Aw man. Just that.... with all the inspirations coming from the bible, I thought that it would be neat to be able to do things like make rivers where you can bathe to cure your leprosy, or enchant your shadow to heal those it touches.
Those can be a thing, yes. Those are Sorcerous Workings. They'll still be worse than Medicine Charms, mind.
Urm... yes? Ok? I mean, I don't quite see the problem.
Celestial+. Terrestrial doesn't do outright miracles, that's explicitly Celestial. Do you have the Ex3 core? If so, just...just check the Sorcery section before asking? The answer to this question is literally right in the summary of Celestial Workings.
Making a spring that cures some illness is "instilling supernatural power into the mundane world."
Sorcery should never let you be a better fighter than a dedicated meleeist, nor a better curer of illness than a Medicine person, because if Sorcery can do that and all the other stuff Sorcery can do, the guy who actually invests in Medicine is a sucker.
Sorcererous Workings to heal someone won't heal them by making them get better. They'll heal them by doing something weird and obviously supernatural that makes their crippling injury not be crippling anymore. A Celestial sorcerer who isn't doing some very high finesse rolls is not going to get a normal human arm out of his healing working, instead what will come out is something obviously weird even if it does function just as well as an arm. They'll get an animal-limb like a composite demons or some equally weird shit.
Well, I mean, a spring that helps cure sickness and makes sure wounds heal without infection is fine. It won't regrow arms or stop you bleeding to death, and you can't move the population of a plague-stricken nation to it, but it's still great to have around.Sorcererous Workings to heal someone won't heal them by making them get better. They'll heal them by doing something weird and obviously supernatural that makes their crippling injury not be crippling anymore. A Celestial sorcerer who isn't doing some very high finesse rolls is not going to get a normal human arm out of his healing working, instead what will come out is something obviously weird even if it does function just as well as an arm. They'll get an animal-limb like a composite demons or some equally weird shit.
While healing is not outside of sorcery's purview, it's going to freaky and weird rather than a simple straightforward replacement for medicine charms.
No, because the guy who invests in Medicine can do it consistently, with an easily-passed check and maybe a couple of hours at most, with probably an option to cut that down with the usual Solar bullshit to a touch and a glance.
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I have no idea what you are talking about with Anchors and Resources. Motes on healing spells are meaningless unless you're doing it in combat time, and combat time healing is nonsense already, definitely not good for a Terrestrial spell, even in Ex2. If it can do out of combat healing, you just spam it because lol hourly regen. And in Ex3 spells do not require your own motes at all.
He's talking about a homebrewed sorcery system by Earthscorpion.
@linkhyrule5 why would you ever assume we are talking about a homebrew'd system when arguing how stuff works.
Eh, he's not... the only guy who does that.
Okay, well, know that people are quite likely to not get that, because when talking generally about how Sorcery works in Exalted, the assumption is "the published material" not "some homebrew the person I'm talking to likes" unless stated ahead of time.
well I mean, I'd allow it? But definitely not as a Terrestrial spell. "Curing thousands of people at once" is more like really high Celestial, even with that hefty cost (also it's not actually hefty, it's a mild burn in your -0 that heals in like three days). And that's what "long range" allows, long range can fit multiple size 5 battlegroups.
It's not in the DB preview, no.
In 3E, I can use Terrestrial Sorcery to steal the name of one of the stars in the Dome of the Heavens, chuck it over to someone I don't like, and then watch them get a flying armbar from an enraged celestial object as the star dives down to retrieve its stolen property.
Huh. Wait. Where's that from?
Thaumaturgy, in 3e, is being born with the ability to learn random little magical tricks, as well as the knowledge of one such trick. Examples from the corebook include reading tea leaves, knowing how to arrange a firepit just so to light a fire without flint or tinder that rain or similar won't put out, the ability to conduct an exorcism or the ability to break a piece of bread into two new loaves (very subtle reference there, that last one).
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