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2012-12-18, 10:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Weirdly enough, yes. A sword crafted with energy from a mercury transformer really does still work as a sword if it's melted down, and you could basically make immovable liquid if you're at super-high temperatures (which when I think about it is much more useful than an immovable rod!).
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2012-12-18, 10:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
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2012-12-18, 11:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
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2012-12-18, 12:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
My thoughts on sword-in-a-can and immovable liquid:
Liquid sword is sharp all over. Handling it is like handling a sword. You can do it gently without injury, but if you poured a can of molten sword over somebody from high up, they would get burned and cut.
A molten immovable rod is still an immovable rod because the liquid won't move from where it is. However, if you make the strength check to move it, you are instead moving parts of the liquid, allowing you to reshape it. So you could hammer it into whatever shape you wanted!
Also, I love the Arcanitect! It gives lots of cool options and works well with regular crafting. (And it helps mitigate the dumb XP cost.)
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2012-12-18, 02:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
It seems rather odd that the special ability of mercury is to allow something to function as a liquid, yet it explicitely itself doesn't have this power. Which, interestingly enough, means you pretty much need preternatural fluids and alch101 if you want to work with mercuryIns,because you want to move a mercuryIn from a hot place to a cold place, so you'll need to raise its melting point by about 300 points (-273->20) for it to be of any use at all. Of course, now I have the idea of using mercury out to provide power for making grafts, which then continue working when melted (like a puddle of...stuff that seems to randomly shoot eye beams out of it at the command of some random person [the guy its technically grafted to]).
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2012-12-18, 03:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
You think too small!
Who was it who wanted liquid creatures?
You can technically wrangle that now...
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2012-12-18, 03:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
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2012-12-18, 03:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
The Walking Tank thing, I just Hide Sidebar...Though, It does mess my screen up as well.
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2012-12-18, 03:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-12-18, 04:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
–273 °C would be close to zero.
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2012-12-18, 04:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-12-18, 04:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-12-18, 05:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-12-18, 05:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Avatar of Furude Setsuna, by Telasi.Originally Posted by Akagi
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2012-12-18, 05:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Shhh...
Don't let them know the secret...
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2012-12-18, 06:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
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2012-12-18, 06:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-12-18, 06:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
That was me. Still doesn't actually work. The essence of arcana only applies to magic items made, while my things are made entirely via grammary. They're "made" (technically grown, since they're made by applying a while lot of grammaric mods to brassbrush) by a geomantic pole, fresh every day (or if I'm willing to wait and don't have a high-output ebb generator, then I plant them outside, and wait a week instead). So sadly, it's not working. And if it did, that would add another requires specialist (requires one BIOY for instinct, one ALCH for phlogistan, one GEOY for brassbrush, this would make it require one ARCD).
Although really, all that was me getting carried away. The initial point is how Brassbrush allows you to simply GROW things that think. You could just as easily make the things that popup sentient, complete with soul.The moral rammification of doing so are up to you, though (I've hear devils will give decent trades in either items or semi-specified favors).
Also, do biostructures feel pain? What if it's given sentience? Talking about trading in their souls makes me think of similar material:liquid pain.
Whoops, my bad, that brings it down to a much more sane dc 59 to be useful. Of course, given the way mercuryIn works, higher is always better. If you ever have a spare hour, just see if you can't raise by at least 10 for 1 more ebb. Of course, then you run into the problem up setting up the bubble to the higher temperature.Avatar by TinyMushroom.
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2012-12-18, 07:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-12-18, 07:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
And in reply to the biostructures and pain thing, can they pray? Because, with sufficient biollurgy use, you could contruct a city of meat and use it to fuel a huge platinum input to contruct some sort of huge doomsday device. Not the most efficient way, but possibly one of the most awesome.
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2012-12-18, 07:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Biostructure is a mindless semi-organic semi-metallic structural material. It has mental ability scores of — and thus is unable to take any mental actions. More specifically, without a Charisma score it is unable to discern what is "it" and what is "everything else", and is thus unable to understand the nature of pain as it applies to its own body. Similarly, lacking the Intelligence to understand the nature of faith and the Wisdom to hold a belief, it cannot pray.
It's masonry that breathes.
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2012-12-18, 07:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Hi, total noob here and gained an account mainly for this thread, so apologies in advance if this is stupid.
Would an Alchemtry density increase apply to a geoccult poles' metal consumption?
How do you control Biollurgical chassi with only BIOY 101 & BIOY 228? Handle Animal, Ride, or you just plain can't?
What level would a Biollurgical chassis graft that grows soft, marrowless bones out of it’s back for fuel for a ballistic engine be?
Would it be possible for there to be a magic item or artifact(if magic item probably requires fabricate and/or wish and/or true creation to build) that allows one to halve spectroconstruction work/hours in order to use it for Grammarie?
What is the power scaling each size of creatures give for crystal inputs?(Maybe each size double previous just like carrying capacity modifier?) And since biostructure is stated to have raspy, loud breathing would it generate more?(I basically just want to make several trees into a big hunk of biostructure and use it to power a geoccult pole)
Edit: Also, you never added the multiple pieces of whisperreeds allowing group chat thing.Last edited by Draconas1; 2012-12-18 at 07:44 PM.
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2012-12-18, 07:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Yes, but using further biollurgy to make it a chassis can remove said restraints. You'd have to find a way to feed it all, but that can be overcome. Also, the platinum geoccultism stuff is the best thing I have read today. Possibly all week. I don't have anything else to say on the matter, I am at a loss for words.
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2012-12-18, 08:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
No problem, let me see if I can answer them for you!
Would an Alchemtry density increase apply to a geoccult poles' metal consumption?
How do you control Biollurgical chassi with only BIOY 101 & BIOY 228? Handle Animal, Ride, or you just plain can't?
What level would a Biollurgical chassis graft that grows soft, marrowless bones out of it’s back for fuel for a ballistic engine be?
Would it be possible for there to be a magic item or artifact(if magic item probably requires fabricate and/or wish and/or true creation to build) that allows one to halve spectroconstruction work/hours in order to use it for Grammarie?
What is the power scaling each size of creatures give for crystal inputs?(Maybe each size double previous just like carrying capacity modifier?)
There aren't many data points, but here's what we can piece together:
{table=head]Source|Number of Effective Humans
A human running and shouting|1
A horde of rats|8
A roaring lion|16
A roaring dire tiger|20[/table]
The record breaking scream of a human is 128 decibels, although that seems a little extreme; most humans can't scream that loud. More relevantly, a lion's roar is roughly 114 decibels. That would place an average human's shout at 102 decibels, which sounds about right. Getting back to your original question, what you need to decide is how many times a given creature is louder than humans, or decide their loudness in decibels and convert. For example, a jet engine is only Large-sized, but it's 150 dB. This is about the noise from 64,000 humans shouting. As you can see, it's all relative!
And since biostructure is stated to have raspy, loud breathing would it generate more?(I basically just want to make several trees into a big hunk of biostructure and use it to power a geoccult pole)
Awesome questions! If you have any others, I'd be happy to try to answer them!
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2012-12-18, 08:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Yes, absolutely true! If you can make an intelligent biollurgical chassis, of course it can feel pain and pray. A basic animal level intelligence and charisma is certainly sufficient to feel pain, but I think we can all agree you need to be truly sentient to be able to hold a religious faith.
Originally Posted by Draconas1
EDIT: There we go!
Originally Posted by Me!Last edited by Kellus; 2012-12-18 at 08:13 PM.
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2012-12-18, 08:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Hey, two comments, one where can I find the cost of planetary metals in cubic foot? I can't seem to find the price of some of them by cubic foot or weight. I can find some here. http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/wealthAndMoney.htm
You might want to add their cost next to their weight on the alchemestry table.
Also I think that the apogineer's 2nd level precipitous ability is a bit too strong. It effectively lets them make a daze attempt with every attack. Personally I would try to not use maneuvers and just attempt to daze everything to death. I think it should be limited to 1/round.
Also when do the prestige classes gain magistral principles? Right now it seems that the apogineer gains doctorate principles without getting Magisterial principlesLast edited by Silva Stormrage; 2012-12-18 at 08:32 PM.
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2012-12-18, 08:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Yeah, I figured even if it was a magic item it was not only going to be incredibly high level and hard to make(quite possibly epic), but also so precious to grammarists that it would be easier to just have someone on your party make one.
Also, I have quite a few more, cause I haven't exactly been writing these things down and have been having these ideas for a while.
Would the joint biollurgic and geoccultic 400 principle allow you to create and control terrain-appropriate creatures?
Are deadsnow zombies restricted to their geoccult biome of origin or can you just only command them from it's pole?
A zeitgeist, since it is an exotic intelligence limited to the geoccult pole, can make logical decision for the pole, right? Also, it's mindsight doesn't have a range of it's biome.
If you use alchemetry to alter biostructure's durability, you're basically altering it's con score by your diplomacy result right?(since it raises or lowers the hit points per inch by half your con score)
While I figure nothing(except skeletons) would be able to move if they were entirely converted to biostructure, you can just convert the skin of whatever it is into articulated plates right?(I plan on doing that to the deadsnow zombie workforce of my city so they look somewhat better and are tougher, even if it will probably only be just an inch counting subcutaneous tissues)
Do deadsnow zombies just have to have been from dead bodies that were left in deadsnow at the stroke of midnight, did they also have to die in deadsnow, or did this have to have been the first midnight since they died?
Can you make a geoccult pole any shape?(I plan on having my character make them into chairs so he can just sit down in them while he messes with them)
Can bizarchitecture be put over the geoccult pole?(I plan on making it so only my character and those he allows can access it)
Since ancient oaks are sentient, can they control Arcanodynamic outputs and Heuristical Circuit control points attached to them?(hooray turrets!)
If you lower the topographical level under, say, an acid bog, does it get deeper?(possibly enough for full submersion)Last edited by Draconas1; 2012-12-18 at 08:42 PM.
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2012-12-18, 08:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
This is a perennial suggestion, but the problem that I keep running into, unfortunately, is that it's too campaign-specific. Some metals are common in one setting and not in another. Iron is everywhere in core, but it's still not clear exactly what it's worth; a wall of iron spell can produce huge amounts of metal, which ALCH can transform into other metals. If you need a price, go based on that; otherwise, it's an issue to work out in-game and in-setting.
Also I think that the apogineer's 2nd level precipitous ability is a bit too strong. It effectively lets them make a daze attempt with every attack. Personally I would try to not use maneuvers and just attempt to daze everything to death. I think it should be limited to 1/round.
Originally Posted by Me!
Also when do the prestige classes gain magistral principles? Right now it seems that the apogineer gains doctorate principles without getting Magisterial principles
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2012-12-18, 08:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
Question regarding Geoccultism 101:
It says it subsumes existing natural features and works around artificial ones and creatures. Does this mean it creates a random assortment of the basic features one would expect to find in the new biome, as a one-time (non-replenishing) thing? Or does it just get rid of all the existing stuff and leave the area as an empty expanse of <appropriate terrain type>?
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2012-12-18, 08:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: She Blinded Me with Science! (Magitek That Doesn't Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep)
I'm not sure, I haven't thought too much about that combination yet! But it certainly seems like a reasonable idea.
Are deadsnow zombies restricted to their geoccult biome of origin or can you just only command them from it's pole?
A zeitgeist, since it is an exotic intelligence limited to the geoccult pole, can make logical decision for the pole, right? Also, it's mindsight doesn't have a range of it's biome.
If you use alchemetry to alter biostructure's durability, you're basically altering it's con score by your diplomacy result right?(since it raises or lowers the hit points per inch by half your con score)
While I figure nothing(except skeletons) would be able to move if they were entirely converted to biostructure, you can just convert the skin of whatever it is into articulated plates right?(I plan on doing that to the deadsnow zombie workforce of my city so they look somewhat better and are tougher, even if it will probably only be just an inch counting subcutaneous tissues)
Do deadsnow zombies just have to have been from dead bodies that were left in deadsnow at the stroke of midnight, did they also have to die in deadsnow, or did this have to have been the first midnight since they died?
Can you make a geoccult pole any shape?(I plan on having my character make them into chairs so he can just sit down in them while he messes with them)
Can bizarchitecture be put over the geoccult pole?(I plan on making it so only my character and those he allows can access it)
Since ancient oaks are sentient, can they control Arcanodynamic outputs and Heuristical Circuit control points attached to them?(hooray turrets!)
If you lower the topographical level under, say, an acid bog, does it get deeper?(possibly enough for full submersion)
Originally Posted by Qwertystop