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Custom Powers Master List (Work In Progress)
Tedronai:
The unavailability of the evothaum to the primary user of Rune Magic does make it...unpalatable to me. If dropping it was accompanied by dropping the price of the power, I wouldn't see any problem with the change.
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: Sanctaphrax on February 19, 2012, 02:00:43 AM ---I don't think that this sounds like a good idea. Too vague and too questionably balanced. And not usable by the primary users of Rune Magic, which is just weird.
Would it be a problem if we were to drop the evothaum completely?
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The main problem with dropping it is it's something shown clearly as an ability of the magic in the story that centers around Gard and her abilities, with the veil rune Harry turns into a disguise. Maybe make it so that only the disposable runes allow for it? That way it's balanced by it being available maybe once or twice, and even if they use a high-powered rune, they have to make the control roll?
I'd really rather find a palatable way to include it than cutting it out completely, given that it's explicitly shown as an ability of the power in the text.
Sanctaphrax:
I don't remember that scene...but I suppose that any writeup of Rune Magic ought to make it possible.
...remember how I said that this promised to be a headache?
How about we say something like this:
"A character with Evocation, Thaumaturgy, or Rune Magic can expend a use from an item created with Rune Magic to cast a single Evocation or Thaumaturgy spell with Evocation's speed and methods. Any spell cast this way must be similar in some way to the effect of the item used to cast it."
Tedronai:
I think the thematic restriction needs to be more strongly worded. 'Similar in some way' could mean as little as 'both spells have the narrative potential to inflict harm', while one is thematically an entropy curse and the other is a variant on Harry's wall-of-magma.
That wording also substantially changes the benefit provided, unless it was just an oversight, changing it from a mental stress rebate to an expansion of available effects.
Sanctaphrax:
You're right, the restriction is too loose.
And the change in functionality was intended. I felt like the bonus was big enough as it is.
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