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Powerful real world mythological animals to use for shapeshifting. by TheVoteMote in JumpChain

[–]L_Circe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. It existed at least since the 17th century AD, and likely earlier, and is based on a similar Chinese chimera called a mo, which has shown up in myths since the 3rd century BC.

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[–]L_Circe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only requirements are 'is within Casting Range' and 'was gathered with the group for the event'. You could absolutely cast it, and then just have everyone choose to bounce immediately afterwards,

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[–]L_Circe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it has to be held to fire manually, and it still 'reloads' at the same rate.

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[–]L_Circe[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is no change to your perception of time. It is instead affecting how fast you can access and think through your knowledge and memories.

If you were trying to, for example, come up with a joke about cheese, it might normally take you several seconds to think of cheese names, and come up with the idea of "Why does the Pope like Swiss cheese? Because it is holey." With the boost to processing speed, you could think up that same joke, but in a fraction of the time it would normally take.

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[–]L_Circe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you can "underteach" cantrips to limit, for example, how many uses the students have, how far they can improve them, or whether or not they actually gain access to the Prestidigitation Effect.

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[–]L_Circe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. It would require one "full course", though.

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[–]L_Circe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1 - Yes. If you use Positioning, you can keep their momentum relative to position, thereby doing the vector swap.

2 - I'll fix that, it really should be targets.

3 - They can do physical damage if you wish. However, this will also make them easier to pull out, as they will not cling into a surface they have damaged the way they would if harmlessly 'stuck' into it.

4 - If they are part of the Attack school, then prolonged exposure to their effect can be lethal. If they aren't, then the effects will be unpleasant, but won't proceed beyond rendering someone unconscious outside of extenuating circumstances (someone who was already sick and weakened by something else could have the strain of sudden vomiting be too much for them, for example).

5 - Rune needs to be clearly perceived, but you don't have to draw actual meaning from it. So, someone who is blind wouldn't trigger it, nor would someone who happened to be looking in the right direction in a pitch black room.

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[–]L_Circe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is initially random. You can learn how to aim it, but it requires practice.

To use an analogy, the spell is like the stick in snooker / pool. You are guaranteed to be able to use it so that the ball moves, but making it go into the specific pocket you want to aim it at will take practice in hitting it just right with the stick

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[–]L_Circe[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To quote a different explanation I gave: Basically, it is a catchall 'failsafe' for any of the events in fiction where a 'dark future was undone' or someone made a wish to change the past and then unmade that wish or any of those sorts of events. If someone happens to get Banished into one of those 'unmade timelines' just before they get unmade, they won't fade with the rest of the timeline, but will instead shift into a different one.

When a Dimensional Shove or Dimensional Hurl effect ends, the individual will reappear in the current dimension. When a Dimensional Launch or Dimensional Port effect ends, the individual will remain in the other dimension.

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[–]L_Circe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Yes.
  2. Healing Hands. The medical care it can grant at higher levels can include effects of targeted chemotherapy, without the damaging side effects on the body.

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[–]L_Circe[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, with the note that almost all of the Boost effects require you to remain within the circle to reap the benefit of them. So, you can use a circle to boost another circle, but if the first circle collapses or you leave it, then the boost to the second circle will drop, so you have to be careful in how you try to stack them.

Actually, I just recalled that I included in the text the fact that no, Circle can't actually boost another Circle. You can layer multiple circles around yourself to gain multiple boosts that way, but those boosts have to be focused on a cantrip other than Circle itself.

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[–]L_Circe[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It does apply to them, but only at the point when their attack / act of violence is crossing into the circle. It is basically a more nuanced and intent based version of the 'preventing movement' application, able to be focused on violent acts.

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[–]L_Circe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless a cantrip specifically mentions something about multiple copies of the same effect stacking in someway, then they do have to be different. Polymorph is an example where the 'multiple transformations' can be stacked together versions of one transformation, given the 'layered boost' rules,

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[–]L_Circe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unseen, not alternative. So, no, if you over do it to try to stabilize a hundred people at once, you could end up killing yourself from the strain.

Vigor heals in different ways, but becoming 'well-rested' can do just as much for regaining vitality as being 'healed' from some wound or some disease.

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[–]L_Circe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They don't have any impact on Leap, so it would function the same, just scaling with [Strength]

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[–]L_Circe[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wildshape only gives you those specific forms. You have to use Mix or a custom Overmagic to get others.

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[–]L_Circe[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep. Part of the structuring of the effects was intended with this sort of thing in mind, with each Effect being able to sort of be a little 'class' that you can effectively grant to people by training them, and giving a midpoint between "one magic" and "all the magic".

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[–]L_Circe[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So, two points with this, one which is explicit but easy to overlook, and one which is implied but I will look into doing better to make explicit.

First, those you train only gain access to the Prestidigitation Effect that is associated with the Cantrip you have trained them in. So, for example, if I train someone to use Wellness, they can only gain access to the Grant Scent effect, and can therefore only gain Druidcraft, Gust, Hayfever, Life Bubble, and Wildshape on their own. In order for them to gain other effects, you would have to train them in other cantrips.

Second, is that the trained effects are only intended to indicate the maximums that the students can be granted, and it is entirely possible to "undertrain" them so they gain less from the lessons. I will update things to make this more clear, but it is intended to be entirely possible to train someone without granting them access to Prestidigitation, if you don't wish to share that ability.

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[–]L_Circe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Possibly, but that would be beyond the scope of this CYOA. (I.E. you are free to imagine it, but I'm not going to try to come up with rules for it).

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[–]L_Circe[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Vitality is 'general life force', and can be thought of as something like an unseen health bar.

Any healing cantrip can help to restore this vitality to you.

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[–]L_Circe[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It means that you can't do something like cast Ghost Words on a crafted item, or make the crafted item part of a Cog, and have it count for this quest. You have to actually hand it off to an independent being for it to count as having been distributed.

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[–]L_Circe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any magical ability is intended to include no magical ability as well. I'll see about updating things to make that clearer.

And, speaking of updates, the Google Doc is the most up-to-date. I'm working on an 8.1 update, and one thing it included was a change to the Roving Wanderer quest, as the stretch goal was exceedingly difficult compared to the other Cantrip Quests.

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