| From: | Georg Greve <greve@*******.HANSE.DE> |
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| Subject: | The way of the versatilist (was: Re: Phys Ad House Rule) |
| Date: | Fri, 25 Apr 1997 23:57:57 GMT |
: roll though. No drain is taking when the character changes
: his powers by performing the ritual though. Comments anyone?
We have already a house rule for something like that. In
case you are interested, here it is:
The sourcebook Awakenings describes several ``Ways'' for
Physical Adepts which mean general orientations/directions of living.
Furthermore the possibility to accept geasa on PA abilities is introduced.
This is another way for Physical Adepts, the ``Way of the
Versatilist''. The Versatilist doesn't like being stuck to one set of
abilities, he wants to be able to adopt to different situations.
If a player decides his PA wants to follow this way, he may
NEVER accept any geasa on his abilities, otherwise he could just
configure himself in a way that makes the geasa obsolete. He has got
one huge advantage compared to other PAs: the ability of
reconfiguration. A Versatilist ``learns'' all his powers with good
Karma and all learned abilities are part of his pool of
abilities.
When he decides he wants to reconfigure, he sits down and starts to
meditate. After one hour all his adept powers are gone (he's as weak
as any mundane at this point) and after that he starts to fill up his
magic points again. He may chose any combination of abilities from
his pool -- as long as the total cost of all active powers stays
within his magic attribute. This refilling process takes one hour per
point of magic and if he gets disturbed by something, the process is
interrupted (he may continue with it, though) and he has only got the
powers at hand he already activated through meditation.
Example:
Loewi the Versatilist sits in his hotel room, mediating. After one
hour all his abilities are gone and he hurries to begin the refilling
process. He has got a magic attribute of 6 and hence has to meditate
for 6 more hours until he is on full power again, so he starts channeling
the magic through his body (No, he does NOT get
vulnerable to the astral plane for those who want to ask !) and
concentrates on his inner self.
Three hours and fifty minutes later Durin wants to see what Loewi is
doing and knocks on is door. There is no answer, so he starts knocking
louder, yelling
and making a lot of noise so Loewi is interrupted in his
meditation. He only got 3 full hours of meditation -- the 50 minutes
are lost. He decides which abilities he already got (this is rounded
down if you cannot chose a set of abilities that fits exactly) and
then rolls willpower to see whether he makes Dwarf-burger out of
Durin. His dice come (unfortunately) up very high, so he decides to
just shout a merciful: ``Piss off and don't dare to come back for the next 3
hours !!'' and drinks some beer before he continues the meditation. Three
hours later he got all the abilities he chose from his pool.
O.k. - that's it. Any comments ?
Later,
Georg
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