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. Magery I: (Total: 34 Active Cost, 19 Real Cost) Detect Magic A Large Class Of Things 11-/17- (Mental Group), Sense (12 Active Points); Unified Power (-1/4) (Real Cost: 10) <b>plus</b> +1 Overall (12 Active Points); Limited Power Only for magic (Skill roll, Detect Magic, +1 OCV to target a spell, etc.) (-1), Unified Power (-1/4), Perceivable (Others with Magery can tell you have Magery when you use it; -1/4) (Real Cost: 5) <b>plus</b> Healing Mana 1 point (standard effect: 1 point), Trigger (Activating the Trigger is an Action that takes no time, Trigger requires a Turn or more to reset; +1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Decreased Re-use Duration (1 Turn; +1 1/2) (10 Active Points); Limited Power Self only (-1), Unified Power (-1/4), Perceivable (Others with Magery can tell you have Magery when you use it; -1/4) (Real Cost: 4) Magery II: (Total: 78 Active Cost, 41 Real Cost) Detect Magic A Large Class Of Things 11-/17- (Mental Group), Increased Arc Of Perception (360 Degrees), Partially Penetrative, Sense (22 Active Points); Unified Power (-1/4) (Real Cost: 18) <b>plus</b> +2 Overall (24 Active Points); Limited Power Only for magic (Skill roll, Detect Magic, +1 OCV to target a spell, etc.) (-1), Unified Power (-1/4), Perceivable (Others with Magery can tell you have Magery when you use it; -1/4) (Real Cost: 10) <b>plus</b> Healing Mana 1d6 (standard effect: 3 points), Trigger (Activating the Trigger is an Action that takes no time, Trigger requires a Turn or more to reset; +1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Decreased Re-use Duration (1 Turn; +1 1/2) (32 Active Points); Limited Power Self only (-1), Unified Power (-1/4), Perceivable (Others with Magery can tell you have Magery when you use it; -1/4) (Real Cost: 13) Magery III: (Total: 110 Active Cost, 57 Real Cost) Detect Magic A Large Class Of Things 11-/17- (Mental Group), Discriminatory, Increased Arc Of Perception (360 Degrees), Penetrative, Sense (32 Active Points); Unified Power (-1/4) (Real Cost: 26) <b>plus</b> +3 Overall (36 Active Points); Limited Power Only for magic (Skill roll, Detect Magic, +1 OCV to target a spell, etc.) (-1), Unified Power (-1/4), Perceivable (Others with Magery can tell you have Magery when you use it; -1/4) (Real Cost: 14) <b>plus</b> Healing Mana 1d6+1 (standard effect: 4 points), Trigger (Activating the Trigger is an Action that takes no time, Trigger requires a Turn or more to reset; +1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Decreased Re-use Duration (1 Turn; +1 1/2) (42 Active Points); Limited Power Self only (-1), Unified Power (-1/4), Perceivable (Others with Magery can tell you have Magery when you use it; -1/4) (Real Cost: 17) Hm. Yeah, probably better to go with the Naked Advantage. Lucius Alexander I always go with a palindromedary tagline though.

I'm sure that's 90% of what the Loa do for the mambo. Possession is nine tenths of the Loa. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary says I stole that line from Bonewits.

If dragon changes to human form, would they need another separated Weapon Element to use these maneuvers? Lucius Alexander Weapon Element: Palindromedary

I was going to ask, "why?" but Instead I'll ask, "why wait?" If it's something you feel you must do, go ahead and get it out of your system. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary and I can stay out of the thread for a while.

Oh, I missed that one completely. I already have that person on ignore. To me it looked like you were responding to the plush tardigrade. Lucius Alexander I couldn't figure out what you were talking about until the palindromedary pointed it out to me.

Then, speaking only for myself, please don't do the like of this again. It almost made me swear off the thread for good. Now for the villain: N.Y.B.O.R.G. is a humaniform robot of advanced but unreliable technology. When malfunctioning his behavior is erratic and random but usually antisocial; when "functioning properly" (from the point of view of Dark Legacy) he is a smooth and persuasive peddler of dangerously addictive designer drugs. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary usually speaks for itself.

I'm saying, make what you want, see how they turn out, THEN write the guidelines around THAT. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary says writing guidelines around acceptable characters is better than writing guidelines and then trying to fit acceptable characters in them.

AK 47 Bridget Jones Lucius Alexander The palindromedary wants to use an Uzi

He should be able to swim, perhaps at a reduced rate. What's his SPD? If he's SPD 4 and you cut Swimming in half, he's still swimming as fast as an able bodied person. You might cut Running to zero and replace with Can Crawl: (Total: 4 Active Cost, 1 Real Cost) Running 4m (4 Active Points); "Gestures", Requires Gestures throughout (Requires both hands; Because using both hands; -1), Concentration, Must Concentrate throughout use of Constant Power (1/2 DCV; -1/2), Increased Endurance Cost (x2 END; -1/2), no Noncombat movement (-1/4) (Real Cost: 1) I'd buy a wheelchair as Wheel chair: (Total: 16 Active Cost, 4 Real Cost) Running 3m, Double Gravity Effects, x8 Noncombat, Rapid Noncombat Movement (+1/4) (16 Active Points); OAF Bulky (-1 1/2), Only On Appropriate Terrain (-1), Turn Mode (-1/4) (Real Cost: 4) Explanation: Low move but high noncombat multiplier because using it any speed should constitute "noncombat movement" (i.e. hard to effectively attack or defend.) Bulky, because it is, and someone in wheelchair shouldn't get full DCV. Only on appropriate terrain because plenty of places it can't go. "Double Gravity Effects" is a zero point Custom Adder to reflect that it's hard going uphill but accelerates quickly going down. One could buy a high tech wheelchair as a vehicle, but that should probably cost points as opposed to being "equipment." Then again, maybe it would fit in a Resource Pool if you're using those. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary wants an Indoor Heated Resource Pool

I think first you need to figure out what kind of game you want to run. Then you need to tailor package deals to that. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary argues that the only difference between a bachelor, a master, and a doctor, is a difference of degree.

I'd make up a couple of characters of the sort you envision without bothering about point totals. Once they're built, look them over and see what they add up to, and use that as your standard. Lucius Alexander Or ask a palindromedary for its opinion

Is that something you'd like to change? Hailing from some future era, Hanover the First has the power to transform into a berserker giant and go on a murderous rampage. Those who survive the rampage and listened to what he was ranting about during that time will learn all they need to know about the Dark Legacy of the Orb and the group's current plans and purposes. He also has a Psychological Limitation: Can't resist a bribe, and may even cease his berserk rage and return to normal size if offered money. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary puts an ear to a bar to aluminum.

But it's not scary.... Or creepy... Lucius Alexander The palindromedary says it's just a silly ol' water bear

He BROKE the mold. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary observes that was one cyriously strong man

I thought Vulnerability applied before defenses? Lucius Alexander Usually applied before a palindromedary tagline

The former. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary wants an indoor heated Variable Power Pool

What about it? Lucius Alexander Then I took a palindromedary to the tagline

I may have to check the rules on this...but I've always subtracted Power Defense first, then halved the effect. Have I been doing it wrong? Lucius Alexander The palindromedary is sure you don't halve it twice

Something I wrote long ago and haul out each Thanksgiving: Do You Know This Man? He was born in a town of about two thousand people, a farming and fishing settlement on the shore of a bay of a great ocean, among people who often supplemented their crops by hunting or gathering the bounty of the forest. We do not even know how old he was when he was carried away from the place of his birth, but he must have been not yet grown and yet not too young - perhaps fourteen. Strange men, unlike any he had ever seen and speaking an unknown tongue, had gained his trust by sharing their strange food, and brought him and his companions aboard their ship. Perhaps they wanted to go, perhaps even their parents trusted the strangers and consented, but it seems likely they were simply tricked. We have the word of the ship's captain that this boy in particular was treated well. We also have his word that two grown men were taken by brute force. It would be nine years before the boy, now a young man, would return home. Little is known of what he did in that time, but he seems to have spent part of it in the home of a wealthy and powerful man, a knight, who had sponsored the captain's voyage. In the ninth year after his first voyage, he was working as a guide and interpreter for another sea captain who had agreed to bring him to where he began. The homecoming was brief. Within days he had been again tricked and abducted by yet another captain of yet another ship, a partner of the captain who had employed and released him, who proved as willing to betray his senior partner's intentions, as the trust of a young man he viewed as a commodity. This treacherous captain took twenty men he captured to a land foreign to himself and surely even more alien to his captives. - Yet another new land with a new tongue, and again the wanderer becomes a helpless stranger, this time openly to be sold as a slave. There is disagreement as to whether he was ever actually sold, but we have the word of the knight - who he would meet again before his wandering was done - that men of a monastic order thwarted the traitor's plan by rescuing the captives - on what authority they acted, and why in this case when the port was known for the slave trade, is not stated. It would be two years before he could return even to the land of his first exile, and another year before he again crossed the ocean, this time to an island that was not far, as measured on a globe, from where he was born. But there he seems to have been stranded, until the knight, learning where he was, sent for him and they were reunited. The wanderer had to wait another two years before making his final voyage across the ocean, finally reaching his home town again, fourteen years after first leaving it. Perhaps half his life now, and his entire adult life, he had been a wanderer far from home. And so he remained; there was no home now to come to. A plague had destroyed his people, and he was the only survivor. Homes were now ruins, and fields lay untended. We do not know what he thought or felt - perhaps deep grief, or maybe nothing, for was he not now accustomed to being a man without home or family? But in another year, a new settlement was founded on the fields of his ancestors. Strangers had come from across the sea, this time to stay. Again we don't know what he thought or felt, but these strangers wrote of their surprise in finding one who spoke their tongue so well, and their gratitude for his patient teaching and wise advice. They were now strangers in a strange land - he had never been anything else. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary is sure you know who that is.

Some things bear repeating. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary says that looks familiar

And while unconscious, it works on a schedule based on how far under zero STUN you are. Lucius Alexander The more I need it, the less often it works. I hope that's not giving the palindromedary any ideas.

Me: My stupid bodyguard keeps tackling my girlfriend and I can't make him stop! edit: to give context, I have been trying to load Open Office (my "girlfriend") the office software I've been using for several years for everything from poetry to character sheets on my new computer and something calling itself "Windows Smart Filter" (my bodyguard, or at least it thinks it is) is blocking it. Mike: Your new computer has Windows 8.1? No wonder you're having problems. Everyone with Windows 8.1 on a laptop has issues. It was designed for tablets. Me: I need to take two tablets now for my headache. You're saying that's by design? Lucius Alexander The palindromedary suggests I should take Windows 10 up on its offer to move in

There are actually two separate issues. There is the question of whether or not in some hypothetical "objective" point of view the bystanders (Clerical and Martial) "should" take action as opposed to standing around passively waiting for the world to end. Then there is the question, independently of whether taking action is likely to lead to a preferable outcome, is it reasonable to suppose - given that they all understand what is at stake, and that for half of them as fighters and bodyguards their inclination training and experience predisposes them to acting swiftly and decisively in dangerous high stakes situations - that all of these so far utterly passive bystanders WOULD actually refrain from trying to do something about it. Lucius Alexander My inclination training and experience predisposes me to palindromedary taglines no matter what is at stake.

No. The question is, how much of a stretch is it to imagine a number of (rational?(actually, how about if some them are NOT rational? Either way really) people whose own safety or preferences are already at stake if not forfeit passively standing around when the literal End of the World might be the outcome of passively standing around? Particularly when some of these people are presumably "fighters" accustomed to action and not to passivity in the face of highly dangerous high stakes situations? Lucius Alexander If you threaten to kill my palindromedary for interfering, but if I don't interfere you mean to kill all palindromedaries everywhere, in what way is threatening my palindromedary a deterrent? Give it a choice between going down like a lamb or going down kicking and chomping...here, let me get out of the way if you want to try offering that choice to it.....and remember, Sneak Attack from Behind is something I absolutely can't do because it's against the rules....

If I can't put Uncontrolled on REC, I can apparently put it on Posting Lucius Alexander Help! My palindromedary is out of control!