11-12-2014, 02:59 PM | #31 |
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Re: Elven Everyday Magic (widespread Magery)
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11-13-2014, 02:18 AM | #32 |
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Re: Elven Everyday Magic (widespread Magery)
The OP seems to be looking at a society something along stuff like Harry Potter world magical side world or Magnostadt city, from the Magi anime...where wizards would use magic to clean up the house or do daily stuff.
That type of setting might require some setting setup, indeed...either to get "normal" elves around the required effective level to have a great chance of casting aka 12-13 or have something in place that make these castings trivial. Could be: - City-wide aura/buff/enchantment that increases elves capabilities for spell casting, increasing effective level by 3 or 4 - Foci-based casting that pushes critical failures off the table and increase casting skill, like...a magical oven where you can cast create fire/shape fire/season...basically something alike "coincidental magic" - Allow extra time casting to increase skill while inside their city or in specific places - Allow materials to stabilize casting..."This red gemstone can be used to cast fire spells with +5 effective level" That said...how hard is for a human to learn how to (and how disastrous are the failures of such) jump, ride a bike, do some specific dancing moves, sing a particular song... Magic in a setting like this, to me anyway, would totally be something akin to these. |
11-13-2014, 02:31 AM | #33 |
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Re: Elven Everyday Magic (widespread Magery)
With realistic man-powered accidents, you can rarely suffer more rebounding energy than you put in.
Perhaps, one could do that, such that a critical failure can't throw back more energy than you put in. Trivial 1 pt or "negligible" power spells can't cause more harm than tripping over your own feet while walking could. Not counting combat violent energy spells, of course.
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11-17-2014, 11:30 AM | #34 | ||
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So... even without summoning a demon or the like, critical failures via the chart aren't something to ignore. However I also can think of several pieces of technology that can have pretty bad results that should arise due to the periodic critical failure. I'm thinking it best to make it clear that this chart should only apply to "adventuring" situations (as a setting thing) or go with the Enchantment based society: the latter would certainly echo how most of us use a lot of technology in place of mundane skills from lower TL settings.
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11-22-2014, 04:40 PM | #35 |
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Re: Elven Everyday Magic (widespread Magery)
There's a solid solution to this in the Convenience Casting perk from Thaumatology: Magical Styles.
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11-23-2014, 11:13 PM | #36 |
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Is there some reason to ignore Ceremonial magic? With a population completely composed of mages, I imagine there has to be some basic instruction on spell-use, and if you get even 1 point into a spell, you can suddenly generate 3 energy points for ceremony. That's a lot of essential earth and plantgrowth spells you can throw down for a very, very high yield for small gardens.
Enchanting also seems... interesting. Relatively cheap, but potent items are likely to exist. The big question for me is how common Magery 1 is. Is magery 1 as rare as magery 0 with humans, or is magery a large minority? Magery 1 is necessary for the really groovy magic, I think.
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