Follow up

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  by aracondal
  on 2024-09-10 23:52

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  by SrSpaceCadet
  on 2024-09-09 06:49

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  by Willow H.R. Harper
  on 2024-09-06 15:32

  A spell/abilities template is definitely the best option.

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  by IBB
  on 2024-09-04 18:23

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  by Writing Bishop
  on 2024-09-03 04:14

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  by Jupiter Melichios
  on 2024-09-01 23:13

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  by LittleRaider
  on 2024-09-01 20:59

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  by valr-unda
  on 2024-09-01 16:20

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  by BenScerri
  on 2024-09-01 10:11

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  by Jdebro
  on 2024-09-01 07:22

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  by BlueDrag0n524
  on 2024-08-31 20:19

  I honestly love this idea tbh, I have a series that has all characters within have a certain set of powers and such, so something like this or an edited version of the spell template like others have suggested, would be quite great!

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  by bpivik
  on 2024-08-30 18:23

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  by Those2Nerds
  on 2024-08-30 15:38

  As others stated, rather than a new template, I'd prefer improving the Spell template to make it more supportive of non-magical Abilities. This might only need small updates to verbiage, such as changing "material components" to "items required", changing "gestures & rituals" to "process", maybe adding a related species... update the prompt descriptions to support both the magical and non-magical potential of the template, and the spell template becomes much more versatile.

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  by CrocOsnake
  on 2024-08-29 01:09

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  by cow2face
  on 2024-08-27 10:28

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  by Silenc3e3e
  on 2024-08-27 09:49

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  by A Glamorous Cthulhu
  on 2024-08-27 02:52

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  by Kittymonster
  on 2024-08-26 21:18

  Like already mentioned by some others, I think it'd be great if the Spell template could be broadened and made less specific.   Spell would fit better as a section of an ability (or similar generic name) template, similar to how person template has a section for deities and organization template has a section for nations.   This could also help open it up as a possible choice for challenges?

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  by PhntmDrgn
  on 2024-08-26 20:28

  I like the idea of enhancing the Spell template. Whether or not an ability is a magic spell, supernatural, psionic, superpower, mutation, cyborg implant, or just trained/mundane the majority of the information needed to describe it is basically the same. The main differences are the origin (how acquired) and the execution process. This type of info could be a simple drop down menu, that could be added to in the future when people think of other categories of abilitities.

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  by MatGun86
  on 2024-08-25 10:30

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  by Shirmanto B
  on 2024-08-25 07:33

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  by kaixabu
  on 2024-08-24 15:31

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  by WeStanNikolai
  on 2024-08-24 12:17

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  by KrissytheDragon
  on 2024-08-24 04:30

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  by World Smithy
  on 2024-08-23 18:57

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  by Rilameth
  on 2024-08-23 11:34

  I am broadly supportive of this (though, as WA is reluctant to make new templates, a tab section in Spells for Abilities would also work well), but I have one question: Doesn't sign language belong in the Language template, and get listed as one of the character's known languages?

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  by A Mischievous T-Rex
  on 2024-08-23 10:24

  Tweaking the spells template to work more broadly would be wonderful tbh. It's already labelled as being the go-to template for superpowers, but I find it very clunky for that since it's very much oriented towards using for magic/spells only. Broadening it to abilities in general, with a new section/tab (or multiple) would make it much more useful (in my opinion, anyway).

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  by Nubs
  on 2024-08-23 09:08

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  by Scalenex
  on 2024-08-23 03:22

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  by Mewdini
  on 2024-08-23 03:15

  This would be a great feature for creating fictional races. I say I have a "magic system" in my world, but the "magic" is racial traits/ abilities of my non-human races. For example, a race might be visually impaired, or maybe they have a better memory (compared to humans). I'm not a fan of calling varying "abilities" a magic system. I probably won't explain this perfectly, but if I were to give "magic" abilities to my human characters, much of their "magic" would be considered neurodiversity in our world.

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  by Ratha
  on 2024-08-23 01:36

  Everyone will say to just use the spells template for this, but abilities are not spells, so it makes sense to either make a new template, or to make a new tabbed section in the spells template, like in the organization or building templates.

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  by JeniferToksvig
  on 2024-08-22 21:46