Maintenance subsituting charm.

[Persell]

a charm Idea.


One that subsitutes for maintenance by the solar waving a hand.


Does this sound reasonable to you.


on one hand the time and resources for maintenance are a major game balance factor for such items...


on the other, its hard to believe a solar of great enough power could NOT Vastly accelerate the repair of a warstrider or suit of guzonsha armor.

 

[uteck]

Something like for every 10 motes spent counts as 1 hour maintenance?  Or perhaps a device made from Wyld energy that can go in a hearthstone socket that reduces maintenance by half?


I could see a way for a Soulsteel one to do this automatically by absorbing Essence into a soul-fire crystal type device, that when full, would activate a repair charm.  I think Bone and Ebony has a spell to summon a warstrider mad of bone.  Using that as a bases you could have it 'eat' creatures to regenerate.


But back to waving your hand Charms.  I think it should have a high most cost since it will be replacing many hours of hard labor with 1 Charm and a few hours rest to regain the motes.

 

[Persell]

1. Maintenance is already a mere wave of the hand with solar craft charms


2. necromancy? abyssals? maintenance? sorry, but entropy is so not going to make that abyssal themed.

 

[uteck]

2. necromancy? abyssals? maintenance? sorry, but entropy is so not going to make that abyssal themed.

That's way I mentioned the eating part.  Sort of the like the blood engorgement technique.  You have to keep killing things with the war-strider to maintain it.  Of course if it is too damaged, it wont survive the combat.

 

[uteck]

The bone-strider gathers up the corps of it's victims into a pile which it then enters and covers itself with the bodies of the fallen.  Pilot and bone-strider then meditate and the flesh of the fallen is altered by the bone-strider and merged with it's damaged and warn out sections.


Meanwhile a circle of Solars has entered the battlefield/village and see the carnage, but no apparent sign of the victor.  Suddenly, in an explosion of petrified flesh, the bone-strider emerges from it's blood soaked cocoon fully repaired.  The now gore splattered Solars must make Valor checks or soil themselves.