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Moonstone Spider
post Feb 5 2004, 11:46 PM
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A thought I had for a new magician path.

Alchemists are tool users, magicians who disdain using their own power and instead use that of foci to do their work. An alchemist is a full-magician. There are no aspected magicians. They start with the usual 25 magic points but may use them only to bind foci.

Game Mechanics: An Alchemist may cast any spell or summon any spirit regardless of magical tradition if the alchemist has a focus for that particular spell or spirit type. Alchemists cannot learn conjuring or sorcery and instead use the foci's rating, plus up to the foci's rating in spell pool die for the conjuring or sorcery test. Drain is calculated normally.

Alchemists may use more than one focus to cast a single spell, for instance an alchemist may use a specific spell focus to cast a spell and a spell catagory or expendable focus to add more die to the spell test. Or an alchemist may cast a spell with a spell focus and sustain it with a sustaining focus.

Alchemists never suffer from foci-addiction. They may otherwise take geasa as any other magician may.
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- Moonstone Spider   Alchemist Magician   Feb 5 2004, 11:46 PM
- - BitBasher   edit: nevermind.   Feb 6 2004, 12:10 AM
- - Lilt   Too strong. I'd go as far as to say Broken. Th...   Feb 6 2004, 12:15 AM
- - Jason Farlander   Umm... how do you figure that, Lilt? A force 6 po...   Feb 6 2004, 12:41 AM
- - sidartha   If you drop the ability to use spell category foci...   Feb 6 2004, 01:11 AM
- - mfb   make the foci degrade over time, so that the mage ...   Feb 6 2004, 02:31 AM
- - Herald of Verjigorm   As long as the alchemist needs a focus for the spe...   Feb 6 2004, 03:01 AM
- - Zazen   I like the concept a lot but I'd do it somewha...   Feb 6 2004, 03:17 AM
- - Jason Farlander   Ive been thinking... and here is about the most ef...   Feb 6 2004, 03:53 AM
- - Fortune   QUOTE (Moonstone Spider) ...use the foci's rat...   Feb 6 2004, 04:12 AM
- - Moonstone Spider   I was thinking the Alchemist would use Enchanting ...   Feb 6 2004, 05:10 AM
- - Lilt   @Jason Farlander: It's possible if you're ...   Feb 6 2004, 10:39 PM
- - snowRaven   Since specific spell foci cost Force x 1 Karma to ...   Feb 7 2004, 04:40 PM
- - Lilt   SnowRaven: There is no limit on the force of spell...   Feb 7 2004, 04:53 PM
- - snowRaven   Of course, my above reason is limiting the force o...   Feb 7 2004, 05:26 PM
- - hobgoblin   to me it looks like whatever foci the person have ...   Feb 7 2004, 05:34 PM
- - Jason Farlander   Yeah... you really do need some mechanic for limit...   Feb 7 2004, 06:18 PM
- - snowRaven   Okay, I've been doing some thinking, and I thi...   Feb 8 2004, 03:55 PM
- - Lilt   Another interesting idea for this type of characte...   Feb 8 2004, 04:28 PM
- - Jason Farlander   hey Lilt... did you even read my tool mage post?   Feb 8 2004, 05:00 PM
- - Lilt   Well, sort-of. The idea for the technocrat is tha...   Feb 8 2004, 05:19 PM
- - hobgoblin   the "tools" of the technocrasy is there ...   Feb 9 2004, 07:38 PM


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