Glassware as earth becomes Obsidian and Glass-like stones. The creation of Industrial structures also helps. Combined with Earth to Stone, there are many combinations that can be done in both engineering, art, traps, and communication (milestones and stone signs). A mage with Seek earth and Shape earth can possibly filter the necessary ingredients to make Roman Concrete. Shape Stone to Reinforce Structures and Engineering.Other than art, Dust Clouds and Silhouettes can be used to distract. Powerful in a Gun fight where attacks can create cover to move towards as they make an attack. Shape Earth is more effective against Gunfire with its Diffuse Properties. Combat Engineer or Traps allow you to make more elaborate traps with stone. Shape Stone Caltrops - Stone Caltrops or Pit Spikes.The human body is less dense than water, so 333Liters translates to 333 kilos. Shape Stone of 2FP manipulates 0.33 cu.m/yrds thats about 333 L or 12 cu.ft.2.5m high cylinder covering 1sqm or 10sqf is about 1cm or DR4.Natural stone, which is not that common a terrain feature, Get a Spreadsheet and input all the various geometric combinations. Shape 'Stone' can manipulate 333 liters of worked stone or 11.7 cu.ft or 0.3 cu.The same combos as Earth but with less material with much higher DRs and Strengths. At 1/6 the amount manipulated the Mage can shape Worked Stone, like Reinforced Concrete. In GURPS Magic, M51, at 1/2 the amount shaped, the mage can Shape STONE. if Earth or Stone becomes a complex form, particularly since it draws from a Skill like Artist or Engineering, it is definitely a concentrate maneuver. By simple its just an extrution of earth. You can make it that every simple form change can be reaction like a block or Parry. ReadyВ ManeuverВ to Shape - Shape Earth Shield/Cover.Since maintaining the spell has no concentration requirement, the character can probably use Shape Earth to block or Parry as though he had an unbalanced weapon readied.A big enough pit, 2 cu.m/yrd can only be defended with a retreat if its just 1 hex in size OR Dodge and Drop B377 if bigger than just one hex. Create a Pit the size to swallow up the Target, taking the floor right from under him. Sinking his feet while you have him in an arm lock. For the Duration of the Spell, 1 minute, you can control earth allowing you to grapple an opponent and allow the Earth to engulf him in key points.Do not limit it to the Feet, head and hands are targets with Shape Earth but they are much harder to imprison unless you can follow up with an Earth to Stone.You can have a Feint Technique B231 can apply to the Innate attack since its really difficult which angle the attack is coming from.Its like the soil or concrete he is stepping on swallows his feet. The mage rolls Innate Attack, but the opponent will have a penalty to defend (-2) because he can't see where the attack is originating. Attacking both feet should have another -2 to spell casting. There will be range and hit location penalties. This requires Innate Attack, this is a targeted attack at the feet of the target.If the target is already in bad footing, this will be harder. The Mage can just leave the soil to ripple and wave beneath the feet of his opponents to cause them a -2 to hit and -1 to defend. Create Selective Bad Footing (B395, B.96, B547). Note that if an economy becomes more productive the values would inflate. You may have to rethink the 'per energy' cost of $33 in M20 or $25 in basic set. Such magical items, like shape earth, will be so useful as a tool an weapon. Still you will need a bit of a magical infrastructure to create enough to the satisfaction of the patron. the productivity increase of many earth spells are so powerful its as if you threw in TL6-9 heavy machinery, although it didn't need the infrastructure to support it. Also if your in the engineering (civil works) industry you can really appreciate this since a lot of the bits that is interesting from engineering finds some use in the such a game. If you want to motivate yourself to study geometry and chemistry or earth sciences then this school of magic is for you. What I love about it is that its really just the application of science and geometry and you've got a lot of kick ass things you can do with it. I was surprised by the applications of Earth Magic.

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