In reply to Christine Bjorn (msg # 540):
I find 10 points to be sufficient for my purposes.

If you're really canny (and desperate to save points and want it as back up*) you talk the GM into letting you make it an AA of Magery.  This cuts the cost to 1/5th, but means you can't have active† spells and use your Magic Bolt.



* Which by the write up is one of the ways that it's meant to be used "Missile spells are great, but there are times when you can’t cast one because you’re out of energy..."

† By 'active' I mean spells you are concentrating on, as you cannot concentrate on spells and use Magic Bolt at the time.  Technically you also couldn't maintain any spells while you are using your Magic Bolt as an AA, but that's really not likely to come up very often.  Also, as an AA it would take 1 second of Concentration to switch between Magery and Magic Bolt, as per Sorcery, but... that's realy up to the GM whether it's an Alternative Ability or Alternative Attack 'AA'.

Sorry, magic bolt is an add on feature with Magery as a prerequisite.
After Astra Black, I am not going off book with advantages. Yes, there are one or two talents out there that are custom, but I am trying to run things on template here.

And if I recall correctly a 1D-3 means it does one point of damage on a roll of 1-4, 2 points on a 5 and 3 points on a 6. It never does 0 points of damage... GM?

In reply to Jocelyn Lemru (msg # 544):

Looking it over, it says it Always does damage if it hits, and bypasses DR. That would indicate a minimum damage of 1 rather than 0

That's consistent with light weapons wielded by weak characters -- a dagger doing 1d-4 still does a minimum of 1 point before armor on a hit.  It just seldom does more than that.

Speaking as an Incanter, I do not find them too highly priced: Incantation Gift gives a bonus to each path skill, and with everything (including the unusual background), I've invested 77 points into incantation magic. In exchange, it is (my current experience) quite powerful. You need to pack a field lab to refresh spells (which I'm currently refraining from doing because it might make Darius too powerful), but even so my current setup has more than two dozen spell slots. I'm using them sparingly, since I tend to conserve resources, but these make him quite useful.

So yes - Incanters are less efficient over multiple encounters. But I wouldn't want to give up the flexibility you have.


(And, to my knowledge, you can't duplicate the Seek Treasure spell with Magic)

Thank You, that's good to know. I have to admit the whole system seems obtuse and confusing to me, but that may just be my problem in grasping their intent.

"Duplicate"?  Maybe not.  "Replicate the results of"?  Yes...  I mean Seek Earth is right there in the Earth College.  Granted that's just seeking a specific precious metal, but it's a close enough analog.  And Seek Magic will point out the nearest magic items...

And I could pretty easily create in GURPS Magic as a GM... let's see, call it a half-priced Divination... reduce casting time to say 5-10 minutes... give it the prereqs of Seek Earth and Seek Magic... /dustsoffhandscallsitday.jpg






This is why I pointed you at the sjgames forums.  Not only will people answer your questions, the authors of those systems post there and will answer your questions.

Of course, posting at SJG forums also has a prerequisite -- that of having the time available to take on yet another forum.  A few months ago, I had to give up the Karbal Space Program forum, because there just weren't enough hours in the day to keep up with it along with everything else...

In reply to Darius Kopaki (msg # 547):

While seek earth :gold/silver/copper might have dinged, seek treasure found silks and spices, which can be worth more than gold.
Seek food:spice might have worked, but there isn't much that would find silk.


Back on tomorrow, watching Hades Town with the wife. This better be good!

In reply to Narrator (msg # 551):

Didn't get much posting in, was loading monsters

In reply to Narrator (msg # 552):

Sorry anout the slowed posting, had a commission to clear yesterday, and just spent four hours assembling a desk that came without hardware...

Ditto from me, had a lot of OT the last couple of weeks and my brain has been too tired to formulate articulate responses.  Or, semi-articulate bordering on unintelligible as is sometimes the case with Jareth.

I should be alert and conscious enough to post later tonight.

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 554):

I am going to be traveling in a week and a half; before that happens I am piling on OT at work and trying to kill commissions at the same time. My SO is now working from home so my posting rate is going to get threadier.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 555):

Also, I just came from the NYC Medeival Festival, and the Cosplay was like a GURPS game without parameters. Not just princesses and vikings,  woodnymphs and wizards, Romans, Ronin, and Roundheads, but steampunks, pirates, vampires, elves,satyrs, assassins, kilt wearing hipsters, cultists, friars, Tieflings, Unicorns, leather daddies, bikers, dominatrices,face painters,hawkers, raptor handers, rangers, Star Trek TNG crew, MiB (or Agent Cobra Bubbles from Lilo & Stitch), Naruto ninjas, and of course more fellow pagans than I ever see outing themselves, and, oh, a whole batch of actual nuns. It reminded me of the team I was on in an infinite worlds campaign...
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Back on tomorrow

In reply to Narrator (msg # 557):

Be back Monday

In reply to Narrator (msg # 558):

Really? Darius the Necromancer is worried about the morality of dealing with thieves?

my sentiments. lol

Darius would argue that necromancy is morally justified, though.

(I modelled that somewhat after Abydos - wherever he's from, he's used to treating undead as simply an available source of labour. He views the shunning of necromancy as strange; maybe how we'd view people deliberately shunning computers, or medieval people shunning oxen.)

In reply to Darius Kopaki (msg # 561):

be travelling tomorrow, will catch up while waiting for my flight.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 562):

To start that 75 point thread I need confirmation about who wants in, and a name for the Inn from the Inkeeper

I'm interested in the 75 pt adventure.

FYI My father is in the hospital.  It's a bit of a one-off situation (we hope), but I'll still be a bit spotty for a bit while we get everything figured out.  I saw that you already did a bit of NPC on one of my characters, thanks for that.