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The Stoicist - Building a Magic / Ability System

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The Corvidian:
Why not through in someone who can take their power by healing them?

kingaling:

--- Quote from: The Corvidian on April 17, 2011, 02:25:01 AM ---Why not through in someone who can take their power by healing them?

--- End quote ---
:o <- I Literally did that.

Whoa, awesome! Thank you. That's so cool! Why didn't I come up with that. Will use, thanks again.

Quantus:
Idle thought:  Is there any added benefit to taking more permanent damage?  Like could a stoic loose an eye but get some kind of 3rd sight Odin-style?  Or maybe full blinding to make a prophet/seer?  What about if got his hand doused in lava, could he loose the hand but get some more permanent fire powers?  And if they took some permanent emotional or psychological damage (death of a spouce/child for example) would it give a lasting power of some kind?

And I know you said self-inflicted damage doesn't grant power, but I had an image of wandering ascetic Saints,  gaining power from vows of poverty, chastity etc as a form of spiritual stoicism. 

Another idle thought while I was typing that:  What about hunger?  If a stoicist finds himself crossing a dessert and there is no food or water, will he gain power?  How about just being locked up in prison?  I would be funny for stoic prisons to be like lush spa resort, that do there best to prevent any inflicted hardship, just to keep power opportunities from arising. 

The Corvidian:
How about someone who has pins and plates in their limbs? How about someone suffering from a disease like arthritis?

Haru:
I like the idea, it has a lot of potential. As others already said, using physical pain should provide physical powers. Easier to come by, but not all that potent.

Someone that is using emotional pain and therefore more abstract and more powerful magic would have to work a whole lot harder to fuel up, but then he could really lay waste upon his enemies. I imagine some sort of psychiatrist or something, who is taking the emotional pain of his patients and making them his own, thus powering up. Hell, he could even literally take their pain, making him pretty darn effective in his job.

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