I'm wondering, what spheres/materials/expertise would it take to create an ambulatory construct? First, what would be needed to create, say, a giant clockwork spider that a Mage could control directly or remotely? Then, what would be needed to make a giant clockwork spider that can operate independently?
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In magical traditions there is a rote for making a golem old school kabbalah style. -
Making a golem is a Matter 3 spell in the 2e core. All the details you could want are there.Comment
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Golem is Patterning actually.Originally posted by Axelgear View Post
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Why is that anyway? It seems so close to Quicken Corpse in function.Originally posted by ManusDomine View PostComment
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Probably because you're warping it from straight Matter into a sort of pseudo-entity, the number of traits or properties that change are more than one which is Weaving, so the next step up is Patterning.Comment
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You are correct. I was mixing it up with zombies.Originally posted by ManusDomine View Post
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A Spider drone I would say would require Space 2, Matter 3.
A giant spider mech with a cockpit would require matter 3, resources 5, even if you Megas XLR the thing.
Magical power armor...Would require matter 3, prime 4 (for the attainment), and allowing the ST to slap you with a soft bound edition of Exalted's Book of Sorcerery 1: Wonders of the Lost Age until their arm goes numb.
Edit: I am suddenly wanting to make magical power armor...
Edit 2: It probably would help me keep up with the werewolves I'll be running with....Last edited by HaplessWithDice; 09-17-2016, 12:08 AM.
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There are some clockwork creatures in the Night Horrors book, Unbidden. It has a template for them but I believe they were a certain special kind of pseudo-artifact created long ago and wouldn't necessarily be the only way to create them. I don't recall if it mentions how they were created in the first place, for that matter.
There's also at least one kind of golem and one kind of homunculus. But, again, I don't know off-hand if it gets into how they were created as much as why they are annoyances to mages.Comment
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As far as something like a mech is concerned, Forces is a bit of a godsend. We actually have the tech to make mechs right now, we just lack a power source small/mobile enough to be convenient, Forces (and maybe even Prime) can take care of these problems.Comment
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You warp the Matter to do something it probably isn't supposed to. If you already had something like, say a mech then it would probably me Ruling or Weaving to get it to move.Originally posted by RedSypher View Post
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Gotcha. Now, what about the second question? Basically, creating a simple AI using magic.Comment
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Mind 5 give it Influece: Machines, or Computers or whatever. Or Forces 4 create a Golem program. Etc.Comment
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The Golem spell, already mentioned, answers the AI question.
It gets a basic one for free as part of the spell.
You can also bind a Spirit, Ghost, or Goetia into it and let it pilot the golem for you. As mentioned in the spell write-up.
Could probably also create a mind for it with Mind 5, but that's not really 'simple AI' anymore.Comment
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