Ye Olde Fan FAQ wrote:Question: In The Rifter #3, with regards to the Spatial Mage, on pages 84 and 85 it states in two separate places, that the Spatial Mage can "traverse the dimensions without the use of the spell," (within the Dimensional Portal and Dimensional Teleport spells)however, there are no rules listed for said ability. Would this work like the ability of the Gatherer RCC (see pg. 134 of South America)? Or does their attainment to the dimensional energies and command of same allow an even higher level of accuracy when d-hopping?
Answer (Steve Trustrum): This is one of the annoying things that happened to this O.C.C. as a result of it being one of my first attempts at editing my own work for print. I found that the ability to shift from one dimension to the next really tipped the scales of power for this O.C.C. and so I removed it before sending it in to Palladium. However, my inexperience as an author required to edit his own work showed through because I forgot to go back through the rest of the work and remove such mentioning of this power. The Spatial Mage must use the dimensional portal spell to travel to other dimensions (other than his own realm), but it has a greatly reduced P.P.E. cost. If the Game Master feels that the Spatial Mage should still be able to dimensionally teleport without cost or use of spell, then just grant him a further natural ability that is like the spell only with no P.P.E. cost. I've gotten a lot of questions about this aspect of the O.C.C. and it can all basically be put down as the result of inexperience.
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The DTport was edited out of the class's powers w/o a rewrite orthe discriptive text. My SM char follows the discriptive text, and have them able to do so w/o prep & w/o PPE cost.
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drewkitty ~..~ wrote:The DTport was edited out of the class's powers w/o a rewrite orthe discriptive text. My SM char follows the discriptive text, and have them able to do so w/o prep & w/o PPE cost.
The quote Tinker Dragoon gave was one I saw the first time, so I already knew that, but I just wanted to say that my personal ruling is that it works like you said drewkitty. I say this because if anyone's read Magic the Gathering books, these spatial mages are basically the same as Planeswalkers, and they can D-Port and T-Port at will.
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