[gurps] GURPS: Nightbane?

[Travis Watkins]

In that case I would think something more along the lines of Magic
only FP would be more appropriate.

Are these points that regenerate over time, or are these points that
you use once and those PPE are gone forever?

I think you could get a number of 'free' points by taking a racial
enemy of mages that want to steal your power form you and then use the
points to buy more of a power reserve.
([4th ed numbers]Utterly formidable group: -40, unknown: -5, wishes to
kill you or harm you in a lasting way x1, finally, multiply by the
frequency of appearance: ~10%=x1/2, ~38%=x1, ~74%=x2, ~95%=x3; and
that gives a lot of points for buying up Magic only FP(I think that is
2 points per FP if they regenerate normally, so obviously a lot less
if they can only be used once)


On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Bai Shen <baishen.rpg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I know nothing about the setting, but I hope this may be of some use...
>
> It's a cool setting IMO.
>
>>>1.  Immune to Mind Control.  How do you represent that in GURPS?
>> See B80-81, Resistant, particularly the last paragraph (Mental
>> Resistance). How common is Mind Control?
>
> Ah, okay.  I saw that and missed the part where you could choose Immune
> instead of just a bonus.
>
>>>3.  High magical potential.  Is there a way to do this in the rules?  I
> can
>>>state it in fluff, but that seems hokey.
>> Racial Magery? Depends on which magic system you're using.
>
> Racial Magery doesn't really work.
>
> Basically, in the Palladium system, things work like this.  Everyone has a
> PPE stat.  Most people only have around 5 or so.  Mages have a lot.  Each
> spell costs a certain amount of PPE to cast.  Mages can siphon the energy
> from people to cast spells, through a ritual or simply killing them.
> Nightbane(the race I'm converting first) have a lot of PPE, wether they're
> mages or not.  This makes them really attractive to mages and makes them
> powerful if they do decide to learn spells.
>
> So as you see, magery doesn't really reflect that.
>
> Bai Shen
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