Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

Message no. 1
From: "J. Keith Henry" <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Resisting Spell Force (Re: [SR3] Combat Spells)
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 20:28:10 -0400
In a message dated 97-07-04 18:19:40 EDT, u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK (Spike)
writes:

>
> (In first edition, all spells started with Base damage L, but had variable
> stagings. Darts had staging of 3, making it difficult to up the damage,
> bolts had staging of one, making it dead easy..... In this case too, the
> damage would have been resisted.... But in this case, the target for
> resisting was sorcery....)
>
> --
>
The only problem that came of this was that it became easier on the economy
of karma to make EVERYTHING lethal and take nothing for drain or spell usage.
Simply up the Sorcery skill and buy/learn/develop a bunch of spells at force
1. That is the PRIME reason for the changes in SRII. I'm not saying that
SRII is great, but it -IS- better in many ways than SRI...sure, not all, but
many.
-Keith
Message no. 2
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Resisting Spell Force (Re: [SR3] Combat Spells)
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 16:10:33 +0100
|The only problem that came of this was that it became easier on the economy
|of karma to make EVERYTHING lethal and take nothing for drain or spell usage.
| Simply up the Sorcery skill and buy/learn/develop a bunch of spells at force
|1. That is the PRIME reason for the changes in SRII. I'm not saying that
|SRII is great, but it -IS- better in many ways than SRI...sure, not all, but
|many.

That's why several people on the list are advokating bringing back SOME
aspects of 1stEd. Especially variable staging.

Keep the force as the target to resist the damage, because that makes more
sense.
The sorcery skill can already be used to enhance spells by using the magic
pool
--
______________________________________________________________________________
|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ o+ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ |
|5++ X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! :( |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message no. 3
From: "J. Keith Henry" <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Resisting Spell Force (Re: [SR3] Combat Spells)
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 04:05:06 -0400
In a message dated 97-07-05 11:12:14 EDT, u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK (Spike)
writes:

> The sorcery skill can already be used to enhance spells by using the magic
> pool
> --
>
Sure it can, but the target number to resist in First Ed was the Sorcery
skill itself, so it's easier to raise the base skill itself (which is also
the magic pool) and get the spells cheaper. It doesn't make the magicians
(spellcasters) less powerful, it makes them FAR more powerful.

-Keith
Message no. 4
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Resisting Spell Force (Re: [SR3] Combat Spells)
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 13:40:57 +0100
|
|In a message dated 97-07-05 11:12:14 EDT, u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK (Spike)
|writes:
|
|> The sorcery skill can already be used to enhance spells by using the magic
|> pool
|> --
|>
|Sure it can, but the target number to resist in First Ed was the Sorcery
|skill itself, so it's easier to raise the base skill itself (which is also
|the magic pool) and get the spells cheaper. It doesn't make the magicians
|(spellcasters) less powerful, it makes them FAR more powerful.

I know that! I wasn't advokating going back to the Sorcery is the power of
the spell, I was just saying that the Sorcery skill is already used once in
spell casting in the form of the Magic pool, and SHOULDN'T be used twice.

It's overkill....
--
______________________________________________________________________________
|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ o+ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ |
|5++ X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! :( |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message no. 5
From: "J. Keith Henry" <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Resisting Spell Force (Re: [SR3] Combat Spells)
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 12:54:54 -0400
In a message dated 97-07-06 08:45:04 EDT, u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK (Spike)
writes:

>
> I know that! I wasn't advokating going back to the Sorcery is the power of
> the spell, I was just saying that the Sorcery skill is already used once
in
> spell casting in the form of the Magic pool, and SHOULDN'T be used twice.
>
> It's overkill....
> --
>
Oops, sorry, a bit hard to read that from the original line. My apologies...

Further Reading

If you enjoyed reading about Resisting Spell Force (Re: [SR3] Combat Spells), you may also be interested in:

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.

Thwap!