| From: | "Mark L. Neidengard" <mneideng@****.CALTECH.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Rules ahoy! |
| Date: | Fri, 20 Oct 1995 15:51:32 -0700 |
>
> I saw the nega-mage in a british rpg magazine. I don't have it, but I remember
> well enough the salient points:
Is that KaGe?
> A nega mage invests his 3 priority to magic, something like an adept, but instead of
getting partial magical powers, he gets a complete lack of magic. I assume
> this is something the character has since he is born. The character is basically a
wlking magic-free zone. He is invisible in astral space, spirits cannot see
> him or react to his presence (Although they will avoid walking into him)
> and magic simply has no effect. Every time the character implants cyberware,
> he runs the risk (Can't remember the exact dice rolls) of losing his power
> completely. That's about it.
Hmm...well, pedantically speaking, adepts must allocate Magic to be priority
B and full mages must put it as A (unless they're metahumans and the Less
Metahumans rule is in effect).
> Not an overly powerful character really. He is lunchmeat in front of a
> Samurai, no matter how good he is, and a mage can take him fairly easy once
> he knows what he is by using spells with elemental effects (He might be
> immune to magic, but he'd be pretty vulnerable to a rock thrown by
> telekinesis, for example)
Hmm. An interesting situation: the nega-mage is really hard to hose with
spells and can evade nearly all sorts of magical security, but is worse on
average than other characters in terms of physical performance. Perhaps
troublesome to reconcile with some views of magic, but certainly not
unreasonable. As far as attack by elemental-effect spells, only some such
effects would be effective. An area-effect spell like Hellblast would not
catch him in the initial fireball (since Shielding is effective in such
instances, and I presume that nega-magic works similarly to personal Shielding)
but would certainly stick him in the middle of whatever caught fire in that
blast. =)
Well, I guess I can shut up about the topic now =) Thanks for the info.
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