Some ideas (mainly magic)

[bluskreem]

Just some ideas I've been kicking around


Goons (Modifier +2)
Each level of this modifier provides a lackey / henchman for the character. The Lackey may has five stones to allocate for Abilities and Actions.


Hyper Factor (DUR)
- As Healing Factor with out the Health stone growth


Energy Reserve (MOD # X 2)
This Modifier allows the character to store extra energy = to the modifier number.


Intangible - (3 point challenge)
The Player is permanently considered to be phased, they can not interact with physical object.


Mysticism (AN)
Not all Shaman know how to create magical barriers, or throw lightening. With this action a player may learn any of the paths of magic as if they had an equivalent level of mastery of magic. They may also use the action to identify aspects of spells being casts, or mystical artifacts as though it were concentration.


Feng-shui (AN + 2)
Feng-shui is the art of arranging the physical objects of an area to effect its Chi, or life force. This action imbues an area and all individuals in it with special properties
- Unlike other paths of magic Feng - Shui does not require the user to spend energy on the Time chart.
- Must spend a number of panels = to the AN in preparation to create a Feng shui effect
- Must spend energy = to the area effected
* 2 X healing / 0.5 X healing
* Energize / Lethargy ( characters regenerate extra energy per round)
*Bless / Curse (Good Luck)
* Bonuses to concentration checks, social skills
* Magic hindrance / or bonus (Either adds free stones to other magic effects or adds resistances)


Shamanism (AN +2)
A Path of magic that involves communing with spirits rather then commanding them. Uses the same restrictions as Witchcraft
Shamanism includes:
* Invoking (as summoning, however cost 2 X energy to use)
*Sense Spirit
* Commune with Spirits
* Healing
* Speak to Animals
* Banish Spirits (As if ranged attack verses intangible beings)


Ren Egyptian Magic (AN +2)
Power of true names, and Egyptian mysticism. Uses the same restrictions as Witchcraft
Ren Includes:
* Transform Self
* Defense Magic
* Defense Mental
* Bless / Curse
* Dream Walking
Alchemy (AN +2)
A Magic path with a long tradition. Unlike other paths of magic the user must have access to appropriate materials to create an effect, and is limited by the users Wealth as wells as Mastery of Magic Rating. No AN may exceed the user's Wealth Rating X 2.
Alchemy Includes:
* Potions / Poisons
* Halt Aging
* Transmute Materials
* Clear mind (Mental Defense for duration)
* Herbalism

Oneriomancy (AN +1)
Magic Traditions around the world make use of the power of dreams. Oneiromancy is a strange blend of psychic ability and magic to produce some truly odd effects.
Oneiromancy Includes:
* Travel / manipulate dreams
* Precognitive flashes
* ESP on dreaming individuals
* Make real (Can use as a unlimited ranged attack against a sleeping individuals)
* Cause illness
* Insight (gain free stones to Social Skills with Target)

Sorcerer (AN + 4)
*As Printed just more expensive

[corix]

there are some really interesting things here...
but i would do some changes:
Goons should give more lackeys per MN.
someone has already done something like your Hyper Factor and Energy Reserve, they were called Stamina and Brilliance/Endurance (and another one called Energy Tap)
What Intagible characters can do with other? They can still use "psionic" powers like Telepathy an Telekinesis? And what can harm them?
I think that the magic actions are really good.

keep up the good work...

[Beacon]

Yeah, Intangible shouldn’t be a challenge, it should be a modifier.

At the very least it you ought to buy Phase Shift with an extra +3 to treat it like a modifier (as you would with a device) so, even at an AN of 1, you’d have to PAY four white stones. For the power to work they way you describe it, you’d need a much higher AN than one or you’re going to blink in and out constantly. Plus it only works if you can convince the GM to allow you to buy the free stones modifier that normally only applies to inventions.

For a more consistent (read “pricy”) effect, well…considering such a power inherently has physical (and possibly energy and magical) invulnerability, that could knock the price up to anywhere from 20 to 60 white with maybe a few back because of the obvious disadvantage of being unable to interact with the physical world.

The only way I can see getting away with treating this like a challenge is to have it as one of the ones that get tacked on by the GM later rather than being available from the start because that way you don’t know in advance to build a character around it and it has the potential to be an actual hindrance. Of course, even then Intangibility is still pretty costly because the stones already wasted buying now-useless physical abilities, actions, and modifiers are effectively part of the cost.

[Kaimontfendo]

Regarding Intangibility, I'd like to point out a few things about an NPC ghost I made. (I'm hoping my players don't read this.)

1. She can possess people, and needs to do so in order to interact with the physical world. However, if she had Telekinesis, I'd allow her to use that as well. 2. She is normally unable to be seen or heard, unless possessing somebody. However, she can be seen and heard by characters who have enhanced vision, see ghosts (or something like that, I forget the exact rules text.) 3. If attacked while possessing someone else's body, damage counts against both the host body and her spirit. 4. While not possessing a host, she can only be hurt by Magic.

I never really factored cost into it, because I just feel like it's a part of who she is, and shouldn't effect her cost much.

[bluskreem]

That's pretty much how I envisioned it as well, although I would allow telepathy, and psionic weapons, as well as a few other attacks. Perhaps Manipulate Density could alow the spirit to materialize, but other then that even the simplest actions would require a lot of effort (energy) because they would need to use some form of supernatural ability.

[Kaimontfendo]

I've had some similar thoughts with remaining vulnerable to telepathy & Psi-weapons. Of course you can effect her with telepathy, but it's not one of those powers that actually hurts, and just about anyone would have a tought time getting past her mental defense. Psi-weapons, on the other hand, are a bit hazier. I like the idea of just about any elemental weapon except psionic. But if you chose Psionic Element, I suppose that would work. Same goes for Psionic Force Blasts, and whatever other purely psionic attack someone makes up.

I've thought about giving her Alter Body Density (I think I even wrote it on her character sheet) but I decided that I prefered the idea of possessing people to interact with the world instead.

Overall, I like the idea of Intangibility as a Challenge, and with the limits my ghost character has, 3 stones sounds about right. But tons of people out there would love to abuse something like this, so it should be allowed only with extreme caution, and perhaps limited to GM Characters. In fact, I don't think I'll even tell my players about it.