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- Wed Nov 06, 2019 7:26 am
- Forum: For Game Masters
- Topic: Loosing your turn due to encumbrance
- Replies: 10
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Re: Loosing your turn due to encumbrance
At our table, we just assume that doing nothing during the turn is specific to experienced players who ae not even capable to decide what they do in less than one minute. Listen man, gm and players have better things to do than waiting while you shuffle through your grimoire or think about what is t...
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 7:18 am
- Forum: For Game Masters
- Topic: Spellcasting skill
- Replies: 8
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Re: Spellcasting skill
Could you tell me where (page) this is described in the first edition book? Although I agree the wording of 4th edition ('a' matrix' instead of 'his' matrix) could be interpreted like that, this would imply that any caster could re-attune any other casters matrices at will; this would be a rather b...
- Tue Nov 05, 2019 1:37 pm
- Forum: For Game Masters
- Topic: Spellcasting skill
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14477
Re: Spellcasting skill
Yup, thanks. Back in the day, Magic: A Manual of Mystic Secrets explicitely stated this as a thing. I never felt it was a GM-dependent trick, as it was not. Your mechanic of using another caster to attune a spell matrix object for someone else is not something I ever heard/read about and I'm really ...
- Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:02 am
- Forum: For Game Masters
- Topic: Loosing your turn due to encumbrance
- Replies: 10
- Views: 19391
Re: Loosing your turn due to encumbrance
In 1st ed., modifiers did apply to the step / action dice before the roll, not after.
If your Initiative step was reduced to 0 or less, you could only move and could not take any other action.
So, you did not really loose your whole turn, but ... not far from it.
If your Initiative step was reduced to 0 or less, you could only move and could not take any other action.
So, you did not really loose your whole turn, but ... not far from it.
- Tue Nov 05, 2019 5:05 am
- Forum: For Game Masters
- Topic: Spellcasting skill
- Replies: 8
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Spellcasting skill
In Earthdawn 1st ed., Spellcasting was available as a skill . This allowed non-magician adepts to cast spells in a (very) limited way. As a magician can reattune any spellmatrix (and not only their own), the non-magician adept could weave a thread to a spell matrix object (or any thread item with ma...