Morph for a different ability, and the argument gets stronger when improvisation (which realistically means hardcore improvisation) comes into play, but the counter-argument is that it seems to make the spell nearly useless, so I'd allow retention of memorized forms.
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07-23-2021, 12:22 PM | #90 |
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Re: [Sorcery] Michael's daily sorcerous spells thread
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