03-30-2014, 10:04 AM | #1 |
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Athens, GA
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Enhancements on spells
Yeah, weird, right, but it actually makes sense in many ways. There are ways to maintain spells, but how about adding Underwater +20% to your Flame Jet? It would greatly extend the utility of Magic. The +20% would apply to the energy cost of casting the spell, but should it apply to the cost of learning it? And, more importantly, despite my searches, where has this already been done?
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03-30-2014, 10:18 AM | #2 |
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Ellicott City, MD
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Re: Enhancements on spells
RPM would support this idea. Not so sure if it would work for Standard Magic, unless you learned each modifier as a Technique.
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03-30-2014, 10:38 AM | #3 |
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Re: Enhancements on spells
Thaumatology 39
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03-30-2014, 11:09 AM | #4 |
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Location: Athens, GA
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Re: Enhancements on spells
Argggh. That book was literally right in front of me when I posted the question - it was under my notebook. That's what I get for searching online. Thanks.
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03-30-2014, 12:12 PM | #5 |
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Re: Enhancements on spells
Now I'm considering limitations on spells. It seems very abusable, but I'm using item-based magic where you have to build the potential for the limitation into the item that is required to cast the spell, and doing so makes the item more difficult to make. If the TK staff has +10% x2 extended range and -10% x1/2 limited range, when the caster knows he doesn't need a lot of range, he can cast a version of the Apportation spell that is cheaper in energy and easier in skill. That's a way to get increased flexibility. That seems the abusive pathway, but I could also make limitations mandatory, so that a short range Apportation/Deflect Missile/Poltergeist enabling staff would be very different. High skill, low energy cost, terrible range. It might even be worth making two staffs, a short staff and an long staff. It would interesting to have different items to cast different versions of the same spell, like the Siberian shaman who clanks when he walks from the dozens of fetishes he has in his coat.
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