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Old 05-12-2020, 08:16 AM   #1
TGLS
 
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Default [RPM] Heaping Pounds of Time

Just tooling around with something perhaps a little silly.

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In RPM spell modifiers are pretty straightforward. Most of them scale exponentially (Weight starts at 10 and triples with +1, while length related magnitudes follow the speed/range table), and damage scales up linearly (which is probably not a pure linear increase). Duration is the weirdest though. It doesn't go straight exponential (it goes up and down often), and it goes weirdly linear after a month. Basically, it has a jittery x2 or 3 up until a month, where it goes linear, until it hits a year, where it increases to +1 a year. Here are some alternatives:

Pounds of Time
Read the weight column from the spell modifiers table with pounds as a minute, and tons as 2000 minutes (approximately 1.4 days), and add 1 to the energy column (so momentary is still +0). This may get out of hand fairly quickly, with over a year at +11 and two days at +6.

Ounces of Time
As before, but read pounds as seconds and tons as 2000 seconds (about 33 minutes) and don't add +1 to the energy column (so the first 10 seconds are free). This gets to about a month at +11, and about 3 hours at +6.

Yards of Time
Use the Size column of the Speed/Range table, reading yards as minutes (so the first 2 minutes are free). This puts 20 minutes at +6, and 2.5 hours at +11. This is probably too slow.

Units of Time
Judge on the order of magnitude of the length of the spell. In layman's terms, count the number of digits cost.
+0: Seconds
+2: Minutes
+4: Hours
+5: Days
+6: Weeks
+7: Months
+8: Years
+9: Decades
+10: Centuries
+16: As good as forever.

This probably grows the fastest and may need to be further doubled.
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Old 05-12-2020, 11:12 AM   #2
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Default Re: [RPM] Heaping Pounds of Time

It is a balancing issue. Since practitioners of RPM do not usually suffer penalties for the number of active rituals, duration needs to be expensive. At +21 for a year (+1 for each additional year), only truly potent practitioners can curse a family for generations. Of course, you can change around things for your settings, like everyone does.
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