| From: | "Like, dude, where's the firefight?" <MURRAYMD@******.BITNET> |
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| Subject: | Damaging Maniplations -vs- Nega Mages, Round 2. "ding" |
| Date: | Fri, 22 Jan 93 06:57:17 CET |
>They're still immune. To use an analogy, casting a spell in Shadowrun works
>a lot like lightning. Electrical energy builds at the "negative" pole (the
>casting mage), rips through the atmosphere (astral space), and discharges
>at the "positive" pole (target of the spell). The aura, energy field,
>anti-magic field, or whatever it is that makes a nega-mage what he is, acts
>like a Faraday cage. The only real difference is that electricity will not
>enter a Faraday cage, while around a nega-mage the spell energy never
>leaves astral space. The fire of the Fire Bolt will never materialize in
>the physical world if the nega-mage is the target.
I assumed this was how combat spells would work, especially combat
spells with elemental side effects. Damaging Manipulations work
differently however. A damaging manipulation creates the element that it
is based on (fire in this example) near the caster and then travels through
the material plane to the target. That is why they are treated like weapons
fire with a target number of 4 modified by the various applicable target
modifiers and why I am raising a stink. I encourage you to double check on
me in the rulebook/Goomore and look at the casting description for damaging
manipulations, especially ones involving elemental effects. If I'm wrong
please correct me.
Your description looks very similar to the description of how
combat spells work, even combat spells with elemental side effects. I know
it looks like I'm splitting elf hairs, but if I do my point becomes more
clear.
>However, if said nega-mage is standing in a puddle of volatile fluid and
>you cast a Fire Bolt at the fluid, it will ignite and *that* fire will most
>certainly damage the nega-mage.
Unless said Nega-mage is wearing his/her ACME Chem/Fire suit!
ACME, A Name You Can trust.
>Here's the Nega-mage Archetype as printed in the Challenge article. He
>looks like Attributes A, Skills C, Resources D, Race E, which leaves
>Priority B for Magic. He is definitely a combat oriented character. But,
>while immune to any form of magic, a .44Mag will blow his head clean off
>with no trouble at all.
Good. I will soon keep my S&W .44Mag loaded with 200 grain hollow
point copper jacketed babies. Mr. Nega-mage will soon be staring at aces
and eights!
>--Rat PGP Public Key Block available upon request
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>Northeastern's Stainless Steel Rat ratinox@******.coe.northeastern.edu
>And now we meet again, for the first time, for the last time. --Dark Helmet
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