01-28-2010, 05:40 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Oct 2007
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[Magic] Are you stuck with 1 precise form per Shapeshifting you learn?
There are two parts to this:
(1) If you learn, say, Shapeshifting (Horse), do you always look the same as a horse? Same colors and all? (2) If you're not stuck to precisely one form (i.e. if the answer to (1) is "no"), can you have varied stats, as well? That is, can you be a draft horse one time and a cavalry horse the next? |
01-28-2010, 05:48 PM | #2 | |
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Re: [Magic] Are you stuck with 1 precise form per Shapeshifting you learn?
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01-28-2010, 08:54 PM | #3 |
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Re: [Magic] Are you stuck with 1 precise form per Shapeshifting you learn?
Different animals would be different spells.
If you knew enough Body Spells you could possibly modify the form after it was shifted though. |
01-29-2010, 06:15 PM | #4 |
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Re: [Magic] Are you stuck with 1 precise form per Shapeshifting you learn?
Option 1) (You don't want this in your game). 1 per spell.
Option 2) (You think it'd be cool to have in your game). Treat other types of a default animal as familiarities. -2 to the spell until you're practiced enough.
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01-30-2010, 02:49 AM | #5 |
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Re: [Magic] Are you stuck with 1 precise form per Shapeshifting you learn?
ok, so we are defining that variations of the form are not a "free default" and normally a spell is fixed to a specific type of animal.
-- anyway, like Captain-Captain said one could allow it with penalties - it's an interesting idea to treat the variations as familiarities after all... Generally there is also an official (optional) rule from Thaumatology (p.39) called "Adjustable Spells" for dealing with spell-variations like that: Basically variations for spells are treated like enhancement for powers and each +5% enhancement brings a -1 spell-penalty and +1 Energy Cost. (though I didn't find an appropriate enhancement for this "style effect" yet, but it's very likely +5% or +10%.) Furthermore a possible option could be to allow buying a "style perk" that offers free minor variations to the caster. |
01-31-2010, 01:21 PM | #6 | ||
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02-01-2010, 12:09 PM | #7 | |
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