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Vargo Teras:
--- Quote from: Sanctaphrax on May 29, 2012, 05:21:28 AM ---Interesting idea, but needs more juice. Most Sponsored Magics include some evothaum and an extra benefit worth roughly 1 Refresh.
What does this provide, beyond basic spellcasting?
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My first thought is that, where most magic hexes technology or at best ignores it, Urban Magic will interact rather effectively with most large machines. It won't be particularly useful for hacking a cell phone, but cars and power grids are innate parts of a city, and can be manipulated in far more interesting ways by Urban Magic than they could be by mortal wizardry. The most obvious evothaum would be transportation effects; by arranging coincidences in the transport grid, an urban sorcerer can move at surprising speed over both short distances (e.g., catch a passing vehicle for extra shifts of movement or dart through a hitherto-unnoticed gap in a zone boundary) or long (e.g., cross twenty miles of city in twenty minutes despite traffic, poorly arranged roads, and even active attempts at interdiction).
Sanctaphrax:
@Thugorp: You're very welcome.
@Vargo Teras: Good idea. So that's the evothaum sorted. What should the extra benefit be like?
LordDraqo:
--- Quote from: Sanctaphrax on May 31, 2012, 01:14:47 AM ---@Thugorp: You're very welcome.
@Vargo Teras: Good idea. So that's the evothaum sorted. What should the extra benefit be like?
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For an Extra Benefit a Urban Magic gives the bearer the advantages of Marked by Power when dealing with the Faces of the City.
Sanctaphrax:
That could work, but I'd hate to prevent an Emissary Of The City from taking normal Marked By Power.
Maybe just +2 to Presence within the city? Or maybe a Contacts boost?
I like the idea of something social, at least.
ways and means:
How about a +1 to alertness or lore for detecting things that are out of place in your city because of your connection to it?
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