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Sit there different
Nov. 7th, 2015 04:51 pmI'm poking GURPS magic rules again (because why not) and I was just looking at the Recover Energy spell.
Every other spell, there's a ritual, there's foot movements, hand movements, words to say. Like a dance with a mantra.
Recover energy? You sit very very still and don't think too hard.
Really, you can't take a Concentrate maneuver or hold any spells that require you to Concentrate, you can't think too hard.
You just sit and Recover Energy.
And it's different from meditation. Not least because there's bunches of different sorts of meditation. But also because to meditate is a skill, and a useful one, but it is not a Recover Energy spell.
To Recover Energy you do nothing, but in a magic way.
So now I'm wondering how you teach that.
( Read more... ) Tell students to sit there, then tell them to sit there different??
... I know nobody knows or cares, but, what would wizard school actually be like, to work like GURPS does it? Recover Energy would take at least 180 hours of study with a teacher, half of what it would cost to get the hang of alone. What would the teacher actually be doing? And how do you get the students to actually do it?
Every other spell, there's a ritual, there's foot movements, hand movements, words to say. Like a dance with a mantra.
Recover energy? You sit very very still and don't think too hard.
Really, you can't take a Concentrate maneuver or hold any spells that require you to Concentrate, you can't think too hard.
You just sit and Recover Energy.
And it's different from meditation. Not least because there's bunches of different sorts of meditation. But also because to meditate is a skill, and a useful one, but it is not a Recover Energy spell.
To Recover Energy you do nothing, but in a magic way.
So now I'm wondering how you teach that.
( Read more... ) Tell students to sit there, then tell them to sit there different??
... I know nobody knows or cares, but, what would wizard school actually be like, to work like GURPS does it? Recover Energy would take at least 180 hours of study with a teacher, half of what it would cost to get the hang of alone. What would the teacher actually be doing? And how do you get the students to actually do it?