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Could Trance be a ritual instead of a racial.
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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7124078" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Actually, thinking about this a bit deeper...</p><p></p><p>Consider it this way. The existing Martial Practices are all things that, before MPs were thought of, were likely to just be either an SC or a simple skill check, maybe a 'trained only' one, etc. but clearly they are in the domain of skills. So, why not consider them to be basically parallel to powers? If you have a power that says you can do X, then you can do it. If you don't then you go to page 42 and try anyway (less effectively etc. perhaps). </p><p></p><p>So, think of practices/rituals in the same way. A character could, in principle, try to pull off any of these sorts of things. Its just that if you have invested in the ritual/practice it mostly 'just works' (well, like powers you may still need to pass a check, but its one check, probably not hard one to pass, and you probably geared up for it). If you don't know the proper practice/ritual then you go on to winging it, where you're into the realm of passing a possibly difficult SC and it takes longer, costs more, or whatever.</p><p></p><p>This feels a bit more cohesive to me. It even leads pretty naturally to 'research', you hack your way through doing something the 'page 42' way, and write it all up, polish it, and now you have a ritual/practice! The flavor can of course be appropriate to whatever it is, if its a relatively less mystical sort of thing, then you're mastering the process through practice and perfecting the tools and techniques. If its more mystical then you're researching exactly how to call down the proper form of magical energy or the most fitting form of prayer and meditation etc.</p><p></p><p>Its not really super different from the existing system or from whatever we have discussed, just a bit more cohesive in approach.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: and I think it also utterly subsumes things like Alchemy as well, though there could still be a feat for that, as it may be considered a pretty specialized subset of ritual practices.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 7124078, member: 82106"] Actually, thinking about this a bit deeper... Consider it this way. The existing Martial Practices are all things that, before MPs were thought of, were likely to just be either an SC or a simple skill check, maybe a 'trained only' one, etc. but clearly they are in the domain of skills. So, why not consider them to be basically parallel to powers? If you have a power that says you can do X, then you can do it. If you don't then you go to page 42 and try anyway (less effectively etc. perhaps). So, think of practices/rituals in the same way. A character could, in principle, try to pull off any of these sorts of things. Its just that if you have invested in the ritual/practice it mostly 'just works' (well, like powers you may still need to pass a check, but its one check, probably not hard one to pass, and you probably geared up for it). If you don't know the proper practice/ritual then you go on to winging it, where you're into the realm of passing a possibly difficult SC and it takes longer, costs more, or whatever. This feels a bit more cohesive to me. It even leads pretty naturally to 'research', you hack your way through doing something the 'page 42' way, and write it all up, polish it, and now you have a ritual/practice! The flavor can of course be appropriate to whatever it is, if its a relatively less mystical sort of thing, then you're mastering the process through practice and perfecting the tools and techniques. If its more mystical then you're researching exactly how to call down the proper form of magical energy or the most fitting form of prayer and meditation etc. Its not really super different from the existing system or from whatever we have discussed, just a bit more cohesive in approach. EDIT: and I think it also utterly subsumes things like Alchemy as well, though there could still be a feat for that, as it may be considered a pretty specialized subset of ritual practices. [/QUOTE]
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