| From: | The GREAT Cornholio <mruane@***.UUG.ARIZONA.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Discussion about the Usefulness or not of Riggers and |
| Date: | Fri, 18 Nov 1994 15:29:05 -0700 |
> > And as far as mages being too powerful, they are supposed to be very
> > powerful. But they are far from invincible. I've been running my mage
> > for almost four years now, and while he is a serious bad-ass, he would
> > probably still get killed by our samurai, who has only been run for about
> > 2 years.
>
> Again, I agree, but a mage is still a serious power in the game.
> A well planned assault by a mage is nothing to scoff at.. and buildings
> -will- probably topple too. Looking through the spells, I realized how
> suck the sammies had it. A well run mage can run through any sammie
> without breaking too much of a sweat.. at least that is what I glean from
> reading the text and the testimony of many of the listmembers. Like
> A*&*'s dragons are *KICKASS* -only- if run properly, but again, that
> system has its problems.. as does SR. But in A*&*, if a group of mages
> tried to adventure without a fighter, thief, or cleric, the city guard
> would quickly find a pile of dead mages outside the city walls (d4 hps
> suck.) End of discussion. =)
This is why it is important to not just run mages versus sams, ro riggers
vs. deckers, etc.. A good team has a variety of classes/archtypes that
they can utilize. Every person's talent complements another's weakness.
A mage could have an easy time carving through *just* sams, provided his
reaction was high enough. But if the mage had to worry about another
wizzer casting fireball through his locks or dispelling his +3 init
quickening, then then there's a probllme. Lose that reaction and the
sam suddenly gets 3 actions to your one. Nobody's armor is that good.
Nobdoy's CP is that good, either. Everyone needs to work together in
combat or you won't survive too long in the shadow world.
>
> As far as mage v sammie.. Could a mage attack a sammie in his
> dreams through the astral? Or am I giving the astral more avenues than
> it truely has? IE: when I think astral, I think supernatural all
> incompassing aer, and that's where everyone dreams. :)
>
> Laters.
I think the astral is just another plane of existence while the
dreamstate of a mundane is purely contained within his consciouness.
Unless the sleeping target is astrally perceiving, then he can't do
diddly besides manifest in his room and try to wake him up by waving his
arms around.
Mike
