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Old 12-08-2008, 03:35 AM   #1
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Assuming the good old TL3-4 european standard.


Vulnerability X2 damage (Attacks by Eagles or horses, jade, tin, and oak)

Revulsion (Cedar, nutmeg, mint)

Unfazeable (only when smelling myrrh)

Damage resistance 5 (Flexible, Black items, Ebony, rowan, and cypress)

Magic resistance +1 (improved, only when in physcial contact with onyx)
Ditto with Ebony
Ditto with Jet
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Old 12-08-2008, 04:17 AM   #2
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Vulnerability X2 damage (Attacks by Eagles or horses, jade, tin, and oak)
Hmm. Any one of them would be Rare. If it was "all materials or things associated with Sagittarius or Jupiter", I'd say it qualifies for Occasional. So add platinum, zircon, and yew wood to the list. If you add in the associated weapons (arrows and scepters), it probably qualifies for Common.

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Revulsion (Cedar, nutmeg, mint)
Definitely Rare. If "smoke" is Common, and "soap" is Rare, even the three of these together don't rate more than Rare.

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Unfazeable (only when smelling myrrh)
I'd call this a Trigger, and in TL 3-4, it should qualify for "very expensive and hard to find", thus -30%.

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Damage resistance 5 (Flexible, Black items, Ebony, rowan, and cypress)
If you mean "only against black items, ebony, rowan, and cypress", I'd call that Limited Defense: Occasional. Although I think you mean yew, not rowan. Rowan is for Capricorn, not Sagittarius.

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Magic resistance +1 (improved, only when in physcial contact with onyx)
Ditto with Ebony
Ditto with Jet
Any of those sound like Triggers, again at the -30% level.
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Old 12-08-2008, 05:32 AM   #3
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Thanks greatly.
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Old 12-08-2008, 05:56 AM   #4
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Hmm. Any one of them would be Rare. If it was "all materials or things associated with Sagittarius or Jupiter", I'd say it qualifies for Occasional. So add platinum, zircon, and yew wood to the list. If you add in the associated weapons (arrows and scepters), it probably qualifies for Common..
I avoided the tools category as too fiddly and with arrows FAR too crippling for vampires in a TL3-4 setting.
In a cabal world, wizards would likely use spell college wands with all the correspondences in place. Double damage from wand used spells seemed major.

How common were zircon, and platinum in TL3-4? I considered it so rare as to be ignorable. Though I vaguely remember past people callig it fool's silver as it wasn't smeltable with their tech.


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Definitely Rare. If "smoke" is Common, and "soap" is Rare, even the three of these together don't rate more than Rare..
Assuming a modern western copious use of soap. In olden times that stuff was expensive and not used that often. Also people smell of soap for short periods of time, but I get it and grudgingly agree.

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If you mean "only against black items, ebony, rowan, and cypress", I'd call that Limited Defense: Occasional. Although I think you mean yew, not rowan. Rowan is for Capricorn, not Sagittarius. ....

Rowan is under the decan itself and therefore trumps the anti-zodiacal nature.
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