In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 584):

The $400 wizard's staff in loadouts is a fine, balanced ornate staff set with semiprecious stones and metal wire embellishment and has the Staff spell cast on it, and is worth 4fp as a power item.

Technically,  this means it was a quick and dirty enchantment, and power items are effectively rechargeable manastones.
There was a character named Xandalar who was one of the first players, a high elf enchanter, who now has that 50 pt "recharger" ability.

When the library of Flax was looted, a powerstone recharging rack was recovered, but that may be the only powerstones, although I had written Aelmer and Speilgud for 3e...

Or this old brain misremembered.

Hang on, I'll double check the book (as it's an easy one to check), I know I commented explicitly on this particular Enchant in the other thread...

40$.  So a 5$ markup.



I don't disagree.  I'm more annoyed by the lack of transparency on Advantages design.

Where is this SORCERY type explained? It might fit with certain sorts of users and being limited it should prevent everyone from trying to be Gandalf.

'Powers as Spells' is in GURPS 4th Thaumatology Sorcery (#SJG37-1656).
This message was last updated by the player at 19:46, Wed 13 Dec 2017.

OK, Thanks, Got it... will peruse.

you can get staff spell on other weapons, too like swords, can't you?

No.



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Okay, technically you could get a Bokken enchanted with this spell.
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This message was last edited by the player at 06:48, Thu 14 Dec 2017.

the staff of a polearm?

Some GMs might allow it... others look at "organic material" and "may be decorated" and rule no.

As a weapon-functional head of non-organic material is not a decoration.  Hmm... a Dragonbone polearm/spear/etc might be allowed.  But that's very much stretching the spirit of the Enchantment.

I figured a polearm would have  a weighted head?

But i'm not sure what the exact rule would be

In addition to Jareth's link, there's also now a GURPS Sorcery -- at least in PDF.  It's a chapbook size, like the smaller DF books, and priced similarly, but I found it depended too much on the "construction" principles that I still haven't learned to be really comprehensible.

Honestly, with all the emphasis since Powers 4th came out on mechanisms for creating (abilities, spells, etc.), it's started to seem as if GURPS is trying to be Hero System.

There kind of isn't one.  I think there's a Kromm quote floating around somewhere that the 'spirit' of the rule was to extend the reach of caster's...  specifically Staff toting wizardly types.  To fit the old tropes, and to really have anythign to do with fighter/wizards.




That's teh exact book I mentioned above, Thaumatology: Sorcery.

There is also a Sorcerer template for DF in Pyramid 3-82 by the impeccable Antoni Ten Monrós.




Eh... kinda?  But also not really.  And at the end of analysis, not at all.

At least as long as there are skills and nothing like OCV, DCV, OMCV, DMCV...


I always felt GURPS could use having the systems back-end being busted open and having a light shone in, have it stop being so 'black box' and letting us GMs get our hands down into it's guts so we can figure out how to create our own advantages... and that's what 4th ed is all about.

I mean finding out that Comabt Reflexes was deliberately, radically underpriced specifically because the designers thought 'every warrior type should have it' was a bit of an eye opener.

Seriously, if you have a fate bending disad, expect off-topic comments to actualize.

anything you say CAN and WILL be used against you xD

I have enough weird things happening around me, I don't need to talk about them.  Then again, I don't always notice, given who my father is...

In reply to Chou-Zhen Mou (msg # 599):

Case in point....

In reply to Skeletal king (msg # 600):

As a bit of coincidence I met someone today named

Charlene Montague

In reply to Narrator (msg # 601):

Lol, well, me an Charlene are pretty good friends...with benefits. And Kids, apparently...

In reply to Clarence Montague (msg # 602):

Be back on tomorrow

In reply to Narrator (msg # 603):

Given the holiday shopping frenzy, I may be sparsely posting for a little bit. Trying to keep up, and also omw to see the Last Jedi.

No Spoilers!!  I'm going to see it on Christmas Day.  :D

Interesting [Private to Melchizidek: Hi Melchizadek, Broderick is looking for help killing a Slorn would you be interested in helping?]
This message was last edited by the player at 07:39, Thu 21 Dec 2017.

In reply to Broderick Leibert (msg # 606):

I wish I was going to see it some time...

[Private to Broderick Leibert: Yep, no worries. He is not much of a combat monster though.]

[Private to GM: Did Melchizadek recieve any Cp for the trip to the underworld city? I cant seem to find it...]
This message was last edited by the player at 11:34, Thu 21 Dec 2017.

It go to Oz too someday.

so what exactly are these slorn? are they some type of errant, dungeon monsters?