Help with New Adept School

  • koolerkid
    Participant

    Hey there, everyone! I’ve been cooking up an idea for a new adept school, which I’ve tentativly named Abstainomancy. It revolves around the principle of controlling the wants, needs, and desires of others by ignoring your own wants, needs, and desires through sheer force of will. However, I’m having trouble with the Blast style. My first thought was to give the target the desire to hurt themselves, but that struck me as too similiar to Plutomancy. My next thought was to cause crippling hunger-related stomach cramps (by increasing their desire for food, you see), but it struck me as not fitting the feel of the school too well. I really want to add a blast; a school without a blast just doesn’t sit well with me. Every school needs a weapon, I think. If anyone has any ideas, please, let me know!

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  • offiox
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    Why not have it amplify an already existing desire the target has? So if they are a little hungry, you can make them ravenous and unable to resist trying to eat anything remotely edible they can get thier hands on. If they are a little angry, they get furious at everything and everyone around them. And so on.

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  • offiox
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    Why not have it amplify an already existing desire the target has? So if they are a little hungry, you can make them ravenous and unable to resist trying to eat anything remotely edible they can get thier hands on. If they are a little angry, they get furious at everything and everyone around them. And so on.

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  • offiox
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    Why not have it amplify an already existing desire the target has? So if they are a little hungry, you can make them ravenous and unable to resist trying to eat anything remotely edible they can get thier hands on. If they are a little angry, they get furious at everything and everyone around them. And so on.

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  • koolerkid
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    That would make an excellent spell, but it’s not exactly a blast, is it? It doesn’t directly do damage, at any rate. Hmmm…. this is harder then I thought.

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  • vagina = fun!
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    not all schools have a blast and this one seems like a good candidate for not having one.

    alternately it could rapidly accelerate the effects of self denial ( dehydration, sleep deprivation, and starvation.) This would be hard to explain as a full scale blast, but maybe it could do damage slowly over time or perhaps a sig would only do minor damage.

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  • koolerkid
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    Now that’s an interesting idea. A delyed-reaction blast would probably be appropriate, kinda similiar to the Urbanomancy blast. Also, it might only do minor damage unless the target misses a meal or goes without sleep or something similiar…. thanks, you’ve given me some great ideas to think about!

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