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2013-01-04, 03:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-04, 04:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-04, 06:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Hmm, I looked over the numbers, and that does seem more reasonable for upper levels stuff. (Comparing Fib on caster level with square on spell level, use minimum caster level.) At lower levels, I think it makes sense to make the cost of casting, say, a fireball per round higher rather than lower.
Perhaps the cap should be the same as wands, and be fourth level? This is, after all, "free" magic every round. Limiting the spell level further forces some more creative uses of other parts of grammarie, but still allows a lot of useful magical effects. Gird your army in Mage Armor, for instance.
Hmm. Spell per round gets me thinking… what about a silverOut that spams Unseen Servant? Hour duration means that once you've warmed it up for an hour and keep that up, you can maintain 600 of them. At strength of 2 each, that's an effective 1200 strength. Move something of up to 6 tons at 15 ft/round on a budget of 1 ebb/round. We can move 30 tons at 5 ft/round on that same budget. Get metamagic Extend on that (increasing warmup time), use two transformers, and you can start hauling all kinds of things. (AoE is going to take all of that out, of course.)
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2013-01-04, 07:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
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2013-01-04, 07:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-04, 08:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-04, 08:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Don't forget the 2d6 they throw on for free. And 1/cl means 9, since that's the lowest caster level for a fifth-level spell. That puts it at 16 servants/round.
Well, depending on the formula used for caster level, it may or may not be better to make several silverOut transformers and split the ebbs up. The thing I like about using boring ol' Unseen Servant is that it's an extremely common spell, and only first level. By the time you can get Servant Horde, you should be doing much more broken things with a SilverOut.
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2013-01-04, 09:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
My suggestion is that we shouldn't even have a transformer that takes in and outputs spells, since, unlike the rest of the transformers (with the exception of the specialty Doctorate ones), spells aren't intrinsic to all settings.
I've seen a ton of people run campaigns where arcane magic was rare, and psionics was the name of the game; so, in other words, I think, if anything Silver needs to be something more intrinsic.
I have a draft somewhere for Silver transformers that take in and output emotion, and I have scraps for ones that would process food, water, blood, health, and sleep, so...
Because the magic one, if it exists, should not be the most basic way to get energy for your projects. It should come a bit later, if at all.
In my opinion.
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2013-01-04, 10:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
My main beef with silver outputs is their lack of self-sufficiency, without a friendly spellcaster, all they do is turn is turn ebbs into Eldritch Blasts.In direct contrast to how with almost everything else, you can cloister yourself away from everyone else and not be seen of for a while once you have the materials (unless you're trying something crazy that requires cooperating with multiple different types of specialists).
Also, just something a tad bit odd I wanted to point out to check for intentionality: Iron (and thus phlogistan) melts at a little over 1500 (my memory says 1536, but I'm not sure). If you're a contractor with Phlegmatic Phlogistan, it will heat itself up to 2000 degrees S, by default, Phlematic Phlogistan is naturally molten, unless you use some alchemetry to raise its melting point to high levels.
On the bright side, these means my super-hot-super-soldier idea from a few pages back can be attained, just now requires a PRC ability, instead of just specialization. The one about "hot but not molten", of course.Avatar by TinyMushroom.
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2013-01-04, 10:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
fibonacci has a closed-form solution.
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2013-01-05, 08:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-05, 02:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
the recursive implementation is significantly harder without memoization. we just happen to be able to make the recursive implementation linear by memoization because we know that the fibonacci mapping is a function.
we could theoretically do that in finite space, but I'd think most of us begin with a known pair and do out the calculations on paper without erasing, which makes for essentially linear space. (it's ... more like quadratic, because number length, but.)
a naďve recursive implementation, if you cared to work it out, takes O(fib) time and O(fib) space.
the close-form solution with exponentiation should be somewhere around O(ln n) to compute, but just has a really huge constant hidden in the O-notation for most of us.
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2013-01-05, 02:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-05, 04:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-05, 06:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
People who are bad at math!
So there are more of us left.
And, for those that are curious, I suggested Sigma Fibonacci. Because I like it.
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2013-01-05, 07:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-05, 07:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-05, 07:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-08, 06:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Wow. Just.... Just.... Wow.
This is amazing. All of it. It all interacts! All of it. I shudder to think of the effort that must have gone into creating all this... But.... Wow. All I can say. I've just started a thread for a low level Gramaire game, in the PBP forum. Thank you for making this awesome stuff.
Questions: Can you add a transformer to biostructure? Can you add biostructure to yourself? Can you add Eldrikinetic engines to biostructure, and thus yourself?
I'm thinking of going Biolurgy specialist, with a hearty sprinkling of transformers and engines. Being able to add them to creatures intrinsically would help.I'm also on the Bay12 Games forums under the same username.
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2013-01-09, 05:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Answers (hopefully correct ones too! ): Yes, but only if it started as the appropriate metal. I don't think an official ruling was made on this, but probably. Same as with transformers.
Note: The average human takes up a total volume of two cubic feet. To add engines or transformers would a) add 50% of the persons volume to them again for only one and b) add hundreds of pounds of weight the person's own muscles would have to hold up. Not the best of ideas.
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2013-01-09, 06:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-09, 08:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Thanks for the replies. Can you add biostructure to living creatures, and then mutate it? It might be an easy way of adding grafts. Or I could be completely misunderstanding the Biollurgy stuff, in relation to PCs.
I'm also on the Bay12 Games forums under the same username.
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2013-01-09, 10:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
We've established that biostructure from something like carmot or sunmetal retains its properties. So while you probably can't add an engine to biostructure, you might be able to turn one into biostructure without ruining it.
Unfortunately, weight will be a huge problem. Let's say you want a simply orthogonal engine- that's made of iron. You need a cubic foot of it (which is going to be large and unwieldily anyway). That's 491 pounds. If you found an Alchemetrist managed a Diplomacy check of 100 (enough to start casually wiping out cities when you please), you could reduce that to 49 pounds, which is still rather inconvenient. All of the materials listed have the same problem, or cannot have their weight reduced. You could get a submerging engine attached, but that is not very useful. (Note that turning yourself into a submerging engine would drain all the blood from yourself.)
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2013-01-09, 10:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Hm. How have I only just noticed that high level Shadowrights can be radioactive and explode like a radiomantic material?
Hm, now I'm thinking about how using Unorthodox Triggers and attaching sufficiently charged orichalcum as a kind of dead-man's switch thing as a deterrent from attacking him (if you've read Snow Crash, a bit like Raven).Last edited by Volthawk; 2013-01-09 at 10:10 AM.
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2013-01-09, 10:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
There's also the low-budget version. If they instead carry a small piece of fully charged Ruby filter stored in an extradimensional space to keep it safe, they can set it off with just a little cold damage, dealing 1000d6 fire damage to a radius just shy of a mile. Since Shadowright can get immunity to fire, they can survive it.
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2013-01-09, 10:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
True, there are other ways, but eh, I like the idea of having the capacity of being a walking nuke. Also, raw fire damage has it's limitations, fire immunity being the biggie (also, it doesn't quite kill the land like a radiomantic bomb).
Probably a silly question, but eh - does detonating kill you? What about if you're a Shadowright 10 and thus have immunity to the negative levels and damage from a radiomantic detonation?
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2013-01-09, 01:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-09, 01:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Emphasis mine.
Frequent: At 9th level, you gain frequent vision. Just as fast as the speed of light is the speed of the darkness that it casts. With your sight moving at such speeds, how can mortal barriers obstruct you? As a free action, you can turn this ability on or off; while active, you can see through obstacles within 120ft. of you. You can choose how many layers to penetrate inside of the area of effect. Lead is the only thing that blocks your vision; however, while this ability is active, you give off radiation like a radiomantic metal with the same volume as your body (and can explode like one).
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2013-01-09, 02:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
You don't have to make that giant check all at once. You free to reduce its density by a smaller amount multiple times. Although, looking at that raises a question for me: when it says the density is "altered by a factor", does that means it's added/ subtracted (so getting a result of one is pretty much useless), or is it multiplied/divided (in which case getting a one is very useful, since this results in a factor of 1/10).
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