07-30-2018, 11:51 AM | #1 |
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Five New Practical Magic Spells
This is a thread for rules discussion and questions regarding the spells in the latest stretch goal. Article is online here: http://thefantasytrip.game/news/2018...pells-for-tft/
My question: can Ferment be used on living targets? I can see at least two ways it could be, each with its good and bad points:
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07-30-2018, 12:08 PM | #2 |
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Re: Five New Practical Magic Spells
I haven't thought much about Ferment yet, but I really like Summon Scout! A great little addition to the spell list that will provide a lot of utility to creative, proactive players.
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07-30-2018, 12:44 PM | #3 |
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Re: Five New Practical Magic Spells
Actually, I think they're all pretty good -- and a perfect example of something TFT needed more of back when it was first published. I'm glad we're seeing that lack being "officially" rectified now, that's for sure! ;-)
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07-30-2018, 01:27 PM | #4 |
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Re: Five New Practical Magic Spells
Summon Spy:
Can the casting wizard listen through the animal spy's ears? For that matter, smell things through the spy's nose?
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07-30-2018, 09:28 PM | #5 | |
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07-31-2018, 12:32 AM | #6 |
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Re: Five New Practical Magic Spells
I've always taken "see through the eyes of the summoned beings, images, or illusions" to mean "perceive through the senses" but according to the RAW, it's only seeing. A wizard can hear through the ears of a Proxy, though.
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07-31-2018, 12:35 AM | #7 |
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Re: Five New Practical Magic Spells
Excellent new spells!
It looks like Pathfinder requires an IQ roll instead of a DX roll, but I didn't see that actually stated in the spell. |
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07-31-2018, 08:41 AM | #9 |
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Re: Five New Practical Magic Spells
If a reptile man wizard casts Summon Scout, does he get a lizard instead of a mammal? What about a merfolk getting a fish? Or does it depend on the environment?
I don't like the omniscience of Pathfinder but I'm not sure how else you would do it. You don't want people repeatedly casting the spell to learn more and more, so you can't have them asking questions. The way it's done at least avoids that problem. (It reminds me of Greg Egan's Quarantine, where the characters get split into two quantum states, follow both paths, meet up at the end and decide which path was better, the one that wasn't better vanishes. Egan's version is much more powerful.) If there's going to be a Friendship spell then there should be a Hostility one as well, with the reverse effect, but maybe it doesn't make them hate the caster. It might be interesting to have a spell that made everyone unable to understand each other's speech, and perhaps even unable to understand why everyone else was talking funny and only they were unaffected. (I'd like to call it Babel but that doesn't make sense.) Hard to imagine very many people will learn to Delete Writing. I presume it also erases drawings, paintings, etc.? |
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