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[Gamuniga]

In 50 Fathoms water mages can "quench a crew’s thirst and heal their wounds." (page 20), and this is stressed in other pages as well. Essentially, they are seen as "life savers", and are welcomed for there powers - especially the one for creating water.

How you model, rules-wise, the fact that a water mage can create water and thus feed the crew?

I hastily made up a rule in the likes of: "each day you cast create water you can increase the provision stock of the ship if it is not already at zero" (to accomodate the fact that you cannot subsist on water alone). But i don't really like it that much.

I would like a simpler rule, one that does not entails keeping track of repeated castings of Elemental Manipulation to create water pint-by-pint (something that my players would be perfectly capable of doing).

Any ideas?

[TheLoremaster]

[Poor Wandering One]

And take in the fact that the 1pp = two people can be done whenever the mage has a spare bit of power and you can see how even a novice mage could be a life-saver on a long voyage.

[Clint]

I don't actually recall anything in the book specifically referring to water mages as "life savers" or that they are especially prized for being able to create water (certainly no more prized than healing wounds or controlling beasts of the sea).

That said, they might be seen that way, but not necessarily as a replacement for actual provisions, just as helpful if water runs out. If the mage was going to be the source of drinking water for a ship, then I might go with something like...

Provisions can be purchased at half cost, $1 for 2 points, but if an encounter occurs during the day, the mage will be down 1d4+1 PPs per 10 crew/passengers of the ship (round up). The mage must have a minimum of 5 PPs per 10 people in order to serve as the water source (or the ship must have multiple water mages).

So if a water mage is providing the water for a crumster on a full ship (20 total), then at the beginning of an encounter, he would be down 2d4+2 PPs to account for creating/purifying the water for the day.

If he was on a fully loaded galleon (70 total), he would have to have a pool of 35 PPs (typically only possible at Legendary Rank unless a Kraken) or divide the total with one or more other water mages.
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[ogbendog]

I didn't realize that the fresh water cost money, but I guess that makes sense.

you could also save money buy buying food only, or maybe 1/2 full price provisions and 1/2 food only, then taking on water no small uninhabited islands.

nice excuse for an adventure.

[Gamuniga]

Clint, i really like your ruling - It's simple and effective, neither too burdening to the player nor too lax to the GM. I'll apply it in my game and see how it goes!

Thank you kindly for your support!