Enuncia...

[Kage2020]

Just a random post, but I've been finalised (yes, at least) the Powers of the Mind supplement and once of the things that I was at one point having trouble with Enuncia, the primordial language of creation that is mentioned in Abnett's Ravenor books.  I've gone from the complex to the simple, and back and forwards again.  Just as a little insight as to where I am at the moment, this simple line of information encompasses Enuncia:

Words of Power, Various (Cosmic +50%; Costs Hit Points 3, -15%; Reduced Fatigue Cost 33, +660%; Costs 1 CP, x1/5 pts) [16].

Simple, neh?  The basic gist of it is that it works everywhere, and when I user speaks a word (which must be empowered with a CP, character point, or basically "experience points"), they take 3 points of physical damage.  There are rules-specific information in there, such that if the use fails then they take 1d6 points of strangulation damage, or that the effects of the Enuncia word is uncontrollable unless you roll really, really well, but there you have it.

Simple. 

The same broad approach has been made with psyker powers (rather than the complex nightmare of Tap, Threshold, Recovery, etc,. that was there before.

Again, though, just thought that I would share.  It's rather exciting seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, a process which results out of actually knuckling down and spending the time and creative muscle to create the darned stuff.

Kage

[Haarken]

   Knowing little about the actual GURPS mechanics I can only really take my comments so far but from what you say the way it operates seems to match up very nicely with the description of Enuncia in Ravenor.

In the book the language is described as: “a tool, an instrument. By the power of words alone, the fabric of reality could be changed, transformed, controlled, manipulated, reshaped. It was a fundamental device or creation...
...Or Destruction.”   

   So can the user control the effects of Enuncia (i.e. are the effects always destructive? Or can the user create, change, transform and control the fabric of reality as he/she wishes?) or is the effect random? Also does the level of control and effect depend upon the user's level of understanding of Enuncia?

Haarken.

[Malika]

In Legion the character Grammaticus has sometihng that is called 'Logokinetic' skills, at first its simply the ability to learn any language and dialect, but later on it also seems to influence the perceptions of others. I got the impression as if Grammaticus used language to make his enemies perceive him as someone else.

However, this power to make other perceive something else is very tiring for the character. Might be something interesting to toy with perhaps?

[Kage2020]

That would be Telepathy with a limitation "Must speak," rather than Enuncia, coupled with a lower level in ability so that Extra Effort is required.  The joys of flexible systems.

Not everything needs a new power, nor is everything that requires speaking Enuncia.

Cool reminder, though.  I might have to force myself to read back over Legion, though not quite sure how that whole Cabal thing is going to strike me a second time around.

Kage