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Re: Martial Arts Style Talent
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I should mention we actually have pricing guidelines for mundane talents (Power-Ups 3 - Talents pg 4, 25): Small (6 or fewer related skills): 5 points/level. Medium (7 to 12 related skills): 10 points/level. Large (13 or more related skills): 15 points/level. Smooth (minimum 5 points): 1 point/level per skill affected. The most expensive mundane talent (using smooth calculation) as of July 2011 is Beastmaster at 12/level. You have to go to Power Talents to find one more expensive that that: Cosmic at 15/level and is effectively a defacto wildcard talent that covers every skill in the game! (Powers p. 124-125)
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08-15-2020, 03:25 PM | #22 |
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Re: Martial Arts Style Talent
The Cosmic Talent only gives a bonus to abilities that possess the Cosmic (+50% or higher) enhancement, it does not give any bonuses to skills (unless they are power skills used for abilities).
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08-15-2020, 05:25 PM | #23 |
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Re: Martial Arts Style Talent
I can't remember where in Powers but early in the book in touches upon how they don't have to be separate things. I actually like it when players take mundane talents as power talents, personally.
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08-15-2020, 08:40 PM | #24 | ||
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"It doesn’t have a single focus – by definition, it deals with anything and everything – and the only countermeasure it faces is itself." (sic). "Any advantage can be a Cosmic ability, as long as it has the Cosmic modifier." Advantage not skill. "Talent with a power acts as a bonus to all success rolls against attributes, secondary characteristics, or skills to use the power’s abilities." (Powers p. 158) None of those are advantages. The highest other talents (Magery and Power Investitue) are 10/level which the +50% bonus would result in 15/level which is exactly what the Cosmic Talent has. This is the pricing that any talent that "encompass nearly anything (e.g., “Cosmic Talent”), or that otherwise transcends the normal limitations of source" has. (Powers p. 29) Quote:
So Power s explains that while similar mundane and power talents are different things. The best canonal example is "Mundane" Magery vs Magery (Ritual Path). The first adds to skill level the second does not. Of course Magery (Ritual Path) has issues because as written you should be able to go from normal magery to it via enchantments and limitations...but you don't know how.
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08-15-2020, 08:59 PM | #25 |
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Re: Martial Arts Style Talent
The key phrase is 'to use the power's abilities'. In order for an ability to be under the Cosmic Talent, it must possess the Cosmic modifier, otherwise it is not part of the power. It also does nothing to give a bonus to non-ability attribute, secondary characteristic, skill, etc. rolls (like any power talent, it modifies most rolls to use its abilities). To read it otherwise is to suggest that a 15 CP talent can completely replace 60 CP worth of attributes.
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08-15-2020, 10:44 PM | #26 | |
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And if you want a total points bonanza try Wildcard Magery and College! sometime. As the GURPSwiki points out: Unlike other forms of Magery which do not add to wildcard spells (GURPS Power-Ups 7: Wildcard Skills pg 16, 24) Wildcard Magery expressly does("Wildcard Colleges", Thaumatology pg 75) . It is the only exception to the general rule that a Talent doesn’t improve skills covered by or defaulted to the wildcard. Because of this difference great care must be taken in allowing Wildcard Magery in a campaign. Comparison Example Morgan Silvercloak has IQ 15, Magery 2, and 12 points (attribute-1) in the Air College! skill . He therefore has Air College!-14, and can cast Purify Air at skill 14, Shape Air at 13, and Lightning at 12. "Thaumaticus-Z6G has IQ 15, Wildcard Magery 2, and 12 points in the Air College! skill. He therefore has Air College!-16, and can cast Purify Air at skill 16, Shape Air at 15, and Lightning at 14." (Thaumatology pg 75) Just because something can be a total point give me doesn't mean it isn't valid per the RAW.
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08-15-2020, 11:19 PM | #27 |
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By RAW, power talents explicitly only give bonuses to ability rolls, whether they involve attributes, secondary characteristics, or skills (Powers, p. 158). The Cosmic Talent specifically only gives bonuses to ability rolls for abilities with the Cosmic power modifier (Powers, 125). It does not benefit any roll except for those associated with abilities with the Cosmic modifier.
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08-16-2020, 12:36 AM | #28 |
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Re: Martial Arts Style Talent
Powers p29 talks about existing advantages as Talents, explicitly calling out Green Thumb as a usable power talent (and the incredibly silly idea for Status).
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08-16-2020, 08:39 AM | #29 | |
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From GURPS Horror: Ancient One ... Energy Reserve 300 (Cosmic; Accessibility, Only where Euclidean geometry is weak and when the stars are right, -80%) [180] (Horror p. 74). That is the only mention of cosmic in the write up. So if only things that themselves are Cosmic can be used with a Cosmic power than what in the sam hill good does that 300 Cosmic Energy Reserve do? The position you are presenting doesn't hold and is not supported by the examples I know of. Given how badly Partially Limited Magery (the examples show the opposite of how one would normally read the rules; yeh it's that badly written) they really should have given us better examples of how the Comic talent works but instead we have plenty of examples of how the Comic modifier works
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One of the worst name in the book, as it is extremely confusing ! Cosmic can be 3 separate things in Gurps : -the variant of modular ability named "Cosmic Power" -the power modifier "Cosmic" -the rules breaking enhancement "Cosmic" (at the GM choice, it may also count as the power modifier "Cosmic" for free, but this is not mandatory) Last edited by Celjabba; 08-16-2020 at 09:11 AM. |
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