01-31-2013, 08:35 AM | #51 |
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Re: Pros and cons of growing your own island nation?
The other thing you might want to consider is setting up an eco-system on the island. It's not going to be a very good place to live without trees and grass and you'll need to grow food which for better or worse works better when you have critters and plants around. On the plus since you might find it easier to avoid pests by simply not bringing them onto your island.
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01-31-2013, 10:43 AM | #52 | |
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01-31-2013, 10:56 AM | #53 |
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Re: Pros and cons of growing your own island nation?
Create Earth takes 2 energy per cubic yard of earth created. That's going to take a while -- and involve lots of chances for critical failures and demon summonings.
Also, the earth has to be created in contact with the ground, meaning you either stack on range penalties to your castings, or hang out on the sea floor for the entire, long process. I wonder how much throughput you could get from using Create Gate to make a connection to some elemental plane of magma, or directly to a known volcanic caldera? (Perhaps you curry favor with the United States by siphoning off eruptive potential from Yellowstone?) Alas, I suspect it would still be an undramatically slow process. |
01-31-2013, 12:22 PM | #54 | |
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Stone missile has a range of 80. What are the consequences of shooting it straight down? Heck if I know. I'd rule that it dissipates (being amgic) but if it doesn't, then it becomes a falling object. Ouch. There is seriously no reason to call it combat when a characetrs up 10000 feet dropping rocks until the city can mount a defense that actually can hit you at 10,000 feet. That's like suggesting that launching ICBMs is "combat".
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01-31-2013, 02:47 PM | #55 | |
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I was suggesting some other way of breaking the game. Not that there is much news in that suggestion - it's been since forever. But the trick is not to build an island, it is to create iron, copper etc. and SELL it. You can become quite rich that way, and then just buy your own island (for that matter). |
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01-31-2013, 04:00 PM | #56 |
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Replace Non-Combat Only (where is that listed anyways?) with Accessibility: Useless under stress -60% (Basic Pg 110). Problem solved.
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01-31-2013, 09:06 PM | #57 | |
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The wtf reactions from the rest of the group when they found out that I was, in effect, now the head of a very small but recognized sovereign nation that I had created entirely by myself literally from the ground (seafloor in this case) up would have been wonderful. |
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01-31-2013, 09:17 PM | #58 | |
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Its in Supers.
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02-01-2013, 05:01 AM | #59 |
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02-01-2013, 08:31 AM | #60 | |
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It exists for several other advantages as well. I also House Ruled it for more, like Penetrating Vision.
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