[Path Magic] What happens if you Banish a Spirit of Place?

[maximara]

Originally Posted by Anders

Not in Path magic. There it removes the spirit permanently (or at least for a very long time). Looked up the Spirit of Place in Summoners. Using those stats, Banishing the spirit would be at -14 and resisted with Will 16, so it won't be easy. But it can be done if a large group of very angry magicians decide to do it.

It should be mentioned that GURPS Fantasy p 45 and GURPS Horror pg 78 (under Ghost) have their own take on Spirit of Place.

[Anders]

Sonofagun, so they do.

Summoners is around 1,000, Horror is around 350 (although you can make it more powerful if it's ancient). Fantasy doesn't have a template, but has some useful information around genii locorum.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Plane

Horror by way of some features seems to imply that you define being able to be affected by these spells as a 0pt feature (even though it seems like all downsides so maybe it should be a quirk?).

What it really is is that GURPS treats classes of being as zero point feature: many abilities only work on specific classes of being, and you're immune to any abilities that don't work on your class of being. Whether this should be a net benefit or penalty is setting dependent so it should really be handled by unusual background (which should have a disadvantage form, but doesn't) rather than assigning a point value to class of being itself.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Plane

Horror by way of some features seems to imply that you define being able to be affected by these spells as a 0pt feature (even though it seems like all downsides so maybe it should be a quirk?) t.

In a Horror setting there are liable to be plenty of things that only affect or target living persons.

[Plane]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

Maybe think of it as an Unusual Background that allows you to buy spirit abilities, but with a cost of zero because it also makes you vulnerable to counter-spirit magics??

The issue is we have separate creatures in Horror affected by separate collections of these spells.

Originally Posted by Anthony

What it really is is that GURPS treats classes of being as zero point feature: many abilities only work on specific classes of being, and you're immune to any abilities that don't work on your class of being. Whether this should be a net benefit or penalty is setting dependent so it should really be handled by unusual background (which should have a disadvantage form, but doesn't) rather than assigning a point value to class of being itself.

The only thing defined as a feature is being able to be hurt by those spells though.

No other aspects of spiritual magic were mentioned.