05-14-2014, 07:30 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Dec 2010
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Create (Food)?
So, is Create (food) legal? If so, how much does it cost? If not, must I use Snatcher?
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05-14-2014, 07:43 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Yorkshire, UK
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Re: Create (Food)?
The Healing Powers on Powers.p128 include Create (Drugs), so I don't see why Food should be a problem - which would make it likely a Medium Category and therefore 20 points per level.
You could probably narrow the type of Food you can create to satisfy a Small Category, say Create (Meat) or Create (Fruit). You'd be create simple bulk matter - so Create (Chicken) would produce an amorphous blob of chicken meat rather than a whole chicken. Also, Created matter is unstable, and vanishes after 10 seconds unless you 'stabilize' it, which probably isn't that useful for 'Food' |
05-14-2014, 07:43 AM | #3 | |
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: Create (Food)?
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05-14-2014, 07:44 AM | #4 |
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Ellicott City, MD
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Re: Create (Food)?
That rule is optional, if the GM doesn't think the game world's economy will be horribly disrupted, or if the PC has a Vow not to profit off their power.
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05-14-2014, 07:51 AM | #5 |
Join Date: Dec 2010
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Re: Create (Food)?
Well, the power in question currently has Cosmic: nutrition is permanent, +100% - so long as the food is eaten within the window, I'll let the effects of eating stay. The PC can't get rich selling saffron, and his restaurant better not try to serve more than a table or two at a time. It's basically an expensive Doesn't Eat that he can use to help his friends too, but can't use at scale.
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05-14-2014, 07:55 AM | #6 |
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Yorkshire, UK
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Re: Create (Food)?
Divine Favor has the 'Feed the Masses' Learned Prayer, which is Create Food/Drink, priced at [20] Points per Level, with a few modifiers, and the Feature: Restriction against using this for convenience or personal gain replaces the need for a creation pool.
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05-14-2014, 08:03 AM | #7 |
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Re: Create (Food)?
Alternatively, let the player buy independent income with the understanding this inCome is in the form of food: you can create 1000$ of chicken per month, but it has to be chicken! I find this to be the best option for budgets, both cp And monetary
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05-14-2014, 08:14 AM | #8 | |
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Ellicott City, MD
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05-14-2014, 09:13 AM | #9 | |
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: Create (Food)?
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So suppose you're in a medieval campaign. You can create 10% of starting wealth, or $100, for one creation point. $100 will buy you fifty meals of travellers' rations, or perhaps loaves and fishes. If you buy it as travellers' rations, it will weigh 25 lbs. That's helpful in an emergency, but you aren't going to want to be your companions' sole source of food on an ongoing basis, not at permanently using up 1 experience point for a temporary benefit. Bill Stoddard |
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05-14-2014, 03:31 PM | #10 |
Join Date: Dec 2010
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Re: Create (Food)?
That's right, Bill - I don't want to charge my player CP every time he wants to use his powers to make a meal. The context is an ability that makes symbolic food nutritious - by eating a picture of an apple you get the benefits of a snack - but it's explicitly transferable: the magic is going into the picture (which becomes nutritious) not the person.
I started by thinking about something like "Affliction (cast-iron stomach)" but that's about the person, not the symbol. Then I thought about using Snatcher with Limited... and I went back and forth on the merits of that vs. Create for a while before I figured I'd ask the community. |
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