07-15-2021, 01:21 PM | #11 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Oracle
Generally, precognition is more useful. Its not that much more expensive, and you can limit it. Psionic powers has just such limited versions. Some of the Psi-wars session reports show it used in such a way that I originally thought it was oracle.
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07-15-2021, 02:14 PM | #12 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Oracle
As I intimated in that response Christopher quoted, Oracle's utility and appropriateness are very much dependent on the GM's style and the mode of gaming preferred at the table. The idea is that:
On topic: I've had Oracle work out okay in campaigns where someone wanted what the Divination spell on GURPS Magic, p. 108 gives without using that spell for whatever reason, and without playing the sort of character who'd be favored by the gods and have Blessed. That is, for mystics who are neither holy nor spellcasters – usually because the player sees them as being more like supernatural savants, or folksy fortunetellers, or just intuitive on a more "strategic" plane than the "tactical" one that is Intuition. I always followed the general guidelines for Divination in terms of what's learned, what's fair, what's mutable, what's certain, etc.
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07-15-2021, 03:20 PM | #13 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Oracle
For the record, my comment was in reference to the trait strictly as written in the book. As a GM I diverged from that significantly when PCs had it, in line with '15 points of useful information-generating abilities', instead of the RAW text.
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