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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 3243958" data-attributes="member: 141">I'm still thinking about the dimension lock/forbiddance application of [ward].Most of the conditions mentioned in my previous post could be specified by a flexibility factor.  +2 SP for one kind of exemption (specifying a key or password or designated individuals or time of day or something), +4 SP for up to 4 exemptions, +6 for any number.  Substitutions would require different factors, perhaps tertiary seeds (those +6 SP ones).  Add +6 of [blast] in order to do damage to would-be interlopers.  Add +6 and [teleport] to shunt them to a prison cell (SR applies, will save negates).  Add +6 and [afflict] to curse them while in the warded area.An 80 ft. radius is probably OK.  Or perhaps a shapeable area (S, not FS) of 20 60-ft. cubes or something.  Hmmm.  The volume of those squares (based on forbiddance) is more than an 80-ft. radius sphere.  And (S) is an advantage.  Maybe the cubes are static, but the radius is mobile?Although it would be nice if you could add a [weather] aggregate to the 80-ft. radius to broaden it to cover a city.  (Immobile, of course)  If a [weather] aggregate adds +24 SP, and if an exponential widening factor is +3, then an 80 ft. radius becomes a 4 mile radius, which should be adequate.  A spot/spellcraft check to notice a greenish tint to the skies?I'm hesitant about making it naturally permanent, although forbiddance is.  You could spend xp, I guess, but the problem with such a maneuver is that one [dispel] takes down the whole ward, and all that xp is wasted.[edit] A global exception (e.g. only protects against planar travel, not folks who begin their journey from the same plane) would be worth a mitigating factor.  And the dimension lock function might actually be a mitigated form of a more comprehensive ward, one that prevents mundane travel as well (walking, flying, swimming, etc.).  By statting up the [comprehensive ward] you could then add mitigating factors to make a [dimension lock]; the complementary set of mitigating factors wouldn't prevent teleportation or planar travel, but would effectively be a [zone of immobility].  Further mitigations (prevent beings of a particular from entering the area) would end up being your anti-life field.  A [comprehensive ward] would probably be a meta-seed.  I don't think you could fit it into 60 points of kernelese.Dunno about the [prismatic] effect.  The +6 modifier almost suggests that it is really a flavor element of an esoteric seed.  Can you add elements of a seed that you don't know?The [prismatic] effect blurs what otherwise would be a natural division between antimagic/invulnerability and forbiddance/dimensional anchor.  [Ward] is gonna be a rather heterogenous seed if it encompasses all of this.  I'd rather it be an [antimagic] seed and a [forbiddance] seed, myself.  (Or [ward] instead of [forbiddance]).  Although to replicate a [forbiddance] you'd need a secondary (or tertiary) [blast] seed, to provide the damaging capacity.I should probably try to quantify some of these qualitative considerations.</blockquote>

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