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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (aaron b chappell)
Subject: New Meta-magic technique
Date: Sun Nov 4 09:40:01 2001
Hey,
Ok all in my campaign there is this ability that certain adepts have that
makes the gaze of people trying to assense them (and at higher levels the
gazes of those on the physical plane) kinda 'slide off' like you can't
focus on 'em. I'm basing this on something I read in Robert Jordan's
Wheel of Time series that the forsaken can do. So far It's been mostly a
roleplaying thing but I'd like to have it stat'd. And as I am rather bad
at statting abilities I'm asking you guys for a little help.... So anyone
care to Stat That Ability?


Gwylly
"Know anything that can change there minds about killing us?"
"Sure we kill them first."
"Works for me."

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Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth)
Subject: New Meta-magic technique
Date: Sun Nov 4 13:30:01 2001
According to aaron b chappell, on Sun, 04 Nov 2001 the word on the street was...

> Ok all in my campaign there is this ability that certain adepts have that
> makes the gaze of people trying to assense them (and at higher levels the
> gazes of those on the physical plane) kinda 'slide off' like you can't
> focus on 'em. I'm basing this on something I read in Robert Jordan's
> Wheel of Time series that the forsaken can do. So far It's been mostly a
> roleplaying thing but I'd like to have it stat'd. And as I am rather bad
> at statting abilities I'm asking you guys for a little help.... So anyone
> care to Stat That Ability?

Just give a TN modifier to any assensing attempt -- +2 is always a good default
modifier -- and describe it as the assenser's attention wandering off the
subject.

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Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (James Zealey)
Subject: New Meta-magic Technique
Date: Sun Nov 4 17:25:01 2001
> Ok all in my campaign there is this ability
> that certain adepts have that makes the gaze
> of people trying to assense them (and at
> higher levels the gazes of those on the
> physical plane) kinda 'slide off' like you
> can't focus on 'em.

Doesn't sound like a metamagic (beyond magic)
sounds like a physad(? - thats what you mean by
adept, right?) power or a spell. In second
edition there was a spell called disregard(I
think) which did this.

I'd suggest you treat it the same as an
invisibility spell, just with a different effect
ie. people ignore you rather than not seeing
you. The result being that you'll get some
benefits (people won't just walk into you) and
some drawbacks (if you start doing odd things,
they might find it difficult to keep ignoring
you). If you're hell bent on making this a
physad power, then probably use that talent
power (the one that gives you access to a spell).

Wow, imagine the power of an SEP field in
shadowrun...


"Your gun has 'replica'
written down the side, mine
has 'Ares HVAR'..."

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Message no. 4
From: shadowrn@*********.com (shadowrn@*********.com)
Subject: New Meta-magic technique
Date: Sun Nov 4 18:15:05 2001
Gwylly muttered:

> Hey,
>
> Ok all in my campaign there is this ability > that certain adepts have that makes
the > gaze of people trying to assense them (and > at higher levels the gazes of
those on the > physical plane) kinda 'slide off' like you > can't focus on 'em. I'm
basing this on > something I read in Robert Jordan's Wheel > of Time series
that the forsaken can do. So > far it's been mostly a roleplaying thing > but I'd
like to have it stat'd. And as I am > rather bad at statting abilities I'm asking >
you guys for a little help.... So anyone
> care to Stat That Ability?

There's something almost exactly like this from the 2nd Ed. SR book Awakenings. The stats
for it were:

Disregard

The disregard spell places a voluntary subject ‘outside’ the perceptions of
other individuals. The subject remains visible and detectable by mechanical means, but
individuals simply disregard or fail to notice the subject. A character may defeat the
spell by making a success Intelligence Test against a target number equal to twice the
number of successes the spellcaster achieved on his Spell Success Test.

Type: Mana
Target: 4
Duration: Sustained
Range: Touch
Drain: (F/2)L


Combine this with Steven Kenson's- the author who wrote MitS- Knack power. Knacks were an
idea that he wrote that was cut from MitS so it's not canon, but I like 'em. Basically the
Knack power gives an adept innate ability of a spell, a bit like inate critter powers. The
link to the full info is:

http://members.aol.com/talonmail/mitsmisc.html


So combining the two, if you took the Disregard speel as a knack, you could buy 4 levels
of Disregard at .25 adept points per level- cause the drain is Light. Every time the adept
wanted to use the knack he'd roll 4 dice for his 4 levels of the knack against the spells
TN. And the TN to resist the disregard spell/knack and notice him would be *twice* the
number of sucesses he rolled with his 4 dice.

Hope that helps.

FlakJacket
Message no. 5
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Alex Rudnick)
Subject: New Meta-magic Technique
Date: Mon Nov 5 11:25:01 2001
James Zealey took it upon himself to mar the eternal silence by uttering:
> Wow, imagine the power of an SEP field in
> shadowrun...

Well, at that point, you might as well just paint yourself bright pink...
Come to think of it, that would be kinda fun as a magical paradigm for a
chaos mage, using tricks from HHGttG; view levitation as simply throwing
yourself at the ground and missing, explain most of your magic in terms
of infinite improbability... That was one of my favourite bits in
MitS, the "Awakened Oddities" section.

TGITH

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