Artifact Material: Hexalite

[DatsVatSheSaid]

Hexalite is a perplexing material, found only in places where great magic occurs. It is highly reactive to the warp and incredibly stable, unlike it's closer comparison to Warpstone. Hexalite is heavily coveted by Psykers and Witches and other Practitioners of the Arcane and Eldritch. It is often theorized and debated as to the origin and nature of the material, some believe it is the byproduct of intense Warp Phenomena or that it is the remnants of a cataclysmic spell buried within the earth and crystalized. Either way Hexalite Steel is incredibly valuable.


Melee Weapon: This weapon gains the Force Property and attacks with this weapon count as magical attack, ignoring armor and being resisted by Aura instead.

Ranged Weapon: When you cast a Spell you may reload this weapon as a free action, generating one clip (or three arrows, bolts, etc for weapons with a clip size of 1) of Normal Ammunition.

Ammunition: This weapon gains the Seeking Property.

Armor:This Armor provides Aura equal to it's armor value. Halve the result of your own spells' damage against yourself.

Bionic Arm: This arm can be used as an Implement when Spellcasting. If you do, you may reduce the Focus Power TN of the spell cast by 5 if it has the Touch Keyword.

Bionic Locomotion: You Float just above the ground. You ignore terrain and have a base speed equal to your Willpower + Charisma. When you use an Action with the Movement Subtype, you gain Flyer for any movement made during that action. You may switch to or from walking as a free action, and walking obviously uses normal rules for terrain and speed calculation.

Bionic Heart: When casting a Spell, you may take a Wound of E Damage to the Gizzards in order to add 10 the final result.

Promethean Material Asset: You gain the Minor Magic and Spellbook Feats, you may buy these Feats as if they appeared in your class list at any time. If you would suffer Perils of the Warp, you may spend Pyros as a Reaction to ignore it's effects to yourself.

[Traskus]

Alrighty.

Melee weapon's effects are each great on their own but together they're too much. I'm inclined toward the first half.

I like ranged weapon. Cuts down on actions and makes it feel more aggressive.

Ammunition... I'm not fond of seeking so we'll skip it. It fits the vibe of an aggressive magic bullet so props to you.

Armor's aura value is explicitly as good or better than wraithbone for all but 3 armor pieces in core, and the magic flak is at least enough to compensate for that.

Bionic arm, good.

Locomotion, genius. Whoever thought of that should get a medal.

Heart, love it.

Promethean asset has a similar issue as the melee weapon. Either one is good on its own but together you get something excessive. I worry about how much minor magic + spellbook can get you but I'm not well-versed enough to comment on how much you get out of investment. So I'll go with the vibe angle: the pryos to end perils fits with this material better since it leans into aggressive magic.

[ScrapyardDragon]

I'll give my crack on the promethean asset since traskus brought it up.

Assuming core magic schools only.

There are 9 magic schools, assuming you plan to get all the schools, then you're saving 900 exp to get the first level of them all instead of paying 1800. Now of course, most players don't try to get ALL the spell schools, but its still exp efficiency, which is nice. I don't think plucking magic out-of-class is that major since its only getting you the first level of them, and not all schools are created equal when it comes to level 1 (but lets be honest most people are probably going to spend that first minor magic to get blink or something). The interesting part is the free spellbook and access to it whenever you want. Have to admit, being able to begin play with both blink and web is pretty nice and is probably the best one to go with for the starting pair since its two good spells at level 1 instead of one good spell and a side pick from obligation. Things get more interesting in dedicated casting builds where infinite spellbook is more relevant, but I don't really know if its that worrysome. There are a good few spell levels where its a hard choice to make which spell to take; porte vs jaunt is a good one, or Teleport VS Greater servant. Honestly conjuration just has a lot of good spells, but then you have necromancy 2; Speak with dead is great, and so is burning blood, being able to get both without having to spend one of your few in-class spellbooks is nice. And thats kind of the rub; you get exactly four of them, all of which in the magic user class, and that is it, assuming core classes. The opportunity cost of 'what spell to take' is a very real part of the game's design, and my experience of running a game with an archivist player has shown me that having LOTS of spells can be a powerful thing on its own. Of course, this is all on an exalt that doesn't really get actual spellcasting tools, so I can't call it THAT terrifying. (Yes I know transhuman potential is a thing, and while I will always be AGAINST the nerf, most people on here are going to be using the forum revision, which goes and bans using it for spellcasting, so again, Promethean doesn't get casting tools in its base kit)

tldr; the first half of the asset is plenty strong enough, the perils negation is overkill

[DatsVatSheSaid]

The melee weapon power has been nerfed. The promethean asset remains.

[Traskus]

Hrm. Question. What is the difference between gaining the flyer trait for a given movement while hovering and just… flying?

[DatsVatSheSaid]

Easy, you aren't flying so if you arent close enough to something to hover over after the movement is over...you will descend.