[Torg]Skill levels for Grimoire spells

[Dominick Riesland]

>And broken. You forgot to mention broken.  Way too many of the spells don't
>even follow the rules properly, and there are a couple that don't even work
>as written. All of that is why we ended up just banning Pixaud's in our
>game. If a player wants their character to have a spell like one in
>Pixaud's, they can just write it themselves. There's also a lot of peer
>review, to make sure that particularly abusive spells don't get introduced.
>Even by accident. We'd like it if most of the characters have primary skills
>at least in the 20s before our characters can start shoving High Lords
>around. (I exaggerate, though only slightly. Our last party got too powerful
>too fast.)

>But yes, a decently skilled mage, particularly one willing to spend a few
>Possibilities during the spell creation process, can make much better spells
>than the ones you'd find in Pixaud's.


>-Tommy "Trying to sanity check the psionics rules" Tanaka

I changed a few rules to make this less of a headache. For a summary
of rules I have been using recently (subject to change at any moment
with or without prior notice), see my blog at
http://torgofmilwaukee.blogspot.com.

For this subject, I never allow anyone to spend more than one
Possibility on spell creation. Also, I got rid of the random rolls for
spell creation by creating a "step-ladder" design process that allows
for predictable results as long as you are willing to follow a very
strict formula. Using this has produced acceptable results, although I
know it is likely to be abusable by characters who "wasted" adds on
process theorems early. That is being monitored throughout the process
of creating the Cosmversal Grimoire, i.e. the list every spell from
every extant source. If anyone here has a specific spell they want
subjected to Cosmversal Grimoire treatment (i.e., comment about how
much it adheres to the spell creation rules, and a full rewrite under
the "step-ladder" design rules), feel free to ask. Eventually all
spells will be done, so you aren't making more work for me; simply
changing its order.

Dominick Riesland, aka Rabbitball
Speaker, 5-Color Rules Committee
Creator of the Cosmversal Grimoire
"There are always possibilities, my sergeant told me. But he never had
his possibilities torn away like wings from a fly."