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Message no. 1
From: Loki <loki@*******.COM>
Subject: Flame Projection, Dragons and such
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 12:49:01 -0000
In my reply on Dragons and fire breathing I realized I made an error on the
drain an Essence 7 dragon would take to sustain the attack (I said 5D when
it would only be 5S), granted this makes the attack even nastier. It also
makes my point on them not needing to throw hellblasts even better. ;o)

Actually my post here is to ask a question. How do you other GM's handle
the drain for a critter sustaining a flame projection attack? The book s
don't really say if this is a one-time test or not, they just say to resist
drain as a mage.

Do they just roll drain once and then sustain as long as they feel like, as
would a mage would with a sustainable spell?

Does the critter resist drain each action or turn they sustain the attack?

What I've been doing is having the critter resist drain once and then it
may sustain flame projection a number of actions equal to its
Essence/Force. Then it must attack again and roll another drain reistance
test if it so chooses.

I'm just looking for comments.

@>--,--'--- Loki

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

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Message no. 2
From: Mark Steedman <M.J.Steedman@***.RGU.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Flame Projection, Dragons and such
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 08:48:40 GMT
Loki writes

> In my reply on Dragons and fire breathing I realized I made an error on the
> drain an Essence 7 dragon would take to sustain the attack (I said 5D when
> it would only be 5S), granted this makes the attack even nastier. It also
> makes my point on them not needing to throw hellblasts even better. ;o)
>
I suspect actually only i got the other post but. What the dragons
best attack was never was the point. I mean the critters got a 15D
reach 3 bite!

and as the other reply said, even with 36 dice 11's (for that force
10 hellblasts drain) are just not common enough, sure with karma the
dragon can do it but it'll soak several karma points per salvo.

> Actually my post here is to ask a question. How do you other GM's handle
> the drain for a critter sustaining a flame projection attack? The book s
> don't really say if this is a one-time test or not, they just say to resist
> drain as a mage.
>
> Do they just roll drain once and then sustain as long as they feel like, as
> would a mage would with a sustainable spell?
>
i haven't used these powers but this seems the logical rules answer.

Mark

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