Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

From: Fanguad fanguad@****.rit.edu
Subject: Spells above Force 6
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 13:19:30 -0400
> Having said that though, a TN of twice the force to learn makes high-force
> spells all but impossible; I have tried hard to forget how many months my
> character took to learn a force 6 manaball. Even with karma pool you have
> to be lucky to make an intelligence(12) test on 1-6 dice (I'm sure Mongoose
> will be kind enough to tell me :)>) and that's for a force 6 spell.
>
> Phil

<digression mode: ON>
How many people limit initial starting skills/spells. I know that the
last game I GMed, I set a limit of 1 level/force 6 skill/spell or two
level 5's, to reflect the fact that these are 'expert' and 'master' levels
of knowledge.
What do you think?

-- Fanguad

---------------------------------

"Tech Support, Greg speaking."
"QUICK! How do I change my wallpaper?"
"Well, it's pretty easy. I assume you want to change the
appearance of your desktop?"
"I need to get a picture off my background!"
"Oh, I see... Did someone accidentally set a porn picture
as their wallpaper, and their wife or mom is about
to show up?"
"PLEASE HURRY!"

-- Iliad, User Friendly

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.