12-21-2012, 04:39 PM | #1 |
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Help me with my "Purple Magery"
If anyone is familiar with Final Fantasy, you will know that Blue Mages have the power to copy enemy abilities, and Red Mages have access to both black and white magic. I have combined the two so that a Purple Mage would be able to copy any spell (or ability, in the form of Partial Shapeshifting), but I feel the way I have it right now is really inefficient, and I want to make sure I can get the most bang for my buck.
Right now, I have it as Wild Talent 1 (Accessibility; External; Focused; Retention). At the moment, once a week (because I'm using in-game time), I can use this Wild Talent to copy an ability and then learn it if I have a free character point. Yay! But... Prerequisites are what is really bogging me down. I want to copy that guy's Fireball, but without the prerequisites, it's no good! That defeats the entire purpose of a Purple Mage. I want to copy these spells. Any help is welcome, and I will provide more information if it is needed! Thanks! |
12-21-2012, 04:48 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Dec 2006
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Re: Help me with my "Purple Magery"
Take a second wild talent that is focused on granting charms.
Then each ability learned could cost 2 EXP, but you get the charm for it as well, meaning it has no prerequisites. Alternatively take IQ! (only for beating spell prerequisites) and take 5 levels. |
12-21-2012, 04:51 PM | #3 |
Join Date: Feb 2009
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Re: Help me with my "Purple Magery"
Or take the 'No prereqs' mod on your magery
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12-21-2012, 06:12 PM | #4 | |
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Re: Help me with my "Purple Magery"
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And how would IQ! work? Wait... You can do that? You can take No Prerequisites for Magery? That thought never occurred to me, and that may be the easiest/best solution! Where can I find the limitation cost for that? |
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12-21-2012, 06:25 PM | #5 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: Help me with my "Purple Magery"
I know this is irrelevant to the question asked, but you know that you will have to give your mages Animal Empathy: Spiders, and lots of Spider Control spells simply so that you can see if anybody gets the "Spiders of the Purple Mage" reference.
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12-21-2012, 06:36 PM | #6 |
Join Date: Feb 2009
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Re: Help me with my "Purple Magery"
For some reason I thought you could, Im sure Ive seen it somewhere, but I don't see it in Thaumatology
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12-21-2012, 06:57 PM | #7 | |
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Re: Help me with my "Purple Magery"
Oh, I found it! It's on page 67.
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12-21-2012, 07:28 PM | #8 |
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Re: Help me with my "Purple Magery"
+30%? that .... seems a little low, particuarly if you want to know only a few really nice spells.
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12-21-2012, 07:59 PM | #9 |
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12-22-2012, 03:53 AM | #10 | |
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Re: Help me with my "Purple Magery"
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If I were a GM presented with a request like that, and it wasn't something I was already planning, I might change the Enhancement cost to +60%, if I couldn't come up with another good balancer. Can your mage only learn spells by seeing an enemy use them, or would that make you exactly like a Blue mage?
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final fantasy, magery, shapeshifting, spells, wild ability |
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