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- March 26, 2014 at 6:26 am #261055AnonymousInactive
Spell Affinity has no effect on Advanced Spells (or Base spells) unless they are being cast with Adaptations and for it to affect Advanced Spells, you must have Spell Affinity with both base spells (something you can’t do until Tier 2 since it is limited to once per tier).
You are absolutely right. Bad me for not reading more carefully. Thank you.
I dislike making Metaphysical Understanding tiered in such a way. For one thing, you’d need to get tier 2 before even matching what it currently gives. For another, it would delay further when you can cast advanced spells (something I at least want to avoid).
I’m not thrilled with the sum-12 CTN and existing Metaphysical Understanding but at least it is a way to get the CTN to a reasonable (to me) level for T1+T1 (effectively CTN 22 in most cases).
In that, in general, not true. Since right now, Metaphysical Understanding give a bonus to casting, and most serious caster who do this will have prodigy, the two don’t stack, so you would end up getting a +1 to cast, +2 if not a prodigy. The proposed change would effectively give a +1 to cast actively which would stack and give a +1 to cast passively. A prodigy with this talent would have the same effective bonus to cast actively and a +1 to passive casting.
As to the level of difficulty, that is pretty much being driven by Pedro. (though I personally feel that we are at the ballpark of reasonable, and yes I do play an arcane caster.)
March 26, 2014 at 2:43 pm #261077AnonymousInactiveIn that, in general, not true. Since right now, Metaphysical Understanding give a bonus to casting, and most serious caster who do this will have prodigy, the two don’t stack, so you would end up getting a +1 to cast, +2 if not a prodigy. The proposed change would effectively give a +1 to cast actively which would stack and give a +1 to cast passively. A prodigy with this talent would have the same effective bonus to cast actively and a +1 to passive casting.
As to the level of difficulty, that is pretty much being driven by Pedro. (though I personally feel that we are at the ballpark of reasonable, and yes I do play an arcane caster.)
That’s a good point. I don’t suppose we can have Metaphysical Understanding changed to stack with other talents? As it is, if you have Prodigy, it’s an extremely marginal talent.
Even with d10 Primary, 4 ranks, prodigy, and metaphysical understanding, you only get passive 19-20 (depending on if Primary is 7 or 8) and roll of 3d10+7 for advanced spells (assuming they stack) which averages 23.5 (so <50% chance for T1+T1 with no adaptations). That seems perfectly reasonable to me for uber-min-maxing casting of advanced spells (at least 12 stat pts on Primary, race+background chosen specifically for casting, and 2 talents).
March 26, 2014 at 2:44 pm #261078AnonymousInactiveI think pedro posted definitively that this idea os low tier one casters being good at this is not in the plans
Nobody is saying “good”. We’re (or at least I’m) just saying reasonably possible. <50% chance is not good.
May 20, 2014 at 3:09 pm #262380AnonymousInactiveJust now getting caught up to Errata. Has there been a final ruling on how to create Advanced Spells? Specifically, I am interested in spells with different effects. Examples:
Storm of Knives + Mind Lock
Elemental Bolt + Brittle BonesMay 20, 2014 at 3:10 pm #262381AnonymousInactiveJust now getting caught up to Errata. Has there been a final ruling on how to create Advanced Spells? Specifically, I am interested in spells with different effects. Examples:
Storm of Knives + Mind Lock
Elemental Bolt + Brittle BonesRight now in the “Being reviewed” version, you need to share the same duration (Instant, Scene, etc) to combine spells.
John
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