| From: | lrdslvrhnd@*****.com (Kevin McB) |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Idiotic Spellcasting (was Re: Fireballs, FAB (was Re: Legal Magic)) |
| Date: | Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:46:00 -0400 |
> snicker@*********.net wrote:
>
> >Heh - reminds me of the last spell ever cast by one of my brother's characters.
Force >umpteen-bajillion, I have no clue, but very high, and he put everything he had
into a >fireball at point-blank range...
> >End result: He blew out not only his apartment, but the entire floor he was on at
the >time. Had 911 already happened, we might have compared it to that... Was one of
the
> >most powerful events of our gaming sessions up to that point (pun not intended).
It
> >was just... shocking to have a character we'd come to love and depend on take his
on
> >life in such a... flamboyant manner (okay - THAT pun was intended).
>
> Reminds me of the time a sorceress in the group I was running cast Poltergeist at a
car
> that tried to run her team over. At about Force 8. Did I mention she had her power
focus
> 5 activated? Did I mention she dumped all her dice into the success test?
>
> For a brief moment, about a city block was engulfed in a whirlwind that knocked
everyone
> out, including the driver of that car, the driver of their get-away vehicle, the
party,
> and the sorceress.
>
Rather reminds me of the time my Entropy shaman cast... hellblast,
maybe? Possibly fireball. One of those "You pretty much have to be
absolutely *insane* to try to cast this!" spells, anyhoo. Been a
while.
She was standing near the edge of a skyscraper roof, casting it on a
blimp coming in towards the other side. Blimp went boom; she handled
the drain fairly well (I think she staged it down to *merely* deadly
stun, which with our house rules in effect, was a rather significant
victory in and of itself) She was out of the AoE of the spell, but
apparently the blimp had rather significant stores of explosives
aboard. Fire-type spell + explosives = bad combination. Especially
when standing near the edge of a building roof while falling
unconcious from drain.
Fortunately, the explosion knocked her clear across the street, and
the next roof over was a mere 1 floor below, and help got to her
fairly quickly...
Kevin
