Re: Nomadic matrix gems are a BEND

["Rob" <rob@aclcb.purdue.edu>]

well heres what i've got to say to that
Nomads spend most of their adventuring career blowing thier eeps on
temporary crap that alot of times doesn't hold a candle to mage and
priestly magics.  given the amount of epps nomads tend to waste i don't
find it at all unreasonable that a rare
magical artifact could effectively "give" the  nomad eeps
 (theres more below)
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> From: Flightgod5@aol.com
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> Subject: Nomadic matrix gems are a BEND
> Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 11:28 AM
> 
> 
> We need to argue or we'll all get out of shape.  Problem is, my argument
here
> is so good I don't think any of you have the mental capacity to put it
down.
> ;)
> 
> Nomadic Matrix Gems are a bend.
> 
> For those of you that don't already know how matrix gems work, they
typically
> boost the main skills that your background is based on by 50%.  Mages and
> Priests multiply their spell units by 1.5, Warriors multiply combat and
> missile modifiers by 1.5, Augers multiply their INT based skills by 1.5,
and
> Marines multiply AGI skills and their grapple mod by 1.5.  To gain these
> bonuses, the character using the gem must have the gem touching their
skin at
> all times.  If the gem is ever removed from their skin they immediately
lose
> these bonuses to skills/spell or divine units/combat modifiers.
> 	Nomadic Matrix Gems, however, work on a completely different basis that
is a
> tremendous glitch in the system.  The way I've seen it run in the past,
when a
> nomad wishes to manufacture an incant and he has a matrix gem in his
> posession, all he has to do is momentarily touch that gem during the
making of
> the incant.  Then the nomad can release the gem, and the incant will
> PERMANENTLY gain two ranks.  This officially makes a nomadic matrix gem a
> "rock of free experience points".  Yes, you may argue that other matrix
gems
> also give you experience points, and you would be correct. However, these
> experience points are not given on a permanent basis.  If a warrior loses
his
> matrix gem, his combat and missile modifiers drop back to normal.  If a
nomad
> loses his matrix gem, the incants he has made using the matrix gem lose
> NOTHING.  
> 	Another interesting point that I have noticed is that you have to but
once
> touch a nomadic matrix gem during the making of an incant, especially if
it is
> an incant requiring multiple days to manufacture.  Therefore, why not
just
> touch it a bunch of times and make your base cost 10,000 incant have
about
> thirty ranks or so?  Yet another bend in the system.

the same reason you can't use two warrior matix gems.  Only one will affect
you 
unless you make a matrix of matrix gems.  Touching a matrix gem multiple
times
won't make your expenditure of eeps any more efficent. so i say your
interpretation of that ruling is akin to the wax fiasco, just retarded (hu
huh joels retarded ;)

> 	Here is what I propose to fix this gaping error:
> 1)	Nomadic matrixs gems will function just like regular gems...a nomad
will
> gain two ranks for all incants he has on his person while the matrix gem
is
> touching his skin.  If the matrix gem ever loses contact with his skin,
those
> extra two ranks go away just like when any other background loses a gem.

this is  ,as keith would say, a hose  because many incants depend on the
incanter
thorwing the incant, slipping it into someones food, or otherwise appling
it so it is not
in contact with his body

> 2)  If my first point goes through, this point will be unnecessary.  But
just
> in case it doesn't...  When manufacturing an incant with a nomadic matrix
gem,
> the gem must be touching the nomad's skin for the entire duration of the
> incant's manufacture.

don't have a real problem here, of course you could just say  that matrix
gems in
addition to causing non-background people from taking damage can also only
be
used by people of that background.  There aren't any real specifics that
i'm aware of.
oops never mind just read that as long as you take the damage you can use
the gem

> 
> 	If this doesn't get through when I propose it at the next GM meeting (if
> we're even having those anymore), then I am going to assume that all
other
> matrix gems work the same as a nomadic matrix gem.  Therefore, the next
time
> my warrior runs across a priestly gem, he'll touch it thirty or forty
times
> and increase his DU exponentially.  

no because as soon as you stopped touching the gem you would lose the
excess spell units.   Big question does come out of this though.  When
touching a matrix
does that simply enhance your stroage capacity, does it make your use of
units more efficent, does it give you extra units (which would allow a mage
to recharge using a gem).  who knows

just a side not.  ALL magic items give you eeps unless you actually made it
that is
thier nature.  nomadic gems just give you eeps that you throw away.

> 
> Chew on that. 
yum steak


> 
> Joel
>
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