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Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on November 20, 2013, 11:41:23 am

I'm referring to [Wind Spell: Alaracity]. What does that mean?

Ah. Well. It's nothing all that special at the moment. You can use it to leap up to the second floor of a building, for example, or to run and easily catch up to somebody. Training will hone your reflexes and allow it to increase your dodge/counter ability. For now, your mind can't quite cope with the increased speed enough to make it combat-applicable (Although I guess you could use the jump ability to navigate a battlefield easily. Just don't do it indoors.)

The ultimate form of the alacrity spell is flight. But that's a way off.

No, I'm asking what it means that it's there. What makes me different than I would be if I didn't have that little note?

Also, I only gave you one bonus point in a magical skill 'cause your character was described as having mediocre magical power. But since you can have two bonus points (BFEL put both into life, for example) you can select another one to upgrade if you so desire.

Could I remove the penalty to life magic?

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on November 20, 2013, 02:21:40 pm

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Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on November 20, 2013, 02:02:54 pm

Let's say that someone had the ability to fire off a bunch of little red beam-like things everywhere. Would you think that was a "special attack"?

...Maybe? It would depend on how much damage it did, how strong the character was, and how fancy the attack looked.

That happens to describe our good ol' bloody-shotgun-whose-name-I-forget. Which doesn't require SP.
Oh, I almost forgot. How about if you instead saw a red beam? Well, that's pretty much what the dragon's attack is, isn't it? It also is what we had with that lovey sniper rifle we had, and that knife. Neither required us to spend SP to make the attack.

They required SP to make, and are weapons, not natural attacks.

And yet we could use them endlessly.
Regardless, the concept is there. You can't assume that just because it looks like it could be a spell, it costs SP.

All ranged weapons use SP, they function endlessly because we put MSP into the weapon, which is special I guess.....

No, they don't all require SP.

Throwing rocks, shooting arrows, and such do not require SP. Why would you assume that all ranged attacks need SP when the only ones that do fall under the category of spells?

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on November 20, 2013, 02:10:27 pm

Quote from: Elephant Parade on November 20, 2013, 02:05:36 pm

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on November 20, 2013, 02:02:54 pm

Let's say that someone had the ability to fire off a bunch of little red beam-like things everywhere. Would you think that was a "special attack"?

...Maybe? It would depend on how much damage it did, how strong the character was, and how fancy the attack looked.

That happens to describe our good ol' bloody-shotgun-whose-name-I-forget. Which doesn't require SP.
Oh, I almost forgot. How about if you instead saw a red beam? Well, that's pretty much what the dragon's attack is, isn't it? It also is what we had with that lovey sniper rifle we had, and that knife. Neither required us to spend SP to make the attack.

They required SP to make, and are weapons, not natural attacks.

And yet we could use them endlessly.
Regardless, the concept is there. You can't assume that just because it looks like it could be a spell, it costs SP.

Oh, and to formalize it:
-1 to the plan to have Al try to tank the lasers.

<I had to dissuade them from being complete idiots somehow.>

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on November 20, 2013, 02:02:54 pm

Let's say that someone had the ability to fire off a bunch of little red beam-like things everywhere. Would you think that was a "special attack"?

...Maybe? It would depend on how much damage it did, how strong the character was, and how fancy the attack looked.

That happens to describe our good ol' bloody-shotgun-whose-name-I-forget. Which doesn't require SP.

Oh, I almost forgot. How about if you instead saw a red beam? Well, that's pretty much what the dragon's attack is, isn't it? It also is what we had with that lovey sniper rifle we had, and that knife. Neither required us to spend SP to make the attack.

<It was supposed to be on a private channel!>

((That could be amusing.))

Let's say that someone had the ability to fire off a bunch of little red beam-like things everywhere. Would you think that was a "special attack"?