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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