10-14-2021, 09:17 AM | #11 | |
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Re: How is Steal Skill supposed to work?
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So you've got a (VH) Spell osting 10 energy that will effectively Daze a target for 1 minute if the Resistance Roll fails and give the caster a Skill for 24 hours afterwards. It might work on average will merchants in the bazaar but I wouldn't waste the 10 energy (multiplied by SM+1) trying it on a Dragon. Daze would probably work just as well (or just as poorly) for the "ambush set-up" scenario.
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10-14-2021, 09:22 AM | #12 | |
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10-14-2021, 09:41 AM | #13 | |
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<shrug> It's a Spell that someone thought Mad Necromancers should have available to use on chained down victims and then they tried to project t into another scenario so it wouldn't just be "Magic, Evil Npcs, for the use of".
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10-14-2021, 09:55 AM | #14 | |
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But anyway, what do you think of my awesome Mimic Skill spell?! It's the first time I ever invented a magic spell. |
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10-14-2021, 10:56 AM | #16 | ||
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Re: How is Steal Skill supposed to work?
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There is nothing in the rule that suggests that merely trying to cast Steal Skill would have any supernatural affect on the subject. If it had such a spectacular special effect for just trying to cast a spell, which is really unorthodox for a GURPS spell, you can expect it to be described in the spell description. Quote:
Also, Steal Skill has a duration of 24 hours, which is also an improvement. I agree that it's an unintuitive example. The intention of the example is to show how the skill level of the stolen skill is calculated, but casting Steal Skill on a "first bazaar merchant he passes" requires a lot of imagination on the part of the reader to explain how the casting was done. A different kind of subject should have been chosen for the example. Last edited by finn; 10-14-2021 at 11:04 AM. |
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10-14-2021, 02:56 PM | #17 |
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Re: How is Steal Skill supposed to work?
Steal Skill, like Steal Attribute, Steal Youth, etc. is a spell designed to be used by evil necromancers who have innocent victims strapped to racks in their chamber of horrors. They have a long casting time so that the PCs can heroically intervene to save the said innocents. IIRC they first showed up in GURPS Conan, but lost all the context over the next few editions.
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10-14-2021, 03:11 PM | #18 | |
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10-14-2021, 05:09 PM | #19 |
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Re: How is Steal Skill supposed to work?
Magic is a low-quality book. It was rushed out during the early years of 4e because of the perceived need to support fantasy play right away.
So basically, the GM has to make up a lot of how Steal Skill works. If you like the idea of the spell, give it whatever mechanics suit your setting and concept of magic and don't sweat the printed text. |
10-14-2021, 09:45 PM | #20 |
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