09-10-2015, 08:16 AM | #1 |
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[Sorcery] Plant Growth
Maybe we should have a separate thread for all these Sorcery spells? And maybe we should have one dedicated to Sorcery in Gaming resources?
Anyway, if I want to make plants grow quickly, and not meddle with the space-time continuum, do I use Create and Control or is Create (plant matter?) enough?
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09-10-2015, 08:43 AM | #2 |
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Re: [Sorcery] Plant Growth
Try this thread. Ghostdancer's suggestion there sounds like it should work.
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09-10-2015, 12:32 PM | #3 | |
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Re: [Sorcery] Plant Growth
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09-10-2015, 01:22 PM | #4 |
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Re: [Sorcery] Plant Growth
Looking at other options - how about Afflicting Growth with Permanency?
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09-10-2015, 02:49 PM | #5 |
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09-11-2015, 04:01 AM | #6 |
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Re: [Sorcery] Plant Growth
Looking at the problem again... I don't think either Growth or Ghostdancer's solution has the Oomph I'm looking for. When you're trying to grow a seed into a flower, an increase of 10% or SM +1 is fairly trivial. So I think I'll combine Create and Control in some heinous fashion.
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09-11-2015, 06:51 AM | #7 |
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Re: [Sorcery] Plant Growth
IIRC the speed of growth is a 0-point racial feature. So maybe just Affliction with Alternate Form (Normal Racial Template + grows so much faster) (+ all the area, fixed duration, etc.).
Nerdvana's suggestion from the linked thread would also work very well, but require Reduced Time 12 on Unaging to reflect such a fast growth, which would skyrocket the price of the trait, even if we'd consider "Age Control Only" to be -80%.
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09-11-2015, 07:19 AM | #8 | |
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Re: [Sorcery] Plant Growth
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Edit: Hmmm... maybe it's time to violate the space-time continuum after all? Control (Time; Only to make plants grow, -80%) [6/level]. 10 levels would allow you to get down to a x10 compression, which is to little but maybe... 20? x100 compression? 120 points... Hmmm...
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09-11-2015, 11:13 AM | #9 |
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Re: [Sorcery] Plant Growth
There are 43200 minutes in 30 days, so that would be around x43200 compression. Hence Reduced Time 12 (x10 is included in Age Control).
I'm not usually bothered with an ability costing lots of points, but both of my builds seem accurate and simple to me, so I'd choose the cheaper one (going along the ABC rule from Powers).
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09-11-2015, 12:10 PM | #10 |
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Re: [Sorcery] Plant Growth
There's really no fair way to price Feature Afflictions though. They're the Divide by Zero of GURPS because they can have a huge impact on a character (e.g., gender) but have no cost... I don't like it.
And Reduced Time only reduces the Activation Time of an advantage. So that's not RAW either. You could Afflict it with Morph, one shape only? With IQ 0 and DX 0, most plants will be below 0 points in cost...
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