 Magical Abilities/Skills Vs. Exclusive Actions |
 Mar 24 2004, 01:59 AM
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This topic is about what counts as a 'Magical Abilities/Skills' and what dosen't. There is a nice list of what counts as an exclusive action on P162, SR3, but no well-defined list of what activities count as magical and what don't.
The reason I started this thread was that I was wondering if a mage who has posessed someone counts as participating in a continuous magical ability. IE: Whilst posessing someone, is it possible to cast exclusive-limited spells, quicken spells, use Conjuring, call an elemental to appear, ETC? Looking at the description of the posession metamagic, it simply states that the character can use magic whilst posessing. It is also possible to use any physical critter powers of the individual, some of which may be exclusive (mist-form for example). Posession does feel somewhat magical, but so does Astral Perception and IIRC that was ruled to not count as a magical ability for the purposes of exclusiveness. Also: [ Spoiler ] Lastly: It states that it is possible to deliberately mask the aura of the being they are posessing. As deliberate masking is an exclusive action, that implies that exclusive actions are possible whilst posessing. Anyone else want to share their thoughts on this? |
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Lilt Magical Abilities/Skills Vs. Exclusive Actions Mar 24 2004, 01:59 AM
Jason Farlander It doesnt matter whether using possession metamagi... Mar 24 2004, 02:45 AM Zazen QUOTE (Lilt) Lastly: It states that it is possible... Mar 24 2004, 05:22 AM John Campbell By the letter of the rules, it's impossible to... Mar 24 2004, 06:04 AM Sunday_Gamer Easy there fellas. Projecting is an exclusice acti... Mar 24 2004, 07:17 AM Kanada Ten Not exclusive, just preclusive of exclusive action... Mar 24 2004, 07:31 AM Sunday_Gamer Well see now that corrects a mistake I made wherea... Mar 24 2004, 08:33 AM Lilt Nope. So-far the list of magical actions which pre... Mar 24 2004, 12:20 PM Mardegun woa, hold up 'Sustaining a Spell' is not a... Mar 24 2004, 01:43 PM Zazen QUOTE (Lilt) @Zazen: Not entierly true on the seco... Mar 24 2004, 03:32 PM Darkest Angel I think there's some confusion here as to what... Mar 24 2004, 04:53 PM Lilt Shapeshifters are dual beings, but even they swich... Mar 24 2004, 06:41 PM A Clockwork Lime No they don't. It's constant in both, and... Mar 24 2004, 06:43 PM Lilt Then why does it take them a simple action to use ... Mar 24 2004, 06:47 PM Zazen QUOTE (Lilt) Shapeshifters are dual beings, but ev... Mar 24 2004, 06:49 PM Lilt In any case, if they must spend a simple action to... Mar 24 2004, 07:01 PM Darkest Angel QUOTE (Lilt) Shapeshifters are dual beings, but ev... Mar 24 2004, 07:22 PM Zazen Like I said, they are astrally percieving all the ... Mar 24 2004, 07:29 PM Zazen QUOTE (Darkest Angel) ... but is required for Quic... Mar 24 2004, 07:36 PM Darkest Angel But if you take it that way, then there was no poi... Mar 24 2004, 07:46 PM Zazen Well the core book says specifically that you can... Mar 24 2004, 08:05 PM Cochise QUOTE (Darkest Angel)But if you take it that way, ... Mar 24 2004, 08:09 PM A Clockwork Lime Dual-beings aren't always assensing (ie, makin... Mar 24 2004, 09:08 PM Sunday_Gamer *head spins*
Dizzy monkey... dizzy...monkey.
O... Mar 24 2004, 10:02 PM Herald of Verjigorm QUOTE (Sunday_Gamer) While projecting, you are con... Mar 24 2004, 10:43 PM Sunday_Gamer So then you can do whatever you want except anothe... Mar 24 2004, 11:53 PM Lilt @Sunday: That sounds about right. You can only per... Mar 25 2004, 12:28 AM A Clockwork Lime No, Aura Reading does not require any magical abil... Mar 25 2004, 01:35 AM Lilt Except that the aura reading skill is still offici... Mar 25 2004, 11:33 AM
Darkest Angel I think we've pretty much established that the... Mar 25 2004, 03:07 PM  |
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