Re: (TFT) Re: problem post

[Prophesor <prophesor@yahoo.com>]

--- David Michael Grouchy II
<david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Tree(T) IQ 8:  Causes a tree to grow up out of the ground
> sprout leaves and 
> spread a canopy over head in one turn.  This is an explosive
> growth rate 
> that will knock anyone on the target hex into and adjacent
> hex.  The roots 
> will do substantial damage to any stone, though the canopy
> will just 
> entangle itself in any beams or roofing overhead.  The canopy
> will be 
> fourteen times the area of the trunk.  Costs 1 point of
> fatigue per hex of 
> trunk and lasts one day.  It costs one fatigue per day
> maintained after 
> that.  Each additional hex of trunk size requires and extra
> turn to grow 
> into.  If the caster has the heart of a blood tree the initial
> cost is 
> reduced by 1 fatigue.

I like it.  I may have argued for a higher IQ, not from game
balance reasons, but from a sense of the grandeur of the spell. 
I'd then make it grander, in small ways.  Overall, I would
contrast and compare to Create Wall, and find some way to
balance making it permanent.  Like, maintain the cost over X
period of time, and the tree becomes natural and permanent. 
Maybe that's a higher IQ version of the spell.

BTW, do you allow characters to maintain a cost through a period
of sleep?  It's an interesting idea, for certain sorts of
spells.  Do you then also allow the character to regain ST
during that rest?  That seems to me to be an important question.

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