Mutants and Masterminds Sorcery

Myrnag2555 wrote:

> Ok, so having Sorcery lets you mimic other powers as "magic spells". What
> if you want a power with a Bonus, like Illusion with Area Effect?

Each of the "spells" of Sorcery is essentially a Power Stunt, and adding
advantages to them works the same way as with Power Stunts.

And how's that? someone asks. Well, buying a Power Stunt lets you re-spend
the points you've spent on a power to get another power of the same
"type" (on the theory that if you already have one attack power, having a
second one isn't that much of an advantage -- especially if you can't use
it at the same time!).

So, let's say you have Sorcery 10. For two points, you could normally learn
a spell of Illusion. Illusion 10 would be a 20-point power, since it's two
points per level. Therefore, if you want to learn, say "Grand
Illusion" (apologies to Styx), which is an (Illusion + Area Effect) spell,
that's three points per level, so the 20 points buys you 6 levels of it
(with two points winding up wasted) -- or maybe 7 levels. I'm not sure
which way you're supposed to round. If you wanted a spell that's Illusion
with two extras, you'd get 5 levels of it for your 20 points (or of any
other 4 point/level power you bought as a spell of Sorcery 10). And so on.

That's my understanding, at least. The M&M Annual that's due out soon is
supposed to have a revised description of Sorcery, which will explain
things in more detail than the main book does.

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