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taalismn wrote:I have this image of the Mummifier looking like a field hay bailer...dump the person in the hopper, and out comes zombie, wrapped and ready...

see? the image is just so evocative =P

Can you use ritual magic in TW devices? i would probably allow it, but the machine would have to be something you might expect to have the same limitations as a ritual... reducing casting time from 3 actions to 1 is quite impressive. taking it from 30 minutes down to about 3-5 seconds is a bit much...

taalismn wrote:

Shark_Force wrote:make a netgun that wraps people in cloth, kills them, then uses the create mummy ritual on them...

ouch...

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does this mean we can expect to see that netgun from aliens unlimited TW enhanced to have a word of death and a create mummy spell sometime in the near future? =P

I dunno. Wasnt there something that allowed PPE clips to be used in normal guns as an E-clip replacement? Then pretty much anybody with PPE or ISP can recharge them. Even non-magic people have a little PPE at any given time. think the people from SA book 2 can do that. psi-gizmoteers or something l...

make a netgun that wraps people in cloth, kills them, then uses the create mummy ritual on them...

so am i missing something here? A sense of game balance, perhaps? Or at least of what would actually be fun to game both with and against . I think a GM would have to be high off his a** to allow your interpretation of Compulsion into a game. Domination is fine. The spell version is weaker, by desi...

ok, maybe i'm missing something here... everyone is going all crazy over dominate. it really isn't that great. the person may as well be a zombie, except that they can resist orders that are against their nature. also, it doesn't penetrate environmental armor. if i was to pick one mind control spell...

Painting is a skill, so that one's specifically addressed by the rules. Really? Because I'm looking in my GM's guide, and I don't see a painting skill anywhere. art. it's a technical skill. All right, taking the mention of paint in the art skill literally, what about building said wooden barn, or j...

well, i figure it's best to start off with something more straightforward. i'm trying to think what kind of spell chains it would take to make a printing press that creates magic scrolls (with a separate part that can be switched out to put in a new spell), not sure how that's gonna turn out. (if i ...

so i figured i'd give a shot at devising some TW equipment, and went through to try for a rather scary (possibly/probably unbalancing) item i had considered, which i'm calling hullbreacher missiles. the main thing i was wondering, is how do you decide what the device level is? for some things, it ma...

Proseksword wrote:

Painting is a skill, so that one's specifically addressed by the rules.

Really? Because I'm looking in my GM's guide, and I don't see a painting skill anywhere.

art. it's a technical skill.

ok, first off, i just want to say that these things sound awesome

one thing though: shouldn't the wind blast also push things if it's a powerful enough wind to do that much damage?

Malvoren , can hurt anything and everything unless the target description says otherwise, imune to energy but not magic or psionics no problem. not to mention the weapon melding ability along with targeting systems which means they rarely miss and can dish out some rediculous amounts of hurt in eit...

Interesting, I'm not familiar w/Malvoren. I think there might be some limits on TW's (not sure don't plat them). I'm kinda looking at this from a role playing stand point than a pure power level(skills & all), tho' Sea titans can get uber powerful from a munchkinesque view of things. there are ...

if it's any comfort, for some unfathomable reason the TW can't learn summoning magic... so the TW would probably have to go to each individual leader one at a time. not that it isn't still a problem, of course...

And you haven't answered "Drop both a Mage and a Soldier in the woods, buck-naked, and see who survives. Why would they be naked ? Oh .. gotcha .. because your wieghting the fight on pourpose gotcha tactic's down. seems to be working for you just fine. You also haven't addressed that a tech wa...

I've always liked the Cauldron of Plenty myself, one of our beginning adventures was raiding the workshop of a highly skilled Scathach Druid who went mad and joined the Blood Druids, my character walked out of the Workshop with a Cauldron of Plenty the size of a Cofee Cup, a Cauldren of Destruction...

Aw, I think the psionic system is pretty awesome, forgiving one or two little weaknesses. The one thing I've always thought was a little lame about the psionics system is how the fiction & art always seems to portray mind melters as mind controlling lots of people, but there really isn't any ps...

Sorry but I am asking now for any mage spell or any mage class that can cast 2 spells simultaniously .. like the Cyber-Knights ability to create Psi-Swords .. (2 with 1 action) that's just part of the same ability. it isn't a separate ability that lets them create 2 swords at once. it's no differen...

ok, apparently it's necessary to repeat myself here: the cyber knight is not using *any* powers with that action. it's using a class ability. So basically .. Psi-Swords are now Strickly .. Cyber-Knight class only Psionic ability ? Really ? no, the cyber knight's psi-sword ability is a cyber knight ...

That's why it's a special ability , and not a trait of psychics. You might as well argue that magic is weak because Gunslingers can fire two handguns at once. Good point .. I totally forgot about that .. And by the way .. shooting two guns at once is not limited to just Gunslingers .. Thier just th...

you can't even prove that the cyber knight is using two psionic powers at once. they are created in an instant (no action?) so if you double the action cost you still get 0 actions, then if you double the ISP cost of 0 you also still get 0. for that matter, you can't even prove that it's not a singl...

seem to recall something on supernatural PE in the section of conversion book one, just after it talked about supernatural PS. (either that or i'm thinking of mutants in orbit, the section about insects?)

Sorry, but the magic is too powerful thing some people throw around is just a good joke. To each his own. Problem is, everyone who thinks magic is too weak simply want stupid magic. They want the magic that instant kills anyone. I am some one who thinks Magic is too weak .. I simply have adapted lv...

[snip] 3) Add whole attributes to every skill, making different levels of natural ability important. Can you explain 3 better? i assume he means that rather than adding IQ bonus to skills accross the board, you would instead (or possibly in addition) add the actual attribute itself to an appropriat...

Now i am seeing over and over the argument of magic is better or tech is better. In my opinion both are better depending on how the character is played, there actions, role playing etc. Play whatever you find to be fun and entertaining to you. I dont see this argument going anyway so just make a le...

Very cool, especially for table-top work. Are you distributing these at all? Out of curiosity, does anybody know any way to do something similar on the computer with a digital map? I play online a lot, and often times are "visuals" are distributed electronically. People usually use someth...

so your starting scenario to prove that mages need powering up is to give the tech side a wing of aircraft doing a strafing run on a single mage, then getting bombarded by long range missiles? again, how are these aircraft spotting the caster? is he sitting on a bare hilltop casting a giant illusion...