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Message no. 1
From: Kelly Martin <kelly@*******.BLOOMINGTON.IN.US>
Subject: gaesa and physical adepts
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 23:51:01 EST5
i have been puzzling over how to apply gaesa to a physical adept. the
Grimoire calls for a +2 TN modifier for all "magical" tests for a
character who breaks a gaesa. but most physad skills don't require a
specifically magical test. i'm at a loss to come up with a fair way
of implementing gaesa on physical adepts, given this anomaly.

any suggestions?

k.
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Message no. 2
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: gaesa and physical adepts
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 11:41:36 +0200
>i have been puzzling over how to apply gaesa to a physical adept. the
>Grimoire calls for a +2 TN modifier for all "magical" tests for a
>character who breaks a gaesa. but most physad skills don't require a
>specifically magical test. i'm at a loss to come up with a fair way
>of implementing gaesa on physical adepts, given this anomaly.

From the One Book Whose Current Name We Won't Mention (But Which Will Be
Called Awakenings) And Will Be Out In November (this name is getting longer
all the time :)

Anyway, on with the show: geasa for a physical adept are self-imposed, and
do not result from Magic loss. If a physas takes a geas when buying a
power, (s)he pays only 75% of the Magic Cost for that power. However, the
power only works when the geas is not broken.
For example, take Astral Perception with a Domain (Bar) geas. You pay 1.5
Magic for the Perception, but it only works as long as you're inside a bar.

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Message no. 3
From: Marc A Renouf <jormung@*****.UMICH.EDU>
Subject: Re: gaesa and physical adepts
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 13:01:06 -0400
On Sat, 9 Sep 1995, Kelly Martin wrote:

> i have been puzzling over how to apply gaesa to a physical adept. the
> Grimoire calls for a +2 TN modifier for all "magical" tests for a
> character who breaks a gaesa. but most physad skills don't require a
> specifically magical test. i'm at a loss to come up with a fair way
> of implementing gaesa on physical adepts, given this anomaly.
>
> any suggestions?

This one I can help you with. I have a similar thing in my
campaign, with a physad who lost her talisman. The way I worked it was
that every skill or task that was mosified by the physad abilities was
subject to a +2 target number modifier. So if the physad has extra dice
in Unarmed Combat, any tests of Unarmed Combat would suffer the penalty.
Things that don't require a test are generally run a little differently.
If, say, the adept had Increased Reflexes, I'd probably give a -2 to the
initiative total. Basically, any time the physad is doing something that
is modified by magic, apply some obnoxious, irritating modifier.

Marc
Message no. 4
From: Kelly Martin <kelly@*******.BLOOMINGTON.IN.US>
Subject: Re: gaesa and physical adepts
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 04:49:24 EST5
"Gurth" == Gurth <gurth@******.NL> writes:

Gurth> Anyway, on with the show: geasa for a physical adept are
Gurth> self-imposed, and do not result from Magic loss. If a physas
Gurth> takes a geas when buying a power, (s)he pays only 75% of the
Gurth> Magic Cost for that power. However, the power only works when
Gurth> the geas is not broken.

i hadn't thought of this idea, althought i like it.

it finally occurred to me that phys ads pay for magic losses anyway by
the loss of one or more powers, so thwaping a geas on top of that
seems excessive. then again, mages get double-whammied too.

k.
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Message no. 5
From: Brian Baker <sbakerbe@****.TRISTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: gaesa and physical adepts
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 10:57:39 -0500
I had an interesting geas for a physad in my campaign. The restriction was that he could
not kill anyone. If he did by accident he would loose his powers for 24 hours and go
into a state of depression for that time. If he killed someone
on purpose he would loose his abilities permanently until he atoned for the
crime. Fortunately, it never came to that. So we have a character loading gel
rounds into all his weapons and getting into melee with shock gloves. His catch
phrase was "I won't kill you but you'd be surprised at what you can live
through"
Message no. 6
From: Sebastian Wiers <seb@***.RIPCO.COM>
Subject: Re: gaesa and physical adepts
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 15:55:20 -0500
>
> I had an interesting geas for a physad in my campaign. The restriction was that he
could not kill anyone. If he did by accident he would loose his powers for 24 hours and
go into a state of depression for that time. If he killed someone
> on purpose he would loose his abilities permanently until he atoned for the
> crime. Fortunately, it never came to that. So we have a character loading gel
> rounds into all his weapons and getting into melee with shock gloves. His catch
> phrase was "I won't kill you but you'd be surprised at what you can live
> through"
>
HMM.. like the inverse of the sacrifice geas (which no player can have).
Actually, how did the caracter ever develope such a geas- was he a habitual
muderer who sudenly said- "Wait- I'll stop killing and develope my magical
skills".
This caracter sounds like most of the players in our campaign- we just don't
like to kill. Now, causing no physical damage- that is a challenge wothy of
bieng a geas.

seb
aka mongoose
elf with no essence
"yes, i do kill. no, not for money. for revenge."
Message no. 7
From: Brian Baker <sbakerbe@****.TRISTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: gaesa and physical adepts
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 18:02:59 -0500
Actually he was forced to kill his sister in a tournament called The Ring. This
was a full contact tournament in which the final round is to the death. He was
have killed him if given the chance. From then on he swore that he would never
kill another human being again.
Message no. 8
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: gaesa and physical adepts
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 11:04:32 +0200
[taking a geas = reduced cost of power]
>i hadn't thought of this idea, althought i like it.

Thank FASA -- it'll be official in a few months (no, I didn't write it myself :)

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