Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[kingofsouls]

One of my new players wants to use water magic. Not sure how that would work so anyone got any suggestions? I already have ideas for most of his spells.

Water Manipulation Dance (Elemental Manipulation - Water)
Novice
1 PP
Smarts X 2
Instant
A dance that manipulates Water. Can Conjure up to a pint of water within his sight. Can also purify a gallon of water (poison, salt water, etc)

Dance of the Mists Veil (Deflection)
Novice
2 pp
Touch
3 (1/Round)
A dance that creates a mist that surrounds the target. Attackers get -2 to their attack rolls against the target. -4 on a raise.

Dance of the Water Veil (Armor)
Novice
2 PP
Touch
3 (1/Round)
A dance that creates a veil of water to surround the target.
A veil of water (Cannot drown target) surrounds target. Provides cooling as well. +2 Armor against heat and fire. (+4 on a raise).

Dance of the Surging Tide (Stun)
Novice
2
12/24/48
Special
A dance that launches a sphere of water. The water sphere then erupts and stuns the targets in a Medium Burst template. If successful, all targets must make a Vigor roll or be shaken (at -2 if the caster raised the roll)

thinking the Dance of the Surging Tides would work better if the targets rolls Strength instead (because they are fighting the tides). Good? bad? Please comment.

[Sitting Duck]

Healing is another power where water trappings can easily be applied.
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[Edgeworth]

I think water's pretty flexible element to be used as trapping, especially if the mage can control it's... uh.. state of being. I mean, change it to mist, steam or ice. For example, Bolt can be used as a Water Gun (Does Non-lethal damage) or Ice Spike (Lower damage but has AP). Entangle could be Ice Beam or Water Snake. I'd check out some Water-type moves from Pokémon for inspiration.

As for your examples, I like them. Dance of the Waer Veil could be weak if your game does not really have fire- and heat-based weapons and attacks, and if that's the case, I'd use normar Armor rules, but add +1/+2 protection against fire and heat. If there's plenty Flaming Swords of Fire and fire mages around, it's just fine.

Dance of the Surging Tide should be against Strenght, in my opinion. After all, it fits the trapping and makes it stand out in the masses of Stuns.

[farik]

Do a google search for "avatar water bending" you can also check out the water mages from 50 fathoms.

[Erpegis]

In a 50 Fathoms game I played a water mage whose bold was a blast of high pressure water. I used it in a chase in a town, and turned it into area attack using drains and pipes to attack the enemies from multiple sides.

[Sushi]

I think you've got the right idea.

The way I'd handle it, though, would be to let the player do the work of coming up with the flavorful names/descriptions and any trapping-specific alterations. Just make sure that any extra benefits from the water trapping are going to be counterbalanced in some way (or are so highly situational that it won't matter).

[kingofsouls]

[ValhallaGH]

[archus]

[xxlgeeklord]

Have a look at the trappings in SWD and modify. There is a very appropriate sound trapping which says the Power is at +2 to be cast underwater, but at -1 to be cast anywhere else. Or the water attack drowns, forcing the opponent to roll Vigor or gain a level of Fatigue, but causing it not to work on anything which doesn't need to breathe/breathes underwater. If you look closely there is a points system a bit like the race creation rules in the trappings, and once you see it making trappings based on that becomes easy.

-$0,02