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Water to Wine

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In the Rifts: Book of Magic, the spell "Water to Wine" states:
The wine is of fair to average quality, with the quality increasing by 5% per each level of the sorcerer's experience.

Can anyone explain how this works? If a wine is 25% or 50% better than "fair to average," what does that mean?
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Glistam wrote:In the Rifts: Book of Magic, the spell "Water to Wine" states:
The wine is of fair to average quality, with the quality increasing by 5% per each level of the sorcerer's experience.

Can anyone explain how this works? If a wine is 25% or 50% better than "fair to average," what does that mean?


it means it's good wine :)
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It means that as the mage grows in experience (i.e.: goes up in levels) the wine made by the "water to wine" spell, will be of better quality. (i.e.: taste better.)

So wine made by a L10 mage will be more desirable then some made by a L1 mage.

At least to those chars that like to drink wine.
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Glistam wrote:In the Rifts: Book of Magic, the spell "Water to Wine" states:
The wine is of fair to average quality, with the quality increasing by 5% per each level of the sorcerer's experience.

Can anyone explain how this works? If a wine is 25% or 50% better than "fair to average," what does that mean?


There isn't any set meaning that I'm aware of.

But it sounds like a 15th level mage could open one heck of a good winery.
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Lv1 mage equals box wine.
Lv3 mage table wine.
Lv6 mage 15 dollar bottle.
Lv8 mage 30 to 40 dollar bottle.
Lv11 mage 100 dollar bottle from a renowned winery.
Lv15 mage one of those bottle you look at and wonder why the heck some one would pay so much for 200 year old wine from a good year with an unspoiled cork.......
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Hey! I like box wine!
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Killer Cyborg wrote:Hey! I like box wine!
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Hey i do to too it goes good with dinner and its usaly a strong taste....but you cant claim its great compared to much higher brow stuff.
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Zamion138 wrote:
Killer Cyborg wrote:Hey! I like box wine!
:p

Hey i do to too it goes good with dinner and its usaly a strong taste....but you cant claim its great compared to much higher brow stuff.


I've got some friends who are into wine, yet even when they're telling me the difference between the two bottles, I can't really tell a difference between a $20 bottle of wine and a $100 bottle of wine. I can tell the difference between a $20 and $10, though, so I'm not completely hopeless.

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Zamion138 wrote:
Killer Cyborg wrote:Hey! I like box wine!
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Hey i do to too it goes good with dinner and its usaly a strong taste....but you cant claim its great compared to much higher brow stuff.


I can claim anything that I like. :p

Really, I can't tell much difference.
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Would rather have a "Water to Spirits" or "Water to Beer" spell. Most wines taste like grapes gone wrong to me.

Of course I worked in a warehouse where there were wine spills nearly every week. So smells from them might be where got my distaste for wine.
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In an older description it was 50% + 5% per Level. So for a 1st to 3rd level (55% - 65%) character it is an average wine and for an highlevel (9th - 12th) character it is a excellent wine (95% - 110%).

Just my two cents.
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drewkitty ~..~ wrote:Would rather have a "Water to Spirits" or "Water to Beer" spell. Most wines taste like grapes gone wrong to me.


Well, it IS.
Although I prefer that to grain gone wrong.

Of course I worked in a warehouse where there were wine spills nearly every week. So I might of gotten my distaste for wine then.


That probably IS the problem; you should try the stuff that doesn't come in puddles.
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Little Snuzzles wrote:Water to Diet Raspberry Snapple is apparently not possible either... :cry:

That would fall under the "Water to Flavored Water" spell? :P
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Little Snuzzles wrote:Water to Diet Raspberry Snapple is apparently not possible either... :cry:

No its totaly in there.....its called spoil..... cast spoil on water and it destroys the water making it diet snapple.....hehehe
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