Sponsored Magic Master List

[Hick Jr]

For something I took fifteen minutes to do, this turned out surprisingly well. Plant Magic is simple and yet varied and interesting, which is cool. About ten interesting ideas for the sponsored magic popped into my head while I was doing this.


EDIT- Like turning him into a woodcrafter, like I'm about to, by giving him a Bows skill and a stunt. Because Knights Flora are awesome.

[Sanctaphrax]

Glad you like it.

Thanks for coming up with all of those magics for the list, by the way.

[Hick Jr]

Happy to help! See my sig- Sponsored Magic is the most flavorful and therefore the best magic.


Oh, and you should probably ask to get the Custom Templates thread moved to this board.

[Sanctaphrax]

I actually did ask a while back, but I don't think the mods noticed. Or maybe they think it's suspect to nominate your own thread for Resource status.

Why don't you try reporting it for movement? That might look better.

[Hick Jr]

Fair enough. I'll give it a go.

[Hick Jr]

Sent it. Oh, and some Rote ideas for the Chloromancer. Because i'm bored.

Razor Leaf
Type: Plant Evocation, Attack
Power: 12
Control: Rote
Opposed By: Athletics, magical block
Effect: You launch a blast of sharp-edged leaves to slash at your opponent. Weapon:12.

Ingrain
Type: Plant Evocation, Defensive Maneuver
Power:9
Control: Rote
Effect: You root yourself into the ground and begin drawing power from the Green, supplementing your plant form. Gain the fragile aspects Connected to the Green, Flower Power, Miracle-Grown. These aspects are often tagged to control Solarbeam, or to enhance a thaumaturgic ritual.

Grasping Roots
Type: Plant Evocation, Grapple
Power: 12
Control: Rote
Target: 1 zone
Opposed Skill: Might
Effect: Vines and roots leap out of the ground and grapple an entire zone at 10 shifts.

Solarbeam
Type: Plant Evocation, Attack
Power: 16
Control: Roll Disc
Target: 1 LOS
Opposed By: Athletics, magical block
Effect: You collect the sun's power into your form, and fire it in a beam of flaming death. A Weapon:16 attack often controlled via tagging all the aspects gained from Ingrain.

Leech Seed
Type: Plant Evocation, Offensive Maneuver
Power:12
Control: Rote
Target: 1 LOS
Opposed By: Athletics, magical block
Effect: You fire a specially grown seed into the target that leeches all their strength and vitality away. Applies the ENERGY DRAINED aspect three times. the aspect is sticky.

[narphoenix]

^Someone likes their Pokemon.

[Hick Jr]

I basically just opened up the Grass-type list and went wild. unfortunately, things like Giga Drain are kind of difficult to represent in the DFRPG.

[Sanctaphrax]

Mm...some of those are a bit sketchy. Evocation multi-maneuvers are probably illegal IIRC, and zone grapples may or may not be possible.

[Hick Jr]

I'm pretty sure applying the same aspect more than once and zonegrappling is legal. I couldn't cite a page here, but I'm very sure. I just reread the whole Spellcasting section because Thaumaturgy is weird.

On the other hand, they're rotes I based on Pokemon moves and snapped off in about six minutes. If you don't like em' i'd be happy to do more. I like this sponsored magic.

[Sanctaphrax]

You can multimaneuver with Thaumaturgy, no doubt. But I don't see any particular reason to assume you can do so with Evocation.

As for zone grapples, they're doubly iffy. The zone block rules talk about covering multiple allies, not multiple characters. And since grapples are a special kind of block it's arguable whether Evocation can create them. (I know Orbius exists, but it ignores the rules anyway.)

[Lavecki121]

You can multimaneuver with Thaumaturgy, no doubt. But I don't see any particular reason to assume you can do so with Evocation.

Evothaum should be able explain that one, though I'm not sure you can do that a rote. There aren't any rules saying you can't though.

As for zone grapples, they're doubly iffy. The zone block rules talk about covering multiple allies, not multiple characters. And since grapples are a special kind of block it's arguable whether Evocation can create them. (I know Orbius exists, but it ignores the rules anyway.)

I would say as long as a zone maneuver was done in advance (as this is what you need to do to trigger a normal grapple), I don't see why you couldn't. Also you can cover multiple characters with blocks. I don't know why you are saying you can only cover allies...maybe I just don't understand the wording

[Sanctaphrax]

Indeed, evothaum multi-maneuvers are fine. Though they get a bit weird when they're offensive...if I cast a 12-shift multi-maneuver at you and you defend at 11, how many Aspects do I apply?

Anyway, the rules say "2 shifts of power allow the effect to cover multiple allies within the same zone". It's not clear how to cover multiple enemies, so most people (including me) just assume that the same surcharge applies.

And most people seem to assume that magical grapples don't require invokes.

[Mr. Death]

Indeed, evothaum multi-maneuvers are fine. Though they get a bit weird when they're offensive...if I cast a 12-shift multi-maneuver at you and you defend at 11, how many Aspects do I apply?.

I would say in that case, you roll individually against each aspect--if those 12 shifts are for four maneuvers, you roll four times to avoid them, just like if you're being attacked multiple times in a round.

[Lavecki121]

I would say in that case, you roll individually against each aspect--if those 12 shifts are for four maneuvers, you roll four times to avoid them, just like if you're being attacked multiple times in a round.

If that were the case then wouldnt it make more sense to use the multi attack variant and have the shifts split up between the maneuvers. So in that case it could be 4, 4 shift maneuver attacks. Though you could split it up differently.

Thats my take on it at least.