[2E] Athletics Charms and Jumping

[memesis]

Submitted for your approval, a 2E Combo:


Mountain-Crossing Leap Technique (Simple, jump Essence x 5 miles in a dramatic action) + Soaring Crane Leap (Reflexive, multiply the distance of your jumps by 5 until your next action) + Eagle-Wing Style (Reflexive, allows you to fly at a certain distance above the ground).


Activating SCL and MCLT gives you an effective jumping distance of (Essence x 25) miles, or 100 miles minimum, for 2 Willpower, 12 motes.  If interrupted midflight, you can recover with EWS.


So the question is this:  does this Combo violate the spirit of the rules, by multiplying the jumping distance of a dramatic jump?


I would say no, since I as a Storyteller can't think of too many scenarios that break if your players leap to some place in 5 minutes instead of 25, for a reduced energy cost, and this sort of stellar display of power is what I would expect around Essence 4.

 

[skafte]

When you are jumping this long an evil and or bored ST might want to take into account the drift from winds, and maybe also cold in those high layers plus lack of oxygen... if Creation looks that much like real life.

 

[Solfi]

... because Mountain-Crossing Leap Technique wouldn't take such things into consideration, making it completely useless without Resistance (Survival?) Charms to back it up? I don't think so...

 

[Sherwood]

Creation does not have the same laws of physics that we do.  Gods and little spirits run things that we take for granted here.  So, just because you can jump over mountains doesn't mean you need to bring your oxygen tank.  If you wanted to be picky about it, assume that the charm takes altitude into consideration and protects the user against the adverse effects of the cold and lack of air.  Or just say its magic and let it go at that.

 

[Bizar]

I ahree that the cham isn't over the top. The wind bit might be fun to do once, but I think you should not try to aply normal science to the world of exalted.


I think that if you want to have an existing philosofy for creation I'd use the Naturalistic view of the ancient Greeks. Many of the aspects of creation are viewed in somewhat the same way as the Greeks viewed the world with the multitude of gods and the perception of the elemnts. The only thing wrong is that they had four instead of five, but this is easily remedied.