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Oct 29 |
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Can a mage Assense a Technomancer? Not exactly an answer, but I had a whole spectrum of Assensing-like abilities that would let you get increasingly sophisticated views of the properties of living creatures. In that framework, no, Assensing itself would be too crude (but a more advanced ability would do the trick). But maybe someone has canonical information? |
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Oct 8 |
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How does suffocation work with enchanted air and a magi's parma magica? I'm still not sure what that means for the case where you have a thin layer of air around your body. Anyway, air sculpting. There are all sorts of indirect environmental effects you can use to bypass magic resistance (in many settings, not just Ars Magica). (By the way, I typoed. Only 70,000 kg/m^2.) |
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Oct 8 |
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How does suffocation work with enchanted air and a magi's parma magica? If pressure doesn't exist, you can't suffocate them since the air within the range of Parma Magica won't leave. I'm not sure the concept of metabolism of oxygen exists in the Aristotelian paradigm either, so that layer of air may well be enough. |
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Oct 8 |
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How does suffocation work with enchanted air and a magi's parma magica? I don't know the full answer, but it has to be some sort of air-sculpting that gathers air that is away from the magus and pulls it even further away, creating greatly reduced pressure. This spell would also have to be incredibly strong since you'd need to remove about 2/3 of the air from the vicinity of the magus to knock them out (even then they could keep going for a while), and that would create pressure of ~700,000 kg per square meter. If you could really hold all that air back and physics worked normally, you might do better releasing it and letting the shockwave do the killing.... |
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Sep 26 |
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As a GM, what minimal geographic knowledge should I have to make realistic maps? Keep in mind that to create "realistic" terrain, you need to keep your audience in mind. Otherwise you need to know a sizable fraction of human knowledge about the planet: "Argh, the volcanos are on the wrong side of the subduction zone, how unrealistic!" "Argh, everyone knows that tree ferns can't survive winters colder than -10C!" "Oh for crying out loud, the river can't start there--there won't be any moisture left to condense after the air mass moves over that other mountain range!" Etc. etc. |
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Sep 8 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Sep 1 |
awarded | Critic |
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Sep 1 |
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Casting Feather Fall on an ballista bolt +1 for pointing out that featherfall must be on a free falling target. -1 for poor reasoning on what happens afterwards. Net: 0. |
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Aug 29 |
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How would I go about publishing the RPGs I've created? Check out books for authors on how to get published, also. For example, Amazon offers CreateSpace and Kindle Direct as options for self- or slightly-assisted publishing. (Maybe look around on Writers.SE also to see what advice is floating about there.) |
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Aug 28 |
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How worldly is a polymorphic elf? @GMJoe - Ah. Well, that's interesting. Good luck! |
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Aug 27 |
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How worldly is a polymorphic elf? @GMJoe - Where would the shadows go? They're incorporeal but not extraplanar. The PCs should contract some seriously talented magical construct makers: no chance of making more shadows, pretty much immune to the shadows' main attacks, and still able to hurt them. (Surely the dragons aren't too thrilled with the shadows. Dragons need to eat.) |
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Aug 27 |
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How worldly is a polymorphic elf? @GMJoe - That context is useful, thanks. If disposing of tens of millions to billions of shadows is within the capabilities of the players, I do wonder why they don't just export every remaining elf off-planet until the shadows are gone and then, when it's clear, bring them all back on. (Also don't understand how they could have let it get so bad.) But, anyway, you're right: at this point it's not an answer to your question. |
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Aug 26 |
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How worldly is a polymorphic elf? @GMJoe - It provides a solution to the scenario you gave as background which renders the question irrelevant. "You shouldn't be asking that question because accomplishing your goal this way is better" is a reasonable, if not always helpful, way to answer a question. (Granted, it's more useful in the context of programming; with gaming, you can always decree that you want the plot to go a certain way and arbitrarily much will be bent to accomplish this end.) |
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Aug 24 |
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How do initiative passes and multiple actions work? An initiative pass allows a complex action. |
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Aug 24 |
answered | How worldly is a polymorphic elf? |
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Aug 22 |
answered | What are the books for the various Sixth World cities and countries |
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Aug 22 |
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What are the books for the various Sixth World cities and countries FWIW, California Free State is pretty lousy. It reads like a laundry list of tired and uninteresting stereotypes about California. |
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Aug 19 |
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Low-random, low-dice fantasy rpg system added 182 characters in body |
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Aug 19 |
answered | Low-random, low-dice fantasy rpg system |
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Aug 17 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
