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Re: [dq-rules] Idiot-Savant Assembly Line Wizardry
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:28:47 -0700 (PDT), "Anthony N. Emmel"
<lord_kjeran@yahoo.com> wrote:
>It is. I have seen references to the Chaosium "Thieves' World" (Sanctuary) supplement that leads me to believe that they introduced DQ optional rules for allowing adepts to study in two colleges at once. Anybody have a copy of this and can enlighten us? (That's got to be one of the hardest fantasy supplements to find and I love Sanctuary's atmosphere. ~sigh~)
The supplement details a whole bunch of rules for DQ-in-TW, of which the
multiple-college rule is only a small part. The whole thing is too detailed
to summarise, but basically you expend time (six months) and XP (5000 for
the same alignment, 7500 for the first of a different alignment) to learn an
additional college. There's no limit on the number of additional colleges
you can learn, except that you can't learn all Colleges in one alignment,
nor can you lean Fire AND Water, or Illusions AND Naming. (It's OK,
apparently, to learn Air AND Earth!) To swap over to using magic from a
different college, the Adept needs to undergo a Ritual of Purification
unless he wants a hefty penalty to all his Cast Chances. There's no Greater
Summoning college at all. These rules were written for 1st ed. DQ, so
there's no mention at all of Shaping, Lesser Summonings or Rune Magics.
Other TW-rules are that you expend extra FT to raise your spell chance (15%
per extra FT), and you MUST raise your chance to 100+% by this method if
possible! Spell at 100% or more cannot backfire, if the spell is < 100% any
failure is a backfire.
Characters do not normally have *any* magic resistance, and cold iron is no
restriction on magic.
Needless to say this makes Adepts in TW extremely powerful ... which
reflects the source material, of course. Other rules stipulate that you
must have 15 MA to even attempt to be an Adept, and even then you only have
a 30% chance. (So, you have to design your magic-using character on the
assumption that he won't be using ANY magic!)
Magic is not for the faint-of-heart in this world ....
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