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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8423668" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Right, in my work I would simply scale the prices. Actually, HoML has a neat way of doing that, abstract costs. So any given 'cost' is simply a check, its trivial, non-trivial, or substantial. Exactly what that means doesn't matter in that we know it is tier-relative. So things like Phantom Steeds just work, the cost is, for example, non-trivial. Since the EFFECT scales, that all works fine, you have say 50gp fast horses for heroic PCs, 500gp Pegasi for paragon PCs, and 5000gp Astral Chargers for epic PCs. </p><p></p><p>There actually isn't even a need to note ANY of that, because the effect of the ritual is to provide the narrative license to the player to describe, in a fictionally appropriate manner, how the characters are transported by their steeds in whatever way earns them a success on the check in whatever challenge it came up in. As I was talking about above, action is assumed to always be fictionally appropriate, so your heroic PC won't end up with an Astral Charger, because his area of concern is "some orcs down the road" or something where that wouldn't be meaningful. I guess it would be OK to describe the results of his ritual that way, it wouldn't break the game, but I am guessing there would want to be some deeper reason for that to be done (IE it is foreshadowing that the character has some sort of powerful patron or something).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8423668, member: 82106"] Right, in my work I would simply scale the prices. Actually, HoML has a neat way of doing that, abstract costs. So any given 'cost' is simply a check, its trivial, non-trivial, or substantial. Exactly what that means doesn't matter in that we know it is tier-relative. So things like Phantom Steeds just work, the cost is, for example, non-trivial. Since the EFFECT scales, that all works fine, you have say 50gp fast horses for heroic PCs, 500gp Pegasi for paragon PCs, and 5000gp Astral Chargers for epic PCs. There actually isn't even a need to note ANY of that, because the effect of the ritual is to provide the narrative license to the player to describe, in a fictionally appropriate manner, how the characters are transported by their steeds in whatever way earns them a success on the check in whatever challenge it came up in. As I was talking about above, action is assumed to always be fictionally appropriate, so your heroic PC won't end up with an Astral Charger, because his area of concern is "some orcs down the road" or something where that wouldn't be meaningful. I guess it would be OK to describe the results of his ritual that way, it wouldn't break the game, but I am guessing there would want to be some deeper reason for that to be done (IE it is foreshadowing that the character has some sort of powerful patron or something). [/QUOTE]
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